Kanye West to Host Live Chat Today

From the Taylor Swift/VMA incident to "George Bush doesn't care about black people", Kanye West certainly knows how to get attention during a live event.

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And while it's not national television, we have a feeling something memorable will happen when he hosts a live chat on Ustream today at 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT. In the past couple of days, he's admitted that the VMA incident showed that he was "someone who had to grow", talked about the nude pictures of him that landed on the Internet, and even said he understands George Bush's "disgust" with his Katrina comment.

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RollingStone.com will be streaming the live chat with Kanye starting at 4 p.m.

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Song Stories

“All Along the Watchtower”

The Jimi Hendrix Experience | 1968

Jimi Hendrix got hold of Bob Dylan's early John Wesley Harding tapes and in late 1967 recorded a version of "All Along the Watchtower" with the Experience in London. Dissatisfied with that first development, Hendrix brought those tapes with him to New York in early 1968 when he began work on Electric Ladyland. Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's engineer at the time, told Rolling Stone that Hendrix "was still looked upon by his basically white audience as the mammoth black guitar hero. There was a constant fight within him to expand himself." Hendrix's successful take on Dylan's work has long been recognized by the songwriter. "I liked Jimi Hendrix's record of this and ever since he died I've been doing it that way," Dylan wrote in the liner notes to his Biograph box set. "Strange how when I sing it, I always feel it's a tribute to him in some kind of way."

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