It's not all rapping and gold bracelets and sneakers for Kanye West; he has deeper thoughts, he ponders his mortality. Less ‘what’s the meaning of life?’, Yeezy does it in his own typically self-aggrandizing fashion by daydreaming about all the famous and powerful people who will mourn him. Who is on the guestlist should he meet his end?

West took to Twitter yesterday, breaking a six month silence from the social network, to celebrate his Grammy nomination and give fans a sneak peek behind the scenes of his Watch the Throne tour with Jay-Z. In it he states:

"I was just thinking about my funeral and stuff a couple days ago and thinking who would be at the funeral, People who I want to be in the funeral? I wanna have world leaders that were, like, affected, that said, you know, 'Kanye gave me my shot here.' Or 'he pushed me,' or 'he told me to believe in myself,' or 'when I saw this, it made me feel like that.' I wanna affect people like that when I, like, pass away."

People who are in important positions of power.  Obama? Sarkozy? Merkel? Justin Bieber? He has his own army so he kind of counts. I bet Bieber would go.  It will be just like a meeting at the UN.

He doesn’t state who or how he would have given them ‘a shot,” but he does occasionally talk about politics and he did make a stop at Occupy Wall Street. Perhaps he’s hinting at a run for something or other? Mayor West 2016?

It isn’t all pure egoism; he does manage to temper his statement by saying,

“When the light bulb was invented it wasn’t to stop a war, I understand we’ve got other issues that are way bigger. So I’m not trying to say that what I’m doing is the most important thing that’s happening on the planet, but what I’m saying is, what I’m doing is necessary. Just like if there's one teacher teaching in a class, what she’s doing is necessary.” 

Kanye West, the equivalent of something between a human light bulb and a teacher.