After an inside source tipped me off, I hopped on my two-wheeler and raced over to the Knitting Factory, for what was being dubbed as "a secret show by Kanye West." Blasphemy! Kanye was sipping Veuve at the Prada party with Peaches Geldof. No way he was trading that in for the crud of the Knitting Factory and its sixty cruddy denizens. Upon arrival there was zero line outside, meaning this was a government-kept secret, or I'd been had. Inside, Kid Cudi was finishing up a set, and thirty minutes later, Queens native Consequence came up to spit some verses. Hmm, the same Consequence who had guest verses on Kanye's first two albums, and who's signed to his GOOD Music shingle. Curious.

So after chucking much whiskey at the bar and listening to my two female companions discuss their united escapades in mutual cunnilingus, I almost forgot to notice when Kanye West walked on stage to join in his cohorts. He sang a verse or two of his new track "Love Lockdown," which he debuted at the VMAs a few night before. The track is off of West's singing-only 808's and Heartbreak album, due December 16. He then spun into a rendition of "Flashing Lights" and the MIA-sampling "Swagger Like Us," without T.I., Lil' Wayne, and Jay-Z. If only. Q-Tip also joined the stage crew (Consequence is his younger cousin), and I tried taking as many photos as possible until my damn iPhone died. Relive my night here.