Kanye West’s 2007 scrapped TV show pilot has recently leaked online and footage from the episode that was previously sealed in the vault has since gone viral.
Eagle-eyed Kanye fans cracked the treasure chest and found the 30-minute episode before it was erased from the internet, which made the rounds over the weekend.
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The pilot, which was rumored to be titled A Little Inappropriate, was pitched to HBO’s desk in 2007, per Far Out Magazine, and shut down.
Kanye reportedly was on a mission to create a show that was like a hybrid between Curb Your Enthusiasm and Entourage after binging a season of Larry David’s creation months prior.
Watch the shelved pilot below:
The cast was made up of Kanye himself, his friend/designer Don C, rapper GLC, Jeff Garlin, and comedians like JB Smoove and Wyatt Cenac.
“Kanye knew he wasn’t a good improviser. He’d read something that Seinfeld said about surrounding himself with better talent and that he would rise to the occasion. And so that was his hope,” Cenac told Vultureat a show in 2013.
The episode centers around Kanye going to a chaotic CD signing while trying to juggle the stresses of his own noisy entourage and team. He then goes to visit a sick teen for the Make-A-Wish Foundation, but is worried about having bad breath after eating “smelly” fast food.
However, after zipping up the hood of his fashionable Bape jacket over his face, they find out the kid, who thinks he’s a better rapper than Ye, isn’t actually terminally ill.
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Kanye already had interviews for the first season shot with Nelson George, Professor Boyce Watkins and Cornel West, but ultimately HBO wanted to go in a different direction.
“HBO was like, ‘We didn’t pay for a show with these no-name motherfuckers. Find a way to put some Kanye in this,'” Cenac recalled to Vulture.
