Kanye West mentions Amiga!

[Matt_H]

Did he jump up in the middle of a Microsoft presentation and shout Amiga should have been here?

Haha, I was just thinking of something like that

[SysAdmin]

I've never listened to his music so don't know if it's good or bad. Music is a very personal thing. It's nice that he likes Amga and took a second to mention it. Most celebrities no longer do that.

[Kesa]

He never actually said he liked liked Amiga. Anyway, i listened to the last 5 minutes of the interview and i have formed the 2 following opinions. That guy talks weird. Kayne West talks weird too.

[inoel]

Kanye West likes
Amiga yes! :Fishsticks no!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fishsticks_%28South_Park%29

on a more serious note a celebrity indosament would help
the amiga  no end.

[bloodline]

Did he jump up in the middle of a Microsoft presentation and shout Amiga should have been here?

He would have gone up in my estimation had this occurred

[Thorham]

A celebrity likes the Amiga? Big deal. Who cares about what those celebrities do, want and care about anyway? Am I really supposed to give a damn?

[SysAdmin]

A celebrity likes the Amiga? Big deal. Who cares about what those celebrities do, want and care about anyway? Am I really supposed to give a damn?

You don't have to give a damn. Celebrities mentioning Amiga do help the brand and increase sales since so many try to copy what they do and recommend.

[Thorham]

Celebrities mentioning Amiga do help the brand and increase sales since so many try to copy what they do and recommend.

Is that a good thing? Do we really need hordes of sheeple embracing the Amiga, a line of machines they know nothing about? I don't see how that's going to do anyone any good.

[XDelusion]

I LOVE the anti-celeb corporate whore sentiment being expressed here!

[_ThEcRoW]

Is that a good thing? Do we really need hordes of sheeple embracing the Amiga, a line of machines they know nothing about? I don't see how that's going to do anyone any good.

No, it's better keeping it at the hobby level, thus, inceasingly prices to insane levels and only a few who can afford it(a la os4).

[TheMagicM]

Famous American hip hop musician, songwriter, record producer, film director, and fashion designer Kanye West mentions Amiga on Radio BBC.

Link: http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b03cnqpl

Kanye West chats in depth to Zane about music, fashion, creativity, Amiga and a whole lot more.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanye_West

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bbc_radio

Buy Kanye West music on iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/artist/kanye-west/id2715720

Buy Kanye West music on Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Daps&field-keywords=Kanye%20West

Kanye West - Runaway (Full-length Film): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jg5wkZ-dJXA

So what did he say?  I dont care for the idiot and dont want to listen to 5 minutes of crap just to hear "...and cool things in the past like..cassette players, umm...Apple II....uumm..yo dawg.. Amiga."

LOL @ the buy it links..makes me laugh that we're stooping low to peddle music.  Is the referrer AO? or?

[Thorham]

No, it's better keeping it at the hobby level, thus, inceasingly prices to insane levels and only a few who can afford it(a la os4).

Shame about the prices, sure, but what do you think would happen to Amiga if it became more mainstream? Do you think it would stay Amiga? Anyway, it doesn't really matter, because it ain't ever gonna happen.

[XDelusion]

Shame about the prices, sure, but what do you think would happen to Amiga if it became more mainstream? Do you think it would stay Amiga? Anyway, it doesn't really matter, because it ain't ever gonna happen.

 Exactly, if Amiga went main stream, it like so much else, would get sold out and loose it's soul.
 Besides, I'm quite content with MorphOS's pricing. And after hearing the news about how the OS 4 team shut down alternative Radeon driver efforts, I'm NEVER going to support them anyhow.

 As for my classic... I expect hardware expansions for vintage computers to be expensive. It's just part of the territory.

[persia]

Well he is a Kardashian after all....

[Rob]

Besides, I'm quite content with MorphOS's pricing. And after hearing the news about how the OS 4 team shut down alternative Radeon driver efforts, I'm NEVER going to support them anyhow.

I wondered what on earth you were on about then before remembering there was some issue between the developer of the Open PCI Radeon driver and Elbox.

OS4 team had nothing to do with this so I'm not sure where the confusion came from.

[save2600]

What the hell is up with beating on SysAdmins lately? Could care less about Kanye West, but did find the fact he mentioned the Amiga interesting. The tidbit is still relative to an Amiga site after all.  

Anyway, wouldn't it be interesting *if* the demographic that follows celebrities like him, embraced the Amiga platform? Pretty sure they'd be injecting more "soul" into it than most of us ever could.  :laughing: