Is Kanye West's New Travel Site Blingtastic?

Posted May 9, 2008 by Joyce Wan

Now, I ain’t saying he’s a Gold Digger, but he probably ain’t much of a tour leader either. Still, you can’t blame a man for trying.

Not content with simply recording music, producing albums, collaborating on songs with other musicians, and being single-handedly responsible for popularising those strange sunglasses with plastic strips and no lenses, our favourite College Dropout Mr Kanye West has only gone ahead and started his own online travel company.

Kanye Travel Ventures, besides letting you deal with mundane holiday stuff such as booking your air ticket or hotel room, also allows the diehard fan to ‘Buy Kanye concert tickets with your travel’!
Dreams of a site offering exclusive travel deals to exotic destinations brimming with blingtastic hip-hop moguls fizzed out slightly when I actually clicked on the page though. Turns out to be your standard-issue online travel website, sort of like lastminute.com, but with a picture of our man Kanye looking all 80s luminous at the top instead.

Still, for those wanting to support their idol, after buying their tickets from him, they can click on his online merch store and get their holiday wear off it too. Now I finally know where to get those weird platiscky sunglasses he wears all the time. Perfect for my holiday snaps!

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