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Paul McCartney Compares Kanye To John Lennon

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The “Black Skinhead” rapper earned high praise from former Beatle and new collaborator Paul McCartney when the legendary musician gave an interview to the U.K.’s Sun newspaper.

“When I wrote with John [Lennon], he would sit down with a guitar. I would sit down. We’d ping-pong until we had a song. It was like that [with Kanye],” McCartney, 72, said.

The singer co-wrote West’s latest song, “Only One,” a reflection inspired by West’s late mother Donda C. Williams and his 22-month-old daughter, North. The pair also worked together with Rihanna on “FourFiveSeconds.”

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Baltimore Orioles Beat The Chicago White Sox In An Empty Stadium – Post Riots

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On the street side of the towering iron fence, maybe a hundred yards from the Orioles’ bullpen inside the gates, stood Orioles fan Les Bowman with his younger brother.

It was about two hours before the start of the game and Bowman had no chance of getting inside Oriole Park at Camden Yards on Wednesday afternoon. That was no problem for Bowman, who drove nearly three hours from the coast of Virginia that morning to help with the clean-up effort in parts of Baltimore that sorely needed it.

This was a different sort of gameday, unprecedented in American professional sports history, and Bowman just wanted to witness as much of it as possible. And from this spot outside of the stadium, Bowman and others had as unobstructed a view into the stadium as possible from the surrounding streets.

“The way I see it,” Bowman said, “I have the best seat in the house.”

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