{"id":791241,"date":"2018-12-12T15:04:51","date_gmt":"2018-12-12T22:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=768357"},"modified":"2018-12-12T15:04:51","modified_gmt":"2018-12-12T22:04:51","slug":"kanye-west-to-bob-dylan-lets-get-together","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/kanye-west-to-bob-dylan-lets-get-together\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West to Bob Dylan: \u2018Let\u2019s Get Together\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/12\/kanye-west-wants-to-work-with-bob-dylan-tweet-2018.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<p>On Wednesday afternoon, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/kanye-west\/\">Kanye West<\/a> took to Twitter with a request: \u201cCalling out to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bob-dylan\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bob-dylan\" data-tag=\"bob-dylan\">Bob Dylan<\/a>,\u201d he wrote. \u201cLet\u2019s get together.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>It is unclear why he wants to get in touch with Bob Dylan. Potential reasons could be a musical collaboration, or just to discuss the issues of the day. It\u2019s unlikely that Twitter was the optimal medium to set up any sort of rendezvous: Unless Dylan is engaged in a years-long piece of performance art where he <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/bobdylan\/status\/1067397783001415682\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">imitates the third-person writing of a Twitter account managed by a third party dedicated solely to getting the word out about Bob Dylan events and television appearances<\/a>, he\u2019s not on Twitter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\" readability=\"6.3614457831325\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">Calling out to Bob Dylan Let\u2019s get together<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ye (@kanyewest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kanyewest\/status\/1072955689566396416?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">December 12, 2018<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>The straightforward reach to famous and\/or wealthy people is a hallmark of West\u2019s Twitter. Earlier this year, for example, he said he would like to meet Tim Cook, Apple\u2019s CEO, because he \u201chad some ideas.\u201d It\u2019s still unclear what those ideas were, though he later showed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/culture\/culture-news\/iplane-trump-kanye-trump-737122\/\">President Trump<\/a> a mocked-up image design <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/tldr\/2018\/10\/11\/17965778\/kanye-west-iplane-1-concept-air-force-one-trump-industrial-design-shabtai-hirshberg\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">he pulled from the internet<\/a>, saying it was an Apple concept for the company\u2019s first plane (it was not). So, who knows.<\/p>\n<p>We did not reach out to reps for West or Dylan, but will update if we notice any movement on a collaboration between the two.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/kanye-west-tweets-at-bob-dylan-768357\/\" target=\"_blank\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Wednesday afternoon, Kanye West took to Twitter with a request: \u201cCalling out to Bob Dylan,\u201d he wrote. \u201cLet\u2019s get together.\u201d It is unclear why he wants to get in touch with Bob Dylan. Potential reasons could be a musical collaboration, or just to discuss the issues of the day. It\u2019s unlikely that Twitter was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-791241","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-11 08:05:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSMT The Mountain","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791241","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=791241"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/791241\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=791241"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=791241"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=791241"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}