{"id":2446145,"date":"2019-07-09T12:56:44","date_gmt":"2019-07-09T18:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=856879"},"modified":"2019-07-09T12:56:44","modified_gmt":"2019-07-09T18:56:44","slug":"kanye-west-to-build-star-wars-inspired-housing-for-the-homeless","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/kanye-west-to-build-star-wars-inspired-housing-for-the-homeless\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West to Build \u2018Star Wars\u2019-Inspired Housing for the Homeless"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Once upon a time, in a fictional galaxy now owned by Disney, a blond farm boy named Luke Skywalker lived on the Lars homestead. Due to a susceptibility to military propaganda and religious extremism, he would eventually leave his rural moisture farm, which resembled a brutalist igloo dropped in the middle of the Tunisian Republic desert. 42 years later, one of the world\u2019s most successful pop musicians and polymaths envisions a world where homelessness is combatted by some of the same architecture featured in George Lucas\u2019s 1977\u2019s hit Star Wars<\/a>: A New Hope<\/em>.<\/p>\n

During Kanye West<\/a>\u2018s Forbes<\/em><\/a> cover story, he takes writer Zack O\u2019Malley Greenburg on a tour of \u201coblong and dozens of feet tall\u201d prototypes. \u201cInspired by Luke Skywalker\u2019s childhood home, West has been working with a team to design prefabricated structures that sport the same austere aesthetic, with the goal of deploying them as low-income housing units,\u201d Greenburg writes.<\/p>\n

Taking West\u2019s long history with Star Wars into account, the idea isn\u2019t fully<\/em> a surprise. References to the movie franchise frequently appear in his lyrics, and last year he appeared with Adam Driver (Kylo Ren) on an episode of SNL<\/em>. The multi-billion-dollar property is also semi-responsible for his marriage to Kim Kardashian.<\/p>\n

In 2004, when his comedy dreams were still aflame, Kanye created a pilot called Alligator Boots<\/em> for Comedy Central. Kanye demanded that Kardashian be part of the pilot and she ended up playing Princess Leia in a skit.<\/p>\n

\u201cI told Kanye that it was a bad idea, but I did it as diplomatically as I could,\u201d Daniel Kellison, the co-creator of Crank Yankers<\/em> told Wired<\/a>. \u201cI said, The Muppet Show<\/em> always had one star. You\u2019re the star of the pilot. We can put Kim Kardashian in episode 3 or 4, but let\u2019s focus on you.\u2019 But he resisted. Kanye is tenacious and he kept asking me about it, and finally we compromised and agreed to have her in a sketch. He\u2019d never met her at this point.<\/p>\n