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In totally shocking news, someone in the Allhiphop forums has too much time on his hands. On Tuesday, some anonymous hater posted what he (and it's almost certainly a he) claimed were quotes from an interview Kanye West did with David Watts of the porn-biz trade rag AVN. Quotes like this: "I'm open to doing porn. Hell, I'll even do bisexual scenes - myself, another man and a woman, or just me and two women. I know people will find that as some weird shit, but I am who I am."

That quote, despite being entirely made up, made the rounds the way these things always do. AVN even ran a news story about it even though they don't actually employ a writer named David Watts, something they didn't think to factcheck. (They've since issued an apology and retraction and taken the offending story down from their website.) According to AVN, the makers of the Blackzilla porn flick series even tried to get Kanye to star in one of their movies, and their offer still stands even though Kanye didn't actually say that stuff.

Kanye, of course, objected to AVN's breaking its usually rigorous journalistic standards, and responded with another of his now-trademark enraged all-caps blog rants: "PLEASE I BEG YOU, GIVE ME A BREAK!!!!PLEEEEEEEEEEEEEASE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LET ME BE GREAT!!! WHO HAVE I HURT SO BAD THAT THEY WANT TO DESTROY ME? WHO HAVE I EVER SPOKE ABOUT SO NEGATIVELY? I JUST WAS SPEAKING WITH OUR NEW PRESIDENT TWO DAYS AGO... AND NOW THIS...." Let Kanye be great!

In that same blog post, Kanye complains about being the target of a veritable maelstrom of internet-based identity theft. According to Kanye, it goes way beyond that fake Colbert-baiting Twitter; his MySpace and even his persona Gmail have been hacked, and he's given up his Gmail altogether. And that's too bad for him because Gmail is awesome.

In happier Kanye-related news, the Louis Vuitton Don has collaborated with the actual Louis Vuitton on a line of high-end monochromatic sneakers, which Kanye says were inspired by the movie Dune, somehow. He debuted the shoes at the LV fall menswear presentation in Paris yesterday, and they're scheduled to be available in Vuitton stores this summer.