CULTIVATED INFLUENCE

In 2010, a video of a pilot for a Kanye West HBO show surfaced on YouTube. The show was apparently scratched for being “too hardcore.” Kanye was attempting to make a “Curb Your Enthusiasm” type of show.

From MTV in 2008:

[Executive Producer Larry] Charles did say that the show is roughly Kanye’s version of Larry David’s show, “Curb Your Enthusiasm,” an idea that Kanye thought up himself. “What Kanye West said to me the first time, he said, ‘I’m the black Larry David.’ That’s the first thing he said to me. So it’s like a Kanye-and-‘Curb’ show, it’s kind of improvised about the situations and stuff.