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Kanye Actually Did Hang Out With George Tenet

PARIS, FRANCE - MARCH 04: Kanye West attends the Givenchy Ready-To-Wear Fall/Winter 2012 show as part of Paris Fashion Week at Lycee Carnot on March 4, 2012 in Paris, France. (Photo by Pascal Le Segretain/Getty Images)
Kanye West attends a supper following the 2011 CFDA Fashion Awards at Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center on June 6, 2011 in New York City. Photo: Pascal Le Segretain/2012 Getty Images

You know that Kanye verse on “Clique” about former CIA chief George Tenet and his inferior Maybach? (“I’m talking George Tenet, I seen him the other day/ He asked me about my Maybach, think he had the same/ Except mine tinted and his might have been rented.”) The lyric is actually half true: Kanye and George Tenet did run into each randomly in New York a few months ago, according to Tenet’s spokesman, and they did exchange words. None of them were about cars, though, probably because George was embarrassed about his.

Kanye Actually Did Hang Out With George Tenet