7 "Rockstars" That Kanye West Is A Bigger Rockstar Than

Let’s talk about Paul Hewson for a bit, shall we? There are three reasons that Bono has made it onto this list: firstly, as the singer of one of the biggest-selling rock bands in history, the guy is definitely a rock star. 

Secondly, U2 fans are amongst the most loyal (crazy) in the world, occasionally even putting themselves in danger of abduction from Albanian sex-traffickers just to follow the band around Europe. Finally, no one can doubt that Bono may be the one man people love to hate more than Kanye West.

Bono; the man who flies in on a private jet to tell people to give their money to charity, the man who seems to genuinely believe that he is Africa’s saviour from the comfort of one of his several mansions. The yellow-spectacled ghoul opitimises the god complex seen in so many of rock’s elite, equalled and maybe even surpassed by West’s. 

Bono’s awareness-raising mission is self-righteous and filled with false emotion. Kanye can be a petulant brat, but wears his heart on his sleeve all the time, famously announcing that "George Bush doesn't care about black people" on live television in 2005. His observations on the portrayal of black people in the American media, during that same broadcast following Hurricane Katrina, are still poignantly relevant now.