Over the past week in hip-hop it seems one name keeps popping up with controversy: Kanye West.

Last Thursday I was waiting for my ride home, and then a text comes over my cell. It's from my music alert system. The message reads, "Kanye West arrested at LAX for scuffle with reporter."

Immediately when I returned home I had to check the computer for what had happened. I got this video, and it actually impressed me.

I think that Kanye just did what every celebrity wants to do by taking the paparazzi's camera and shattering it on the ground. I've always disliked having celebs stalked their entire lives just because they did something that a lot of people like. So for that, Mr. West, all of Hollywood (except for the cameramen) thanks you.

But when it comes to Kanye, you know that one controversy isn't enough for the rapper from Chicago for one week. Rumors about his new album have been circling the music industry for a while. This all culminated when Kanye went to the MTV Music Awards and performed his new song "Love Lockdown," a song that uses Auto-Tune, no rapping, and was written in a week and a half.

For most people this would be a terrible, potentially career-threatening move. I was stunned that Kanye, who was always the master of using samples for his rap, decided to use the Auto-Tune to sing like that of T-Pain.

In my opinion this is extremely different but also extremely good. Mr. West is just one of those artists who can pull off experimenting with practically anything and make it above average.

When I looked into the matter further I learned that Kanye's upcoming album, "808's & Heartbreak," which hits stores in December, will feature the singing Kanye and the Auto-Tune device. It will definitely be worth getting, if only to see whether Kanye can pull this off for an entire album.

My bet's on Mr. West.