Not content with taking the world of music by storm, the world of blogging by monsoon, the world of being cool by tsunami and the world of producing by… drizzle… Kanye West is now moving on to the world of making people fat by feeding them fried patties of ground up cow-knees.

Not personally, of course – that would be surreal.

No, Kanye is merely opening ten Fatburger fast food joints around Chicago, rather than actually serving all who walk through their doors with his priceless smile and boundless arrogance. And a burger.

West’s company, KW Foods LLC, have picked up the rights to build the stores around the Chitown area, thus infecting countless local residents with great big wodges of fat to force down their gullets. A sound business move, we’re sure.

But why, aside from wanting to kill lots of people by making them fat, would Kanye West want to open ten fast food ‘restaurants’ (using the term as loosely as possible)?

Maybe it’s to get away from his music career and down to a more homely, normal job than he’s been used to over the last few years? At least working in a burger joint he wouldn’t be all that bothered were he to turn up to work eight hours late.

In fact, he’d just get sacked for that.

Yes – that’s clearly it. He’s tired of being in the limelight, tired of all the attention, all the ego boosts and all the times he pretends to be Jesus – Kanye West must certainly, definitely and absolutely be edging towards a career flipping burgers. Maybe.

After the success of Kanye’s The New Workout Plan it could be said that maybe he’s something of a hypocrite, opening stores that will sell fatty foods. But then, that song wasn’t a call to arms trying to make the world a thinner place, unfortunately, it was something of a piss take, meaning we’re stuck on that one.

Though it didn’t always work for him.

Nevertheless, Kanye’s quest to make people in Chicago (and some in Los Angeles) eat what is likely to be fried up floor scrapings will begin in September, when the first of his stores opens, adding to the 90+ Fatburger foodatoriums already spread around the US.

It is as of yet unconfirmed whether Kanye will be performing Evel Knievel-style stunts at the opening of the first store, though this time he’s far less likely to be sued for it. For not only did they end up being best buds forever, but Evel is also dead, meaning he probably doesn’t care too much about suing people any more.

We await Kanye West’s Fatburger theme-o-rap with bated breath – one rhyme for the store’s name we can suggest: ‘twatmurder’. But hecklerspray has exclusive copyright on that now, so unluck-o.

Because that's what Evel Knievel does if you cross him, you see. Unless you're a millionaire rapper who makes a music video where you dress up in a vaguely Evel Knievel-ish outfit and do stunts, in which case Evel Knievel will probably just try to sue you instead, like he did with Kanye West – the only millionaire rapper so far to dress up like Evel Knievel and do stunts for a music video. Luckily, though, Kanye West has managed to see off Knievel's legal challenge against him with the aid of an undisclosed legal settlement and the world's most awkward impromptu photo session.

You know when two people meet and they're so similar that they can't get along? That's basically the case with Kanye West and Evel Knievel. One is a 69-year-old from Montana who made his living smashing his body to pieces while testing the limits of physics and human endurance via a spectacular succession of daredevil motorcycle stunts, and the other wrote a song called Drunk And Hot Girls once. Truly Evel Knievel and Kanye West are like peas in a pod.

Two peas that didn't especially like each other until recently, that is. Not only does Evel Knievel see himself more as a 50 Cent fan, but the video for Kanye West's Touch The Sky single riled him up a little too. Starring Kanye West as a stuntman character called Evel Kanyevel – who wore a costume similar to Knievel's and did a stunt that looked a lot like Knievel's Snake River Canyon jump of 1974 – Evel Knievel called the Touch The Sky video a "worthless piece of crap" that "harm[ed] the reputation of the Evel Knievel trademark" and promptly sued Kanye West for roughly everything he's got.

And although Kanye West was adamant that his video was a satire and therefore protected by the First Amendment, he's now reached a settlement with Knievel that's finally made the old man happy. According to Evel Knievel himself:

"I was very satisfied and so was he."  

The settlement is completely undisclosed, so we'll never find out exactly how much money Kanye West paid Evel Knievel to shut up, but we'd imagine that it was a lot less than it could have been, because Kanye West sweetened the deal by heading down to Evel Knievel's home in Florida to say hello and iron out the settlement in person.

This will have helped enormously because it allowed Evel Knievel the chance to hear a human explanation for the video instead of the mildly threatening legal-speak he must have been sick of hearing from West's lawyers. And not only that, but it also gave Evel the opportunity to tell Kanye that, while he's ultimately a fan of his third-party production work for the likes of Common and Jay-Z, he essentially feels that his solo work is let down by an insidious complacency when it comes down to his assonance-heavy rhyming style. Word.

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Knievel, Kanye Call Truce – E! Online