Kanye West might have a messiah complex, but no, he did not return from the dead in 2009. Instead he was the victim of a faulty rumor that he “was killed in a collision that left a second person injured, a third arrested for manslaughter and a fourth person detained by police,” according to Reuters. The hoax, which occurred shortly after the infamous Taylor Swift incident at the MTV Video Music Awards, provided bloggers and comedians with plenty of joke fodder, but there was one person who wasn’t amused — West’s then-girlfriend Amber Rose, who tweeted “This ‘RIP Kanye West’ topic is not funny and it’s NOT TRUE!”
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