Lindsey: So, missing from the piece is Kanye himself.

Jonah: Yes 😭

Lindsey: What happened?

Jonah: Well it was always conceived and pitched as a piece about Cody itself, not about Kanye. But it was inescapable that I was walking around the place where he lives asking people about him. Word got back to him fairly quickly that I was there. And then we had a weekslong conversation with his publicist, which culminated in them agreeing to an interview. I booked flights to go back to Cody, and the next day my editor called to tell me that they had canceled the interview.

I almost wanted to say, “they pulled on the deal,” because that’s how Kanye would describe what happened to him when he was originally going to be given his record contract in “Last Call.”