Kanye West, Evel Knievel resolve video beef

Okay, so maybe the blog hounds at Stereogum beat us to the punch on this one, but the above photo deserves to be circulated to every corner of the Internet. As some of you readers may recall, Evel Knievel sued Kanye West last year for appropriating his likeness in the high-wire video for West’s “Touch The Sky.” It was the classic case of adding injury to insult – the million-dollar, Pamela Anderson-featuring video had just lost at the 2006 MTV Europe Video Awards to a couple of unknown artists named Justice and Simian.

Kanye did not take the first slight well.

However, when it came to Knievel’s suit, West handled the situation far more professionally. The two have reached an “amicable agreement” and the suit has been dismissed outright. Here’s to keeping a cool head and mending bridges. That’s true Man of the Year-caliber behavior.

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