Back in October, Kanye West surprised "American Idol" judges Jennifer Lopez, Harry Connick Jr. and Keith Urban for the 15th and final season by auditioning for the competition with his hit song "Gold Digger" and the full video has finally been released.
"My name is Kanye. I'm from the South Side of Chicago," the 38-year-old rapper says to the judges. "I'm originally a producer. I always wanted to rap and nobody really believed in me."
"I hope that works out," Urban says, while Lopez and Connick Jr. wish him luck.
The cameras then show host Ryan Seacrest outside the audition room waiting with West's wife Kim Kardashian. "I'm not nervous because I do really believe in him," Kardashian jokingly says. "I didn't give him any advice on singing, rapping. I just hope they really believe in him."
"I just wanted to do something original," West then tells Lopez when she asks what song he's going to audition with. "It has one of the judges names in it."
"It better f--king be me," Lopez hilariously whispers under her breath, and she was completely right, as her name is mentioned in "Gold Digger."
When the audition originally filmed, both Seacrest and Kardashian teased the clip on social media, as HNGN previously reported. "Look who's going to Hollywood!" Seacrest captioned a photo of Kanye with a huge, rare smile on his face. Kardashian also posted a photo of the camera shots writing, "SURPRISE!"
"We were in San Francisco and they said, 'We've got a contestant that's just going to jump into the line,'" Seacrest told E! News at the time. "And up walked Kim and Kanye - Kim pregnant and Kanye enthusiastic and ready to go in there. He walks in there and does a lyric about J. Lo from one of his songs."
Watch West happily receive his golden ticket below!
