Whenever Kanye West smiles, it’s said that a rapper gets a record deal.

Well, look out fledging recording artists, because Yeezy was caught smiling — at the paparazzi, no less — on Friday while going through LAX.

Is this a beautiful dark twisted fantasy? Is this some sort of Friday the 13th “thing”?

Kanye has been caught smiling only a few times before.

Once, he broke character at Game 4 of the Eastern Conference semifinals. Observe the brief, blinding flash of pearly whites:

And again at what looks like another basketball game:

And, of course, he’s smiled whenever he gets together with his Kardashian krew.

In an interview at The Daily Front Row’s Fashion Los Angeles Awards, West confessed that “not smiling makes him smile.”

I looked at all these people’s photos and they look so real and their outfits were incredible and they weren’t smiling and people, you know the paparazzi, always come up to me, “Why you not smiling?” and I think, not smiling makes me smile … When you see paintings in an old castle, people are not smiling ’cause it just wouldn’t look as cool.

Yeezus.

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