Kanye West chatted with Ellen DeGeneres the other day about his new album and how he got his life back on track, and he also showed off his new accessory -- diamond teeth!

Of his new smile, Ellen asked if it was a grill, to which Kanye replied, "It's really my real teeth. I replaced my bottom row of teeth. I guess there's just certain things that rock stars are supposed to do." So why would he rip out his real chompers and replace them with diamonds? "I just thought that diamonds were cooler," he says. After he tweeted about his teeth earlier this week, we weren't sure if we believed him, and even Ellen seemed pretty skeptical that he would go this far...