The world of giant egos is filled with heavy hitters. Donald Trump. Bill O’Reilly. Oprah. Barbra. Athletes too numerous to list. On and on.

One-upping a group like this is a tall task, but Kanye West appears to have achieved it.

In the arena of Me-ism, he may stand alone.

One writer has described him as having an ego the size of Illinois. And that was before he fired his latest salvo of self-aggrandizement.

“I realize that my place and position in history is that I will go down as the voice of this generation, of this decade,” he said the other day.

Damn near takes your breath away, doesn’t it.

Pound for pound, that utterance is as stunningly grandiose as anything, say, Muhammad Ali ever spieled, including “I am the greatest.”

Difference is, Ali had his tongue lodged in his cheek when he said that kind of stuff. West apparently means it.

By way of explanation for those fortunate enough to be ignorant of this guy, West is a Chicago rapper/signature-clothing line magnate who has made a fortune.

He also has ownership of such sage observations as, “Whatever is the biggest selling movie in any given year is also my favorite movie of the year” and “People shouldn’t bash gay people.”

In 2006 he posed as Jesus Christ on the cover of Rolling Stone.

Later that year, he lost out on an MTV awards and interrupted the winners by shouting, “This award should have gone to me.”

At a music awards show last week in England, he bullrushed Paul McCartney and insisted that he listen to his new song.

“I had to stop him leaving the room. That’s what I’m like,” West told a reporter.

In his song “Crack Music,” West riffed unironically on the urban myth that the Reagan administration introduced crack cocaine into inner cities to quell political activism.