Kanye recently did an interview with Details Magazine and shared his thoughts on a few topics. I don’t know that many of his hits off the top of my head, just one, Gold digger comes to mind, so I think his statement about his cultural impact might be over the top. He really needs to talk with the little people, the ones who are outside of his life bubble. If he did, he may be stunned when he realizes he isn’t that important to them!
I wonder… could it be possible he’s pulling a Joaquin Phoenix and switching gears in his career? Either that or he may be living on another planet from the rest of us who really don’t ‘get him’ and all his wonderousness.
Here are a few snippets from the interview, enjoy all you Kanye fans:
Kanye Wants To Focus On Fashion Since He’s Mastered Music:
“Put this in the magazine: There’s nothing more to be said about music. I’m the fucking end-all, be-all of music. I know what I’m doing. I did 808s in three weeks. I got it. It’s on cruise control. . . . Man, we talked about music for God knows how long! Now let’s talk about how my fucking sweater didn’t come back right from Korea. That’s what’s interesting me.”
Kanye On How He Has Contributed To Our Generation:
“If not me, then who? Someone could be a better rapper, dance better. But culturally impacting*? When you look back at these four and a half years, who’s the icon at the end of the day? Who broke down color barriers? What other black guy would a white person use as a fashion reference?”
Kanye’s Opinion on “that’s so gay” Is In His Opinion A Compliment:
“Titles are very important. I like to embody titles, y’know, or words that have negative connotations, and explain why that’s good. Take the word gay—like, in hip-hop, that’s a negative thing, right? But in the past two, three years, all the gay people I’ve encountered have been, like, really, really, extremely dope. Y’know, I haven’t, like, gone to a gay bar, nor do I ever plan to. But where I would talk to a gay person—the conversation would be mostly around, like, art or design—it’d be really dope. From a design standpoint, kids’ll say, ‘Dude, those pants are gay.’ But if it’s, like, good, good, good fashion-level, design-level stuff, where it’s on a higher level than the average commercial design stuff, it’s, like, gay people that do that. I think that should be said as a compliment. Like, ‘Dude, that’s so good it’s almost . . . gay.’”
