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[jaymosenvied]

This dude don't lost it

 

[meek meals]

the full audio interview is out

Im sure those of you who miss 03-07 kanye wont like it but i love it and think he genuinely wants to shift the culture

Don't think he will drop another album for a while but i am interested in what he does beyond music (wanting to design water bottles, basketball uniforms)

Its obvious he has good ideas (bringing the leather sweats to fendi in 2007, the seven screen experience) and he definitely is an American cultural leader (like he said there would be no givenchy in the hood if it wasnt for him and i will add that those shutter shades although corny have become a staple at beaches and tourist shops around America, plus him and pharell definitely brought slimmer clothes to urban america)

Its bigger than soul samples, interested to see what the next ten years holds for him​

 

[imreallydirknowitzki]

This interview is great so far.

 

[wade187]

This interview is great so far.

I agree, once I got past whatever the **** he was doing with his voice at first, i can see what he's saying.

 

[illphillip]

The fact that 'ye recognizes MBDTF as perfect lets me know that he still has it, he just doesn't want to be confined in a box with his music

When someone refers to their OWN work as "perfect", it should actually let you know they've lost it.

If you buy into anything he says, I'm just going to assume Tumblr raised you.

This.

 

[illphillip]

he definitely is an American cultural leader (like he said there would be no givenchy in the hood if it wasnt for him and i will add that those shutter shades although corny have become a staple at beaches and tourist shops around America, plus him and pharell definitely brought slimmer clothes to urban america)

​

This is what you consider "culture"?​

 

[00david00]

I like some of Gaga songs, what the **** she know about cameras ?!

 

[awwsome]

I like some of Gaga songs, what the **** she know about cameras ?!

**** had me

 

[meek meals]

he definitely is an American cultural leader (like he said there would be no givenchy in the hood if it wasnt for him and i will add that those shutter shades although corny have become a staple at beaches and tourist shops around America, plus him and pharell definitely brought slimmer clothes to urban america)

​

This is what you consider "culture"?​

yes as far as contributions to pop culture

When is the next time you think 3X Your Size jeans will be in style outside of really hood dudes? Even hood dudes with money stick to sagging the slim straight trus robins or levis...we're never gonna see big *** jeans like they were in say 05 and before...pharrll and ye are mostly responsible for bringing that to urban culture, rappers with more of a street demographic than ye and pharell piggybacked off of that

As far as the shutter shades, i will never personally rock a pair like I said, but its one of the few things from the 2000s that can be directly attributed to the 2000s .... I know they were out in the 80s but it wasnt the beach/tourist shop staple it has become now...they have become a staple in american culture like shark teeth necklaces or something idk ... They are a fixture at the beach and not many artists are doing that where things from they wear become staples like that

The leather sweats thing just shows that kanye has a great niche for predicting trends...think about where leather sweats fit in the styles at the time of 2007​

 

[imreallydirknowitzki]

This is what you consider "culture"?

Everything is culture man.

 

[Maximus Meridius]

After making a great album with MBDTF it seems dude really thought he could put out anything and EVERYBODY would love it just cuz it's "different" but half of Yeezus was garbage. I'm still a fan of dudes music cuz the songs that I do like on Yeezus are GREAT. It's funny to me how people act he's changed so much since College Dropout. Dude has always been a ***hole, always been cocky as ****. It's just that back then he was more relatable to some people. Now he's a ***hole at the top of the game.


More money, more fame, more accomplishments made his ego even bigger but sometimes it seems like dude is purposely saying arrogant **** to piss people off. **** is funny to me.

 

[thorrocksjs]

Michael Jackson's not black he is Michael Jackson nah white folks y'all can keep this dude we don't need him back

 

[flossb15]

i dunno, maybe I'M crazy.

but i just don't see what he said in this interview that was so crazy.

I feel the same way, he the same Kanye with money

I've always given Pharrell more credit on culture than Kanye, but you're delusional if you don't feel Kanye hasn't had an impact on rap/pop culture

 

[knowledgebones72]

Michael Jackson's not black he is Michael Jackson nah white folks y'all can keep this dude we don't need him back

 

[delete1234]

I feel the same way, he the same Kanye with money

I've always given Pharrell more credit on culture than Kanye, but you're delusional if you don't feel Kanye hasn't had an impact on rap/pop culture

I think the main thing that changed was his music lol. When he used to talk that **** we used to feel it because we genuinely felt he was great. Now dude is making GARBAGE(yeezus) and it's just like ***** shut up you aren't even making good songs let alone this groundbreaking innovation you think you are anymore so save it...like I literally played the first song on yeezus and had a stone face like...is he for real?? Even the songs that are good (bound 2) would have been throwaway tracks on his older CDs. People praise that song so much because it's on a CD full of garbage.

 

[illphillip]

he definitely is an American cultural leader (like he said there would be no givenchy in the hood if it wasnt for him and i will add that those shutter shades although corny have become a staple at beaches and tourist shops around America, plus him and pharell definitely brought slimmer clothes to urban america)

​

This is what you consider "culture"?​

yes as far as contributions to pop culture

When is the next time you think 3X Your Size jeans will be in style outside of really hood dudes? Even hood dudes with money stick to sagging the slim straight trus robins or levis...we're never gonna see big *** jeans like they were in say 05 and before...pharrll and ye are mostly responsible for bringing that to urban culture, rappers with more of a street demographic than ye and pharell piggybacked off of that

As far as the shutter shades, i will never personally rock a pair like I said, but its one of the few things from the 2000s that can be directly attributed to the 2000s .... I know they were out in the 80s but it wasnt the beach/tourist shop staple it has become now...they have become a staple in american culture like shark teeth necklaces or something idk ... They are a fixture at the beach and not many artists are doing that where things from they wear become staples like that

The leather sweats thing just shows that kanye has a great niche for predicting trends...think about where leather sweats fit in the styles at the time of 2007​

I'm sorry, but when you refer to someone as a "cultural leader", and your examples are form fitting clothes, shutter shades and leather sweats and Givenchy clothes, you've failed ​

 

[gllahone84]

I see Ye on that helium

 

[wade187]

Why is there never normal people on here, who can just have normal conversation. Nothing but riders and haters. That **** gotta take a toll on you dudes

 

[Maximus Meridius]

^ That's what Kanye does to some of these dudes. There's no middle ground to some people.



Part 2 of that interview is funny as hell.

 

[wade187]

I think the main thing that changed was his music lol. When he used to talk that **** we used to feel it because we genuinely felt he was great. Now dude is making GARBAGE(yeezus) and it's just like ***** shut up you aren't even making good songs let alone this groundbreaking innovation you think you are anymore so save it...like I literally played the first song on yeezus and had a stone face like...is he for real?? Even the songs that are good (bound 2) would have been throwaway tracks on his older CDs. People praise that song so much because it's on a CD full of garbage.

I agree with you on the first part. It certainly was something to see this kid who was different, and was the underdog at the time talk that ****. It's almost impossible to relate to dude now. The rest is your perspective. Can't front like I aint feel the same way for a little while, especially about bound 2. Definitely would've been a throwaway track, but it brings people back to a Ye they could relate to, and a sound they are accustomed to. I disagree about him not being groundbreaking though, especially with yeezus. Ain't for everybody, but that **** certainly hasn't ever been done before.

 

[wade187]

^ That's what Kanye does to some of these dudes. There's no middle ground to some people.



Part 2 of that interview is funny as hell.

In terms of Yeezus certainly, but most of these dudes don't need Ye to bring it out of them. Same dudes you'll catch doing the same thing on every thread. Going back and forth clowning each other, not realizing they one in the same.

 

[thorrocksjs]

Part two is interesting I feel like Kanye is struggling as an artist and as a brand because he is a black man who came in the door through hip hop and now he is locked in the room and will do anything to get out even saw his own legs off .Its a seriously messed up situation because black artist intellectuals are either forced to make propaganda that pigeon holes them into speaking for a group .Thats his struggle he can't legitimize what he does or what he says .The major problem is that his approach to things is extremely heavy handed and he has to brag about his every move .It reminds of when bill gates was all over tv on how successful Microsoft was and then Apple finally hit its stride and Bill went from iconoclast to apartof system that was rigid soulless with no artistic or human merit.

Kanye thinks money will allow him to leap hurdles that stop him proceeding but the fact he continues to go to the same fashion shows as the people he clearly doesn't like work with shoes with a corporation that doesn't respect his creative vision completely and work with people who don't seem to completely give reigns means he really wants these peoples respect instead of rejecting them and carving his path by himself for himself.Also he is giving steve jobs too much credit to be honest

 

[flossb15]

just watched the interview again - he say a lot of BS, but classism and self hate convo is REAL

Its crazy that people write him off, but if you a minority and have tried to do anything great or as a whole for the better in entertainment or fashion that **** real

like media/politicians/govt would rather a million songs about pimp/gangsta because it leads to the detriment of the mind, but those big self esteem songs come around and the "who do you think you are ?'s fill the room

 

[cragmatic]

Both parts were good. I get what he's saying. I like how he says he never liked Gold Digger, and only made it basically because he knew it'd make him money. I like when he mentions that they told him if tickets didn't sell for the tour he'd be in debt, but he said let's do it it anyway.

It was pretty cool as well when he basically said he is who he is because his parents raised him to believe he can do anything he wants, and his parents made him who he is.

Aside from a few times when Kanye looked like he was gonna murder Zane I don't get what was so bad about the interview.

 

[yotk13]

"I didnt even like Gold Digger that much but I knew I'd make money off of it"

The irony