When you talk about Paper Magazine, people would remember the Kim Kardashian cover that broke the internet. Now it’s the turn of her husband, iconic rapper Kanye.
Yeezus, as we all know, is not going to be satisfied with some journalist writing his cover story. If you want something done, Ye do it yourself.
In the cover story for Paper’s April magazine, under the title ‘The American Dream’, Kanye talks about multiple issues-mainly focused on his work, both in rap and fashion- as well as his legacy.
Read excerpts from the piece below…
On passing info onto the next generation:
“The Internet has opened up every conversation, literally and metaphorically. It starts as homogenizing, but this hybrid-ing, this interbreeding of ideas, is necessary for us as a race to evolve. (Thank God for Steve Jobs.)
For example, there was an embroiderer at a fashion house who was in her 90s and she refused to give anyone her technique. She said, “When I die, this technique will die also.” I think the opposite of that. I think it’s so important for me, as an artist, to give Drake as much information as I can, A$AP, Kendrick, Taylor Swift, any of these younger artists as much information as I can to make better music in the future. We should all be trying to make something that’s better”
Should Kanye West Leave Fashion To The Professionals?
“That question is really ignorant, in a way, because the second I sell my first T-shirt or my first shoe, doesn’t that make me a professional? And when you sit down with Riccardo Tisci at the Louvre and he pitches the idea of you wearing a leather kilt, which could be considered by all of your gangbanging friends as some sort of a dress or skirt, at that point you are now a part of the fashion world. You have paid your dues to be an insider”
What’s Kanye West’s goal in the fashion world?
“My goal isn’t to “break through the fashion world;” my goal is to make usable sculpture. My goal is to paint. My goal is to be as close to a five-year-old, or a four-year-old, or a three-year-old, as possible. If a three-year-old says, “I like the color orange,” he’s not giving an explanation to an entire world that can give him a thumbs-up or a thumbs-down on whether or not he should like the color orange. I don’t care about the thumbs-up or the thumbs-down. Fashion is something that’s in my heart to do — in my spirit. There’s no world that can stop me from what I love. Not the rap world, not the fashion world, not the real world”
On his love of music:
I loved music. I loved it more than I love it now. But I think that can happen with anything. You can live in New York for 10 years and say, “I now want to move to San Francisco.” It’s just harder for me to do music now, period. It’s easier for people who focus on it all day and who are younger in their concept of what they want to do with it. I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator”
Are Celebrities Illuminati?
“That’s ridiculous. We don’t run anything; we’re celebrities. We’re the face of brands. We have to compromise what we say in lyrics so we don’t lose money on a contract
What is the meaning of life?
“To give. What’s the key to happiness? Happiness. What do you want in life? When you give someone something, should they give you something in return? No. We don’t have to expect to be compensated by the person we give to. Just give”
Legacy
“For the amount of things that I really want to do, it can only work if I’m credited for about 20 percent of them. Because if I’m really credited for the amount of things that I’m going to do and what I want to do, it’s just too much. The reward is in the deed itself. The times that I’ve looked like a crazy person — when I was screaming at an interviewer or screaming from the stage — all I was screaming was, “Help me to help more! I’ve given all I’ve got. I’ve gone into f**king debt. It’s all I’ve got to give. But if I had a little bit more opportunity, I could give so much more.” That’s what I was screaming for. Help me to help more”
Classic, Kanye- Read the rest of Kanye West, ‘American Dream’
i don’t care about this mad man.