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Kanye West
American
Musician
Born:
Jun 8
,
1977
Just
Me
People
Think
Time
You
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I think I do myself a disservice by comparing myself to Steve Jobs and Walt Disney and human beings that we've seen before. It should be more like Willy Wonka... and welcome to my chocolate factory.
Kanye West
Myself
Welcome
Seen
Before
Think
Disservice
Jobs
More
Factory
Like
Steve
Steve Jobs
Walt
Walt Disney
Human
Human Beings
Chocolate
Should
Disney
Beings
Comparing
Every time I say something that's extremely truthful out loud, it literally breaks the Internet.
Kanye West
Time
Internet
Every
Every Time
Extremely
Say
Out
Something
Loud
Truthful
Literally
Breaks
This dark diction has become America's addiction.
Kanye West
Dark
Become
Addiction
Diction
America
In Paris, you're as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles.
Kanye West
You
Pleasant
Possible
Paris
Smiles
As Far As
Land
Far
I just want people to be the best thems and live the happiest lives possible.
Kanye West
Best
People
Live
Possible
Just
Want
Happiest
Lives
I'm really bad with answering questions. Usually, I don't even answer them. I try to find inspiration inside of the question. I think, and I jump from one beam of inspiration or energy to the next, as opposed to explaining the energy.
Kanye West
Try
Energy
Think
Bad
Find
Inside
Beam
Inspiration
Answer
Answering
Opposed
Question
Questions
Jump
Explaining
Them
Really
Next
Even
I know how to swim through backlash. I can tread water through backlash... If anything, that's all giving me power.
Kanye West
Me
Water
Giving
Power
Backlash
Through
Know
How
Anything
Swim
Tread
If you see a black family, it's looting, but if it's a white family they are looking for food.
Kanye West
Food
Family
You
Black
Looking
White
Black Family
See
Looting
Thirty-three-years-old, still creating art. It's rage, it's creativity, it's pain, it's hurt, but it's the opportunity to still have my voice get out there through music.
Kanye West
Music
Art
Hurt
Creativity
Opportunity
Pain
Rage
Out
Voice
Through
Still
Get
Creating
The risk for me would be in not taking one - that's the only thing that's really risky for me.
Kanye West
Me
Would
Would-Be
Risk
Only
Risky
Taking
The Only Thing
Really
Thing
You know what should be banned? Stuff that's whack. The world is controversial. The world is classist. The world is racist.
Kanye West
You
World
Stuff
Know
Whack
Controversial
Banned
Should
Michael Jordan changed so much in basketball, he took his power to make a difference. It's so much going on in music right now and somebody has to make a difference.
Kanye West
Music
Somebody
Power
Changed
Took
He
Jordan
Make
Make A Difference
His
Michael
Michael Jordan
Going
Difference
Much
Now
Right
Basketball
I definitely think, generally, rap is misogynistic.
Kanye West
Think
Definitely
Rap
Generally
I'm giving all that I have in this life. I'm opening up my notebook, and I'm saying everything in there out loud.
Kanye West
Life
Saying
Giving
Everything
Out
Opening
Up
Loud
Notebook
I'm inspired by Walt Disney. I'm inspired by Howard Hughes. I'm inspired by Henry Ford. I'm inspired by Steve Jobs. I mean, I'm inspired by James Perse.
Kanye West
Jobs
Inspired
Steve
Steve Jobs
Ford
Howard Hughes
Hughes
Walt
Walt Disney
James
Mean
Disney
Henry
Henry Ford
My favorite record label of all time is Motown. That era of music was my favorite.
Kanye West
Music
Time
Favorite
Record
All-Time
Record Label
Era
Label
Motown
There was a time Michael Jackson couldn't get his video on MTV because he was considered to be 'urban.' The Michael Jackson. So I literally have to be the Michael Jackson of apparel in order to break down the doors for everyone who will come after I'm gone, after I'm dead.
Kanye West
Time
Will
Doors
Gone
Down
Everyone
Considered
He
Come
Dead
Because
His
Michael
Michael Jackson
Get
Jackson
The Doors
Order
Literally
After
Break
Urban
Video
Apparel
Who
The concept of commercialism in the fashion and art world is looked down upon. You know, just to think, 'What amount of creativity does it take to make something that masses of people like?' And, 'How does creativity apply across the board?'
Kanye West
Art
Fashion
You
Creativity
People
World
Down
Think
Something
Take
Like
Know
Concept
Looked
Masses
Make
Does
How
Art World
Commercialism
Just
Board
Across
Amount
Apply
I didn't know the term 'synesthesia' until I was working on 'Cruel Summer.' Halfway into writing that, I really understood that, my entire life, I had been trying to describe this condition of mine: through painting, through this seven-screen Surround Vision film we shot in Qatar, through all these things.
Kanye West
Life
Writing
Vision
Painting
Summer
Mine
Entire
Entire Life
Through
Had
Cruel
Term
Know
Until
Halfway
Understood
Been
Condition
Surround
Trying
Shot
Really
Working
Describe
Film
Things
It was a strike against me that I didn't wear baggy jeans and jerseys and that I never hustled, never sold drugs.
Kanye West
Me
Sold
Strike
Wear
Hustled
Never
Baggy
Against
Jeans
My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don't care what your job is, you're not gonna talk down to me, you're not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I'm a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened.
Kanye West
Family
Me
You
Man
Walk
Try
Care
Job
First
Down
Respected
Out
Some
Rise
Talk
Goal
dont Care
Get
Just
Establishing
Happened
Interesting
Gonna
Interesting Things
Your
Street
Things
I'm here to fight for the re-education of what celebrity is: to say, 'Yes, we are celebrities, but yes, we're also innovators. We're also inventors. We're also thoughtful.'
Kanye West
Fight
Innovators
Say
Thoughtful
Inventors
Also
Yes
Celebrities
Celebrity
Here
I dislike the concept of 'chic' being the highest compliment for a human being. I'd rather someone be nice than to be chic.
Kanye West
Human Being
Be Nice
Nice
Compliment
Someone
Rather
Highest
Concept
Chic
Than
Human
Being
Dislike
Sometimes we be playing the politics too much and forget who we are just to win.
Kanye West
Politics
Win
Sometimes
Too Much
Too
Forget
Just
Much
Who
Playing
The concept of Kimye has more cultural significance than what Page Six could write.
Kanye West
Significance
More
Could
Write
Concept
Cultural
Than
Six
Page
Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah. Any situation you're in, you're gonna worry about raising kids. But it's champagne problems, too. There are people who can't feed their kids.
Kanye West
You
People
Problems
Situation
Too
Worry
Kids
Eye
About
Feed
Yeah
Any
Being
Public
Gonna
Public Eye
Who
Champagne
Raising
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