Kanye West covers Paper Magazine ..Remember
Kim Kardashian broke the internet with her bare
butt splashed on the magazine’s front cover…It’s
Kanye’s turn now.
On illuminati rumours,he says he is tired of
musicians being called illuminati..He says they
only compromise their lyrics so they don’t lose
money on a contract..
I heard a comment — a joke — about the Tidal
press conference being an Illuminati moment. If
there was actually an Illuminati, it would be more
like the energy companies. Not celebrities that
gave their life to music and who are pinpointed as
decoys for people who really run the world. I’m
tired of people pinpointing musicians as the
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.
Madonna is in her 50s and gave everything she
had to go up on an award show and get choked by
her cape. She’s judged for who she adopts. Fuck all
of this sensationalism. We gave you our lives. We
gave you our hearts. We gave you our opinions!
Let’s just tap back into the real world for a second
— we can have children. Let’s be thankful. We
can raise our kids, let’s be thankful. But how
about we raise our kids in a truthful world, not a
world based on brands and concepts of
perception? Perception is not reality. When I look
in North’s eyes, I’m happy about every mistake
I’ve ever made. I’m happy that I fought to bring
some type of reality to this world we choose to
stay in right now, driven by brands and
corporations.
On his dream, he says
“I know people want to talk about the American
Dream, but my dream is a world dream. It’s a
world in which everyone’s main goal would be to
help each other. The first thing I told my team on
New Year’s Day was, “You know, people say bad
news travels fast, but this year let’s make good
news travel faster.” You get back what you put out,
and the more positive energy you put out, the
more positive energy you’ll get back. We had to do
a lot of fighting in the past couple of years to get
people to understand what we want to do, what
we will do and what we’re capable of doing. Not
just me — or my DONDA creative team, or my
design team, or my music team — but an entire
generation that has the information highway and
the ability to access information.”
On trying to put him in a box, he says that’s not
possible
It’s funny to be so famous and noted for one
thing, and to have so many people try to box you
out of another form of art, even if you’ve proven
you’re an artist of one form. 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. But it hurt me
as a human being to see that article written, with
the amount of work that’s there and the potential
and what I know I will eventually do. But behind
bravery and courage is the ability to brace for
pain, not the idea of never having pain or trying
to avoid pain.
On those who criticize him for joining the fashion
industry ,he says
I saw this article that asked, “Should Kanye 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. I paid my dues when I
had to wear a kilt in Chicago, and friends would
say, “What’s your boy got on?” But there are
warriors that have killed people in kilts in the
past. Who gets to decide what’s hard and what’s
not hard? When I saw this kilt, I liked it. I was
into it. It looked fresh to me. I felt creative; I
didn’t feel limited by some perception.
Bravery and courage is walking into pain and
knowing that something better is on the other
side. I heard this quote from Steve Jobs: someone
came up to him when he was working on
something and said, “Hey, just do it. It will be
easy.” And he said, “Wait a second. Anything
halfway good is at least medium hard.” There’s no
easy way out. Just choose what you want to focus
on. Right now, over 70 percent of my focus is on
apparel. I haven’t even given my College Dropout
of clothing yet. We’re still on mixtapes.
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