Top 10 Quotes from Kanye West’s Radio One Interview
He has a reputation for being one of the most controversial artists around and Kanye West did not disappoint when he sat down with Radio 1 DJ Zane Lowe earlier this week.
Incase you haven’t heard it – which in our opinion you most definitely should do – DYRT have rounded up the top 10 quotes from the man himself:
On Lady Gaga: “Look at Gaga. She’s the creative director of Polaroid. I like some of the Gaga songs. What the f*** does she know about cameras?”
On being a living god: “[W]hen someone comes up and says something like, “I am a god,” everybody says “Who does he think he is?” I just told you who I thought I was. A god. I just told you. That’s who I think I am.”
On his new role in fashion: “Me and Virgil [Abloh] are in Rome, giving designs to Fendi, over and over, and getting our designs knocked down. [We] brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said “no.” I mean how many mo*********** you gone seen with a leather jogging pant?”
On his girlfriend Kim Kardashian: “She gave me everything, she gave me family. She was in a powerful enough situation where she could love me without asking for money. Which is really hard for me to find.”
On the future: “It’s our Earth. Like, you remember, like, you’d see future movies, and everything was in the sky? Like, it moved to the sky? That’s the Internet! That’s what it is! That’s our sky! That’s our future sky! We kinda thought we knew what it was, and it’s flying cars. We didn’t get flying cars, but we can send movies, in, like, two seconds.”
On North West: “You see all these cheques you’re getting age six because people are taking your picture, you don’t have to worry about a thing ever again just because people want to take your picture, and I made that happen Nori.”
On the new direction of his music: “So I’m gonna take music and I’m going to try to make it three-dimensional, like [long pause], like in Star Wars, and the hologram’ll pop up out of R2-D2. I’ma try to make something that jumps up, and affects you, in a good or bad way.”
On being the biggest in the world: “Rap is the new rock and roll. We the rock stars… We the rock stars, and I’m the biggest of all of them.”
On the media: “We need to find something new because it’s being controlled in a way and manufactured in a way that really awesome artists can make amazing music and not break as far past as something that’s very formulaic.”
On being a visionary: “They will play this interview in five years. They will play this interview in ten years, and say, “He called that, he called that, he called that…”
