some pearls of wisdom from the interview
1. Kanye West is Kanye Best
"We culture. Rap is the new rock 'n' roll. We are the real rock stars and I'm the biggest of all of them. I'm the number one rock star on the planet."
2. Kanye West is on a Kanye Quest
"I eventually want to be the anchor of the first trillion-dollar company."
3. Kanye West wants people to be Kanye Dressed
"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.' How many mother****ers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?"
4. Kanye West is in a Kanye Mess
"I've reached a point in my life where my Truman Show boat has hit the painting. I've got to a point that Michael Jackson did not break down. I've reached a glass ceiling, as a creative person, as a celebrity. When I say that, it means, I want to do product, I am a product person. Not just clothing, but water bottle design, architecture, everything, you know, that you could think about. And I've been at it for 10 years, and I look around, and I say, wait a second, there's no one in this space that looks like me, and if they are, they're quiet as ****. So that means, wait a second, now we're seriously in a civil rights movement."
5. Kanye West is Kanye Stressed
"[I'm] taking 1000 meetings, attempting to get backing to do clothing and getting no headway whatsoever. This is what frustration ****ing sounds like... I am so frustrated. I've got so much I want to give. I've got ideas on colour palettes. I've got ideas on silhouettes. And I've got a million people telling me I can't do it. 'You're not a real designer.' Well, I'm not a real rapper."