Although many were expecting Kanye West to premiere new music on BBC Radio 1, we did manage to get a half hour interview with him and Annie Mac over the phone, live from Los Angeles.
As always, he was ready to drop some gems. Yeezy talks about making “Fade” his next single, never having a first single perform well on radio, loving Justin Vernon “the way Kanye loves Kanye” and being in a “depressed state” after problems at his Glastonbury headline slot. Speaking on his 2020 presidential bid, he said: “I don’t have views on politics, I just have a view on humanity, on people, on the truth.”
Listen to the whole thing below.
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