Kanye West is not one to hold his tongue but more recently, if you get him talking about fashion, he’ll talk circles around you. That’s exactly what happened in this interview with Vanity Fair. You can get the sense that Yeezy is super excited about the second season of his collection and he goes into detail at how this is different than the first, how the show came about and who he is inspired by.
Of course, they had to ask him about that 2020 Presidential bid at the MTV VMA’s and what’s good with his upcoming album SWISH, which he didn’t say much about besides the fact that it could still be years from being completed. Well, at least one song is.
At this point, it seems like family and fashion are coming ahead of the music, so we might be waiting a while for that new Kanye music to hit our speakers.
On “Fade” being used in the show:
“We had a couple options and I just thought it sounded good against the people. For the 40 theaters across the globe, for the kids that all went to see it in theaters, I thought they’d be happy to hear some new music. I’ve been doing that [making a new album] too. That’s like a sonic landscape, a two-year painting. That song I played has been a year and a half in the making and it may be still a year from being complete. But it was to let people get a glimpse at the painting.”
On the upcoming album SWISH:
“It’s currently called Swish. I’m forgetting even what the last name of it was now.”
On his 2020 Presidential run:
“Especially from the six years of this misconception or the six years I went through of “We don’t like Kanye.” And then as soon as I said that, it was like, “Wait a second, we would really be into that, because actually if you think about it, he’s extremely thoughtful. Every time he’s ever gotten in trouble, he was really jumping in front of a bullet for someone else. He’s probably the most honest celebrity that we have.” I didn’t approach that because I thought it would be fun. It wasn’t like, Oh, let’s go rent some jet skis in Hawaii. No, the exact opposite. I sit in clubs and I’m like, Wow, I’ve got five years before I go and run for office and I’ve got a lot of research to do, I’ve got a lot of growing up to do. My dad has two masters degrees. My mom has a PhD, she used to work at Operation PUSH. Somehow the more and more creative I get, the closer and closer I get to who I was as a child. When I was a child, I was holding my mom’s hand at Operation PUSH. I think it’s time. Rap is great.It’s fun. It’s fun to be a rock star, and I’ll never not be one I guess, but there’ll be a point where I become my mother’s child. With all the things I’ve done that people would consider to be accomplishments, what’s the point where I become the person that Donda and Raymond West raised? My parents’ child.”
Read about it all over at Vanity Fair.
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