Kanye West is hopefully deep into finishing a new album right now, but he’s also working on a philosophy book. It’s called Break the Simulation, and he revealed the news to interior designer Axel Vervoordt in an interview for The Hollywood Reporter.
“I’ve got this new concept that I’ve been diggin’ into,” Yeezy says. “I’m writing a philosophy book right now called Break the Simulation. And I’ve got this philosophy — or let’s say it’s just a concept because sometimes philosophy sounds too heavy-handed.”
“I’ve got a concept about photographs, and I’m on the fence about photographs — about human beings being obsessed with photographs — because it takes you out of the now and transports you into the past or transports you into the future,” he continues. “It can be used to document, but a lot of times it overtakes [people]. People dwell too much in the memories. People always wanna hear the history of something, which is important, but I think it there’s too much of an importance put on history.”
Read more over at The Hollywood Reporter’s website.
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