L’intervista di Zane Lowe a Kanye West

Dopo aver fatto più di una semplice esibizione ai BRIT Awards, Kanye West è tornato da Zane Lowe per rilasciare una nuova intervista. Non sono mancati momenti di commozione (parlando della recente scomparsa di Louise Wilson) e momenti di inaspettata umiltà come le scuse pubbliche a Beck e Bruno Mars.

Questi i punti salienti ed alcune frasi importanti

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[quote]If I meet someone I respect or look up to, I will literally kiss their feet.[/quote]

Sul nuovo disco:
“[I’m] just working hard on it and it’s fun, it’s fun to be inventive and I’ve still got a lot of opinions and perspectives that are important and could be inspiring to people who fight. College Dropout, the album, came out of a fight to rap and this new album’s coming out of a fight to design … it’s a joyful noise unto the Lord.”

Sulla collaborazione con Paul McCartney:
“I like the differences of views in our approach… I come in and have this list of complaints — “this happened!” and “that happened!” — and he’s like “Yo man, it’s all cool though — how about we make a song?” And we just make song after song after song after song.”

Sulla sua vecchia intervista:
“I was using the wrong words, my rap was wrong. I was getting the drink thrown in my face instead of going home with the girl at the end of the night.”

[quote]Raf is the most important designer to streetwear culture…What he did was like The College Dropout. Raf was like 808s…He delivered the answer. Bottom line.[/quote]

Su quello che chiama “the new racism”:
“Class is the new way to discriminate against people, to hold people down, to hold people in their place based on where their kids go to school, how much money they make, what they drive, where they live, and what type of clothes they have, and how much they have in their account for retirement. To somehow say, this person here means more than this person — I know I tweet “Black Lives Matter” but all lives matter. My doorman is more important to me than any head of any company. He keeps us safe. My driver, he keeps us safe and goes to work everyday. The guy painting the windows … he is just as important as anyone who walks in the house and grabs a glass of champagne.”

[quote]I was like The 40 Year Old Virgin—or that other movie, with Ryan Gosling or something.[/quote]

Sul prezzo dei suoi vestiti e sulla volontà di realizzarne di più “accessibili”:
“It was a futile argument for me to say “Hey everyone get behind me so i can make another $5000 jacket you can’t afford. But now I feel like people are rallying because they know I want to fight for H&M … everyone should have the opportunity to drink from the same fountain.”

Su Beck:
“Yeah I misconstrued it … when I was — ironically — having dinner with Taylor Swift, the Beck song starts playing and I say “Wow, this is really good. Maybe I might have been wrong!” [laughing]

Sui Grammys:
“I hadn’t been in six years and the Grammys are definitely like an ex-girlfriend, soon as you get in the car with them, you want to go right back home.”

[quote]Fusion is the future, period. The mixing of ideas, the two lunch tables working together. Humanity, period. We’re one people.[/quote]

Dopo l’intervista, sono arrivate anche le scuse pubbliche a Beck e Bruno Mars: