Kanye West recently sat down for a live interview with SHOWStudio’s Lou Stoppard.
Attempting to present the full scope of Ye, the two discussed various topics from music to fashion to politics, family and racism. Read excerpts below:
On why he wants to run for president:
“Certain things that I’m compelled to do in life, I don’t feel the need to find justification for. It had been talked about for the past five years with my team, and I decided that I was going to announce it.”
On racism:
“If you could put racism in the battery of your phone, it would never stop working.”
On Caitlyn Jenner’s coming out:
“The first thing I thought about was black radio hosts maybe possibly making jokes about it, because the black culture is generally so homophobic. And news cycles are just constantly trying to find some news and some interesting things like, ‘this rapper has this transgender person in his family.’ But then it was like f**k what people say, f**k what they think. I feel proud to be in a family that has so many people breaking ground for the generations to come.”
On changing his album name to SWISH:
“I wasn’t sure if I was gonna keep that name [SWISH]. I just felt like I didn’t wanna walk around with the name So Help Me God for the amount of time that I was making the album. I just felt like that was a heavy backpack to carry. So SWISH just kinda lightened the load, so I could just let it be what I want it to be, so I could just work on the painting and find something.”
Watch the full interview below
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