So few hip-hop artists have ever advanced. Their songs on their seventh, eighth albums sound exactly like the songs on their first album. More than an artist, I’m a real person-and real people grow. And I wanna just sing my growth.
I feel like I’m too busy writing history to read it.
You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, ‘This is wrong.’
Never stop fighting no matter what anyone says. If it’s in your gut, your soul, there’s nothing, no worldly possession that should come between you and your expression.
Us as a people, we can’t do it on our own. We have to understand that we’re not each other’s enemy. We have to stop discriminating against each other due to class and due to race and due to location or financial position.
Rome wasn’t built in a day, and the internet is our new Rome.
I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that’s living or breathing is number two.
I’m gonna sit here on this runway until I’m at the end of it. Because that’s that thing that people slave over. That’s that thing that people are slaves to. That’s that thing that I’m a slave to.
Nike told me, ‘We can’t give you royalties because you’re not a professional athlete.’ I told them ‘I’ll go to the Garden and play one-on-no-one.’ I’m a performance athlete!
I’m a heaven sent instrument. My rhythmatic regimen navigates melodic notes for your soul and your mental. That’s why I’m instrumental, vibrations is what I’m into.
Taste and style is beyond clothes. It’s in food; it’s in quality. Working out, healthy bodies, organic food-they’re all part of the same thing.
I’m a let you finish, but the French Revolution had the best severed heads of ALL TIME.
I’m a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold’s for fried chicken. It’s all these things at once, because, as a taste maker, I find the best of everything.
I was always considered this crazy hothead kid, but I would always just go and just really break bread with someone who I respected. I will completely bow to anybody I respect.
If you fall on concrete, that’s yo ass fault.
I wanna make uniforms for my high school basketball team through brand Yeezy.
Fonts. I get emotional over fonts.
I am in the lineage of Gil Scott-Heron, great activist-type artists. But I’m also in the lineage of a Miles Davis – you know, that liked nice things also.
Well, if someone has got all the money in the world, they’d still want love.
Wait ’till I get my money right...