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Hva er mer underholdende/irriterende enn Kanye Wests nyeste album 808s & Heartbreak?

Kanye Wests intervjuer.

I marsnummeret av stilige Details, er den selvsikre/usikre stjernen i toppform. Her er noen saftige sitater:

Hvordan han er som rapper:

Oh my God, I’m one of the greatest rappers in the world. I’ll get on a track and completely ee-nihilate that track, I’ll eat it and rip it in half. I wouldn’t have to think of it.

Om han er dyktig til å lage musikk:

Put this in the magazine: There’s nothing more to be said about music. I’m the fucking end-all, be-all of music. I know what I’m doing. I did 808s in three weeks. I got it. It’s on cruise control. Man, we talked about music for God knows how long! Now let’s talk about how my fucking sweater didn’t come back right from Korea. That’s what’s interesting me.

Er Kanye voice of his generation?

If not me, then who? Someone could be a better rapper, dance better. But culturally impacting? When you look back at these four and a half years, who’s the icon at the end of the day? Who broke down color barriers? What other black guy would a white person use as a fashion reference?

Ordet «gay» trenger ikke være negativt:

Take the word gay – like, in hip-hop, that’s a negative thing, right? But in the past two, three years, all the gay people I’ve encountered have been, like, really, really, extremely dope. Y’know, I haven’t, like, gone to a gay bar, nor do I ever plan to. But where I would talk to a gay person – the conversation would be mostly around, like, art or design – it’d be really dope. From a design standpoint, kids’ll say, ‘Dude, those pants are gay.’ But if it’s, like, good, good, good fashion-level, design-level stuff, where it’s on a higher level than the average commercial design stuff, it’s, like, gay people that do that. I think that should be said as a compliment. Like, ‘Dude, that’s so good it’s almost… gay.

Video fra Details’ forsideshoot:


Den nye videoen til Kanyes «Welcome To Heartbreak», i data moshing-regi av kjendisfotografen Nabil Elderkin:


Filmteknikken, som for noen ser ut som en feil, benyttes også av Brooklyn-trioen Chairlift:


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