Kanye West was in Paris over the weekend and for the first part of the week. He was there to do some Paris Fashion Week events and see his friends, and he ended up spending time with his extended family, including his sister-in-law Kendall Jenner and his mother-in-law Kris Jenner. Kim stayed home and it wouldn’t surprise me at all if we found out that Kris was keeping tabs on Kanye. Not that I think Kanye is out there, acting like a single guy, but I just think Kris probably kept her eye on him. Plus, Kris and Kanye do care for each other. I’m being completely serious! They get along really well.
Anyway, while Kanye was in London just before he went to Paris, he sat down with SHOW studio’s “In Camera” series for a great interview. Since I’m a Yeezy Apologist, I enjoyed this – it was a perfect mix of braggadocio, humility, ranting, profundity and joy. He talks about fatherhood, fashion and why he calls himself a genius. I’m including the video at the end of the post. Some assorted quotes:
Fatherhood & art: “Having a family, period, has made me completely rethink the way I rap. You know, people extend their brand for a long time. There’s true moments of genius, then there are moments of looking through the archives and placing s–t together. So many people rate Dark Fantasy as my best album, but Yeezus and 808s are so much stronger. Dark Fantasy is me almost like, an apology record. ‘Power’ was the least progressive song that I’ve ever had as a first single…. least challenging…I just love my family.”
Champagne problems: “Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah, any situation you’re in you’re going to worry about raising kids but it’s champagne problems. There’s people who can’t feed their kids. That’s something to more to worry about. So I’m not going to sit here and complain about the so-called problems I have. These aren’t real issues. There’s people at war…That celeb s–t, it’s not real s–t… You know what, I’m alive. I’m breathing… I have no problems.”
His greatest inspiration: “Three years ago, after this interview, I would’ve been on the train back to Paris to see the last of the shows to get that inspiration. Now, I’m on the first flight home to see my greatest inspiration, that’s my daughter.”
His son doesn’t have a name yet: “I don’t have a name for him. But what I hope for him is that he can feel purpose.”
KUWTK should win Emmys: “My wife and her family shoulda had plenty of Emmys by now. I feel proud to be in a family that has so many people breaking ground for the generations to come. It’s like, whoa, reality show! That’s so f–king new as an art form. But reality shows are considered to be like rap was when the Mondrian wouldn’t let Run-D.M.C. and motherf–king Will Smith stay there because they were rappers. Or the idea of a reality star not being allowed into a fashion show or not being nominated for their show even if it’s the longest running, and the most popular, and everybody I know watches it and s—t.”
Why he labeled himself a god and a genius: “Because otherwise I’m called celebrity, I’m called n—er, I’m called rapper. And when they use the words celebrity, n—er or rapper, it’s not in a positive way. And all those words can be used in a positive way…but that’s not the way it’s used. So I have to define who I am. All of my aspirations currently are only things that 60 year old white people do so I have to redefine and let people know exactly who I am.”
If you watch the video below (which I would recommend at least for a minute or two), you do get in the groove of listening to Kanye. When you actually see him and hear him speak, it really doesn’t come across as a #KanyeRant. It comes across like he’s a smart guy (who believes he’s a lot smarter than he actually is) trying to explain his often contradictory world view. Anyway, I’m glad he understands that he has champagne problems, but it’s like he doesn’t understand that “not being recognized as a genius by every single person” is also a champagne problem.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
Love it.
Groundbreakers for future generations who deserve major awards. Is he joking or serious?
Sadly, he’s very serious. This guy lost touch with reality a very long time ago.
71 is for the psych meds he should be taking weekly!
He’s lost his mind.
That’s just crazy talk!
HAHAHAHA! Yeah I came in just to say that.
Well he’s probably right. sadly. After all they have Emmys for best reality competition show or whatever it’s called, the one that The Voice won this year and The Amazing Race won steadily for a time. I hate to think it, but there probably will be an Emmy for “Best Reality Lifestyle Show” or something one day and Tori Spelling will bust her gut to win it.
um, yeah, OK, reality TV is an “art form.” An Emmy for being yourself? Don’t think so. Delusion thy name is Kanye.
BYE FELICIA
Lmao Kanye please… The only reason he thinks they should have Emmy’s is because he married in so they need legitimization.
P.S Dark Fantasy was his best album for me, Yeezus I didn’t even listen to all of the way through because what I did hear was awful.
Isn’t that the album he made after him and Amber Rose ended? Makes sense he is trying to act like it wasn’t his best work.
Kim thinks she should get a star on the Walk of Fame, she further equates her show with I Love Lucy. Cosmo declares them The First Family. She never mentions how she got the stinking show to begin with…Kris is a despicable mother, just look at Khloe and Kylie, so broken. At some point they HAVE to go away, right?
i object.
u should’ve started with Dear Lord, ditch the right, and replace it with a AMEN!
Lol….how about PLEASE go away, amen pass the biscuits please!
Lordy Lordy me, the delusion is strong with this one. Didn’t he also say that because he isn’t gay the fashion world discriminate him..? How is KUWTK ground breaking…? There where many scripted reality shows Bedford this, yes you can’t deny ( or understand the success, but ground breaking, no. The only thing that used to amuse me was that Kim’s show succeeded Paris Hilton and her fame, however I stopped laughing about that a long time ago.
He’s delusional and insane.
You beat me to it. ++++
and that is why he and Kris get along so well. Like attracts like.
If Hollywood were Game of Thrones, Kanye would be Cersei.
Nah Kris is Cersei. Kanye is…bahahaha Kanye is the Red Witch.
I could play this game all day.
Kanye is more like Lancel Lannister drunk on power.
Kris would be Littlefinger. Kanye would probably be Cersei – thinking he’s so smart when he’s merely another pawn.
Lol yes Kris is LF! Kanye is the Azor Ahai and Kylie is the valonqar.😂
Josefa, that’s exactly why I said Cersei. I read this and Tywin’s quote about her immediately came to mind. 😀
And yes, Kris is totally Littlefinger. Pimpmaster par excellence. Chaos is a ladder and nothing creates chaos like a well-placed sex tape.
Wait, wasn’t he embarrassed by them when he first started dating Kim? IIRC, he gave an interview in which he acknowledged their low brow entertainment and how it had cost him a lot in friends and professionally, and now they should have emmys???!!!
He’s been hypnotized or affected by all the plastic fumes, perhaps.
I read that as “enemas”.
LOLZ
no, no, no, you must not make me spit coffee so early this day
Couldn’t hurt since they’re all full of sh*t anyway. A little cleansing might do them good.
so, he’s taking PMK’s kool-aid intravenously.
Maybe it’s because I’m herbally medicated this morning, but… I actually hear what he’s saying.
Of course it’s hyperbolic and ridiculous… But his argument about reality shows is logical, to me. A lot of things were seen as second-class when they first came around (his example being rappers), but now they’re accepted as mainstream. Maybe we’re on that road with reality shows. Depressing? Yes. But I still see what he’s saying. Ditto with the “genius” thing. Of course it’s ridiculous, but he’s saying he doesn’t like the connotation that “rapper” and “celebrity” can sometimes carry, so he chooses to label himself.
And when he says that he knows there are people who have much bigger problems than he does, he actually comes across as a smidge self-aware. Overall, I like him here. Time to go re-evaluate my life.
wake and bake? I miss those days…from last weekend…
Shambles – I like your attitude. There’s no better way to start the day for me, but I want some of what you are smoking cause you just got real deep and quite insightful with your analysis. 🙂
I like what he’s saying here as well… all of it, actually. My only issue is that it contradicts previous statements (and maybe subsequent ones). I can’t tell if these are fleeting moments of clarity; or, if he’s starting to come around.
well, I give him credit for being aware enough to comment on “champagne problems”.
yeah, that’s all I got.
Oh No, Kanye. Just NOOOOO. Big ol’ bowl of NOOOOOO.
Ok for what? I want a serious answer from him: What are Emmy’s given out for and did the Ks meet that requirement in any way? I’ll wait
Really!? Kanye is an idiot if he thinks reality television is an art form. As For EMMYS no reality show has or ever will win one.
There is an emmy category for reality shows.
The problem for years was that Keeping Up With The Kardashians is too scripted to count as a reality show as per Emmy guidelines (same problem for Duck Dynasty). But they added a new category a couple years ago so now there are two Emmy categories for reality shows, structured and unstructured. They’re eligible in the unstructured category, which is sort of counter-intuitive because the problem was the scripting, which is a story structure, but the Emmys qualify it as a reality show that doesn’t follow a competition or repetitive format, so, the more “sitcommy” reality shows are unstructured. KUWTK hasn’t been nominated because that category is dominated by more documentarian shows like Intervention, and the Emmy this year went to Deadliest Catch. The Kardashians may be popular, but there is *so* much reality TV, and a lot of it is actually good. The Kardashians are not good.
Thanks for breaking it down and I AGREE with your post.
he is an idiot and an attention whore.
Thanks for that breakdown. I don’t even think the show is as popular as they like to make it out to be. I am pretty sure I read that it had slowly been going down in ratings and now it has plateaued, probably around 2.5 million viewers. Definitely not as popular as other shows, but heavily advertised.
Has he been eating mushrooms??
And the emmy for fame-wh8ring goes to……………….
He just can’t help himself, can he?
Kanye slipped the rails a long time ago. I seriously question the stability or sanity of any woman who could be “in love” & have an ongoing intimate relationship with him.
Highest of keys I can’t wait til they divorce and The Kardashian Machine does what it does to every Male that sleeps with those chicks, you know the “family sources” the carrying water of TMZ, dragging his name and his private business through the mud til the war by attrition ends with dude caving in… and I only say Divorce as something Ye’ is gonna have to initiate for himself and his sanity, cause if nothing else about him Kim LOVES the legitimacy that being married to him affords her, the doors and people that suddenly are willing to entertain her vapid nasal whiny child sounding self
He’s a comedy act at this point!😂😂😂😂
So everybody he knows watches it! I guess that tells us a lot about the kind of company he keeps…
The Kardashian machine won’t do anything to Kanye if they divorce unless they let slip that he’s gay or something (if he is) which a lot of people suspect anyway so who cares.
The K’s ratings have been dropping for ages, If they divorce all the fancy people who now speak to them because of Kanye will stop and I doubt the majority of people buying Kanye albums and tickets are fans of the Kardashians foremost.
LMFAO, for what, Kanye?
I just don’t understand what this guy is famous for? He says outrageous things to garner attention but somewhere along the way he started believing what he says. His music is mediocre at best compared to many others. Now that he married Kris and Kim he wants them to be elite like he thinks he is. Dream on Kanye!
Wow, he is making Khris Humphries look like the smarter Kim husband. A huge feat, but I think he just accomplished it!
I’m thinking Reggie Bush is sitting back saying “dodged THAT bullet”
For the title of this post alone:
Aaahhhhh… HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!!!!
That man is completely delusional, ISN’T HE?!?!
So his aspirations are the same as a “60 year old white guy” how very street NOT! So his rapper persona is fake like the rest of his ostentatious life. What a tool.
“If you watch the video below (which I would recommend at least for a minute or two), you do get in the groove of listening to Kanye.” No. I don’t get what other people see in him. He’s not a genius, his rapping sucks.
“Hurry up with my damn massage, Hurry up with my damn ménage. Get the Porsche out the damn garage. I am a god.Even though I’m a man of god.” Yeah, a genius
Yes, reality shows, some, just like some tv shows, deserve emmy’s. But the Kardashians do not. It’s bad quality, the editing is terrible, and their storylines are completely recycled and boring. If it was a faux reality show then that would be hilarious, but because they market it as real, than no, it’s not deserving of a statue. Also, it’s just not a good show with a very poor vapid message. Kanye West is becoming a joke. A very funny, kinda sad, very amusing joke. And now he seems to scrounging for the same esteem he once held and it won’t happen. It will continue to deplete.
He has been a joke for at least two years now. I sincerely think he lost his mind after his Mom died.
Dumb and dumber!
I think the Kanye-to-English translation of what he MEANT to say would be, “obviously people like my wife and her family, while not creating high art, have changed the concept of entertainment television. They certainly changed the idea of what we consider to be appointment television to be – we went from, there has to be a script to, we’ll watch people just speak off the cuff. They definitely changed how things are done.”
I’d love to see him walk into another parking sign. That deserves an Emmy, not his wife’s Krap Show.
Why do people interview him? He is delusional – I am thinking it is just for a laugh.
Yeezus is telling the TRUTH.
They CAN act, say what you want;)
Kanye the Klueless says: “I feel proud to be in a family that has so many people breaking ground for the generations to come. It’s like, whoa, reality show! That’s so f–king new as an art form.”
Tell that to The Osbournes (2002-2005) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Osbournes (which did win an Emmy)
Tell that to Michael Apted, whose Up Series (1964 to present) “is a series of documentary films produced by Granada Television that have followed the lives of fourteen British children since 1964, when they were seven years old. So far the documentary has had eight episodes spanning 49 years (one episode every seven years)” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Up_Series
Tell that to MTV’s Real World. “First broadcast in 1992, the show, which was inspired by the 1973 PBS documentary series An American Family, is the longest-running program in MTV history and one of the longest-running reality series in history, credited with launching the modern reality TV genre.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Real_World
Oh Kanye, what color is the sky in your bubble of delusion?
I know it’s so easy to hate on him, especially when he rants, but he makes valid points. Do I think they are the first family? Lord no!! But everyday there is a Kardashian/Jenner post and we all read it and then voice our opinions ad hate towards them… The point is, hate them or love them, they are talked about. That’s what they want.. Worldwide and they achieved it. E! Will renew their show bc they stay talked about. At least they aren’t the duggars… Lol
Well if KanYe feels so strong about the KarTrash-Jenner family receiving awards for the garbage they send out into the Universe than I am sure he can buy them a few. This guy is just so delusional that I can’t stand it. Why do people keep giving this tool a soapbox to scream his nonsense from? That is the real question.
Boyfriend is right that reality TV could be an art form and we shouldn’t thumb our noses at it. I just havent see in yet, and KUWTK sure as hell ain’t one.
Oh delusional Kanye, you can’t make a skank unskanky. Although you do have enough money to buy an award.