Kanye West rants during Brooklyn stop on 'Yeezus' tour
Kanye West is at it again, dropping yet another rant at the first of two Barclay's Center Yeezus shows in Brooklyn. This time there was no screaming, and Yeezy actually made quite a bit of sense.
The "Bound 2" rapper simply explained that many famous visionaries aren't recognized for their contributions in their own time. Kanye believes that part of the reason these creatives toiled in anonymity is because they were too modest to shout out their own genius. Name-dropping Nikola Tesla and director Alejandro Jodorowsky, 'Ye explains that the reason he 'turns up' in interviews about himself is because he has 'nothing to lose' and 'everything to gain' by telling people that he is a creative genuis.
Kanye goes on to add that he doesn't think it's fair that he should be tormented by his own ideas, whch he says keep him awake at night, and then have to act like his own creations are no big deal in the name of modesty. Yeezy may be wearing a diamond-studded mask on his head, but he wants you to know he suffered, y'all.
Here's the audio:
Full transcipt below:
I got off the phone with this one dude. I guess he used to run a multi-billion dollar company or something like that and he had some advice for me, right. He said, "I don't approve of your methods in your interviews lately." He said he only saw one person before who ever really pulled this off and that was Muhammad Ali. But he said if he could just give me some advice, he doesn't approve of the way I'm going about things as of late. And when anybody that's supposed to have a lot of money talks to me and they give me advice, I call that free advice, because they're trying to tell me what to do and they ain't cut no check yet. If I look to the side of me, or the other side of me, or if I look to the Internet or if I'm reading, and I don't see somebody that 36-years-old that made it this far with nobody that told they couldn't do it this much. Because the people that give me advice... I don't see them rocking for 15,000 motherf--kers in Brooklyn tonight.
And I don't know if y'all have heard of [Nikola] Tesla, and I'm not talking about the car, I'm talking about the inventor. Or if y'all ever heard about [Alejandro] Jodorowsky, the director who made Holy Mountain. But there's so many amazing creative inventors who weren't recognized in their time. And if I've got the voice and I've got the opportunity to turn up in these interviews, I just have to look and say, "What do I have to lose?" What do I have to lose? We only have everything to gain. So don't ever let them make you think for one moment that I'm going insane. Because I sit back and see sh-t and think "Am I the only one that's not crazy?" But every celebrity is so goddamn scared of losing everything, that they won't ever say nothing to you. And y'all see that sh-t too. I gotta keep it so true for you...
Because when I say "creative genius," I'm not saying that as a compliment to myself. I'm saying that because it's a burden to myself when these ideas keep me up at night. When you wanna give the world more and your ideas keep you up at night. When you wanna give the world so much more, so much more. And then nobody runs Disney comes and sees this tour. And nobody that runs Disney comes and sees this tour. They'd rather see the headline and be on some bullshit than to give me one little chance. Than to give me one little, little, little chance. Than to give me one little chance despite the advance out of Tesla's basement, despite the advance out of me saying Jodorowsky's name and ya'll don't know who the f--k he is when everybody copied off of him... And there's gonna be motherf--kers in this arena in a few months dancing all sloppy off of him...
I love y'all so much you don't even understand. Because y'all help me to talk all this sh-t. Because when I be on the phone with these people that used to run companies and they're trying to tell me how to be me, y'all give me the power to talk my sh-t. And I swear to you, this is only the motherf--king beginning. And anybody who [says], "Oh, he's the best of rap." That's racist. And that's pigeonholing. That's pigeonholing. That's pigeonholing and putting motherf--kers in a box. And putting creative n----s in a box.
Yep, Kanye is starting to make sense to me. Maybe I should pack it up and go home.