Bruce Springsteen admits he's a Kanye West fan

If you bet any money that the Boss would be more of a Rick Ross fan, it's time to pay up. Bruce Springsteen gushed about Kanye West in a recent interview with NPR, citing Yeezus track "Blood On The Leaves" and calling Mr. West "incredible."

"I wonder if at some point in your listening, because I know that you listen to everything and one of the things I treasured about your South By Southwest talk that you gave was how you erase genre and you said, "We should embrace everything that sounds right to our ears," and I wondered if hip-hop was something at some point that kind of, the light went on for you and you got it or how does that work in relationship to you?

Well it was so present, you know. At one moment particularly you had "White Lines" and this was stuff that was talking about what was going on in the streets and in the inner cities with people who were struggling. And that was something that, I mean, I had my own context for that, you know, that I wrote about it in my own way. But it was the music that came along and gave voice to those things outside of what was then considered a protest music context, you know, and did so really beautifully. And so, you know, I'm not well-versed in it but I have listened over the years. You know, Public Enemy, Notorious B.I.G., I listened to Tupac, I listen to Kanye West. Kanye West is incredible, you know. I mean, the record-making facility, you know, there's a lot of hours in those records and they're ...

He's a perfectionist like you.

I mean some of these, there's like, just the production. And I saw him on television, he did the song called "Blood on the Leaves" on the Later...With Jools Holland - it was fantastic, you know. He's a very, I still find him very interesting. I'm not necessarily driving [to] it in my car, you know. I probably fall back on the stuff that I listened to as a kid or something if I'm driving around. But I do listen. I listen to a lot because there's a lot of information in it and it's just fascinating record-making.***
Bruce is far from the first to claim that Yeezy was their man. Lou Reed gave Yeezus a glowing review prior to his passing and the album was unavoidable if you're the sort of person who reads year-end lists.

Bruce was talking to NPR about his new album High Hopes.

As for Yeezus himself, he's currently dealing with the fallout over allegedly assaulting an 18-year-old who called his fiancee Kim Kardashian a "n**ger lover."