Kanye West is on the cover of the March issue of Details magazine and needless to say he’s giving himself props.
Among others things Kanye has the right to talk about himself in the third person because he is a “walking brand”.
Also, according to Kanye, he is the “end-all, be-all of music” got it!
Now West says he is done with music and he’s ready to pour all his “superhero” energy into conquering fashion.
“Put this in the magazine: There’s nothing more to be said about music. I’m the f*cking 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 f*cking sweater didn’t come back right from Korea. That’s what’s interesting me.”
But if you dare question Kanye being a rapper he has this to say:
“Oh my God, I’m one of the greatest rappers in the world,” he says, rapping his words. “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.” Two nights ago, he and Mos Def spent half a red-eye from Los Angeles freestyling in first class. “‘Yo, I was fuckin’ the game./ You can call it statutory,/ But by the time I’m old/ You’re building statues for me,’” West says. “I’m still catching up on sleep from that flight.”
On his drive ‘Ye says:
“People ask me a lot about my drive. I think it comes from, like, having a sexual addiction at a really young age,” he says. “Look at the drive that people have to get sex—to dress like this and get a haircut and be in the club in the freezing cold at 3 A.M., the places they go to pick up a girl. If you can focus the energy into something valuable, put that into work ethic . . . “
On Marc Jacobs:
“Marc Jacobs is my fashion idol because of the way he merges all worlds…For me, Jay-Z’s my big brother, but what he was to me in rap is what Marc Jacobs is to me in fashion.”
On his creativity:
“I had a style that was over-the-top, overly expressive, and it forced me to just lay back and be a little cooler,” he says. “One of the problems with being a bubbling source of creativity—it’s like I’m bubbling in a laboratory, and if you don’t put a cap on it, at one point it will, like, break the glass. If I can hone that . . . then I have, like, nuclear power, like a superhero, like Cyclops when he puts his glasses on.”
On his “I am the voice of this generation” quote:
“If not me, then who?” he says. “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?”
On the word gay:
“Titles are very important. I like to embody titles, y’know, or words that have negative connotations, and explain why that’s good,” he says. “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.‘”
Look for the March issue of Details to hit newsstands February 24.
