Oh, Kanye

In my favorite passage from the recent Kanye West interview with the New York Times, Kanye manages to paint himself as a crusader for justice/dream enabler, equate himself to Michael Jordan, complain about the Grammys, deny caring about the Grammys and ask the world to be more accurate with their statistics-- all in the span of two paragraphs!! It is beautiful.

Yeah — you put me on the team. So I’m going to use my platform to tell people that they’re not being fair. Anytime I’ve had a big thing that’s ever pierced and cut across the Internet, it was a fight for justice. Justice. And when you say justice, it doesn’t have to be war. Justice could just be clearing a path for people to dream properly. It could be clearing a path to make it fair within the arena that I play. You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, “This is wrong.”

You’ve won a lot of Grammys.

“[My Beautiful] Dark [Twisted] Fantasy” and “Watch the Throne”: neither was nominated for Album of the Year, and I made both of those in one year. I don’t know if this is statistically right, but I’m assuming I have the most Grammys of anyone my age, but I haven’t won one against a white person.

But the thing is, I don’t care about the Grammys; I just would like for the statistics to be more accurate.



Later in the interview West delivered what I consider to be the greatest single sentence in human history by saying  

"The longer your ‘gevity is, the more confidence you build"

Absolutely.