At the end
of last week, GQ magazine revealed that Kanye West takes the cover of
their new issue. 'Ye hasn't done an interview in a minute and so you can
guarantee we're soaking in every word from his latest piece with GQ,
which was published on their website today, along with several new
flicks from Yeezy's photo shoot.
The
interview is pretty informative, as Kanye reveals plans for his new
album, contemplating between a September, October and November release.
The rapper reveals a new single, "All Day", is on the way, in which he
raps like Jay Z, he contemplates "taking back" the top spot in the game
rap (current placeholder: Drake), speaks on the importance of his
family, and much more.
We've gathered a few choice quotes from the interview below.
On Drake:
"Currently
that spot is taken. Let's be honest—he got last summer. Yeah. He got
last summer. And I'd never given it up till last summer." [Now he's
thinking about taking it back.] "It's a real question for me. Do I want
to?"
On paparazzi:
Yeah.
I'm a blowfish. I'm not a shark, I'm a blowfish. So that perfect
example about me hitting my head, it's like a blowfish. I wasn't coming
out of my house going to a paparazzi's house to attack them. I'm
defending my family in front of my own house. I'm defending my name as
someone's screaming something negative at me. That's a blowfish. People
have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I
that. I wouldn't want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to
help people.
On why he chose to marry Kim:
Saying
"Hey, I like Kim" isn't as inspiring to people as us getting married.
And anyone that's in a relationship knows that in order to get to the
point to get married and then to be married and to then carry on, it
needs that work put into it. Right now, people look at it and it's like,
"Wow, that's inspiring." Meaning that love is infectious. You know, God
is infectious—God flowing through us and us being little-baby creators
and shit. But His energy and His love and what He wants us to have as
people and the way He wants us to love each other, that is infectious.
Like they said in Step Brothers: Never lose your dinosaur. This is the
ultimate example of a person never losing his dinosaur. Meaning that
even as I grew in cultural awareness and respect and was put higher in
the class system in some way for being this musician, I never lost my
dinosaur.
Kim
is this girl who fucking turns me on. I love her. This is who I want to
be next to and be around. And then people would try to say, "Well, you
know, if you're a musician, you should be with a musician, and if you
want to design, you need to be with a girl from the design world." I
don't give a fuck about people's opinions. Because when a kid falls in
love with an airplane or a bike or a dinosaur—especially if you're an
only child and it's not because of the book that the sibling was
reading—it's like, fuck, you mean to tell me that the dinosaurs walked
the earth and stuff like that?! That's amazing! You mean to tell me that
these giant multi-ton crafts can fly that fast and that loud, and they
can flip, and there's danger, the possibility of them exploding? That's
fucking cool! You mean to tell me that this girl with this fucking body
and this face is also into style, and she's a nice person, and she has
her own money and is family-oriented? That's just as cool as a fucking
fighter jet or dinosaur! And just as rarely seen.
On the direction of his new music, and the single "All Day":
I
think just my usual pattern is like that. It's like a pendulum. The
pendulum gains momentum by swinging in the other direction. Even
lyrically, I think about certain lines that I say on my new single,
which is called "All Day," that usually Jay would say, but Jay's not on
there. So I say, "All day, nigga, it's Ye, nigga. Shopping for the
winter, it's just May, nigga. Ball so hard, man, this shit cray, nigga.
You ain't getting money unless you got eight figures." Right? Jay would
have said that. And then eventually I would have came in with, like,
whatever I come in with. But the balance of a meal is that when people
walk in, they want water first. People definitely weren't getting water
first on Yeezus. I do fight with myself to say, "Keep fighting." But
also, you know, you can't win every single fight. It's a long war, and
if you're out there trying to, like, blow up every single building, you
won't win the war.
On an expected release:
I
don't know, man. I hope I can get one of these songs out in the next
couple of weeks, just to have something up and running. But I think most
likely September. I go back and forth. Like, should it be September or
should it be October? Should it be November? When Beyoncé was working on
her last album, she took a while. I was thinking it could somehow come
out in June, like Yeezus, and just kill it for the summer. But then I'm
like, I have to work on Adidas and be with my child.
This
time three years ago, here at the Mercer, working on "Niggas in Paris,"
at this time in early June, it was apparent it was still not finished. I
had the "married at the mall" line, we had "that shit cray," Jay had
his verse… Jay finished his verse. He always finishes, and my shit is
always kind of open. Like, "Okay, now I've got the Will Ferrell sample,
so I need to say something that finishes the verse. But people have to
not know what it means." [laughs] So it's like problem-solving to get to
the point where you're saying, "going gorillas." It's difficult
sometimes.
But
now, for the new album, one new thing could change everything. I had an
idea of the way I wanted to do the album. And then I got a new song
that's so good that the album has to be balanced against it. This song
is a song that can be in the club like "Don't Like" or "Niggas in
Paris." Whereas before I was working on the album and I had these
beautiful songs, they were just more songs. They weren't saying, "Okay,
tuck your whole summer in." They were just saying, "Hey, I'm a great
musician, I make these beautiful songs, and they have all this meaning,
and nobody can make anything that means this much."
On falling back from Twitter/social media (compared to his 2010 activity):
Both
me and Kim had to learn how to communicate as a team. These are two
LeBrons, you know? Meaning she could do shit that a girlfriend in a
relationship could never do. Obviously. And I could do stuff that a guy
in a relationship could never do. So if you look at half my tweets back
then, they were always, like, funny tweets that I wouldn't be able to
say now. It wouldn't be respectful to my relationship. It's interesting,
as I'm delving into being married: Like, what is my verbal creative
communication? That's another thing I really like about clothing and
film—you could still communicate with a film, because it's not you. But
when you're a reality star or a rapper, you are the film.
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