Ellen DeGeneres Interview: Kanye Keeps it Real

You send things out on Twitter and sometimes
Like Kim
Has said - and I’ll tell you this also
I don’t know if she’s told
You this along with
Not wanting more children - but Kim has said

I’m fine to just practice

That’s all you get to do
Kim said there should be
A board of directors that goes
Through your tweets like, when you have
An idea you give them to Kim
And a bunch of people
And they go, "Okay, you can
Tweet that" or "No
You cannot tweet that" Do you think you
Should have a board of directors?

Absolutely not

No?

Yeah

Everything you tweet, you think – have you
Regretted anything you’ve tweeted?

Nope

Nothing, never? You don’t go
"Maybe I should have thought about
That a little longer"?

What’s the point of thinking?

"What’s the point of thinking…"
Well, sometimes I understand
But sometimes there is a
Point to thinking and
Then you tweeted out that
You want Mark Zuckerberg
To give you $53 million in hindsight
Should of that have gone on Facebook?

Yes

Yes

I could've put that on Facebook
Now I understand why he didn’t hit me back

Yeah

I understand that Zuckerberg
Doesn’t use Twitter

Yeah

Even though I have had dinner with
Him and his wife and told
Them about how I wanted to help
The world and he said
He’d help me and then blah, blah, bla
Like and that’s how
It feels though, you know? It’s
Like the pursuit of happiness
Like it’s like, you’re trying to sell this
Bone density machine or something you know
Like in that movie i feel that if I
Had more resources
I could help more people i have ideas that
Can make the human race existence
Within our 100 years, better period

Fuck the paparazzi
Whatever perception you have
Of me, starting with the truth
Starting with- starting with what
Everyone’s thinking start
There put some dope shit with it

Ok, I’m with you on –

'Ye is in the building! Put your
Motherfucking hands in the air
Right now! Put your hands in
The air right now! yeah, okay

I’m with you on the truth part
When you say put some
Dope shit with it give me
One example, the ideas
'cause maybe someone watching will
Give you the money

We’re in a renaissance period we’re in
A place where people are, like
Multi-disciplined artists like Steve
McQueen that directed 12 Years a Slave he
Was considered to just be a photographer
But then he won an Oscar
We’re not in a place where
People can only have
One career or one profession
Throughout their entire life
So the exact amount of emotion
And color palette and
Sonics and everything I put into my music
I put them into shoes and they worked

You know, people never write
"Kanye’s pissing everybody off" They try
To position that through the
Media in some way that I’m like, "Whatever"
Whatever your friends might say, you know
"I saw Kanye" "How was he? Did
He…?" I care about people i
Care about– my dad lived in homeless
Shelters less than five years
Ago to find out he’s a psych major my mom
Was the first black female chair
Of the English department at
Chicago State University i was
Raised to do something, to make a difference

To take– you know
I didn’t take the Oscars as a
Joke it was funny you know what I’m saying
It was like the moment all
Black actors can talk about
The glass ceilings that we’ve dealt with out
In this town and this is the
Moment "You get your night go ahead chris
Rock is going to do it
Bam! Talk about how many times you’ve been
Blocked from being able to excel"

I didn’t take it as a joke "It ain’t no joke
" as Rakim said it ain’t no
Joke "I used to let the mic smoke
Now I slam it and make
Sure it’s broke" That’s
What I was raised on –
Rakim, Phife Dawg, hip-hop
Expression "Hip hop started out in the park…"

Everybody’s trying to… I don’t give a
Fuck how much you sold
If you’re playing on radio are
You connecting? Picasso is dead
Steve Jobs is dead walt Disney is dead name
Somebody living that you can name
In the same breath
As them don’t tell me about being likable

We got 100 years here we’re
One race, the human race, one
Civilization we’re a blip in the
Existence of the universe
And we constantly try to pull each
Other down not doing things
To help each other that’s my
Point it’s like I’m shaking
Talking about it i know it’s daytime TV
But I feel I can make a difference
While I’m here i feel that
I can make things better through
My skill set through my
Skills– I’m an artist five years
Old, art school PhD
Art Institute of Chicago i am an artist
I have a condition called synesthesia
Where I see sounds i see them
Everything that I sonically make is
A painting i see it i see the
Importance– I see the importance in
The value of everyone being able to
Experience a more beautiful life

When I make clothes… It’s funny because I’ll
Sit there with Obama and Leo’s talking
About the environment and I’m
Talking about clothes
And everyone looks at me like
"That’s not an important issue" But
I remember going to
School in fifth grade and wanting to have
A cool outfit i called the
Head of Payless i’m like
"I want to work with you" I
Want to take all this information
That I’ve learned from sitting in all
These fashion shows and knocking
On all these doors and buying
All these expensive clothes
And I want to take away bullying

You know, i want to- Michael Jackson and
Russell Simmons is the reason
I was able to go so far in music
There was a time when Michael
Jackson couldn’t get his
Video on MTV because he was considered to be
"urban" The Michael Jackson so I
Literally have to be Michael
Jackson of apparel in order to break open the
Doors of everyone that will come
After I’m gone after
I’m dead after they call me "Wacko Kanye"

Isn’t that so funny? That
People point fingers at
The people who have influenced us the
Most they talk the most shit about the
People who cared the most i’m sorry
Daytime television i’m sorry for the realness

Well, it’s not daytime television
Anymore we’re going to take a break and we
Are going to come back, we’re going
To play 5 Second Rule
Which should be very fun with Kanye