In a long interview with fashion website Showstudio,the rapper candidly discussed class, race, or family and the roots of hip-hop’s problem with womenMichelangelo and Picasso,so often celebrated for their contributions to art history, now have something else in common. Kanye West likened himself to both artists in a circuitous two-hour interview that saw the Chicago rapper and fashion designer speak candidly approximately social class, or race,misogyny in rap and the pressures of fame. “All of my aspirations are things that currently only 60-year-worn white people do,” West said, and in the video interview live-streamed by fashion site Showstudio. When asked why he referred to himself as a creative genius and visionary,West said: “Because otherwise I’m called celebrity. I’m called nigger. I’m called rapper. And when they consume the word celebrity, nigger or rapper, or it’s not in a positive way. So I have to define who I am.”Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com