Kanye West covers the new issue of Paper Magazine. The photoshoot is fine – a little blah, but Kanye looks nice and the editorial is mostly head shots. I was going to do highlights from the interview, but the piece is written as a stream-of-consciousness essay “as told to Paper Magazine,” and that’s just annoying. So you can read the full piece here – Kanye doesn’t sound ALL-CAPS ranty, but he’s definitely giving Paper the Full Yeezus. He talks about the importance of creativity, of innovation, how much he admires Steve Jobs, etc. Then he goes off on a tangent about the Illuminati:
“I heard a comment — a joke — about the Tidal press conference being an Illuminati moment. If there was actually an Illuminati, it would be more like the energy companies. Not celebrities that gave their life to music and who are pinpointed as decoys for people who really run the world. I’m tired of people pinpointing musicians as the Illuminati. That’s ridiculous. We don’t run anything; we’re celebrities. We’re the face of brands. We have to compromise what we say in lyrics so we don’t lose money on a contract. Madonna is in her 50s and gave everything she had to go up on an award show and get choked by her cape. She’s judged for who she adopts. F–k all of this sensationalism. We gave you our lives. We gave you our hearts. We gave you our opinions!”
I’m sorry, but that’s amazing. His defense of Madonna, his claim that celebrities don’t run anything and thus cannot be part of the Illuminati… it’s just amazing. He also tells an amazing story about being on nitrous at the dentist’s office and realizing the meaning of life (“to give happiness”).
Here are some photos of Kanye and Kim leaving LA last night. Is it wrong to like her hoodie? Because I love it.
Photos courtesy of PCN, Fame/Flynet and Paper.
Hey Kanye. We’re tired too.
Forget Kanye. Skinny/slim jeans, heels and a long top and/or jacket is such a great look on Kim.
P-U-K-E. Is this guy for real?
Where are her hands?
She would actually look really good if it wasn’t for her bizarre missing hands
There is always something wrong. Too long sleeves look strange and would drive me crazy. Other than that, she looks pretty good
Not to mention her totally engineered face.
Seems with every coat she wears the sleeves are too long and if it’s a full length coat, the actual coat drags the ground. I don’t get it. Otherwise the hoodie is okay.
I can only assume that the hoodie is Khloe’s, as it clearly is made for someone who is about 6’0.
I’ll just say she’s probably hiding her hands/nails.
Whenever Kanye goes off on these tangents, I just tune out and start hearing that Manamana song from Sesame Street.
Ma nana lmao. I sing that around the house!!
Kaiser, my sarcasm detector is on the fritz, what’s with all this ‘Amazing’ business?
Yeah it might just be sarcasm after reading it again.
I’m amazed that you don’t get it Kiddo.
Kanye West
the American nightmare
“Madonna is in her 50s and gave everything she had to go up on an award show and get choked by her cape.”
I know this is awful, but that made me guffaw.
I think this is my favourite sentence EVER
We are terrible! Lol
I think it’s a far far greater sacrifice that she endures when she texts during Broadway shows. I’m sure she’s only doing it for US.
She’s giving of herself! Free! Her life, her blood, her texts? I was unclear on the meaning of that rant.
Celebrities give us their lives!! They are the real American heroes! I mean they don’t get anything in return for doing what they love, no Mansions, private jets, traveling for free…They just give, give, give and we just take, take, take. I love you Kanye, but No.
Kanye talking sense, finally. Why the hell would Illuminati (if it even existed in any meaningful way) want a bunch of celebrities in the club?
going to read the whole thing because reading Kanye’s thoughts is *no joke* one of my favorite things to do. I love it when he makes me think one minute and make me want to bang my head against a wall the next.
Also, the hoodie looks cozy. Perfect for travelling.
Is Kim morphing into Ciara or vice versa?
That hoodie is ridiculous and not in a good way.
The first thing he’s said that makes any sense.
I am so tired of these two and even more tired of the media who keep giving them awards for nothing. It really shows how sad society is when these two become “influential” be it in a good way or a bad way.
I’m tired of your constant whining and massive ego.
Kanye, you’re tired? We’re exhausted from you. And you “gave” bupkis….most performers perform because they’re compelled to get external validation, i.e. lookatme, lookatme, lookatmeeeee! And you prove the concept.
Ok, WHO exactly is the Illuminati?
They were either a real or fictitious secret religious group like 300 years ago or something. Yes, Kanye doesn’t know who they are either and is once again talking out of his ass. He probably thinks the word means “really cool and smart people who know everything.” What a tool.
Kim’s sweater is a Vetements bell-sleeved hoodie ($870, Ssense.com)
“We don’t run anything; we’re celebrities. We’re the face of brands. We have to compromise what we say in lyrics so we don’t lose money on a contract.”
I thought he said some time ago that he wasn’t a celebrity, he was an ARTIST! Right? After all he is just a product, he is a brand and compromise in what he produces because of… wait… Money? And then he also says that he gave us his heart and he gave us opinions…. So, considering what he said before I’ll take that he gave us opinions that were aligned with his contracts’ needs. But, he is an artist, an influential person who wants to change the world for the better…
Can he listen to himself and look in the mirror and not die inside, just a little?
If you don’t want people to be confused and say you are part of illuminati don’t use gestures or clothes that have some symbols that is related to it.
correction: …” that are related to it.”
First of all no one said all musicians are illuminati. It’s been said that musicians are pawns of the illuminati to push their dehumanizing agenda on to the masses. Kanye you are not part of the illuminati which consist of 13 family bloodlines of extremely wealthy families. People get it right. Kanye is a peasant like the rest of us. He just has money.
Your comment makes me so curious. Anything you can share about those families?
What the vigilant citizen called them? The illuminati Puppets? Something that like that…
Okay. Then stop promoting it. Done.
No worries, Kanye. I think we’d all agree that the Illuminati would hardly appoint a dumbass loose cannon to help carry out the latest phase of its secret, sinister agenda……
Kanye…ugh. STFU to infinity. And I can’t believe it, but Kim looks really good here. I so want that weird ass hoodie.
i found the hoodie. It is sadly out of my price range. https://www.ssense.com/en-us/women/product/vetements/black-oversized-hoodie/1154383
It looks great on the model. It hangs well and is oversized in a cool way. On Kim, not so much. It’s not even oversized on her. She should have bought a larger size.
Only someone in the Illuminati would say that.
Nearly $900 for a hoodie that doesn’t fit properly – sleeves? I love hoodies and jeans, and she doesn’t look too bad here. What’s with her lips, though? They look bigger than “normal”, or is it that pale frosted lippy?
What the F**K is he talking about now. Come on Kanye stop ranting about stupidity no one cares.
Im tired of people pinpointing his lame ass as an artist……………..no talent hack.
I’m tired of people saying he’s not talented just because they don’t like him. Yes he is an obnoxious twilight zone, but College Dropout and Graduation were great records.
I like his record “My mother was an English professor but I am a proud non-reader…..I don’t like books because they be all wordy and sh*t” even better!
Is there a lip-billowing virus going around Hollywood and did all the K-Klan catch it? Kim’s lips look three times their normal size.
Maybe she just borrowed Kylie’s “lip liner”?
Pretty sure the hoodie is from Kanye’s line