Kanye West: Rapper Talks Kim Kardashian, File Sharing & Steve Jobs

Kanye West might have had a contentious
relationship with the paparazzi in the past,
but that seems to have changed. Not only did
Yeezy stop a fight between paps last month,
but now Pablo says he’s grateful for them in
an interview with a paparazzo.
“I really appreciate you guys because you guys
keep me alive,” Mr. West told X17 Online while
being dropped off at LAX by his wife Kim
Kardashian. “You, the paparazzi, keep me alive
because they keep me relevant. They can’t
stop my voice. They can say what they want
on the news channel, on the stations, blah
blah blah, but I can just talk directly to you, it
go up and my voice not get stopped.”
Yeezus isn’t just thankful for the paps,
however. He also thanked Kim Kardashian and
her fam. “I really appreciate my wife and her
family for supporting me,” he said, “especially
in the past two-three weeks where people are
really like, ‘Oh, he must be going crazy.’”
Watch the rest of the interview, where ‘Ye
discusses his deadmau5 beef, hypocrisy
allegations, and Steve Jobs.
ON FILE SHARING: “I don’t really have an
opinion on it…I think human beings are
hypocrites sometimes. It’s funny because it’s
obviously not my computer. I took a picture
of it in the studio and then everybody was
like, ‘Don’t put that up. Blah blah blah.’ I was
like, ‘Let it go up. Let people…’ I mean, no
one’s… The irony that that was a site that
downloaded a million of my albums… I have
this new rap where I say, ‘a million illegally
downloaded my truth over the drums.’ You
know what? People have different methods. I
like having TIDAL because I could just go to
Rihanna’s album easily. I could go to the new
Beyoncé single very easily. The service is easy
to use and it sounds really good. I didn’t
realize how easy it was to get music until I
downloaded a streaming service. But I think
there’s people in the music industry, as you
saw with the deadmau5 thing, where he
actually said that he used it before. So, the
reality is, I think people in the music industry
hypocritically download sounds and shit like
that. They’ll download certain types of plug-
ins, apps, blah blah blah. I mean, I’m talking
to the…That’s true.”
ON HIS GOALS: “I really want to help the world .
I really want to do something to apply my
skill set. Exactly what I do when I make my
albums, the skill set when I make my shoes. I
want to apply that to something more than
something that’s just gonna make me money.”
ON STEVE JOBS: “That really was my idol. He
made my lives easier in some way. I know
you might see me right now as a celebrity or
superstar or whatever and think that
superstars are self-absorbed or whatever, but
if you think about it, most of the times that I
got in trouble, I was going on stage on
someone else’s [behalf].”
ON KIM KARDASHIAN AND HER FAMILY: “I
really appreciate my wife and her family for
supporting me, especially in the past two-
three weeks where people are really like, ‘Oh,
he must be going crazy.’ It’s so funny. All
people got was truth, truth, truth. So if
someone is considered to be crazy for telling
the truth, or their truth, over and over, what
are we dealing with the rest of the time? What
are we being fed the rest of the time?”