According to Complex.com, behind the scenes footage of Kanye West’s photoshoot with GQ magazine earlier this year has surfaced online. In the video footage, which has since been deleted due to a copyright claim, the Chicago, Illinois lyricist speaks on what his idea of perfection is.
According to Kanye, perfection starts at ground zero, and he instead needs “to take things to a genius level.” He also revealed that he isn’t concerned with being hated if it means that he doesn’t have to stifle his creativity.
“Most people are just satisfied with, ‘It’s good.’ Most people are satisfied at a 10, or something. It’s not to just stop at 10. You know, 10 is ground zero; perfection is ground zero. We need to take things to a genius level…I’d rather take the chance of being hated to bring that type of creation to the world,” Kanye said, according to Complex.com.
This doesn’t serve as the first time Kanye has touched on matters concerning creativity. During an interview on “Jimmy Kimmel Live” last year, ‘Ye revealed that his title is “creative genius” and not rapper.
He then went on to explain why his creativity has branched outside of solely Hip Hop.
“My creativity is in no way limited to the genre of Hip Hop,” he said. “I feel like I’m like busting at the seams to do something more—Even when I did ‘Glow In The Dark’ it was pretty innovative. And like now we’re doing this and it’s innovative again…The pressure is just to create as much as possible. If you’re a creative person, it’s just to create as much as possible. Whatever you think of to get it off your chest. To get it out. And I feel blessed that I do have an outlet of this tour. Something that I can anchor a bunch of ideas against…The pressure is not like coming up with new stuff. The pressure is not getting things that you have in your mind out.”
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his words are proof that his ‘genius level’ is lost beneath his ego, or false sense of self, if you will. Once he gets past THAT, then, maybe he can find the genius that already lives inside him, and has been with him his whole life. waiting for his recognition in what is referred to by some as the, Inherent Nature.
And who are you to decide the definition of genius? just because someone says they are a genius does not mean they cannot be?
Self confessed people are the best geniuses because they recognise there talent and can thrive upon it.
No such thing as a self-proclaimed creative genius. Shut the fuck up and keep making your music Ye. Let the audience be the judge, you hoe ass nigga.
Does perfection meaning trying to steal away other niggas like tyga and having them turn against their label? Does perfection mean someone who should be crawling to them now hypontises them to crawl to him?
Kayne Kardashian’s a real piece of shit.
Kanye never stole anyone away and he never crawled to anyone.
Tyga was cool before this POS came along.
Tyga wasn’t cool at all.
kanye west steals everybody else’s music, concepts, and themes. there is not a genuinely creative bone in his fucking body.
“We’re trying to progress music, no stepping side to side just forward” “I’m perfect now and then” – MC Ride.
Is that haircut supposed to be genius level?
Moms died after plastic surgery… Knocked up and married a double-digit IQ sack of shit with a plastic elephantitis ass… Yeah, that’s fucking “perfection”!
Kanye has retard strength sometimes but that too will fade, fuckface.
Stevie Wonder died in vain.
hell are you talking bout?
Kanye is black,he cant be perfect.
fuck you racist bastard
there aren’t any amazing white people either.
There’s much more good black rappers than white ones. And I’m white.
Damnnn, when I read this I took it as more of a comment on American society than racist. That sentiment is basically what the Yeezus album is all about. Sad truth.
As soon as they like you.. make them unlike you!
go farther than trying to be a genius, make some good music too.
dead moms and a retarded kid yah i’d say perfection is elusive for this cornball fuck
The American Society of Jealous People will always be in session.
He is perfection in my eyes, what a beefcake, Grrrrrr!!
you aint ever lied