Kanye West’s return to Zane Lowe’s radio show via BBC 1 aired today (February 26) just one day after he performed at the Brit Awards.
The last time ‘Ye spoke to the award-winning radio host he had just released his sixth solo studio album, Yeezus.
Nearly 18 months later, ‘Ye is prepping his upcoming untitled album.
While Kanye’s fashion and design interests dominate most of the interview, he did shed some light on his forthcoming project.
“I’m just working hard on it and it’s fun to work hard,” he says. “We’re being inventive. I still got a lot of opinions and perspectives… The College Dropout came out of a fight. This new album is coming out of a fight to design.”
‘Ye admits that he’s approximately 80 percent done with the album and although he has yet to release a tracklist, “FourFiveSeconds” featuring Paul McCartney and Rihanna is slated to appear on his upcoming project.
After Lowe compliments the collaborative song, Kanye details its creation.
“I liked songs like that when I was growing up,” he says. “The type of chord changes that Paul came up with… I don’t even understand that…Meeting Paul McCartney is like meeting Ralph lauren. It’s like ‘Woah, they’re the greatest of their field.'”
Elsewhere in the 43-minute visual, ‘Ye likens his recent live performances to Drake’s If Youre Reading This Its Too Late surprise album.
“I’m the visual component to what he [Drake] is doing sonically,” he says. “That shit [IYRTITL] is good, yo.”
He also offered the following advice to Drizzy.
“What I can say is, ‘Run, fly, go as fast as you can, don’t stop. Any time I can be of any service, advice, a beat, you need some confidential design advice on the shoes you’re doing on the other company.. Anything, that we can collectively do to deliver more awesomeness to the world as a team,'” West says.
Watch the full interview below:
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Why would Drizzy Drake want advice from you? The Yeezus album still aint moved a milli, your wife is a hoe, and your designs are all mad wack. #6God
Drake’s whole first album was influenced by 808 and Heartbreak. Hell a decent amount of his career was based on that album. And Drake even mentioned Ye being on the throne. How you gonna dick ride a dude and shit on who he dick rides in the same sentence? #Yeezus
Kanye been doing this shit since 03. He has designed one of the most successful athletic shoes EVER, and has made at least 4 classic albums..then 808s, Watch the Throne, Yeezus..which some may consider classics to them as well. He’s also produced AND rapped at the highest level. Drake has been out there since 09..i mean really out there. He has never produced, and he has never had a sneaker do what the yeezys did. What the fuck you mean why would dizzy drake take advice from Kanye? If Drake drops a few more unbelievable cds, becomes the best producer in the game, and designs an unbelievable sneaker, then I could see your comment making some sense.
“one of the most successful athletic shoes EVER,” athletic shoe you say? no one wears yeezys in any sport dawg. //”the best producer in the game”. // do you realize he doesnt produce any of his shit anymore? it took 11 people to write that basic ass paul mcarthy song!
While the 6ix God is out designing jerseys for NBA teams Kanye is “designing” clothes that looks like something homeless people in The Matrix might wear. While Champagne Papi is fucking a different bad bitch every night Kanye is stuck with an slag who didn’t want anything to do with him 4 years ago when she was married to that white guy. Check the scoreboard. Drizzle is 10 years his junior. #ActYourAgeNotYourGirlsAge
lol @ Yeezy’s loyal stans
DX bout to milk this interview for like 9 articles
Kanye West>> Drake
When people who are supposedly knowledgeable about hip hop and rap music post shit like ‘it took 11 people to write that Paul McCarthy song’, you gotta wonder where they get the knowledge from.
Fact is that in the hip hop tradition, everybody who contributes gets a credit, unlike the rock/pop tradition which comes from Tin Pan Alley where the drum and bass and beat don’t matter on writing credits, the guitar or keyboard riffs don’t matter because all that’s copyrighted is the top line melody, usually the vocal and its lyric.
It might have come about because of a lot of lawsuits being involved with things like sampling but the ‘credit everybody’ tradition is worthy.
If you have to ask why Drake would need advice from Kanye you don’t know hip hop AT ALL and need to refrain from commenting.
dog classify this shit however the fuck you want. They aren’t dress shoes, so I classified them as athletic shoes. Ask any sneaker head what brought back nike and the jordans selling like they do, and they will tell you it was the yeezys. Ask any sneaker head. even if he never produced another record for the rest of his life he is in the top fuckin 3 of rap producers of all time.
Biggest joke in “music” history, and everyone eats it up like he actually has something beneficial to offer the world. PPLLEEAASSEEE!! after 808’s hes gone downhill. He needs a wiser team behind him keeping him in line. I myself have never been astonished at ANY of his work. Mediocre at best. His fashion ideas suck, his music sucks, his interviews are embarrassing to watch. It goes to show that the leaders in this world of entertainment really want to dumb down our youth, feeding them this crap like its gold.