Kanye West is undeniably brilliant creatively speaking but when it comes to outlandish comparisons, he’s on a whole other level. Ye has likened himself to Steve Jobs, Walt Disney, Picasso and even Jesus.
As West was interviewing his interior designer Axel Vervoordt for The Hollywood Reporter’s Pret-A-Reporter, Ye said he feels like the late physicist Stephen Hawking, who passed away last month. His colorful comment came while the two were discussing the impermanence of fashion.
“When I talk to people in fashion they say, ‘Fashion is a dream, you’re selling a dream, it’s selling that aspiration,'” West says. “I started to say things to people — now some of these things I could change my opinion two or three times on it depending on the feeling. I feel like Stephen Hawking. He changed his ideas and his theories all the time. After proving something right, he proved something wrong, right? Because there is no wrong or right, it’s bipolarity, it is both sides.”
West also references Martin Luther King’s famous “I Have A Dream” speech and explains why he feels like the word “try” can imply failure.
“Fashion says, ‘It’s a dream that they’re selling,'” he says. “Now with Instagram and who you are on the internet versus who you really are; who you are when you’re awake versus who you can be when you go to sleep and you really ‘dream.’ I had this Martin Luther King — he says, ‘I had a dream,’ and I say, ‘No more dreams.’ These are ideas that could be put into action. Sometimes to say something is a dream is almost to say that it isn’t possible, or to say that you’re trying but — It’s like the word try. Sometimes the word try for me it sounds like fail also.”
Along the way, Ye revealed he’s working on a philosophy book called Break The Simulation as well.[apple_news_ad type=”any”]
“I’ve got this new concept that I’ve been diggin’ into,” he explains. “I’m writing a philosophy book right now called Break the Simulation. And I’ve got this philosophy — or let’s say it’s just a concept because sometimes philosophy sounds too heavy-handed. I’ve got a concept about photographs, and I’m on the fence about photographs — about human beings being obsessed with photographs — because it takes you out of the now and transports you into the past or transports you into the future.
“It can be used to document, but a lot of times it overtakes [people]. People dwell too much in the memories. People always wanna hear the history of something, which is important, but I think it there’s too much of an importance put on history.”
Read West’s full interview with Vervoordt here.
Dude is feeling himself as usual. Stephen Hawking made it his life’s mission to explain some of the greatest mysteries of the universe. Kanye is the village idiot. GTFOH
If he drops some music and it sounds good, I’ll give it a listen. As for everything in between, man fuck all that. U married into one of the most souless celebrity families I’ve seen in awhile. He can compare himself to whoever the fuck he wants but trying to make any contribution other than music?? Negro please
Kanye really ruined his legacy by marrying a kardashian – they stand for everything wrong in the world IMO – fashion wise he is slacking all he does is bite John Elliot – the yeezy is a staple tho
The Yeezy is a Nike Roche Rip off
Yeezy a staple simply because they are expensive and nothing else.
This dude is more like Brittney Spears to me. Since he’s gotten away from jay it appears he’s gone broke. Ultra talented but in the end an absolute nut job. Dudes first two albums were classics in my opinion, but outside watch the throne I haven’t really enjoyed any albums since. Seems like he’s to busy experimenting with new shit, instead of being a lyrical genius he was on his first two albums. Hopefully one day he’ll get his shit straight, and go back to his hard core rhyming ways.
Oh, boy. He’s not done being crazy yet. Even if we live in The Matrix, what advice are you going to put in a book that will help people break free? This dude needs to watch Matrix Reloaded and Matrix Revolutions. You can’t just watch part 1. Parts 2 & 3 exist to show you there’s no escaping.
Yeah don’t worry bout history forget all about it so you can repeat the simulation I suppose just stick to the music & eating booty everyone been in while it pegs you from time to time you a multi millionaire it’s cool don’t gotta be great at everything
So he feels dead?
Kanye has married a porn thot and scribbled some designs for clothing and shoes with the help of Virgil. Stephen Hawking helped explain how the universe operates, and thereby has participated in moving civilization forward. Quite a difference.
Highly doubt he scribbled anything. Dude has the drawing skills of a 6 Year old. He just copies European Fashion Designers, the rest is Virgils Work.
Kanye is not smart haha Dude thinks he’s a genius because he made a few good albums. Wouldnt even consider Kanye a musical genius
He didnt make sh*t. He always had help of other Producers and he barely wrote anything by himself. Dude is the most overrated Artist in History and is known to be a copycat in the Fashion industry.
Just work on music please!!
LOL look at him trying to be all-knowing “Break The Simulation” what a fuckin joke when these celebs like Kanye are part of the fuckin simulation, to distract us and steal our focus and keep us busy so we don’t see what’s really going on.
Hey there don’t mess with the fabric of reality it’s much more fragile than it looks
Just make sure it bangs harder than Life of Pablo, cut the weird musical frequencies to songs and get straight to it, no interludes, no bullshit, honestly, if you want to experiment with weird sounds, do it at the end of the record, so we can skip that shit. Sonically, that record was garbage, it missed the mark more than Yeezus…it’s been too long since he’s had a big dope record…with no damn autotune…that record sounds like he wants the listener to turn the fucking record off…..to infruriate the listeners ears and shit….where’s the Kanye who obsessed over mixes of records….
Well, i do believe it was Mike Dean who produced Yeezus.
But fashion is just a dream its how people who lack levels of higher conciousness diverse inciteful ideas or intelligence make themselfs feel better or come off as more appealing than they are sorta like peacocks do its pathetic really to even waste what iis your short existence worrying about such simplistic shit which shows kanye is nothing like hawking or jobs neither of them even wasted more than 2 seconds on deciding what to wear they were too busy actualy thinking unlike most people who lack the capability
Kayne is no where near my physicist Stephen Hawking. Hell nooo!!! Thats a boo for kayne. People cognitively perceive dream exactly how he said dream should be defined. Its just your determination and hard work that gets you there. So how he defined dream doesnt matter. Questiin btw for kayne… Does saying i am going to accomplish my dream limits how closer i get? I guess thats a NOOOO! Hahaha