Kanye West‘s new interview with Justin Laboy gave the rapper and producer plenty of opportunities to expound on his upcoming album Bully — and in one particular moment, he compared it to a classic from Lauryn Hill — her 1998 solo debut The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill.
Laboy recalled how Kanye told him that Bully was “positive.”
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“Yeah, because you lean on a bar that brings somebody down — that was always rap,” West explained. “This is more the way I remember Lauryn Hill[‘s] album, the way I remember Miseducation. I feel it is my Miseducation. It is my Gnarls Barkley album. Because Bully has a title and connotation that a lot of people are anti-bully. But I’m just hyper-next-level frequency right now.”
Check it below, beginning around the six-minute mark.
Elsewhere in the interview, Ye boldly claimed that he is the only man who can beat Kendrick Lamar in a rap battle.
Ye argued that while most rappers would be (and, in some cases, have been) swept aside by the Compton kingpin, he possesses a special quality that would make him a formidable opponent in the ring.
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“If you rap against Kendrick, you will lose. This man does this. You know on Street Fighter, you get like a Chun-Li, you get a certain kick, and no matter what, you can’t beat that thing.
“Joe Budden said, ‘Never rap against Kendrick Lamar.’ If you rap against Kendrick Lamar, it’s a difficult task, but perhaps there’s something — I’m a psycho genius so it could be…”
Laboy then interjected: “There you have it: do not rap against Kendrick Lamar,” to which Kanye added: “Unless you’re a psycho genius like me.”
At a different point in the interview, Yeezy shared his thoughts on Kendrick’s high-profile feud with Drake that erupted last year.
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Revealing his reaction to K.Dot’s victory, he said with a laugh: “[I was like], ‘Man, you killed my nemesis! Where’s the movies if it ain’t no Drake?’
“Or at least he took him down for a little bit. You know in superhero films where one of characters, like Wolverine or something, just goes away for a couple films?”
