Kanye West speaks about how several people have influenced his work in a clip from
“It’s amazing,” West says. “How could we lose Biggie, Pac, Dilla, Steve Jobs, Michael Jackson? It almost feels like the Devil’s winning. We gotta make music and think, ‘If Dilla was alive, would he like this?’ I have to work on behalf of Dilla.
“When I put a weird-ass Jamaican sample, it works at first but it’s not until I put the [makes discordant musical noise] that it sounds like art or sounds slightly wrong,” he adds. “And now it’ll go to the radio now that it’s wrong, motherfucker. Now play this. Play this 5-minute song that completely fucks up your programming. The best respect that we can pay to great artists that have inspired us so much is to never sell out.”
The clip is part of exclusive Rolling Stone-released footage from Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton.
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“The best respect that we can pay to great artists that have inspired us so much is to never sell out.””
Says the nigga who just married the biggest fame whore alive.
LMAO! For real tho! I agree with what he said but shit is kinda hypocritical. Maybe all people are sometimes.
Kanye West > Pac, Biggie, and J dilla
At what?
you just pissed on the grave of all them. fuck off
At being a producer, mc, artist, father, and fashion icon
Producer? He constantly on Dilla’s dick..so NO!
MC? LOL nigga please.
Steve Jobs?
I would like it if Kanye wouldn’t use the 2pac comparison until he reads every book Pac read and learn how to implement those readings in his music, foreal..
dont u know niggas cant read
I thought so too, until I realized that there are more than 100m more whites in US and the nation is still far behind other countries in terms of being smart, it’s an institutional problem, not a race situation
Because he is them! He’s also Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan, and Pikachu. Don’t underestimate him
Steve Jobs > Your favourite rapper’s favourite rapper
Kanye is the only mainstream artist keepin it real, and you stupid fucks don’t realize it
Exactly. smh ppl jus sheep man
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LATE REGRISTRATION IS BETTER THAN ANY 2PAC ALBUM
BIGGIE WAS OVER OVER RATED WITH HIS FAT ASS WELCH GRAPE CHEESE STEAK OVER WEIGHT DADDY DICK LICKING ASS..
AND WHO THE FUCK IS J DILLA ?
you must be like 16… Late Registration over Me Against the World? All Eyez On Me?? Makaveli 7 Day Theory??? Better Dayz??? shit even the Thug Life Album???
GTFOH!!!!!!! Sip on your Similac, use some Q tips & stop dick riding The Kardashians Show. You’re ignorant & delusional
COSIGN. 808’s influence > Biggies career
im frum chicago i kno lil reese i get u killed real real fast..like 2 weeks a somethin
Come try it..
rip migos ..smh..
why lil durk set em up like daaat lol
“And now it’ll go to the radio now that it’s wrong, motherfucker. Now play this. Play this 5-minute song that completely fucks up your programming. The best respect that we can pay to great artists that have inspired us so much is to never sell out.”
What the hell is he talking about
thanks for letting us know your intellect barometer is low
he’s saying they want bullsh*t, not original stuff. so if he makes a right record it won’t get play, but if he does some half ass sh-t they run with it like it’s the best thing ever
good example is Lupe, fresh off of a fan protest, gets un-shelved and makes L4zers, a B.O.B ripoff which is a failure, so Mr revolutionary Lupe resorts to a Cottenelle soft sappy ballad with the white dude about old school love and it’s a mega hit
to the naive audience who hates 90s music, but loves a song called ‘Old School Love’, lol this how programmed y’all are to accept the bullsh-t
I haven’t appreciated Kanye’s work since Late Registration. He been sold out a long time ago. And why is he mentioning Steve Jobs? He wasn’t a musical artist.