Kanye’s Interview in Spin Magazine

The interview is up and Kanye is dropping some serious knowledge:
You think Graduation is blacker than The College Dropout? Way blacker. “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” — how hood is that record? “Good Life” is straight Steve Harvey, all day long. “Flashing Lights”? I never had a record that was that black. But it’s white at the same time. Certain things are so good it doesn’t have to be white or black. That’s what Graduation is. Take “Harder, Better, Faster, Stronger.” It’s a white sample, but everything I do to it is to make it as black as possible. So I’ma make the bass as black as possible; I’ma make the lyrics as intense as possible.
Are these choices strictly artistic, or are you thinking as a marketer, too? Can you separate those roles? I can’t. I’m a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold’s for fried chicken. It’s all these things at once, because, as a tastemaker, I find the best of everything. There’s certain things that black people are the best at and certain things that white people are the best at. Whatever we as black people are the best at, I’ma go get that. Like, on Christmas I don’t want any food that tastes white. And when I go to purchase a house, I don’t want my credit to look black. [Laughs]
But I prefer the term African-American Express.
The 2008 Grammy nominations will have been announced by the time this story comes out. What would you like to have happen this year? Um, I want to have the most nominations of all time? I was always the kid who, when asked how much money do you want, said, “Thirty trillion dollars!” [...]
Who do you think your Album of the Year competition is? That’s what I’m saying: There is no competition! [Laughs]
Previously: Kanye + Daft Punk SPIN Cover
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December 20th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
the end is nah
December 20th, 2007 at 2:43 pm
rewind selektah
December 20th, 2007 at 2:44 pm
bitch i might be
December 20th, 2007 at 2:45 pm
no competition??
o’really????
December 20th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
big ups to kanye on knowin how to hang around white folks AND black folks. when I learned how to do that in college, my enjoyment of life went up 200%.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
I don’t care if Graduation is blacker than The College Dropout. I’ll take the Dropout all day long. Still love that one…
YOU CAN’T TELL ME NOTHING.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
*Kanyedar goes off*
Kanye is Awesome.
New post at the Alum joint!
December 20th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
big ups to kanye on knowin how to hang around white folks AND black folks. when I learned how to do that in college, my enjoyment of life went up 200%.
—–
cosign. shouts out to my white homies in college for all the keg parties
December 20th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
I love to watch white people dance at the club. They just can’t find the beat to save they life, and then when I jump on a white chick they look at me like I’M the one off beat.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:50 pm
http://www.zshare.net/audio/5768507066e6f3/
Billie Jean remix.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
Zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
December 20th, 2007 at 2:51 pm
cosign. shouts out to my white homies in college for all the keg parties
$$$$
went to this white bar downtown couple weeks ago with my homeboy, this white dude i know from school walked in like he was the man. He goes to the bar and order two pitchers of bud light and walks over to our table proudly, “lets get this party started right!” i’m like “dude, the fuck is we gonna do with two gallons of beer, should brought me a got dam DRINK!”
December 20th, 2007 at 2:52 pm
>>Who do you think your Album of the Year competition is? That’s what I’m saying: There is no competition! [Laughs]
+++++
foh
December 20th, 2007 at 2:54 pm
Billz those links are sent my dude
December 20th, 2007 at 2:56 pm
yo you guys comment a fuck load…
You are currently using 0 MB (0%) of your 5892 MB.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:57 pm
how life changes… 3 years ago, a nigga walkin around with that shit on that ‘ye got on, he’d get laughed out the hood. Shit, i think anyone other than Kanye still would.
December 20th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
“lets get this party started right!†i’m like “dude, the fuck is we gonna do with two gallons of beer, should brought me a got dam DRINK!â€
^^ damn then you could never hang with the kid, I drink Beer after Beer and Chase with some tequila shots in between, nothing else. Kanye is fucking funny, I know he does this shock value shtick for white people, they eat up that type of shit
December 20th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
Foe Show Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
big ups to kanye on knowin how to hang around white folks AND black folks. when I learned how to do that in college, my enjoyment of life went up 200%.
______
I learned a little bit earlier (c) Pigment
December 20th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
big ups to kanye on knowin how to hang around white folks AND black folks. when I learned how to do that in college, my enjoyment of life went up 200%.
^^^^
you’re being sarcastic, right?
December 20th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
College Dropout > Graduation
December 20th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
and then when I jump on a white chick they look at me like I’M the one off beat.
^^
i’ll have to co-sign this tho lmao happens to me all the time
December 20th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
spotrusherz Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 2:58 pm
big ups to kanye on knowin how to hang around white folks AND black folks. when I learned how to do that in college, my enjoyment of life went up 200%.
^^^^
you’re being sarcastic, right?
$$$$
kinda. but not really. My hometown is ALL black. The only white people that we had acted black. All 2% of them. When I got to college it was a culture shock kinda.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:01 pm
>> Billie Jean remix.
I played that for my girl and her friends last night… clothes just came off
December 20th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Zonday > Kanye
December 20th, 2007 at 3:03 pm
>>I played that for my girl and her friends last night… clothes just came off
^lol
December 20th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
I am not going to lie Diego has many white people, but I dont see them
December 20th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
I think I am color blind
December 20th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
^^ damn then you could never hang with the kid, I drink Beer after Beer and Chase with some tequila shots in between, nothing else. Kanye is fucking funny, I know he does this shock value shtick for white people, they eat up that type of shit
$$$$
drinking alot of beer is pointless, unless I’m at a sporting event and that’s all available. it’s a waste of time and money. Plus I can’t have no decent convo with a broad in the club cuz I’m runnin to go piss every few minutes.
Brews are only good for having something to hold in your hand in the club after you’ve gotten drunk off the pint of henny you went half on and smashed in the car before walking in.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
damn eskay wont let my Drugs kill Hiphop name rock…come on eskay stop playing
December 20th, 2007 at 3:05 pm
kinda. but not really. My hometown is ALL black. The only white people that we had acted black. All 2% of them. When I got to college it was a culture shock kinda.
^^^
i hear ya… see my town is just a big mix, no ethnically separated neighbourhoods, just rich parts and poor parts. obviously the melanin is chilling in the poor sections though haha
December 20th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
I am not going to lie Diego has many white people, but I dont see them
^^^^
yeah but certain parts of S.D has waay more than others, word to La Jolla
December 20th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
I Fux Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 3:04 pm
I am not going to lie Diego has many white people, but I dont see them
$$$$
it’s all mexicans ain’t it?
December 20th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
I think I am color blind
^^
that’s cause you’re a mutt, pinche racetraitor you!
December 20th, 2007 at 3:08 pm
Kanye is going to rule this music world very soon. If he isn’t already.
And I won’t be complaining.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:09 pm
Foe I stay in the south Hispanics, Blacks and Filipinos is all I see…..if I go to the north like La Jolla, YT Galore ………And my homies are of all races but only one is white and he is half Mexican and talks spanish, so really its just a bunch of Hispanics, Blacks and Asians chilling wilding
December 20th, 2007 at 3:10 pm
spotrusherz Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 3:07 pm
I think I am color blind
^^
that’s cause you’re a mutt, pinche racetraitor you!
^^ atleast I aint a “transfomer” word to Weezy and Baby, rocking blue rags and then red rags …………….I think half my close homies are Mutts
December 20th, 2007 at 3:11 pm
Tuna signs to be VP of the Fish
December 20th, 2007 at 3:12 pm
yo ya’ll remember that UK Dip crew SAS I got a link to there album
December 20th, 2007 at 3:13 pm
man, when i was in college and i figured out how to hang out with my self, my state of happiness increased eleventy billion percent.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:14 pm
usaiditma Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
Billz….sent those two tracks
^Good looks. I’ll peep those when I get back in the crib.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
at school i found mingling with everyone(except homos) was the best way to have fun. different stories, different jokes, sense humour from all types made it more fun.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:15 pm
I believe in shoes and cars
December 20th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Yo fuxie, you know any people last named Moreland out there shun?
December 20th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Got Wendys and I regret it.
Good interview with Kanye. I am sure he will get album of the year, no questions
December 20th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
at school i found mingling with everyone(except homos) was the best way to have fun. different stories, different jokes, sense humour from all types made it more fun.
^^^^
LMAO
December 20th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
fux- i could use that link.
oh and my .02$ is that it isnt about being color blind, its about appreciating other colors, just like everyone appreciates their own. except for guilty liberal white people of course.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:17 pm
weezy, jezzy and OH YEAH YEZZY
December 20th, 2007 at 3:18 pm
thoreauly77 Says:
oh and my .02$ is that it isnt about being color blind, its about appreciating other colors, just like everyone appreciates their own. except for guilty liberal white people of course.
^co-sign…very profound
December 20th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
http://www.bossip.com/9757/fill-in-the-blank-20/
December 20th, 2007 at 3:19 pm
post-lunch daps to all
December 20th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
(in posh englishman voice)
*well today, babydoll dear, is a day for profundity*
December 20th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
Foe Show Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 3:16 pm
Yo fuxie, you know any people last named Moreland out there shun?
^^ Not off the top, But I think I may know the kid who posts on here as Rex hustler, but he of course doesnt know me, he might see me one of these days and come up to me like he you Fux and I will say Fuck you talking bout!
Thoro email me at shwaniaram @ gmail.com and I will forward you the link
December 20th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
LOL at Nation’s link mmmm…*thinking on what goes in the blank*
December 20th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
thoreauly77 Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
(in posh englishman voice)
*well today, babydoll dear, is a day for profundity*
^*listens intently* do go on my good man
December 20th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
Fux aka Etheraldinho
damn she is way to plasticky, like how did the Dr’s fit so much plastic into one person
December 20th, 2007 at 3:26 pm
# Big Homie Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 3:22 pm
LOL at Nation’s link mmmm…*thinking on what goes in the blank*
^
Where is uncensored version? ha
December 20th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
# Babydoll Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
thoreauly77 Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
(in posh englishman voice)
*well today, babydoll dear, is a day for profundity*
^*listens intently* do go on my good man
the rain falls mainly on the plain, refrains fall mainly from the brain, b-real is likely insane in the membrane.
*ta-da*
December 20th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
>>at school i found mingling with everyone(except homos)
^^^
Pardon me, I had to laugh at that…
December 20th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
G7 Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Zonday > Kanye
^^^
Pffffff.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
awwh shit, nation going in…
December 20th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
It must be good to be an NBA Player. MediaTakeOut.com learned that on Tuesday night, the Orlando Magic’s Rashard Lewis bought out the bar at popular Houston nightclub The Office.
That’s right guys, he bought each and every drink for the 300+ people at the club - for the entire night. According to one of MediaTakeOut.com’s spies at the event, people in the club were popping bottles of champagne like it was nothing. And word is the night’s tab came out to a whopping $50,000.
Shoot, Rashad should be glad that we weren’t there. We’d have ordered about 12 bottles of Chrissy, stuffed ‘em in our purse - and kept it moving…
December 20th, 2007 at 3:29 pm
Damn fux that Lauren London post. Ooooh man. And that pic you used. She is definitely wifey.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:30 pm
E AKA THE REAL NORIEAGA Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 3:00 pm
College Dropout > Graduation
^^
Of Course !!
plus..
The College Dropout > Late Registration
December 20th, 2007 at 3:31 pm
I got a funny interesting Homo friend dude does hair, Yes how can I be a homophobe when i have homo friends and no white guy saying I have black friends
December 20th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
eskay Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
awwh shit, nation going in…
^ my RSS is way too futuristic
i had crazy subscriptions…
December 20th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
yo BH you think Vanessa Simmons is close to Lauren, I would say yes.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:33 pm
“Yes how can I be a homophobe when i have homo friends and no white guy saying I have black friends”
quite the conundrum chap.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
middle finger up to all the triflin’, schemin’, talkin’ bout raisin’ they kid while they’re out gettin’ it in on the side ass females…
December 20th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
Whoa.. This Kanye-MJ remix is dope! Maaad dramatic.
I refuse to listen to the Ferg.I.Am one. Or the Akon one.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:34 pm
thoreauly77 Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 3:28 pm
# Babydoll Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 3:24 pm
thoreauly77 Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 3:20 pm
(in posh englishman voice)
*well today, babydoll dear, is a day for profundity*
^*listens intently* do go on my good man
the rain falls mainly on the plain, refrains fall mainly from the brain, b-real is likely insane in the membrane.
*ta-da*
^Ah-ha…you don’t say
December 20th, 2007 at 3:35 pm
Vanessa Simmons looks good but heeewl nawwl not on the status of Lauren London.
December 20th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
“Bitch i’ll put’chu down’there with him! MATTA FACT, get down there & share’a meal with yo’man….Now!”
December 20th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
Steve Harvey has 10million to give to the ex-wifey,damn
December 20th, 2007 at 3:36 pm
nah guys… Lauren London is practically perfection.
I wasn’t feeling her when I saw her on Entourage, but in and around town type shit… she could get it. If it’ll be any brown skin lady that gets it, she’s in the top ranking
fuck a King cover girl
December 20th, 2007 at 3:37 pm
“Bitch i’ll put’chu down’there with him! MATTA FACT, get down there & share’a meal with yo’man….Now!â€
^LMAO has someone been watching 4 Brothers?
December 20th, 2007 at 3:50 pm
How do you find your samples — for example, the sample of Steely Dan’s “Kid Charlemagne” on “Champion”? One of my producers, Brian “All Day” Miller, made that track.
SMH @ KanYe not producing that joint plus the excellent Down & Out!
December 20th, 2007 at 4:47 pm
please explain the characteristics of a “guilty liberal white person”, i’m intrigued.
December 20th, 2007 at 4:48 pm
daps eurrbody
December 20th, 2007 at 5:49 pm
That’s all very nice but Graduation and Late Registration are still garbage.
December 20th, 2007 at 10:53 pm
Foe Show Says:
December 20th, 2007 at 2:46 pm
big ups to kanye on knowin how to hang around white folks AND black folks. when I learned how to do that in college, my enjoyment of life went up 200%.
^^^
word.
i grew up in an all black neighborhood, went to all black schools, and then went to UH, which, is the 2nd most diverse college in the nation (thanks orientation lol), but it still has white people, which was a big shock for me.
big.
December 21st, 2007 at 7:45 pm
Kangay is a homo that makes white folk music called hip pop
December 1st, 2009 at 12:23 pm
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