Ever wondered what Kanye West would say if he was given a blank piece of paper in actual Paper mag to ramble on? Wonder no more because he’s done it.
In his own words, as in words written by KANYE, the rapper talks about life, the world, religion, fashion, and more life.
Did you know Kanye worked in Gap as a teenager? Yep, he did and can probably fold a mean shirt in record time.
“When I was working at the Gap at 15, I don't think I had any desire to actually make clothes, but I always felt like that's what I wanted to be around. I loved the fabrics, I loved the colors, I loved the proportions. Abercrombie was too expensive for me and the Gap was too expensive for me. Even though I worked at the Gap, I didn't get enough hours to get a discount because I was a part-time employee, because I went to high school. At that time I focused mostly on painting and basketball, but then I took two steps away from my potential career as an artist.”
Kanye’s piece wasn’t all art and fash chat. The father-of-one also went on to reveal the terrible ignorance he faced when he went to live in China at the age of 10.
“When I was 10 years old I lived in China, and at the time they used to come up to me and rub my face to see if the color would rub off. It was really fucked up, but I feel like it was preparing me for a world perspective that a lot of my friends who never got a chance to travel didn't get.”
And then got deep about society…
“People have asked why I don't speak out -- on social media, for example -- about events in this country. The way I see it, it's not about a post on social media from me when there are people dying. There's people in Chicago dying. There's people all across the globe dying for no reason! There's people who'll never have the opportunity to live their lives for terrible, nonsensical reasons. I care about people. I care about society. I care about people being inspired. I care about people believing in themselves, because that's the scariest thing. The modern population cannot be controlled by the system -- they break the system.”
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