Fresh off another successful capsule collection with A.P.C., Kanye West is in front of the lens for photographer Steven Klein in the newest issue of Interview magazine. The rapper, who’s never candid, gives a very in-depth interview on all things Kim, the Yeezus album and fatherhood. Check out the experts below.
On fatherhood:
“It’s all brand new, how it feel to be a father. There are some things I understand, certain things I don’t understand, certain things I like to get off my chest in the interview, certain things I want to talk about. But when we talk love, I don’t have an answer. All I can say is I’m happy I have it.”
On Bound 2:
“I think people are afraid of dreams, and that video is one the closest things to the way that dreams look and feel, with the colors. You know, I think there are rules to fashion with the all-black everything and rules of art, with white galleries. There are rules to how a lot of things are: the concrete jungle, the stone pavement and brick walls. There are even rules to what Brooklyn apartments should look like. But this video completely didn’t respect all those rules whatsoever. It’s a dream, and I think the controversy comes from the fact that I think most people are comfortable with their own dreams, so it’s hard for them to be comfortable with other people’s dreams.”
Looking back at the Taylor Swift incident:
“It’s funny that you would say ‘mentally, physically, spiritually’ because my answer before that was going to be sex, god and alcohol”
On the Yeezus album:
“It’s the only way I can survive. The risk for me would be not taking one. That’s the only thing that’s really risky for me. I’ve lived outside and I’ve learned to swim through backlash or maintain through a current of negative public opinion and create from that and come through it and spring forth to completely surprise everyone…to satisfy all believers and annihilate all doubters. And at that point, its just fun.”





