Kanye West: ‘I’m tired of people pinpointing musicians as the Illuminati’

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Kanye West covers the new issue of Paper Magazine. The photoshoot is fine – a little blah, but Kanye looks nice and the editorial is mostly head shots. I was going to do highlights from the interview, but the piece is written as a stream-of-consciousness essay “as told to Paper Magazine,” and that’s just annoying. So you can read the full piece here – Kanye doesn’t sound ALL-CAPS ranty, but he’s definitely giving Paper the Full Yeezus. He talks about the importance of creativity, of innovation, how much he admires Steve Jobs, etc. Then he goes off on a tangent about the Illuminati:

“I heard a comment — a joke — about the Tidal press conference being an Illuminati moment. If there was actually an Illuminati, it would be more like the energy companies. Not celebrities that gave their life to music and who are pinpointed as decoys for people who really run the world. I’m tired of people pinpointing musicians as the Illuminati. That’s ridiculous. We don’t run anything; we’re celebrities. We’re the face of brands. We have to compromise what we say in lyrics so we don’t lose money on a contract. Madonna is in her 50s and gave everything she had to go up on an award show and get choked by her cape. She’s judged for who she adopts. F–k all of this sensationalism. We gave you our lives. We gave you our hearts. We gave you our opinions!”

[From Paper Magazine]

I’m sorry, but that’s amazing. His defense of Madonna, his claim that celebrities don’t run anything and thus cannot be part of the Illuminati… it’s just amazing. He also tells an amazing story about being on nitrous at the dentist’s office and realizing the meaning of life (“to give happiness”).

Here are some photos of Kanye and Kim leaving LA last night. Is it wrong to like her hoodie? Because I love it.

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