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Kanye West

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“By pointing out that they just so happen to all be Jewish. I don't think that's anti Semitism I just think that's hey, this is another thing like, okay, the Kardashians, when you hear that, do you think male or do you think female? You think female? You get what I'm saying? You think this is the reality. This is why rap works, right? They're going to make an anti women thing in a second, right? And it's going to say, well, if you point out that these five women, six women are having a meeting on where the Christmas party is and none of the ball players or rappers that they have babies with have any say-so so that Christmas happened at Courtney's house all eight years when I was there. And it never happened at anyone else's black family house, right? If I'm the one that pointed it out, they just don't have their, oh, you're anti-Semitic word to say, shut the fuck up.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Right now, and I'm calling for the industry, I'm calling the industry out and saying like, hey, it just so happens that there's been times where I had my lawyer was Jewish, my regular was Jewish, but like eight people that basically would collude and talk without me were in groups saying, okay, this is what the tour is going to be. This is his next house. And they were making all these decisions and they're making all this money. And at the end, I was like, I ended my tour and I don't have the money. And it just so happens that that's the case what they were. But what I'm saying is if everyone can say, hey, you can't point out this fact, or we're going to say you're anti-Semitic and we're going to call you Hitler, I feel that there has to be at least 1% of safeguarding the ability to screw the artist based on saying it's anti-Semitic.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“This is a simple thing I put. I believe that. The idea of anti Semitism and the closeness of the Holocaust is used by Certain individuals in media do not take accountability for the bad things that are happening. And what's happened is there's a new frontier, right? Meaning like it used to be okay for somebody to be a billion. And we thought about a billionaire, right? A lot of times you think I'm actually kind of being out of shape and 20 years ago, 30 years ago. On NASA's or something like you thought about it a different way. Now you think about it, but you think about Elon, you think Kim, think Yay, you think it's a new kind of billionaire. It's not just Soros as a billionaire. It's a new form of billionaire.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The city where this happened is completely been turned to a war zone. They actually. It's actually something like Candace Owens can actually. Specify this better, but it's like its own city or something. Like they made it not be a part of the actual state or something. It's like DC and stuff. It's like Washington, D.C. now and stuff. And that has to be from a government. Know that's got. Higher level agenda written all over it.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, it was a prejudice towards a group that led to hate BLM. BLM took a black person. Showed his death on camera because okay. There are examples of Us being killed and being killed on camera. But if it was spread on camera, it was done on purpose by the media because 20 kids get killed in Chicago every week and it's not spread that much. They, like you said, singled out a person, directed everything on that person, right, as the martyr, and raised the people that hadn't had any. We didn't have our 40 acres of a mule. We didn't have, you know, like a lot of things, right? Like that black people have not ever been given. So once we're given just a little bit like. Your life matters, right? Then we literally like, oh, okay, now we're being heard, right? But actually the deaf toll is up”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But then it's like hurtful when I do it. But I tell you something that was interesting. I'm pretty sure Anthony doesn't like, sorry for his assumption, but just most comedians I know didn't vote for Trump.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Wonder just as a Christian, right, when I joke and say this stuff It's like, hmm, am I being disobedient to God? Because as a boss, right, I'll talk to An employee. And I'll be like, why didn't you just listen? Because I've got the bigger plan, right? So it's like me talking to God, were there things that I did in this interview that were disobedient to God? And for those things, I pray and I repent for anything that I've said that was disobedient to God.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know, the thing is Think Howard's just jealous Not just. Not just jealous of my cock. He's also Jealous that I started my campaign earlier than him.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, do you think that would get censored? I feel like they definitely cut it down some inches. I'm pointing out this truth. No, I'm saying this is not a Christian thing, right? You know, I wonder right there when I say these jokes, is it something that I, because I do feel like laughter is the key engineering and laughter, right? Is the key to peace like when I go get my teeth clean and I have the nitrous, there is a There's something that I want to go and hug Chris Jenner. I want to go and hug Corey Gampbell. I want to go and hug, you know, Howard, no one wants to hug Howard Stern, you know, but, you know, just if one”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, deserves to be heard, and we deserve to ask why. You know, like you have to ask why. I just feel like that's what's, I feel like that is sympathizing, Mr. Hughescock. I'm just saying that. Just needs to be”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“People need the voice, and even right now What I'm doing, or how God is using me, I'm showing where our voices are being muted. There's professors that are actually intelligent, actually have multiple degrees that have been canceled. From their schools, and they don't have a music industry or a fan base or a shoe design or a smoking hot ex-wife to complain about, they've just got the truth of what they saw and what they dedicated to this country and to education that has been muted by schools that have been taken over with an agenda. And so you want the brightest minds to be these professors and then you mute them. And they have nowhere to go. And you might get a guy now that went from being someone's favorite professor to he's working at Starbucks, like he was back at school or like he was back in high school.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That we're beings with engineering opportunities. I would represent Just as you served a platform here, there's something that happened on my last run that I thought, I feel I know was brilliant. It was noisy, but it was brilliant. I had one rally, and in the rally, I just let people come up and I gave them a platform. Our responsibility to listen to the pain and hear the pain and understand even when We're the ones that cause the pain, like with my tweet. It's my responsibility to hear you and understand why you feel like that. But it's our responsibility as the people to understand each other.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Was actually this factory I put in Cody. So when I'm 45 years old, we're on this journey right now. It's the other thing about this. It's like people just in general, they love me so much. I'm like actually a hard guy to really hate for a long period of time just because of like my huge cock.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We could just go on population control, not like if abortion is right or wrong, we could say factually The clinics were made by eugenics for population control, and it is controlling the population, as is the never being given a 40 acres in a mule. So you don't have the opportunity. And when the people that do have the opportunity are separated from our people, our tribe and place in suburban communities next to Chris Rocker put it, the dentist, and whitewashed and made to shut the fuck up and, you know, vote left or whatever niggers are supposed to do when we make it, as opposed to saying, okay, we're building schools. We're building up choirs. We're building up our own leagues, basketball teams, our own factories. We started the first sportswear factory in America since World War II.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yeah, it's given the zipper's giving some flexibility, and it's like maybe you want to keep your jacket on. Like it's considered like a hoodie to be like a jacket. If you want to keep your jacket on, then... You might want to do this as opposed to pulling it all the way And it's just comfort, but then you get, okay. Do a jogging pant on this would have lasted elasticity. Now, people argue about climate, where we are with the climate. I take a responsibility as being the most influential. Designer of all time. Say we're going to use biodegradable clothing. Now, the issue there is The elastic Is not biodegradable. That means it's actually better to use genes and a belt than to have an elastic waistband. Elastic waistband is not biodegrad So I use the planet as a big. The future of the planet is a big piece of”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Know like when the when the douchebags that go to Vegas and unbutton their dress shirt And the problem with the pullover hoodie is. Can't do the douchebag thing where you unbutton yeah. But then still get the like the stomach. Because the thing is the ultimate look would be like military tank pullover hoodie. And if you get a little hot, you take off the hoodie, but you're like crazy in shape.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“You know what I like about the zipp The zipper hoodie replaces the dress shirt. You could get on your douchebag and like unzip it and give a little bit of you know that type of look and”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So I wanted to give you some theme music for your mom. Let me give you the Timberland version But okay So, the other thing about, like, say, like Valenciaga is Demina will work with ye some day and First, Cedric and for Francois Pinot. And Salma is a beautiful human being. Five years from now. You'll hear and know the name yea and know things that we did. And Valenciaga is not going to make it onto your questions. Would you, as a gambler man, would you bet on that?”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just artists They say the funny thing is they're like, Oh, Rich's black person, like, oh, also rich is actor, richest musician, richest fashion designer. Like it's a bunch of riches in that one. You know what I'm saying? It's like richer than Ralph Lorette. Like Richard, then Amani, like richest of that. But still, low, because where do you put that? You know, like on the totem, because I don't even want to. Man's bank.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“It was in the drums. It was something that Timberlain had in those drums. Now, watch this. I said, I'm going DEF CON 3, right? And the actual, I spelled it wrong. I have a tendency to do that. I'm not quite John Legend, Tight Sweater level spelling B level. So I feel a parallel to me going to Timberland to when I said, hey, you as an engineer, I need to work with you as an engineer that is Jewish to look at these contracts and what my people, not just black people, let's say artists are dealing with in our contracts. These contracts need to be fixed. Everyone could be so mad at the messenger, right? Yay, you said it the wrong way. You're offensive. You're like Hitler now because you said it. You said this out loud. But it doesn't, you weren't getting enough sleep. All this shit does not negate.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Williams to do the drums and it doesn't, it sounds like a different record. No, it can't be a different record because I'm like, I'm going to swap it out on radio, right? Then I go to Swiss beats. It sounds like a different record. I go to Timberland, the person who did sexy back. And he did it. In five minutes and then spent the rest of the hour talking about how nobody could have done it except for him running around the studio. I'm the best. Nobody could have. That's why he had to go to me. He had to go to the king.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So he delivered about 60. There were all kinds of people that were working. Part of the reason why I had to get Dimna, like, I didn't want to have to get, I wanted to compete with him. I didn't want to have to get him. You know, when I made stronger, I did it to compete with Timberland and Justin Timberlake because my fianc ⁇ at that time, like Justin Timberlake, just a little bit too much. I made it to compete. And then we have the song out. It's number one on Apple. It's blowing up. I play it in a club and it sounds muddy. It doesn't sound the way sexy back sounded in the club. So I go to...”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And actually, two weeks ago, I paid at a saint's account eight hundred sixty two thousand dollars, not in clothes for me from Valenciaga from the store, in royalties to Valencia where the deal had been engineered where I was coming out of my pocket. So I paid last year I paid Dimna three million dollars for To design the collection, right? And we got it out of the Gap Marketing Fund and he was going to deliver 160 skews or 120 skews. 100 SKUs are separate items of clothing. Styles of clothing. So he ended up delivering about sixty. I feel like we're on the people's court because we actually are, right? We're in the court of public opinion.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's who I'm telling them. That relationship, you know, some relationships only last for a summer. Know some last for a year, the relationship ran its course, you know, in that relationship, I invested a lot of my social capital and actual capital. I spent somewhere between $5 to $10 million personally on Valenciaga. How much money do you think Valenciaga had paid me in the past two years? Just take a really wild guess, a really wild.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“The gap for political reasons and influence, like a Virgil like a George Floyd, when popular celebrities are brought into Fortune five hundred companies as not to raise the stock, it's to strengthen the position and influence. And it's definitely not to be out here letting a nigga think he's Steve Jobs.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Yes, I talked to Dimna. This is like we're Kendrick Spirits. None of this can keep us away from each other. I brought Dimna to Gap to be able to bring the best product in the world. At that time, I wanted to go under $100. Now I'm like, okay, we're going to go $20 a product. I brought Dimna in. To engineer, that's why I said engineer by Valenciaga. Yeezy got engineered by Valenciaga to engineer the best product for the people. The people that That they say are at the bottom of the Maslow hierarchy and eat chart. They're at the bottom of the pyramid, right? Gapp didn't want that. Valenciaga didn't want that Our genders were not aligned. I was brought in.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“With the Blenci, I have more to say about it though. Let's do this. Will still work For yea, some day, and this is just speeding the process up.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I told you, I sang the song. I sing another song from one of my mentors future. I never feel pain. I done felt too much pain. Like there was a day where I was headed to Nashville to meet with George Farmer, who was the CEO of Parla the day when we made the announcement. At that same day Balenciaga was taking my imagery off of their site and the drink champs was being taken down. And I said, This is the happiest. I love cutting the grass low. People wasn't really with you. They were part time. People switch up when it's wartime. I'd rather have people who are really with me and not people who are just trying to use me.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Ultimately, I am fighting a battle in the spiritual form. And anyone that believes in God and is looking at this interview would agree with that. And I just so happen to be a bright part of God's army. I'm fighting for us to live. The greatest gift is life itself. I am pro life. I am pro God. I believe that Jesus Christ is our Lord and Savior and died for our sins.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Just sounds so fresh, the fact that it's so close, right? And that's what happened, right? They broke the gang up. And I'm telling you right now, that hadn't happened. Virgil's alive. I'm still married. You know what I'm saying? The power structure was broken then, right? Because we were building some Kylie wasn't a billionaire. You know what I mean? We were building something together. A French colonizer came in and caught it early and tried to destroy it, but the only thing is God is alive and I'm anointed. And even with those drawbacks, losing my wife, losing my friend, exhaustion, all of these late night tweets that piss off an entire group, you know, like this. Frustration still we work, I work for God and God runs the world and we'll see what happens.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So this story But then, amidst that The same guy That dropped my deal. Bernard Arnaud goes and hires my best friend. Goes and hires my main engineer, right? It would have been like them hiring Elon from Peter before they figured out Paul, before they figured out PayPal. But Paul sounds like, it all, Pal sounds like Paul. I just say it because I'm a Christian. I thought it was cool. But it would have been like, what if someone could have went in? And took Elon away from Peter before they paid Paul before they, I just, because they pay Pal. For the fate ball. It's just too close”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I expect more. I agree. That was dumb. I regret it. That's like Pierce Morgan trying to grab ratings. You got a whole life ahead of you. You got a whole life ahead of you.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And I suffer from exhaustion and go to the hospital. And then get diagnosed with a disorder. This is the first time I ever suffered from exhaustion. By the way, I haven't been to the hospital since. Haven't been to the hospital since and haven't taken medication in two years. And I'm sure there'll be people in the media, we won't say where phone will say, well, that's obvious, right? So, right now, I'm talking to you, right?”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I went back and told my high maintenance wife I was supposed to become this designer at Louis Vuitton or the Louis Vuitton group was gonna back the Kanye West line because that's how good I've done in fashion, babe. And now the deal is dropped. Now the deal has dropped. So then I did a second collection and we didn't have any support to be able to build the collection. Then I went and found a third collection. We did it. We took over MSG. Fourth collection went and the show started an hour late. Then a week later, Kim got robbed. Then I told Scooter Braun, my manager at that time, I say, I I'm looking, you know, I need to go to Japan. I'm tired. I'm tired. He says, no, you need to make more money. Do four more shows on a second leg of the tour.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“We had the proudest moment of our career and stuff. So then he offers me the deal in Alexander Arnault, who's went to gone on and rape and pillage from all of the talent that I had afterwards, said I say, before I tell Adidas to indemnify the apparel, can I get a written contract from your dad, Bernard Arno? And he says, my dad will never go back on his word. So you already know what this thing is going, right? You can spoiler alert, right? He went back on his word. So three months into the deal, I get Anna Winter, I say, who should I use for my lawyer? She picks my lawyer for me, right? I just found out even a couple of days that the lawyer demanded an airplane during negotiations had nothing to do with me, right? They said the Bernard I know got freaked out and then Alexander Arnaud calls me and says the deal got dropped at the board.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Be Kanye West, they would get 49%. I would get 49%. They'd have control and they were going to give me all of the support from Louis Vuitton. So I had to go to Adidas and I told Adidas, hey, let's identify the apparel. So Adidas, you're not going to do the apparel anymore. Hey, we had a good time, but we're going to run off with Giselle now, right? So that's like you told your girl that. And she's like, oh, no, we're supposed to.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Backstage. The designers, you had Jerry Lorenzo, that's head of fear God. You had Kim Schraub, head of Skimps, you had Virgil Ablo, head of Louis Vuitton, you had Dimna, head of Valenciaga, all working for yea, for the leader, for the philosopher, right? For the person that put who put this together me, that's who? Right? You had these people working for the king in New York, basically the boss, yay, right? You had Jay-Z in the audience, Rihanna in the audience, Beyonce in the audience sitting next to Anna Winter in this audience. And guess who her wind of this? One of the richest men in the world, Bernard Arnault, caught wind of this. What's going on? They're building up something, and we need to stop it. So then he met with me and politely offered me backing”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And all I wanted to tell him is don't let them split the gang up. Don't let them split the gang up When I did the first Yeezy, because I did Kanye West two fashion shows before as a high-end luxury, all leather kind of designer, not all leather, but high-end materials, mink, this kind of thing. And then I came back with Yeezy with Adidas. And this fashion show was so popular that Justin Bieber had to sit in the second row. Right. This thing had every name you could think of. It had Kim Kardashian, Chris Jenner, Kendall Jenner. It was Kylie's first fashion show. She'd been in. And in the second fashion show, I put Kylie and Bella Hadith next to each other in the fashion show. You had Puff Daddy at that time, Puff Daddy had beef with Drake. Drake still came to the show, and Jay-Z had to break up the fight.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“As a tribal person, I believe that I am my people. And the thing that businessmen have done to my people have pulled the brightest out of our tribes and siloed them and made us lose our culture and lose who they were. All the only thing I wanted to say at Virgil's funeral, which I wasn't allowed to. Right, it was a white pastor that talked the majority of the funeral. Half the funeral was pissed, pissed, right? And this pastor actually married me and Kim, right? He looks like Justin Timberlake a little bit. Talked half the funeral. He knew Virgil was passing, did a collaboration with him before he passed, by the way, right, a clothing collaboration. I didn't know Virgil was passing, but the thing I wanted to say. I saw ASAP Rocky and I saw some other members of his gang in the audience at the funeral.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Made me feel like a pussy my whole life, right? But now I am someone who legally can say this. Other people in my position, they legally cannot speak. They legally cannot speak or they will go to prison. I am in a bit of a glass prison because I don't have say so of where my children go to school I'm in a freedom place where I can have this conversation with you right now. And that is, I don't like the word breakthrough. That's God's hand on this situation. But you get what I'm saying about if I hadn't said the tweet, I wouldn't have had to take the accountability myself to hire black engineers into my two tech platforms.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“These guys that have talked about killing people and different things, unless Trump had partnered them, right? But let's say even if Trump had pardoned them, they could still go to someone like a little boozy or a meek mills or puff daddy, anybody, and say, hey, we need you to talk shit about yay right now. And also you're not allowed. If you do want to vote for Trump or vote outside of what this arrangement is, then we're going to put you in jail. We're not going to bring you down. We have this on you. You get what I'm saying? If I had ever killed someone, if I wasn't the pink polo on, I wouldn't be able to be the vocal man that I am today. You understand what I'm saying? This is the reason why I'm happy that my gangster disciple, brothers, kept me from the initiations.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“hired, and guess what hired together? Because when the black people that are brilliant are separated from our culture, we forget who we are and will get to a point where, you know, OJSA, I'm not black, I'm OJ. Because just to be on the golf course, we put on the golf shirt. But the golf shirt might not be something that our culture would have done. And now our culture in poorer communities is, oh, everybody's got Draco on them. Everybody's got a gun on them. Oh, if you run up on me on the gas station, I'm going to kill you. Hey, you ain't got to talk to me like a man if I haven't killed at least five people. But you know what happens is we can kill five people. We could kill 10 people and still be in the media as long as we play by the rules, right? Because what will happen is any of the...”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A lot of business people want to be as successful as Elon and as popular as Elon a lot. Like just word it like that, which I hate the term a lot, actually. I want to be more specific, but I haven't done the math on it. Let's say some factually for sure there are some business people of all different walks and backgrounds that would like to be as rich and as popular as Elon Musk. So let me just take a step back from the Weir One species into the we're separated by race, gender, socioeconomic class conversation and say as a black owner of two tech platforms, hardware and software, I need to take action. Let's not call it affirmative. Let's just say I need to take action and I need to take accountability and ensuring that Black engineers”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“For this example, for the sake of this example And I said, wow I'm sure I could hire more than two black engineers. And what happens is because there are so many businessmen that just so happen to be Jewish, that it's good business, right? Just to monopolize. That's for people to look in. Everybody wants to be Elon, right? So the...”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I took as a responsibility, let's take a step back from us being one species and say, hey, you're Jewish, I'm black, right?”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Also God's plan. There's a lot of things that open up. Let me tell you something that opened up. There's a guy, like I told you, that was running STEM player who I've had issues with. We hadn't got paid on time, certain things, right? And he took his IQ, his know-how, his engineering know-how too. He basically was trying to Adidas me with, even though I was the bigger money in the situation. That was fun. And we funded together. And he hired these engineers. And he said, well, because of your comments, we're not going to be able to hire anybody else. And I was like, well, how many Jewish people do we have in our company? So I don't know. He didn't say exactly, right? I said, do we have black people? He said, yes, I said how many he said two. So we have like 64-time employees, like 40, halftime, and part-time.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Control of the media. You said there's no purpose. So you're taking away my history and my reason of what my purpose was.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“But every single person that I've sat with from the point when I wore the red hat till now has done the same thing, sit in the principal's office and don't do what you're doing.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I feel like you're controlled. You're controlling my creative narrative. Because just like how you're telling me, I shouldn't have said that, do you think there were people telling me I shouldn't have wore a red hat?”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Entire people at one time or said that I was about to. I went like this, right? And I got blacked out, black mirrored, done, right? And it's like, what were you even going to do? And why did you go like this? I went like this because. I would look insane to physically show you a metaphor, a physical representation of my last 20 years of what I've been through as a musician, as a father, and as a black person with a political opinion. A great man.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source