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Kanye West

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first: 2022-10-24
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“At the end of the day, you want money right now, it's like everyone knows that between the pesticides and between the medical industry, especially America, that we're keeping people sick. And we know that McDonald's makes food that kills people and, you know, Coca-Cola is selling, you know, sugar water and all this. Just in case I haven't pissed off enough people in power. Okay, so”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Happiness. Then we talk about what's the motivation, like, yeah, there's a motivation somewhere in the back of my mind of. My family. And if it's like where Moses smites the rock and God didn't allow him to get to the promised land because the promised land is family. That is the promise. That is earth. I mean, that is heaven on earth is family. Family is heaven. That's the promised land. And for your family to be together. So say I smite the rock and God doesn't let me have my family back. My mission and life is still Promote families at all costs and make families existence easier. So you take this thing, you put localize a localized farm, say if it's in community. That we do localized growing and then we partner with Big Pharma and say, hey, you're actually going to make more money by making better food.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Okay, so it's a screen, it doesn't go all the way. Hole for light, but the water and the light and air all come in from the top. So that's like. Like the mouth. And then this is the belly button. We're God's iPhone. We're his greatest creation.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And it's at a pretty good place. Now this be forty thousand square feet. I want to start just talking in meters. I just think we should go to... Anything to restore the Tower of Basel, like they said when the Just draw a person here for scale”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Well, now I've gone past. I'm like at that place where Nikolai Tesla was later into his career where it wasn't about being loved. It wasn't about sitting at the dinner parties next to Anna Winter and stuff. It was about getting the idea across. So I have these cells. A very, and I just keep on saying really, Scott, but really Scott has a special anointing. It isn't just sci-fi what he's doing. There's something in there, just like George Lucas. There's something different that's there I'm drawing these new living cells that we will exist in. And this is over Okay, let's do like. I don't like talking about money because man made money, anyways, like four quadrillion respected dollars. And then you have other forms of currency. Of course, social currency is super important right now. But this is a drawing.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Absolutely. I remember when Pharrell was first in all the videos and my girl was like, girls like Pharrell. And I was like, I want girls to like me too.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I think we've seen that. It's been proven. I mean, but look at my mom and look at my dad. You know, me and my dad have a water purification center and the DR right now. And my dad is the original Steve Jobs. And he was blocked by people around him and people were using him and taking advantage and not believing in his vision. My dad's the educated version of Yay.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I mean It's just the DNA is like she's a mixer rob and Chris. I mean, that's like a really high pool right there. Those are like two geniuses.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So we just keep on leaning and leaning and leaning, and there's these things where I just think about, you know, there'll be times when I'm at war. And every now and then when the bomb stopped going off and all the headlines and the smearing and all that stopped going off, I think about my family and I'll think about Kim and I'll think about how King Cooper has her in the castle right now and just on Mario Brothers, you know how it is. The princess, and you get to this level, and it's like I sung the song wrong, right? And then they take the princess again”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“And we're all a newborn because in Christianity, we say, born again. We're all newborns. And everyone can like the word can, the only thing about Shell is like, it kind of dictates and can kind of kind of let people off the hook. So I haven't found the perfect post-Shakespeare and post Steve Jobs and post Elon and post Yay and post Drake way to communicate this But we update and we do. And what the current media structure No, it's not actually nothing that's holding us. There's nothing actually holding us back because I'm still alive. I'm still alive. Like they could have killed me at, you know, George Wish don't care about black people. They could have killed me at Beyonce had the best video, but we're here now.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“A lot of people that have kind of sat through. I wanted to wear a different color hoodie because I was just tired of seeing this hoodie and all the interviews. There's a lot of kids that are with me, they see what I'm saying. And they had to sit through all of the muck of all the previous interviews to get to this. Every interview has been just an emotional, it's just like been an argument up to this point. This is the first of. This is the next frontier of where our species is going to head. It starts here. It starts with you, Lex.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's such a subjective thing. But, like, if you go and shoot three pointers with Steph Curry, it's not subjective, right? Or if you go and compare bank accounts with Elon, it's not subjective. And another thing that's not subjective, porn.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“He's a cultural engineer, like the people who run the emotions of the world and run the world off of people's emotions right now are social engineers. And social engineering is so important. Like city design. There's a fancier word for that. But I was in Oxner last night to see Anthony Jesselnick. And I got to find out what his opening joke was because I'm doing interviews and I'm thinking I'm funny and I like that he said he just kept on saying 20 year in a verse I've been doing this for 20 years. His opening joke was so high level I realized that I wasn't funny. I realized that this dude is a professional at what he does. And so many things are subjective. I always talk about this. It's like, you know, people are arguing like, is Emily Radikowski the hottest person? And I'm like.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“30% of our language was the English language was written by them. The other person 30% of the products we use was led by them. So”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Like, okay, who's the top person in tech history? It's not subjective. A non subjective answer to both of those. Both of those people have influence 30% of our existence.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Sorry, I don't spell as good as John Legend. Opportunities Be for you I like the before because it can mean actually can mean forward or before you. This right here, I've always said I'm the top five writer in human existence, but this right here is pushing me to like number four, number three.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Of our new species constitution. I'm going to do the paper like this wide. Put it in widescreen. This for Ridley you No, let me like you. Jeanering.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's the first sentence that any of our species needs to hear when they're born. You are a human being when engineering challenges, and I consider challenges to be opportunities in front of you. Literally, let me see a piece of spirit. I need to write that down. That's the beginning.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Too much value to the past. We are now. We are now. We are here. We are one species. We are one race. Here and Time and the leadership is changing because you have Elon as a leader, yay as a leader. And we are the top leaders. We're more influential than the presidents.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“So, if I see stuff happen on the day that later that day is reported wrong. So how wrong is something reported a thousand years ago? And why would we argue about something that's not in the now? Because that's the only thing that everyone can agree upon is that it is now right now.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I don't 100% believe in anything, any concept of the future or any concept of history because history was just written by the victors.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“That's why I love and respect engineers. That's the only thing that we really need to teach in school is engineering. We don't need to teach history. We don't need to teach anything that is subjective. It needs to only be engineering, taught in school, and everything else needs to be recess. Any force subjective information is just to weaken and indoctrinate our species. And that's what schools do now.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“I wanted to finish. The thing is, okay, you're going to ask me different questions, but I'm about growing and building and bringing the idea to life. So when I see you, I say, oh, this guy understands how to hire engineers. Where I'm coming from, coming from Hollywood, coming from press, coming from media, all of the guys, you know, that so many of the guys that have been like voices and faces and talking heads, whatever have not understood how to engineer product. And that's the reason why I was able to jump past everyone in the entertainment field and become, you know, whatever the net worth is, 11 billion. I'm going to stop putting the whole black thing on my worth. Let's just see where I am on the scale of life because that's a cop-out for me to say richest black guy of all time because that's feeding into the same trauma economy that Black Lives Matter feeds into.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source
“Based off of our connection and just you being a friend, I need to show you my two tech companies and get your perspective on it. Now I have friends that can give a perspective. Like when I would work on albums, I had other friends that worked on albums and they would give me their perspectives on it.”
2022-10-24 · Lex Fridman Podcast · #332 – Kanye ‘Ye’ West Interview · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source