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NOVA CC should offer Kanye West tenure
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Date: March 02, 2015 08:06PM
Kanye West Says Nicki Minaj ‘Kicked My Ass’ On ‘Monster’ And More From His Oxford Lecture
BY BANSKY • 3/2/2015
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First the Based God, now Yeezus, as it seems that rappers giving lectures at colleges is the new it thing to do.
Kanye West was invited to give a lecture at the prestigious Oxford University in England and, as always when Kanye speaks, he did not disappoint.
According to the Tab Oxford, it was requested that cell phones be turned off and West spoke in a room with no microphones, tables or chairs because he thought it was “aesthetically better.” After an introduction that announced the he needed no introduction he began, and immediately he had some instructions for his audience.
“OK, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it’ll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I get my stream of consciousness going that’s when I give the best, illest quotes. Literally, a whisper can throw it off.
Then Yeezy starts dropping gems:
“My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.
That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.
‘Ye on racism:
“This is a generation that is far less racist – yes, small remnants remain of even thinking of calling something of a racial slur.
“White people that listen to rap say ‘nigger’…in the privacy of their own home.
“That idea [racism], has passed. We’ve had The Cosby Show, Obama’s president, Beyonce’s great…that’s passed. But there’s still something you’re taught every day, especially in the UK, and that’s division by class. Our main focus, in my opinion…Imagine a world with no war, and imagine if everyone’s main focus, more so than going out to a club, their main focus was to help someone else.
And on Nicki Minaj killing him on his own ish:
“One of the most memorable things about MBDTF was Nicki Minaj, and the fact that she kicked my ass, on my own song, on one of the best albums…the best album – I’m just saying what the critics said – of the last 25 years. The best album of the past 25 years that I spent a year and a half making, out there. I was exiled from my country, it was a personal exile, but exile. To come back and deliver my magnum opus of a work, and to be outshined…to be beat by a girl, basically.
And finally, Yeezy on economics:
Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car should be $5000. And you know who should work on the car? The people that work on the $500,000 cars. All the best talent in the world needs to work for the people. And I am so fucking serious about this concept that I will stand in front of anyone and fight for it. Because I was 14 and middle class. I know what it felt like to not get what I have.
BY BANSKY • 3/2/2015
GETTY IMAGE
First the Based God, now Yeezus, as it seems that rappers giving lectures at colleges is the new it thing to do.
Kanye West was invited to give a lecture at the prestigious Oxford University in England and, as always when Kanye speaks, he did not disappoint.
According to the Tab Oxford, it was requested that cell phones be turned off and West spoke in a room with no microphones, tables or chairs because he thought it was “aesthetically better.” After an introduction that announced the he needed no introduction he began, and immediately he had some instructions for his audience.
“OK, everyone please be completely quiet, because I can literally hear a whisper, and it’ll throw off my stream of consciousness, and when I get my stream of consciousness going that’s when I give the best, illest quotes. Literally, a whisper can throw it off.
Then Yeezy starts dropping gems:
“My goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to become Picasso or greater.
That always sounds so funny to people, comparing yourself to someone in the past that has done so much, and in your life you’re not even allowed to think that you can do as much. That’s a mentality that suppresses humanity.
‘Ye on racism:
“This is a generation that is far less racist – yes, small remnants remain of even thinking of calling something of a racial slur.
“White people that listen to rap say ‘nigger’…in the privacy of their own home.
“That idea [racism], has passed. We’ve had The Cosby Show, Obama’s president, Beyonce’s great…that’s passed. But there’s still something you’re taught every day, especially in the UK, and that’s division by class. Our main focus, in my opinion…Imagine a world with no war, and imagine if everyone’s main focus, more so than going out to a club, their main focus was to help someone else.
And on Nicki Minaj killing him on his own ish:
“One of the most memorable things about MBDTF was Nicki Minaj, and the fact that she kicked my ass, on my own song, on one of the best albums…the best album – I’m just saying what the critics said – of the last 25 years. The best album of the past 25 years that I spent a year and a half making, out there. I was exiled from my country, it was a personal exile, but exile. To come back and deliver my magnum opus of a work, and to be outshined…to be beat by a girl, basically.
And finally, Yeezy on economics:
Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5000 sweater. You know what should cost $5000? A car should be $5000. And you know who should work on the car? The people that work on the $500,000 cars. All the best talent in the world needs to work for the people. And I am so fucking serious about this concept that I will stand in front of anyone and fight for it. Because I was 14 and middle class. I know what it felt like to not get what I have.