2000’s Kanye would have been able to turn this alone into a magical album lol

All the best today, friends!

If only Kanye would do this

all eyez on my thicc ass

I don't see release date

dua peepa?

I'd hang with those Vultures

So many people do good in crunch time, so why not do everything on crunch time? So, when we were in Hawaii I would go to the studio every day and be like, We're gonna finish the f***ing album today. It would be like there are some songs that aren't even done yet, mad s*** that need to be filled in, and I be like, Let's attack this like we're gonna finish the album today. Because people are always like, I got time; the label had my release date in February. But why? I'm like, No, push my release date up to the closest possible thing, and if you tell me we have to have this s*** mastered by next week, I will get it done. Cause I have to get it done, and it is what it is. How long am I gonna sit on something? There's a completely different ideal behind it.

thefader.com/2013/10/23/kanye-west-unedited-the-complete-fader-interview-2008/2

Easily the best Ye interview ever imo. Really shows how he hasn't changed at all and how the old Kanye s*** is just false.

Damn, Nevruary 32nd is close

No way

Crazy he was sorta hating on LR back then too, talks bout having writers and his 'murmur' process of coming up with songs, not remembering lyrics to his own songs, about hating reading, about god etc. it's like he hasn't changed at all lmao.

I feel his mom and his PR team back then did a good job of limiting/hiding his full personality. now that he obviously has no PR, we get to see the full frontal personality that he didnt get the chance to showcase back then

he was meeting with Ben Carson in like 2013 too, he's been on his contrarian s*** for a long time

How did you meet up with Murakami in the first place?

Well, I don't wanna do too much on that, just because it's like, I don't want to be politically incorrect with the answer, but, um, god just put me onto him, like, yo, this is my favorite artist, and I saw him, and he became my favorite artist. And then, um, I reached out to some different people to just ask to meet up with him cause I wanted to buy the Hiropon statue, the one with the really big titties where the girl is jump-roping? Originally I had to clear out my whole account to try to get it. And there were none available, but he had one in this other office in the middle of nowhere. I went out there, and just to see it in real life, I was just awestruck. It's the most amazing thing I've ever seen, cause everything I've ever liked about anime or from the—everything is like, equal in my book, from fashion to s***to food to specific artists—it's like, the reason I like KAWS more than certain other graffiti-based artists. It's something in the fineness and like, that anime style, like, you know, how do you describe that? A thin pen, to get your point across, like these really thin strokes and stuff?

Yeah this is an unedited interview from 2008, after his mom died so kinda adds up. But like reading this s*** is extremely uncanny. There's a 2024 counterpart to everything he mentions really.

It's f***ing exciting. I'm really excited about this album. Yo so, Vanessa—you don't have to put this in the interview—but she said right when she got the request to meet with me, and we told her the name of the album's 808s and Heartbreak and she saw "Love Lockdown," she said her husband had just broken up with her and they had been married for eight years. And the name of the album's 808s and Heartbreak and I didn't realize. I was sitting in the studio in Hawaii and I asked somebody for the number to the hotel and they were like 808, cause Hawaii's area code is 808 and we just randomly do the whole album in Hawaii. I'm not trying to be all weirdo, connect the constellations like that, but this s*** is like too meant to be.

Yeah, it's weird, because all this s*** I'm doing, it's like, I wanna be a pop artist. But everything else that I'm saying is against all principals of what a pop artist is. It's very heartfelt. It comes from me, solely me. I wanna say something about the concept of ghostwriting on this album. I have like a lot of writers on this album. If you take "Love Lockdown," it takes like seven writers. What I would do is, I go in and like, murmur stuff, and I get like really creative genius individuals to sit in the room with me, and my cousin Tony Williams, Esthero, Malik Yusef, Kid Cudi, Mr. Hudson, like all these different artists to sit there, and we'd go line for line and say, "What is the best way to word this one part that was only murmured?" and we'd replace the words. And that's the explanation of when you see a lot of writers on it. Every melody, most every melody on there I thought of. There's a couple melodies that Cudi thought of on the album, but it's very much like this is my idea.

Yeah, to drive my idea. It's like, one of those things where it's like, you know what, it's the Warhol quote, it's like yeah, I could do it without a bunch of writers in the room, but this is faster, and I have more money than time.

@Yayo def check out the interview it's insane

CyHi: I think that screech sound that you do is reminisent of The Police song, can perhaps you turn it into Roxxxane?

First week of February Vultures Event (probably Miami)

Second week of February “Music” Event

his obsession with the events is so weird, especially when he has still done 0 promotion for the album

he really can't make up his mind

Great read brother, definetly can see the parallels and racing thoughts.

The s*** he did with Cudi?

Prob recorded a bunch of tracks with him recently