In Swahili, Kanye means "the only one" so, it's no surprise Krazy Kanye's favorite topic is... (drum roll please) Kanye! (He and Tyra would hate each other.)But, what Kanye has been talking about a lot lately is his borrowed style.
First he said he copied his style from gays, then he dissed the gays, saying he can out-dress most of them. Then he admits that the Japanese has the hottest individual. And, while show-hopping at New York's fashion week, he was dissed by a world-renowned photographer.
And last night at Narciso Rodriguez' show, he talks about his not-quite-original style - yet again. This time though, he confesses that there are few men who have better style than he does.
“I don’t think I dress better than Michael Jackson, so I think I got a long way to go. That’s what I’m thinking about. I’m thinking about Michael Jackson, Stefano Pilati (fashion designer), Ralph Lauren himself, like, and until I’m on that level, you know.”
As you notice, none of those are your everyday man.
We thought Kanye was turning a leaf and becoming more graceful and humble individual. But alas, his Details magazine interview surface and Kanye, more than ever before, is seen as the obnoxious and self-absorbed provocateur. Imagine that!
"I had a style that was over-the-top, overly expressive, and it forced me to just lay back and be a little cooler," he tells tell the magazine. "One of the problems with being a bubbling source of creativity—it's like I'm bubbling in a laboratory, and if you don't put a cap on it, at one point it will, like, break the glass. If I can hone that . . . then I have, like, nuclear power, like a superhero, like Cyclops when he puts his glasses on."
He once said he is the "voice of this generation" so the writer asked him about that.
"If not me, then who? Someone could be a better rapper, dance better. But culturally impacting? When you look back at these four and a half years, who's the icon at the end of the day? Who broke down color barriers? What other black guy would a white person use as a fashion reference?"
He also talks about the whole gay thing and considers the word "gay" to have positive connotations.
"Titles are very important. I like to embody titles, y'know, or words that have negative connotations, and explain why that's good. Take the word gay — like, in hip-hop, that's a negative thing, right? But in the past two, three years, all the gay people I've encountered have been, like, really, really, extremely dope. Y'know, I haven't, like, gone to a gay bar, nor do I ever plan to. But where I would talk to a gay person — the conversation would be mostly around, like, art or design—it'd be really dope. From a design standpoint, kids'll say, 'Dude, those pants are gay.' But if it's, like, good, good, good fashion-level, design-level stuff, where it's on a higher level than the average commercial design stuff, it's, like, gay people that do that. I think that should be said as a compliment. Like, 'Dude, that's so good it's almost ... gay.'"
And how does one use the new lingo in a sentence?
"'Dude, that's so good it's almost gay!' 'Dude, you pay real attention to detail—that's almost, like, gay!' 'You had a whole conversation with that girl without bringing up sex? That was, like, gay!'"
Whatever, Kanye. We dislike your ways, but we love you craziness.
The braggadocios rapper was adamant that Details readers know he is the king of music, ef Michael, ef Jay Z, ef Paul Simon. In short: If you're not Kanye, ef you!
"Put this in the magazine: There's nothing more to be said about music. I'm the fucking end-all, be-all of music. I know what I'm doing. I did 808s in three weeks. I got it. It's on cruise control."
Wow, Kanye, Wow.
Where did this gaul come from? How did it develop. Well, aside from being born that way, he honed his love for music ...and penises while in childhood.
"First beat I did," he recalls, "was in seventh grade, on my computer. I got into doing beats for the video games I used to try to make. My game was very sexual. The main character was, like, a giant penis. It was like Mario Brothers, but the ghosts were, like, vaginas. Mind you, I'm 12 years old, and this is stuff 30-year-olds are programming. You'd have to draw in and program every little step—it literally took me all night to do a step, 'cause the penis, y'know, had little feet and eyes."
No woman will be able to deal with this jackal, but just in case one of you chicken-heads were interested, he has a type.
"What I feel like—'cause I wanna be married, of course—I feel like the type of girl I would be with is a fellow superhero. So we get that 'already flying and now we're just flying together' thing."
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