KanYe West For FADER Magazine.... Cover Story & Interview !!!

by **J The Kidd** Tue Nov 25, 2008 11:10 pm

FADER links up with Mr. West for their latest cover story, 5 years
after initially saying he could do some damage. Little did they know.
They speak on a variety of topics ranging from the new album, to Pop
Music, to his place in history, to Michael Jackson, to God and back to
Michael Jackson being God. Here is a choice excerpt:

Do you feel like you’re getting to a point with music where you’ve done all you could? Like you could move on and focus on your fashion line or something else entirely (?)
I can’t foresee myself not wanting to make music. What was so great
about this album was at any given time, I could just Superman in the
booth and pull out arguably the best rapper in the world. Is this the final
frontier of music? I would think its not quite conquered yet,
there’s still a ways to go. There are levels. Did you see the
Michael Jackson in Budapest concert? When I look up two, three years
from now, and I’m doing my own concert for five hundred thousand
people, it’s like, maybe this was a beginning point.
There’s gonna be people that, as big as a celebrity as I am,
really just discover me on this album. I learned so much from going to
those fashion shows. I thought I was making some fashionable shit on
the last album, and they weren’t playing my shit. I want my music
to be played the same place you could play a Feist song, but I want it
to still work in a strip club, still work in a car. One thing about
traveling a lot, it gives me a lot more worries about places I’m
not being played. I go to Starbucks everyday, listen, look at the CD
rack, and I’m like, I’m not here. I could easily give up
and be like, Well, I’m black and I’m a rapper, or I could
be like, Man, what could I do to get here? you only got one life and
shit. Who’s to say what you can and can’t do? “Love
Lockdown” is just a great accomplishment in the idea of, like,
Thom Yorke in the strip club.

Murakami once said, “I don’t mind being hated if
I’m popular.” There’s a chance of that happening with
this album—that it’s pop, potentially hugely popular, but
not with the same people who loved your other albums.
Let’s hope it’s pop. They asked me what genre to put it
under. I was like, Put it under pop, because I’ll wear that. I
love wearing a label that people think is uncool. Because it’s
like, is it not good music now? Music is special to people, so they
hold it really tight to themselves. A lot of times when it becomes
popular they feel like it’s not theirs anymore, they feel like
it’s not just a part of their little group. But I feel like music
is for everyone. When you were a little kid, did you really think about
how many kids sang “Frére Jacques”? I make music
that is good, and it should be the biggest.

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