{"id":597453,"date":"2024-02-09T09:35:59","date_gmt":"2024-02-09T14:35:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/?p=597453"},"modified":"2024-02-09T10:29:21","modified_gmt":"2024-02-09T15:29:21","slug":"kanye-west-lex-fridman-interview","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/erickimphotography.com\/blog\/2024\/02\/09\/kanye-west-lex-fridman-interview\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Lex Fridman Interview"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Moses<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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(39:37):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

With Africans, how many times have you heard like a rapper or talk about, we were kings? That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s incorrect if we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re Jew. If we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re Jew, and since we are, we weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the kings. We were the slaves that Moses freed. Africans have always said, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve heard, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve listened to rap music and hear black people say, we kings, we blood of the pharaohs. And if we are Jew, then we weren\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(40:13):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

We were the people that Moses freed. And when we talk about, have you heard black people talk about 400 years of slavery? Mm-hmm. All right. That is, and we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re having this history lesson, right?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Ye (41:26):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not disagreeing that that happened. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m disagreeing that we need to harp on the things that happened because the truth is, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m giving a fact, 50% today of let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s say you don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t call black people Jew, right? Black people\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s deaths today is abortion today right now. Like that, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not racism.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(41:54):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s too wide of a term. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s genocide and population control that black people are in today in America that is promoted by the music and the media that black people make that Jewish record labels get paid off of or media companies, record labels and media company also. So let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s give it a wider.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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(44:05):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then they immediately say, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s off of his shit, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s off his meds, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s off of his rocker. And it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s literally used as a scarlet letter control mechanism for the- People understand, the kids, the colleges, the high schools, what do you think they put me right now? They put me as the prophet, not the leader. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have to be the leader, right? Cause we need a more intelligent person to be the leader, but at least, right? They put me as the prophet. They put me as the only person that would say this. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just saying that was four Jewish members that controlled my voice because for the fact that 90% of black people in entertainment from sports to music to acting are in some way tied into Jewish business people. Meaning that in some way, just like if Rom is sitting next to Obama or Jared sitting next to Trump, there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a Jewish person right there controlling the country, the Jewish controlling that, who gets the best video or not, controlling what the media says about me.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Ye (48:10):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

So that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s escalated quickly. So the, no I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m saying, where\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s our apology? But right, we can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get to apology because you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re telling me there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s no right way for me to word it. So tell me, for me, a person who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been fucked on my deals and a person that has friends that never figured out how to make shoes with a German company that couldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t tell me to wear a BLM shirt and take off my red hat. Like what would have happened if I was at Nike? Right.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Ye (49:26):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I have ran a record label. Well, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve been ran by a record label where I was the face of a record label and had Big Sean and different people complaining to me. And I knew fuck about running a record label. I was simply just a talented producer and an influencer that then started good music. But I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the one running good music. How would you do it differently? This is something I propose. I would look at the top 10 execs and three fields in sports, film and music. And I would look at the top 10 clients participant, talent.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

19 music industry:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(50:26):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll compare the notes and re-engineer like it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a new constitution. Because when I told my dad when I was 19 that I was going to get into the music industry, he begged me not to. He said, I heard it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s treacherous.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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Ye (51:12):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s the whole point Howard Stern. Nobody wants to kiss your dick, so shut the fuck up. I said, and by the way, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m antagonizing you Howard Stern. I used to be a fan of you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n


Ye (51:22):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Now you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just doing clickbait like everybody else. Now you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re just a sad old man, Howard. Now Howard Stern, this is the first time anyone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s said your name in years. Your own family doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say your name unless they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re calling to get their bills paid.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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(53:19):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Let me go to this. You said this was a sorry apology. I was very specific. I said the Jewish, because by the way, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a barrage. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a thing where I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even remember the names at a certain point. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like, if a girl was getting raped by men, if that person\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not 18, and she was getting raped since 14, and she still got this face, this super like Irena-shaped level face. She might say, I hate men. That woman may say, I hate men. She might get to that point because she was raped.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(54:01):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

All my contracts, and no one can say this is ramped up. Howard Stern can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say this is ramped up. Ari Emanuel can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say this is ramped up. George Soros knows damn well that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not ramped up. George Soros knows like, wow, this guy\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like a younger guy that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s looking at what I did and looking at how I control the world silently. And he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s calling it out. And he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not using any of the fear tactics.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Philosopher leader<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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(54:27):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t send his homeboys around him. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t send his wife to him. This guy, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what George Soros sees when he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s dealing with me. So what you guys are actually asking me to do, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m comparing myself to that 18-year-old beautiful woman that had been mistreated by men for four years of her life. And you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re saying, as a man, you can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t blame all men. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m saying, as a responsible forward philosopher leader, okay, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ll drop the pain and I will specify because I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a peer.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Pain<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

The left is China? The left talks like how China wants to talk?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(55:08):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I lost my fucking family. I lost my kids. I lost my best friend in fashion. I lost the black community. I lost, you know, people said I lost my mind. All of these things, lost my reputation. And I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a peer just like, I just want my family, but I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want my family to have to say what the left wants us to say, to have to say what China wants us to say. I want to be an American and protect my kids and protect my wife and raise my kids as Christians and have my wife be a Christian and innovate. And America made rock and roll. I want to innovate as a creative person and be a successful American. But all of that had been taken away from me. So I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m coming back and I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m removing the PSTD right now. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m standing up and saying the only way that we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re going to be able to get past this and the way God is going to use me right now is for me to stop talking about the pain, stop talking about what happened and do something about it. And that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s where I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m at right now in this moment. Like, yeah, people agree. At least there was something where you could say, he has a reason of why he got to that tweet. And what you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re doing for me today is saying, yo, that was a sorry apology and let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s specify. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not asking for anyone out here to empathize or sympathize for a dude worth $11 billion that can make money disappear, I mean, appear out of thin air in five different industries. You know, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m not asking for anybody to sympathize with someone who\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s married to Kim Kardashian, dated Irene, but like, I feel like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m just not going to get the sympathy vote in this situation, right? So- I feel your pain. I feel your pain. I feel your pain. I feel your pain. I feel your pain.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Japan<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

Samurai \u00e2\u20ac\u201d 2 months, go on top of the mountain <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ye (59:10):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Well, at that point, it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s like, they\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re trying to put me in jail or put a friend of mine in jail because then I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m going to go surround the hotel and do all, you know, do something which would have me not be able to be here. And instead I walked away from that situation. I went to Japan for two months. And instead I walked away from that situation. I went to Japan, like the samurai that I am, and went to the top of the mountain. And, because I knew that, I mean, I knew there was no way she could love this dude. Not just because he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ugly, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not black. She likes black guys. Every guy that she, you know, is with looks exactly the same. Ray J, Reggie Bush, at that time Kanye West, she has a type. Just like how I have a type. Like a lot of my girls look kind of similar to her because in a video game character, people have their type, right? So I knew that this was like\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Stem player \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Ye (01:06:56):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Also.. It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s God\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s plan. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a lot of things that open up. Let me tell you something that opened up. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s a guy, like I told you, that was running stem player, who I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve had issues with, we hadn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t got paid on time, certain things, right? And he took his IQ, his know-how, his engineering know-how to, he basically was trying to Adidas me with, even though I was the bigger money in the situation, that was fun, and we funded together. And he hired these engineers, and he said, well, because of your comments, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not gonna be able to hire anybody else. And I was like, well, how many Jewish people do we have in our company? He said, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know. He didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t say exactly, right? I said, do we have black people? He said, yes.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

(01:07:39):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I said, how many? He said, two. So we have like 60 full-time employees, like 40 half-time and part-time. And I took as a responsibility, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s take a step back from us being one species and say, hey, you\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re Jewish, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m black, right? Why step back? For this example, for the sake of this example. And I said, wow, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m sure I can hire more than two black engineers. And what happens is, because there are so many businessmen that just so happen to be Jewish, that it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good business, right? Just to monopolize. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s what people are looking. Everybody wants to be Elon, right? So, the- I disagree with that. Okay, well, let me finish this point. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m gonna let you finish, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m gonna let you finish. A lot of businessmen want to be as successful as Elon and as popular as Elon, a lot. I could just word it like that, which I hate the term a lot, actually. I want to be more specific, but I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t done the math on it. Let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s say some.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Legally *cannot* speak?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(01:10:56):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It ain\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t, no, we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re not gonna bring you down. We have this on you. You get what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m saying? If I had ever killed someone, if I wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t the bitch with the pink polo on, I wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be able to be the vocal man that I am today. You understand what I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m saying? This is the reason why I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m happy that my gangster disciple brothers kept me from the initiations, which made me feel like a pussy my whole life, right? But now I am someone who legally can say this. Other people in my position, they legally cannot speak.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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(01:13:60):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

And then I came back with Yeezy, with Adidas. And this fashion show was so popular that Justin Bieber had to sit in the second row, right? This thing had every name you could think of. It had Kim Kardashian, Kris Jenner, Kendall Jenner.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Kanye, the philosopher \u00e2\u20ac\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(01:14:13):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

It was Kylie\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s first fashion show she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d been in. And in the second fashion show, I put Kylie and Bella Hadid next to each other in the fashion show. You had Puff Daddy. At that time, Puff Daddy had beef with Drake. Drake still came to the show and Jay-Z had to break up the fight backstage. The designers, you had Jerry Lorenzo, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s head of Fear God. You had Kim Schrab, head of Skims. You have Virgil Abloh, head of Louis Vuitton. You had Demna, head of Balenciaga, all working for Yee, for the leader, for the philosopher, right? For the person that put, who put this together? Me, that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s who, right? You had these people working for the king of New York, basically the boss, Yee, right? You had Jay-Z in the audience, Rihanna in the audience, Beyonce in the audience, sitting next to Anna Wintour in this audience. And guess who heard wind of this?<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

Deal<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(01:15:15):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

One of the richest men in the world, Bernard Arnault, caught wind of this. What\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s going on? They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re building up something and we need to stop it. So then he met with me and politely offered me backing for my clothing line. It would be Kanye West, they would get 49%, 51%, I would get 49%. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d have control. And they were going to give me all of the support from Louis Vuitton. So I had to go to Adidas and I told Adidas, Hey, let\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s indemnify the apparel.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

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(01:16:54):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

I went back and told my high maintenance wife, I was supposed to become this designer at Louis Vuitton or the Louis Vuitton group was going to back the Kanye West line. Cause that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s how good I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve done in fashion, babe. And now the deal has dropped. Now the deal has dropped. So then I did a second collection and we didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t have any support to be able to build the collection. Then I went and found a third collection. We did it. We took over MSG. Fourth collection went and the show started an hour late.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n

\u00e2\u20ac\u009dYou need to make more money\u00e2\u20ac\u009d\u00e2\u20ac\u201d do 4 more shows:<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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(01:17:26):<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Then a week later, Kim got robbed. Then I told Scooter Braun, my manager at that time, I say, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m looking, you know, I need to go to Japan. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m tired. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m tired. He says, no, you need to make more money. Do four more shows on a second leg of the tour. And I suffer from exhaustion and go to the hospital and then get diagnosed with a disorder. This is the first time I ever suffered from exhaustion. By the way, I haven\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t been to the hospital since.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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