Kanye West Lecture at The Oxford Guild

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[cheering] >> So, I could just start with one question because I want to vibe off of of an idea to take your idea and then I could riff off of that for uh they said I have 20 minutes to speak or so uh and I might go longer. Can you Can you hear me all the way in the back? >> Yeah. >> All right. So, you see All right. So, anyone ask a question, raise your hand. Put the hat right there. You're the first one to raise your hand, I saw. >> Yeah, I wanted you to talk about and reflect on your progression from the clothing strap down from freshman adjustment actually. Like freshman adjustment to the Yeezus in your future. I just wanted to wanted you to talk about your aesthetic and how it's progressed. Okay. So, I'll be so actually adjustment as well. Okay. >> So, the the keywords that I heard there >> I could bump this. >> And everyone, please be completely quiet because I can literally hear a whisper and it'll like throw off my stream of consciousness and the best thing is like when I can get a stream of consciousness going, it's like you can get the best like illest quotes. And literally if you whisper like can throw it off. Uh So, the two words that I um I vibed off right there was uh aesthetic and progression. And I was having a discussion with the designer that I want to use for my next season. That actually I I I saw it's working. and even realize he till I talked to him that he had studied with a comic book artist. And I felt that type of energy through his work. Uh anyway, but I was uh discussing my background because a lot of people didn't realize that I've been in art school since age five and in art competition since age 14. And I ended I ended up going to college for a bit on art scholarship and I uh went to I I had a scholarship to three schools, the same same Xavier, the American Academy of Art, and the Art Students League of Chicago. And I went to the American Academy of Art because it was the biggest scholarship. Uh and because my mother couldn't afford to, you know, put me in any of those schools. And she was a professor at a school that I could have went to for something that she could have could afford since she got a discount. Uh today was the first time that I realized that if I could do that again that I would have went to the Art Institute over the American Academy of Art. That I would have researched where I could have gotten the best and the strongest education. Uh and I'm sure this will end up online, so I don't want to diss any of the students that are currently at the American Academy of I'm sure it's equal to the Art Institute of Chicago by now. But at the time that I was going you know, I would look around at the work in the class and not feel inspired. Not feel inspired by the teachers. Uh and I kind of you know, the idea of being a fine artist, you know, that's a really difficult profession to get into to you know, be respected in to make money at. And and maybe maybe the goal for some of the people were just to, you know, work at uh advertising agency or work at a reputable or two, you know, you know, not truly end up, you know, being just colonels of something. Uh, my goal, if I was going to do art, fine art, would have been to have become Picasso. That was or greater. Um, and that always sounds like so funny to people. The idea of comparing yourself to someone in the past that had done so much, that in your life you're not allowed to even think you can do as much. You know, that's uh, that's the mentality that suppresses humanity. I talked to Ray Kurzweil the other day and he just the conversation was quick, but he, you know, touched on the idea of thinking faster and reading faster and I just thought it was like super important to go meet with that. And I'm going to touch into aesthetic field coming to the stage. Um, uh, and the progression from me doing abstract art work to uh, so that we got, you know, artwork. Um, so, some of you here probably remember the night when McDonald's treats came through me and I started talking about probably professions that you guys are going into in the future that seemed like they had nothing to do with Iraq. Uh, but what I was talking about was a a band of thinkers that could remove religion, race, gender, and politics and somehow come together to find solutions for broken play. Uh we we have the resources as a civilization to find utopia. But we're led by the most greedy the least noble and what I notice about creatives and one of the reason why I get in trouble is not only did I want to design video games or make music or ride bikes I think one of the most important things to my ability to create so much in the past 12 13 years is my desire to play sports. And I approach creativity like a sport. Where if I had a drawing, I would react just like a child. LOOK AT THAT [ __ ] DRAWING RIGHT THERE. YEAH. >> [laughter] >> AND I GUESS, you know, of course we've been taught as for, you know, people in this room that that draw or, you know, sing on the aesthetic that's that creative aesthetics because we're all creatives here. We're all one artist. But some people are artists of business. And some people are artists of conversation. Some people, you know, uh but particularly for the aesthetic driven creatives you know, we were taught to you know, hide our black fingernail polish and put our head down in the back of the class and not be noticed out of fear that someone might laugh at one of our ideas or that our idea could become a mockery or uh a failure in some way. Um There's a uh a Bible saying, "No weapon formed against me shall prosper." The So, recently I've been doing interviews, and I had to go back to this verse because I don't think there's a living celebrity with more weapons formed against them. But, I also don't think there's one more prosperous. So, what weapons have prospered? The smoke and mirror of opinions. You know, I I was sitting with Steve McQueen because he shot my He shot the the visuals for All Day 2 days ago. Uh and it's completely different than the Brit Awards. Um And I told him this so it doesn't get taken out of context, I'm going to use the word like. I'm not saying it is. I'm using it as a comparison for people who want to say, "Kanye goes to Oxford and tells everyone that this what I'm about to say." And I'm not telling you this. I'm telling you what I told Steve McQueen in private. Well, what I said was, "The Matrix is like the Bible of the post-information age." I compared it like when the hundred guys, the thousand guys, you know, come at Neo. Like those Those are opinions. That's perception. That's tradition. Attacking you from every which angle possible. But if you have a focused why and you have master senseis like Laurence Fishburne and you have a squad behind you you literally can put the world in slow motion. Like Michael Jordan talked about the rim, you know, being wider. And it's felt to me from, you know, first hand as first hand experience you know, it's still February, right? Listen. I can't say this statement anymore, but for the first two two months, me and my team would like look at each other and say Uh by the way, I don't know days of the week, so I I don't know my days of the week. I just go to executive with my appointments. Uh we would just look at each other and say it's still February. For the sheer amount of work that we were able to put into the world. Some of the stuff that they've worked on for uh years coming, months coming but nonetheless, they just came back to back to back to back to back answering every crazy interview question slam dunking, blocking every shot, catching every rebound. And aside from the right that I don't have to give my opinion publicly about artists. Uh I probably would have been mad in 2000. I know that's incorrect, also. Uh You know, this humanity that I talk about, this civilization that I talk about, this future utopia idea that I talk about can only happen through collaboration. One of the things that I loved about Elon Musk, and I kind of, you know, I love Steve Jobs. You know, that's like my favorite person. But, there's one thing that disappointed me. It was when Steve passed, he didn't give the ideas out. That was kind of selfish. And you got You know that Elon was like, "Yo, take these ideas." Because maybe there's some companies outside of Apple that could work on it and push humanity forward. Maybe the stock brokers won't like that, you know, the stockholders wouldn't like the idea of Steve giving his ideas out. But, you know, ideas are free. And you can't be selfish. And I think that that's the progression of mind with the advent of a human being named Drake. Uh You know, this idea of holding onto a number one spot. And then you get this guy that comes and blows out the water every number one of any band ever. Be it me or Paul McCartney. Um And at that point, you know, when you've lost the ideal of holding on to that concept, you can leave the mountain top finally and walk down and readjust and see what your position on Earth can be. And I've had all of these mixed emotion, mixed feelings based off of uh you know, bigotries, walls, perceptions that I've had to deal with. Ones that drove me to titles like black skinhead or I am a god. Now, I understand that I'm a servant. And with my voice and with the information and my ability to build relationships with amazing people, speak to amazing people, or call Elon Musk out of the blue, or call Obama out of the blue. He calls the home phone out of the blue. Uh the With that, I have a responsibility to serve. But why do I say the Matrix is like the Bible? And what is my definition of the Matrix? I worked with this artist named Vanessa Beecroft. And she, before our uh presentation in New York, the Adidas collaboration, she bought my daughter some um some toys. And it'll be interesting cuz I would see people toys that, you know, people would buy my daughter. I'd say, "This toy is a problem. I don't want my daughter playing with this. It could seem some Adidas or like that. I'm was "No, it's not enough love put into this. This is just manufactured, you know, with the will to sell, but not the will to give an inspiration." So, Vanessa is very irreverent and very focused. She's like my eyes. She's a piece of my brain. And um she bought my daughter these three wolves knowing that the whole collection would play the song Wolves that we based off this concept. And when my daughter saw these wolves, I had never seen her happier. She was going so crazy. She was grabbing one. She was riding on top of one. She was just running around. I've never seen her happier than this moment. Uh and that level of happiness seems to be the thing that we're fighting for every day. That we're trying to buy back. That we're trying to work for. That we're trying to hope that you know, especially in America. Like, you know, America, people really do wear like $3,000 shirts. You know, it's like for real. Like, I've been here and here in Stockholm, they the few of us that come on do this like $3,000 shirts. I'm assuming that I'm probably like $2,000 I got to freaking live by. Um but that joy that idea of joy. What makes you happy? What makes you happy inside? We've been sold a concept of joy constantly, you know, through advertising, through car advertising, through, you know, fashion branding. You know, it's not the concept of time. And time with your family, time with your friends. The little time that we do have on earth, the existence of the human race, and what do we do with that? It somehow was sold to us through a Gucci bag or something. Uh I I have something I say all the time. I'm saying it again. Time, in my opinion, time is the only luxury. It's the only thing you can't get back. If you lose your luggage I'm not going to say the obvious thing that I would normally say cuz I would normally say it cuz I actually have a meeting with Kanye, so Uh But if you lose your expensive luggage, uh at the airport you can get that back. You can't get the time back. And everyone knows that when you're younger, time moves way slower. Summers take so much longer. Class takes so much longer. Uh It feels like people do everything in life, you know, I'll speak from American perspective, to get this like BMW or this Benz, to get this town home, and you get 2.5 kids and a Uh but what happens is small, you know. And uh And you're looking for this moment where you sit in your BMW after all the work that you've done and all the accolades that you got and all the, you know, how big your house is and everything. And somehow you think you're going to get that level of joy you know that my daughter had when she received those bulbs. And as you're sitting in traffic in your BMW, it's something that, you know, feels empty to everyone who reaches that point. You know, this concept of the selfish human, this idea of separation by race or gender or religion or age or my favorite thing to hate, class. Mhm. People say a village uh uh it takes a village to raise a child. People ask me, you know, how my daughter is doing. Uh she's only doing good if your daughter's doing good. We're all one family. Like, literally, last names aside, we're all one family. And we have the ability to approach our race like ants, or we have the ability to approach our race like crabs. And there's so many ideas that create division. There's certain things that have been beat in a way, some way, race, whatever. You know, this I This is a generation that is far less racist. It's only very, you know, we have small remnants of even thinking of calling someone separately a racial slur. Like, the white people that listen to rap say that in the privacy of their own mind. >> Um So, that idea, you know, it's past. It's an older idea. We had Cosby Show, Barack Hussein, you know, stuff like Beyoncé, it's great, you know. Just That's past. But, there's still something that you're being taught every day, and especially in the UK. And that's the division by class. Our main focus, in my opinion, this is I have the right to say this in front of you guys, to give it an PSA, you know, if you like it, you like it. If you don't, just send it right back. The Our main focus, or picture a world, imagine a world, imagine a world with Let's remove war first off. Imagine a world with no war, and imagine if everyone's main focus, more so than how they look when they go to the club, more so than how many followers they may get, more so than how many fit they get, you know, you know, their main focus was to help someone else. You know, I was joking with the uh interviewer, you know, earlier today that people talk about, you know, the amount of viewers that uh the Brits get, or the amount of viewers that the Grammys get. And I said they need to do award shows for the Nobel Peace Prize, but I guess that doesn't sell as many MasterCard commercials. Why did I mention a brand? I had two things that I'm trying to like get a flawless victory on my exchange. the game. And I've already had two demerits, uh Rims, two missed free throws. Uh no offense to MasterCard. But that was a big [ __ ] load off, Rims. Um um you guys are being taught, without you knowing it, ways to separate yourselves from each other. If you're separated, you can be easily controlled. If you're too busy pointing fingers at each other as opposed to holding hands, you can't get anything done. You know, Chris Rock called My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy um Chris Rock and everybody else in the civil liberties publication called My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy the best album of the last three five years. Uh this only came through collaboration. One of the most memorable things about My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was Nicki Minaj. And the fact that she kicked my ass on my song on one of the best albums, the best album. I'm just saying what the Brits said. of past 25 years. That and that the best album of the past 25 years that I spent a year and a half baking after I was exiled. Exiled from my country. It was a personal exile, but exiled. >> [laughter] >> from my best feet to come back and deliver the magnum opus of a work and outshine to be beat by a girl basically. Um This was necessary. I think it was one of the most important points of working on that album. was to not stop her from her moment because of how good she did. So just to give a comparison but not a complaint. If you think about why did it take so long for the new Yeezys to come out? Why did it Why did I have to leave you know, one group and go to the other group? Why did that group not want to speak to me? I think that the Yeezys I was doing over there were comparable to that Nicki Minaj verse. Because these guys would work 3 years on a project. We got We going to break out this shoe and it's going to We going to wrap it up by the Olympics and we're going to put it on this celebrity and this and then the heads stumble come and say, "My favorite shoe is the Yeezy." AND I CAN'T HEAR ABOUT THESE YEEZYS ANYMORE. LIKE the verse is like, "My favorite verse is Nicki." I care about that verse anymore. But, because I'm not saying just because cuz she was she was it's going to work for her anyway. But, let's just say that in some way it helped give her some exposure. She was able to go on and become a successful and fly and run and dream and provide. And it was not bought because of my name. You know, one of my biggest problems, one of my biggest Achilles' heel has been my ego. And if there and I, Kanye West, third person, can have can remove my ego, I think there's hope for everyone. >> [applause] >> When you talk about when I talk about collaboration in the creative process, the best idea wins. I study the way Steve Jobs approached Pixar, the way Steve Jobs approached Apple, the way Disney approached Disney with the animates, because you get these creative animators that come in and this idea I got this idea of that fit there, we do this and that and if people are saying like I'm proud of the consistency of the performances that I've done since I've been out here. Uh, and it comes from four would-be egomaniacs being forced to work together. The best light guy on the planet, the best staging guy, the best video director guy, another staging guy, a guy with back problems. week. Just put that Cuz all of like, "What are you doing?" He's like, "I got Um to just deliver back-to-back-to-back extremely successful inspiring groundbreaking visual visceral creative moments that otherwise would have been challenged. And the kid from Chicago screaming in interviews and screaming from the top of the stage four events in a row. Had to pull that card out a few times. Not particularly screaming but remember I will scream. My mama taught me if I was in a grocery store in a aisle by myself and a stranger grab my hand scream at the top of your [ __ ] lungs. So whenever I I'm when I'm at a work show and a stranger grabs my hand and says, "Okay uh So we're going to use these movie lights or we're going to go play the music right now before we define the look or we're going to just keep the cameras cutting in a traditional TV way." I'll scream at the top of my [ __ ] lungs. People say I have a bad reputation. I think I got the best reputation in the building. Because they want you to have the reputation of tucking your black nail polish into your pockets and sitting in the corner of the class and not fighting for your ideas out of fear of being ridiculed. Someone not liking your thoughts, being embarrassed, being talked about, you know, the next day. Not being accepted. Being an outsider. Being crazy. That's another one of my favorite ones. To be called crazy. Um I'm nowhere near as smart as either of my parents. They were both educators, both had PhDs. Um So I always feel embarrassed when I speak in comparison to the I mean, my mom was head of the English department. You know, my dad is an incredible, you know, orator and humanitarian. Just 5 years ago he stayed at College of Charleston to help to help. He worked on an idea of good water and created these water distillers in uh somewhere in between Maryland and Delaware. I'm forgetting the exact location. Uh and he put together this good water distiller cafe where kids could also be poems, dances and play. People could come and just read, get on the internet. It had everything driven by clean water. I remember calling him when he was busy nailing the planks of wood together himself. You know, I gave him uh some money to to work on the idea. I remember when I was young and I saw my dad working on computers. This is before Steve Jobs. Like everybody just felt they could start a computer company. My dad just going to computer company. And uh I remember the guy that he was working with ended up being a bad guy. And that told everybody he's doing and you know, just being like uh borderline like a scam idea. Like computers could be the next thing. Let's start our own computer company. And the guys that helped him that he had the voice to find that he looked at whatever the version of Craigslist was back then uh to find didn't have the same motivation, didn't have a high enough skill set to match up to his vision to his dream for it to be considered to be a success. But the success is that his successor will be successful in his lifetime. And you could say oh, when you are successful I'm successful in learning about the beauty that is afforded rich people. But in learning that, being growing up middle class it's something that's beating out of my chest that screams out wait a second, I was middle class and I didn't get to see none of this [ __ ] So, let's have an NBC telethon moment and say that beauty has been stolen from the people and sold back to them under the concept of luxury. It's not illegal to not listen to music. It's illegal to not wear clothes and also possibly extremely cold. Um So, that means that someone is proposing an idea on you that you legally have to do. Clothing should be like food. There should never be a $5,000 sweater. You know what should cost $5,000? A car should be $5,000. And you know who should work on a car? The people who work on the $500,000 cars. All the best talent in the world needs to work for the people. And I am so [ __ ] 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 be able to have. So, if people say to me "But you're successful. What are you crying about?" I'm crying about the people. I'm crying about their dogs, our dog as one family. What good is it? What good is anything that everyone can't have? Every ism They think they're with done with racism. What about elitism? What about separatism? What about classism? That's all. >> [applause] [applause] [applause]

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