In a candid new interview, Kanye West has explained exactly why he fell for Kim Kardashian.
“She was in a powerful enough situation where she could love me without asking me for my money, which is really hard for me to find,” the 36-year-old said during an interview with BBC Radio 1 while promoting his new album Yeezus.
“She gave me everything. She gave me a family. She gave me a support system.”
The rapper, who welcomed baby North West with Kim three months ago, went on to talk about his daughter’s life in the spotlight, saying she should be paid every time a photographer sells an image of her.
“I’m going to tell my daughter, by the time she understands what it was, ‘Man, me and your mother were in a completely different situation than you’re in,’ ” he said.
“’People could take pictures, people could climb over your fence, and you wouldn’t even get paid for it. You see all these cheques that you getting at age six because people are taking your picture? … I made that happen, Nori.’ That’s what I’m going to tell her.”
During the interview, Kanye also discussed the media, his creativity, and his infamous 2009 MTV Video Music Awards incident with Taylor Swift.
“To be a visionary, all you have to do is make decisions based off of your eyes instead of your ears and your memory,” he said.
“So at the moment of the MTV awards, I made that decision based off of my eyes. I was like, ‘That’s not correct. That is invalid, completely invalid.’ Everybody else don’t move. That’s off their ears. … They’re enslaved.”
The star, who is anything but modest, finished the interview by talking about his achievements and the success of his album, which has topped the charts in the US, UK, Australia and Canada.
“Rap’s the new rock ‘n’ roll. We the rock stars and I’m the biggest of all them,” he declared.
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