14 DAY TRIAL // Yeezus wept! Rapper Kanye West is now in London, promoting his brand new collaboration with Adidas and his upcoming album, and he stopped by Radio One to talk about both, and his rocky start in the fashion industry, when no one would give him a chance because he was a “celebrity.”
Kanye cried during the interview, as the video below will show, when speaking of the late fashion professor Louise Wilson, whom he credits as his mentor, the one person who saw the genius in him when even he couldn’t see it.
Kanye gets emotional
Kanye West says a lot of outrageous things and no one is more aware of it than Kanye West himself. The full Radio One interview with Zane Lowe is available on YouTube, but *please note that discretion is recommended because it contains adult language and themes.
The video available below is of the moment when the rapper burst into tears and had to cut the interview short, not able to fight back his emotions anymore. So he just got up and walked out for a few minutes.
This excerpt is better understood in context, which is provided by the full interview, starting with the 24:10-minute mark. It’s Kanye who brings Louise’s name up in the conversation, while speaking of racism and discrimination, and he seems to do it only to say that she held him in the highest regard and couldn’t stop praising him the last time they met.
He then breaks down suddenly and asks to be excused. “This never happened to me in an interview,” he smiles when he gets back.
Kanye is sorry
In the same chat, Kanye also talks about his collaboration with The Beatles’ Sir Paul McCartney, his wife and his daughter, Kim Kardashian and North, and all the other aspects of his genius career.
Also noteworthy is the fact that Kanye is back on Twitter, and he’s just done the most surprising thing “of all time,” which is actually one of his favorite phrases: he apologized to Beck for interrupting his speech at the Grammys 2015, when he won Best Album, and for later saying the award should have gone to Beyonce instead because Beck wasn’t a “real” artist.
However, as with everything Kanye, this apology too comes with a catch, as you can see from his tweets below: he’s only apologizing to Beck because it offers him the chance to do the same to Bruno Mars, an artist he “hated” until not long ago.
Then, almost in the same breath, he lets Bruno know he wants him to sing the hook on his new song, which, apparently, includes Taylor Swift too.
Kanye is so slick he hopes no one, including Bruno, will catch on to that.
I would like to publicly apologize to Beck, I’m sorry Beck.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 26, 2015
I also want to publicly apologize to Bruno Mars, I used to hate on him but I really respect what he does as an artist.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 26, 2015
I also would love for Bruno to sing this hook on this song 88 Keys / Puff and I produced… I even asked Tyler to shoot the vid.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 26, 2015