With a slightly awkward, nervous demeanor, Kanye West is always a threat to go off script and say some wild ish that ends up going viral.
It’s been that way since he released The College Dropout in 2004, and a quick glance at 13 of Kanye West’s wildest quotes are proof nothing has really changed.
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A Concert For Hurricane Relief
“George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”
Sway In The Morning Interview
“You ain’t got the answers, Sway!”
MTV’s All Eyes On Kanye West
“I ain’t gonna say no politically correct stuff—I think I got [Jay Z] on [‘Never Let Me Down’].”
2009 MTV Video Music Awards
“I’ma let you finish, but Beyoncé had one of the best videos of all time!”
57th Annual GRAMMY Awards Post Show
“Beck needs to respect artistry, and he should’ve given his award to Beyonce.”
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2013 New York Times Interview
“It wasn’t until I hung out with dead prez and understood how to make, you know, raps with a message sound cool that I was able to just write ‘All Falls Down’ in 15 minutes.”
2015 Zane Lowe Interview
“I tweeted black lives matter, but all lives matter. My doorman is more important to me than the head of any company.”
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2014 GQ Interview
“[Drake] got last summer. And I’d never given it up till last summer.”
2013 Jimmy Kimmel Interview
“Creatives got beat up my entire life. And there’s moments where I stood up to drug dealers in Chicago and said, ‘You can’t have my publishing. Come and kill me.”
2015 Breakfast Club Interview
“I don’t want them to be limited, actually. That’s something that [adidas] did. I really want as many people to get them as possible. I don’t want the price to be $350.
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2013 New York Times Interview
“I’ve had meetings where a guy actually told me, “What we’re trying to figure out is how we can control you.”
2010 Today Show Interview
“I would tell George Bush, in my moment of frustration, I didn’t have the grounds to call him a racist,” West said. “But I believe that in a situation of high emotion like that, we as human beings don’t always choose the right words. And that’s why I’m here.”
2015 MTV Video Music Awards
“And yes, as you probably could have guessed by this moment, I have decided in 2020 to run for president.”
