4:26 "selling less records aint gon bring my mother back" welcome to heartbreak

the way he's dressed is how everyone dresses now deadass

808's and hearbreak was one of the most underrated albums of all time, and truly started base of what hip hop is today

5:21 808s ended up birthing Drake’s sound, birthed Travis, influenced Weeknd, Frank Ocean, Uzi, Juice Wrld etc.

1:50 He explains this perfectly. I hate when people get mad when I don't play rap. I like rap but I don't only listen to rap.

Seems like Kanye has been marginalized for most of his career. I guess history does repeat itself since in this interview he is also talking about not limiting his creativity. i agree on not listening to rap all the time. I need other voices other genres other perspectives to listen to.

Back When He Had The Pastel!!

"So, it's a success to me that I made an album that I can listen to in my apartment." Love Kanye.

I feel bad for him here because it's clear that he doesn't really want to talk about his mom but she keeps bringing it up. I know it's out of concern, but damn. He kept trying to change the subject and she kept going back to it

"sellin less records aint gonna bring my mother back" damn that was the realist shit ever.

"Sell less records ain't gone bring my mother back". That was deep.

People who work at starbucks dont go home and fix themelves a coffee. lol

Hot 97 is stuck in the stone ages. they don't believe in the evolution of music.

Kanye is the kind of success story that encourages me as a underground artist with a small following. Seeing how he’s developed his skills and slowly blown up after seizing each and every opportunity he’s been giving has been inspirational! Mans has quickly become a mainstay in the industry and for good reason. Dude is too nice! I know if I put in the work, I can reach a larger audience some day too, but for now, I’m happy being a supporter. My turn will come too. Salute to Kanye🔥

So influential man this sound is so captivating

he made an album that inspired the biggest artists we have today. Kanye will always live in the future.

808s album TRANSFORMED HIP HOP

i respect this interview so much

This guy can do Hip Hop/Rap, R&B, Soul, Slow Jams, Gospel and other genres to produce

"I like Em brown, yellow, Puerto Rican or Persian" Nice ATCQ reference, Kanye

droping kardashian bars since 808's

I still listin to 808's and heartbreak it's like the moment the album came out it got me, and every time i listen to it, it brings me to that moment of time. Coowl stuff.

i dont really like happy music either, i like the dark stuff. because its all i can relate too. S/O to the happy music though.

LOL "I listen to Portishead!".. I listen to them too Kanye : D And I loved 808's and Heartbreaks... "Street lights" is one of the GREATEST SONGS EVER MADE in my opinion, and it's a shame must people don't even know about it : /

i literally cry watching these old videos of kanye west..... i really miss this dude, not the crazy individual that this industry has created ..... it really does feel like the loss of an artist :(

The 808s era was special. I love you, Kanye.

I hate when people say he changed cause he's been the same for a while. he might've changed after his mother passed but his greatest achievements came after. "I dress so white but my swag so urban", most people still dressing like him to this day too.

i saw kanye being interviewed,on the dailydownload show,as i was an audience member,i have the footage at home,he wasnt to involved with his fans,he only accepted a cd from a male fan and walked out the studio,leaving the other fans dissapointed,who wanted to ask questions,this was in 2006,in 2007 i saw angie martinez on a hot 97 float,at the puerto rican day parade,she was waving to her fans and very happy and smiling.

"I don't like happy music" classic; good interview

he doesn't talk like this anymore..

Kanye is going in a different direction based on what he is going through and feeling. He is trying to show his diversity and creative sides of his personality THROUGH his music ! I am a Kanye fan no matter what direction he goes with his music cause Kanye is real and will always be real . Big up to Kanye West ! I just hope he doesnt do another album like this again !!! LMAO !!

i love that kanye listens to portishead

seems like a very nice guy, his musics great also

It's called GOOD Music for Getting Out Our Dreams

808 went double platinum and its one of my fam albums

Great interview!

He seems to be much more comfortable doing this radio-thingie than some of the TV apperances he´s made. People seem to forget he is only human. GO KANYE!

Kanye is a lot smarter than a lot of people think, people just judge him and make him out to be something he's not. Plus the freestyle at the end was sick.

This interview is gooold

One of my fav albums

Angie be asking what the people be thinking... Great interview.

G.etting O.ut O.ur D.reams GOOD Music

nice interview!

"And ya'll ain't experience nothing right here but a moment from a movie out of glory" - Kanye West

nah not really i mean he did say he likes dark music. im actually glad i saw this because it explains alot. technically we didnt lose the real kanye. yeezus is a dark album, he said himself the real me likes dark music. kanye just actually being himself. i dont blame him neither with all this shit goin on in his life with the paparazzi fights and everything. but actually, once Ye takes the time to raise north, i think we'll see the happier kanye in his next solo album (not watch the throne 2)

Kanye is so under rated to me he is the best rapper I mean dude is creative all around when it comes to music , live performances, music videos everything BEST RAPPER IN NY OPINION don't care what any one says.

I love Kanye. Love the album, very HOT!!

Best Kanye interview, IMO.

damn Kanye killed it tha freestyle at the end amazing.

is he wearin a KAWS hat back in 2008

This is an awesome interview

I feel like Kanye and Eminem work the hardest on their music.

i fuckin love this man. he's such a genius! :)

his style during 808's was sooo fucking dope.

I totally get it. My first job out of college was operations for a football team. You are around football every second of the day and on the weekends you will travel with the team. I did this for 5 years of my life. A few years into that job I stopped playing fantasy football with my friends and they couldnt understand why. I said I am around football all day every day, the last thing I want to do with the little free time that i have is watch more football.

Nigga drop gems every time he speaks

Manuel definitely has a plug somewhere, his view on art is personified by his love for God.

I really dig this interview. My intellectual and artistic interest in Kanye has really been peaked by this. So much press has focused on statements from him that sounded just crazy and super-narcissistic...I just dismissed him out of hand. But I gotta say, I like the way the man approaches his work and refuses to let conventions hold him back. Onward and upward.

kanye was so much happier then.

those two are constantly working i agree eminem is always in the studio apparently..and kanye drops albums and immediately goes and starts something else

He entered a dream state practice

"You keep cutting me off "shake 5:10

this was a good interview.

definitely what i like to listen to in my house

kanye openly said he was catholic but jay-z something is seriously wrong like if u hear like the last 1:33 of empire state of mind he says this line like he says "hail mary to the city your a virgin and jesus cant save u life starts wen chruch ends"

That was a cold freestyle at the end.

Dope freestyle at the end. He's pretty clever and quick with that shit.

lol he had a point. He said people who work in starbucks dont go home to fix themselves a coffee. lol you gotta love this dude!

Selling more records is not gonna brig my mother back!!!!! he mean money is nothing I love him so much and he's so happy with Kim and his baby stop talkin shit abt him he's real to me ya stop hatin ok:-) way to go Kanye keep on goin. Sexxy D

on the bape shit since '08

Here after documentary!!!!!! Who else 👀👀

Thank you. People should realize this, instead of tagging it with "Illuminati" stuff. It's just art.

The freestyle at the end was tight!!!

artist/genius

I think it's cool that Kanye is one of the only dudes in mainstream hip hop, or mainstream music in general, that becomes noticeably less mainstream with each release. It just proves that Kanye doesn't care about how many records he sells. He wants to make music that he likes, shit that he wants to hear... and if other people don't like it then fuck it. I wish more people in the music business would be that way; maybe I'd actually like the radio if that were the case.

wtf that freestlye at the end was the bomb! dude this is what we need a fresh (RAP) kanye album

that was the second verse he did on Jamie Foxxs' "digital girl"....

ikr. he tryin answer a question. then when he mid-way thru a question she ask something else. but kanye mad cool.

Kanye STILL makes amazing music people always try to put him down cuz of 808s, but the thing is that 808s was amazing. people always try to say its not him, but the all these people kno nothing about Kanye

freestyle at the end was dope

808 was the shit I ma listen to that shit for heartaches to come.

i love u kanye!

the end is from jamie foxxs song digital girl

I love that varsity

forreal tho im still hoping pastelle sees the light of day cause those jackets are hard as fuck

Yea the media "portrays" him..dude is pretty humble

You say a valid point, but at the same time you have to look at it through Kanye's perspective. He said that he used music to get over the death of his mother so how could he do that without letting it surface to the public...

This is the real Kanye we LOVE! What i like about him is that he sings about his life which i find interesting to be honest with you guys.

that last freestyle is from digital girl by jamie fox and dream and kanye west its fucking dope!!!!!!

genius

Kanye's damn right! Keep up the good work ;)

i'm and artist myself..and thats so true wat he say ..i rap everyday of my life why would i wanna hear it all the time.

Evetybody always hating on damn music. LIKE WHAT TF. You gonna say that a Van Gogh is "better" than a Picasso painting? That don't make no sense. Paintings are different they are all beautiful in their own ways and register differently with different people. We all can agree on that right. I mean maybe I tend to gravitate towards late registration and graduation because in my opinion those are just legendary straight up hip hop sounding albums but I also love the shit out of 808s that was my fucking jam in the 6th grade and it's a classic. I had no idea the controversy and shit he had thrown at him for that albumn. And then you got the classic "Yeezus was wack Kanye went crazy wtf are these verses in Pablo?!" Just leave the man be he is an innovator I'll go as far as saying he has more creativity than any of the students in my adv harmony class in college. It's easy to be cynical but what good does that do? Stay in your own lane and eliminate the hate. Even when I don't vibe with a certain artist I try to understand what people dig about it and I will extensively study loads of music I might not understand. In my opinion every one of Kanye albums was incredibly unique "yezzus" was a little more minimalist but "bound 2" just gives me that tingly feeling that al green does and "blood on the leaves" was an appropriate slice of the bone chilling "strange fruit". And from a producers perspective Life of Pablo was revolutionary in terms of harmonic sampling he pushes popular music forward period he creates UNIQUE new styles and everybody else copy's him. Maybe I wouldn't have sampled that "panda" joint but he's Kanye he does wtf he wants. Allss I know is chances verse on ultra beam is straight uplifting spine tingling magic straight up. And wolves is just another golden example of Ye using the human voice as an instrument. He's a character but let's try to take a less cynical way of life as a country I think that this would be the biggest step we could take towards peace✌️️

Artist & Producer - No Ones Originated More Sounds For Hip Hop

Co-sign on Portishead. I'm feeling their music more so than some of the so-called hot artists in the game.

Damn I remember when 808s came out everyone was concerned about Kanye and his mental health

@dulli78 yeh. i mean in hiphop we focus SO MUCH on being real. Rappers get shut down for not being real(Vanilla Ice). But somehow when Kanye releases something totally real thats 100% from the heart ppl go nuts just cuz its not the status quo. 808s like in ur case scratched the surface of the soul and was nothing less that amazing.

i dont even like happy music lmao so truuuuee.... fuck that happy shit, emotional, dark, really good music that still has really good energy is so much better

Young and happy

If you think that listen to KiD Cudi's albums, he wrote like half the album, and its pretty much Cudi's style of music, who helped kanye with the album. I always think about 808's and Heartbreaks as another Cudi album lol