Kanye covers the latest issue of GQ and this might come off as Ye’s most humble interview in years. He reflects on the past 12 months, which saw the birth of his daughter, the release of his polarizing sixth album Yeezus and Drake take his spot as the game’s biggest rapper (all according to Kanye). Here’s a few quotes:
On who’s the biggest rapper in the game now:
“Let’s be honest—he got last summer.”
Who?
“You know. There’s only one person.”
Drake?
“Yeah. He got last summer. And I’d never given it up till last summer.” Now he’s thinking about taking it back. “It’s a real question for me. Do I want to?”
On how he feels like a blowfish vs. the paparazzi:
I’m a blowfish. I’m not a shark, I’m a blowfish. So that perfect example about me hitting my head, it’s like a blowfish. I wasn’t coming out of my house going to a paparazzi’s house to attack them. I’m defending my family in front of my own house. I’m defending my name as someone’s screaming something negative at me. That’s a blowfish. People have me pinned as a shark or a predator in some way, and in no way am I that. I wouldn’t want to hurt anyone. I want to defend people. I want to help people.
On how wife Kim Kardashian makes him better:
One of the reasons why I think that me and Kim are very powerful together isn’t just the concept of celebrity or this mega rap star and this mega-beautiful pop star. It’s something I explain to my girl: She is who she is. I am who I am. We have advisers and friends and everything, but those people are who they are and we are who we are. And what I had to learn from Kim is how to take more of her advice and less of other people’s advice. There’s a lot of Kim K skills that were added. In order to win at life, you need some Kim K skills, period.
