Clique.tv Interview

Mouloud Achour: I always wondered, when
We were talking with Jean, he was saying
That it was hard for you to
Get into this "fashion world"
And you were saying it was hard for Michael
Jackson to put his videos on MTV and I
Don't realise, how much a guy like you, that
I listen to everyday, I watch everyday
And influences
The use - everytime you do something
People wanna do it so how is it possible
That the big houses don't understand that?

Kanye: The thought was
That everything popular
Was very basic and not complex
And the negative connotation of commercial
So soon as you're commercial
You don't have the
Complexity of a Bach, a Mozart, a Basquiat
And if you say out loud
As a commercial person that you're in
The same breath as Basquiat, then
Everyone looks at you like
You're an egomaniac
Or something but then you'll be like
Wait a second, you know I was
A gifted artist since age 5
And like in national competitions and went to
Art school i'm actually getting an
Honorary doctorate on May 5th from the
Art Institute of Chicago so
It was a great wall to break down

But also
What's fun about playing in the pop field
Versus the art field is you get
A lot of exposure and the majority
Of the pop artists don't have
The same responsibility to the
Sensibility so it's
Easy to slam dunk them to hit
That BRIT Awards performance
Super hard against
Everything else that's going on and
But I want all the best for all
Of the pop stars i want all of
Us to have as inspiring of
Performances as possible i
Think it's important
You know, our point of references
We need to study Fellini and
Jodorowsky, Corbusier
And the different information that I've
Got from living out here with Paris
Hanging out
With Jean, and going to the French flea
Market and everything, that
Constant information, education
Education is the power