kanye west

so. many. ideas.

kanyewest Kanye West
like the real WORLD!!! Give kids the amount of test they would have in a year in one day but they have to get everything perfect...

Kanye's giving a whole TED Talk tonight.

(on Twitter)

kanyewest Kanye West
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lmao @ contactDONDA @ gmail.com

DONDA has registered a gmail account everyone, let the problem solving begin

NO_TATS_B SUCK MY DICK
SOMEBODY SHOULD SEND A PICTURE OF AMBER ROSE TO THAT GMAIL HE JUST POSTED I BET HE WOULD CRY IF HE SAW IT

lol

kanyewest Kanye West
Instead of kicking kids out of schools for using there iPhones... why not promote it? Allow kids to use search engines to do test...

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this one is so fucking stupid/amazing

@kanyewest Kanye West
My mom was an English teacher so I know she sends an SMDH from heaven : )
3 hours ago via web

she's not the only one

kanyewest Kanye West
I have started a new company and I'm so excited about the name.... it's got the best name ever of all companies of all time!!!....

kanyewest Kanye West
The name of the company is DONDA

this is such a two-ilx-post joke move

i feel bad taking the piss out of the name cuz it's his mum

ahhh i didn't know that, & now feel bad accordingly.
can we talk about him & spike jonze starting a summer school instead

THE DONDA MANIFESTO IN ITS ENTIRETY

I love being back at my fashion office learning and creating. It’s so challenging and fun and I’m surrounded by amazing people.
They so you only live once but every time I come to work I feel like I’m starting a second life.
You guys might think I have some type of backing for my line but I don’t.
I did the first fashion show out of my own pocket and used the money I made touring to follow my passion.
I’ve been working at this for 8 years now …from the first offers to do urban clothing lines that I turned down…
To begging Bape to do my line and never making any real headway…
To having an office in LA that was shut down after the “MTV” moment along with my tour with GAGA
I moved to Japan for one month after that and designed every night in my room… I had this opportunity to intern at Fendi and was also..
…offered a position to at Versace wich I could not take due to my contract with LV which was for 2 years…
I moved to Rome after I left Japan and worked at Fendi for 4 months under cover … I was there to give ideas for the men’s collection
I snuck to Giuseppe Zanotti Factory still under contract and learned to design woman’s shoes for 2 years before my first show in Paris
After doing the first LV collection I was sure I would get a second shot to create but was never given the opportunity
I designed a sneaker called the YEEZY with Nike. I’m “allowed” to design 1 pair of sneakers every 2 years. I have more ideas…
Early 2011 … I moved to Paris and opened a small design studio… the language barrier was quite difficult…
I still don’t have a Paris VAT number to this day… I don’t know what a VAT but every time I asked why we didn’t have fabrics they said…
… it was because of the VAT.
In Paris I met many great people in design including the master Azzedine Alaia… Azzedine even came by my studio one day : )))
This was the greatest feeling to stand in his presence in my embarrassingly small Paris studio in a courtyard opposite Collate
I remember being 5 years old picking and my mother taking me with her shopping at the discount fur spots
She said I would always point to the most expensive furs even as a child LOL
It’s something about making clothing that always brings me back to that point. For the first 16 or 17 years of my life the only thing…
I knew about my woman’s clothing was what my Mom would wear. I guess some critics would joke that I still don’t know anything LOL
My Mom would wear blue jeans with a fur and an embellished “Cosby Show” sweater : ) to pick me up from school
… the teachers said I couldn’t focus… I used to get kicked out of class for bringing dirty mags and drawing Nikeys in 4th grade
Being a celebrity has afforded me many opportunities but has also boxed me in creatively.
I was just discussing becoming the creative director for the Jetson movie and someone on the call yelled out.. you should do a Jetsons tour!
This just happened a few hours ago. I was very insulted of course becuase for anyone that’s seen the Watch the Throne Tour…
Or Coachella or Glow in the Dark or Runaway.. you know I have real ideas…
I appreciate having the most nominations at the Grammies but I feel so conflicted by the fact that award shows sometimes are completely…
…illogical
Good logic tells me smile Kanye… the world likes you again… red or blue pill? … aaaaand Swallow lol
I wouldn’t have the prestige I have if it wasn’t partially for the Grammies validation and I honor that
….hmmmmm what to wear… here I go again… Yeezy the trend setter or complete fucking fashion victim … the verdict is still out
This is just a train of thought .. but figure it’s better to read than trained thoughts
What good is fame and prestige if you can’t use it to help people… I want to help by doing what I know how to do best .. create
I have started a new company and I’m so excited about the name…. it’s got the best name ever of all companies of all time!!!….
The name of the company is DONDA
DONDA is a design company which will galvanize amazing thinkers and put them in a creative space to bounce there dreams and ideas…
I used to blog all the time an fit was a way to get my opinion out…
Dr Dre redesigned headphones and made more impact off of one product.
I am assembling a team of architects, graphic designers, directors musicians, producers, AnRs, writers, publicist, social media experts…
app guys, managers, car designers, clothing designers, DJs, video game designers, publishers, tech guys, lawyers, bankers, nutritionist …
doctors, scientist,teachers…
DONDA will be comprised of over 22 divisions with a goal to make products and experiences that people want and can afford…
I want to put creatives in a room together with like minds that are all waaaay doper than me
We want to help simplify and aesthetically improve everything we see hear, touch, taste and feel.
…To dream of, create, advertise and produce products driven equally by emotional want and utilitarian need.. To marry our wants and needs.
DONDA
This will all take time but I wanted everyones to know what I really care about… I care about people. I care about my fans..
I care about people who have never heard of me… There are over 7 billion people on the planet now…
It’s something about coming from music that makes me so optimistic… Music travels and is not limited to only the wealthy.
Sometimes my grammar is wrong but my thinking is right : )
My mom was an English teacher so I know she sends an SMDH from heaven : )
5:18 am in London… My dreams keep me woke
The Watch the Throne tour was a small example of what a Donda Experience can be…
I’m currently working on a new 7 screen experience pic.twitter.com/4XmQmCL3
This one of our projects to be released this year called 2016 OLYMPIC’s … It’s a semi sic-fi since 2016 is only 4 years away : )
We would also like’ to design the MTV awards
We’re taking everything 10 steps at a time LOL!
I wanted to put this in the world in hopes that the people who can actually make a difference will stand up and reach out
We can collectively effect the world trough design. We need to pick up where steve jobs left off
When I said wealthy I wanted to point out there are so many billionaires in the world that can come together and help to redesign it
Help education. School systems were designed to turn people into factory workers.
Schools should be designed to prep human beings for real life.
Spike Jonze and I want to do a Summer school that tries new forms of cuuriculim
Math classes should teach addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, accounting and money management aaaaaand cut!!! ….
UNLESS YOU’RE A MATH MAJOR!!!! Kids you should be able to take majors starting in grammar school like how it is at performing art schools
Instead of kicking kids out of schools for using there iPhones… why not promote it? Allow kids to use search engines to do test…
like the real WORLD!!! Give kids the amount of test they would have in a year in one day but they have to get everything perfect…
Some kids have better memories than others… what about emotional IQs… what about kids who do bad in school because of how bad there..
…surroundings are? I meant to say their…
excuse me… I just get excited at the possibilities… the more excited I get… the more grammatical errors you’ll see…
We need to take what Michael Jackson felt and Mcqueen and Steve Jobs and we need make things better…
When me and Jay toured… ever night I peered into the audience astonished by the different walks of life that came to support us.
The adrenaline is running… I don’t know if I can even get to sleep now… From Wall street to the London riots to Chicago murders…
I sit everyday and ask what can I do to make a difference…
I know this is not a very rapper thing to say but I haven’t bought a new car or piece of jewelry in about 2 years…
I invest every dime back into creativity… hiring amazing creatives paying for flights, offices … etc…
My area of expertise is in music, my passion is in music design film and products… my strength is connectivity…
There are so many broken systems from the economy to school systems jail systems… we need experts for this…
We need scientist and top world designers to directly affect governments.
If anyone would like to reach out email us at contactDO✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧
I just wanted to share what’s been on my mind…
“If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. ….
…But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” – George Bernard Shaw

i have a meeting at work tomorrow & it will probably be kinda busy in the AM but i might try to tell someone that I’m currently working on a new 7 screen experience pic.twitter.com/4XmQmCL3 so am sorta tied up

tl;dr

Early 2011 … I moved to Paris and opened a small design studio… the language barrier was quite difficult…
I still don’t have a Paris VAT number to this day… I don’t know what a VAT but every time I asked why we didn’t have fabrics they said…
… it was because of the VAT.

there's like a whole sitcom episode tied up in this one

exasperated kayne in a small room attempting to create clothes w/out fabric addressed by a bored french man 'no vat, i keep telling you, we have no vat man'

"Got my designers in Paris and they don't have a VAT"

"I don't know what that means!"

"Noone knows what it means, but it's provocative, it gets the people going!"

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want / don't want / lol

want

It's been kind of amazing to me to see just how much people *hate* this guy these days. It's not hard to tell why he's disliked, I mean constant foot-in-mouth moments, the Swift/Beck incidents, his egotism; he knows what he's doing, it's all calculated.

But I recall the reactions being more "God, what a jackass" back during the Swift incident (which I also said), but now he's generating Nickleback levels of hate. What with the recent petition to remove him from the Glastonbury lineup that got 90,000 sigs (not going to happen), people are acting like he's the Antichrist. I don't even think he got this level of vitriol during his legendary "Bush doesn't care about white people" quote (his best moment IMO).

you play the heel long enough...

i find myself liking him more and more

That was his best moment. It's been downhill ever since.

Xxp

in the sense that he released his best album a few days before that, yeah it has

i think he absorbed some residual kardashian hate, another example of people being hated on disproportionately.

disproportionately to their "behavior" or whatever i mean

his legendary "Bush doesn't care about white people" quote

you might want to read that again (although the quote would be even better)

Lol oops

It's been kind of amazing to me to see just how much people *hate* this guy these days.

this is both jarring to see, and jarring when it's pointed out within the context of twitter spheres that are blindly devotional to kanye. people on all sides love to project stuff on to kanye and i don't think he lives up to any of it

Ha i assumed that misquote was intentional

Xp

http://kotaku.com/for-two-years-the-kanye-west-rpg-has-been-hiding-a-dis-1704673459

for your consideration.

Kanye's getting into bed with Ben Carson is the only time I've ever really thought damn maybe this guy is as big of an idiot as all the facebook friend i have from HS think he is.

Caramanica re 808s & Heartbreak done live at the Hollywood Bowl

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/28/arts/music/review-kanye-west-shines-light-on-his-darkest-hour.html?_r=0

On stage here, he played “808s” as a sort of Greek tragedy. Outfitted in druid chic, drapey garments in shades of white and off-white, Mr. West largely kept his energy centered and mellow. Backed by a small band and a medium-sized orchestra, he cast these songs as meditations, especially on tracks from the first half of the album like “Welcome to Heartbreak” and “Heartless.”

xp i think he's just being diplomatic...political... but where's the record?

"His politics—including his support of Donald Trump—fit under the “I don’t read shit” umbrella. He’s conflating contrarianism with bravery and intellectualism. To nonreading-ass niggas, people like Trump or Candace Owens are free thinkers—mavericks unafraid to challenge the status quo. But if he’d actually pick up a book (and not just any 48 Laws of Power-ass book, but the right books), he’d be aware of the danger of that type of contrarianism and aware that for people like Trump and Owens, their words aren’t about free thinking. They’re specifically and intentionally tethered to white resentment, which is also often tied to anti-intellectualism. They’re actually the antithesis of free thought. They don’t think. They incite.

Do you need to read a book to know all of this? No. Not at all. But not reading is particularly dangerous for someone like Kanye, who obviously possesses an extremely high musical intelligence and seems to be, at the very least, curious about politics. Because while there’s not much difference between his politics and the politics of the fake-smart niggas we personally know who get all of their information from YouTube, if we don’t want to listen to those cats, we can just lock the doors to their grandparents’ basements."

https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/kanyes-politics-are-what-happens-when-you-dont-read-boo-1825475113

ok the MAGA beats... are fire

like...reichstag fire?

Like should die in a fire?

“I’m full of shit ideas and here’s another one”

Kanye West

I could never have a Virgil in my circle and hold him back 'cause he makes me nervous
I wanna see my brothers flourish to their higher purpose

Why is this guy so amazing other than he’s a phenomenally obnoxious lapsed-frat-boy-who-can-read prick?

https://www.babble.com/celebrity/the-unusual-names-of-marissa-ribisi-and-beck-hansons-kids/

quacks like a duck etc

FWIW, I got into an online fight with a Vietnamese dude who was a social media connection to one of my Vietnamese friends, and he turned out to be a far-right schmuck who disingenuously "hated" Trump but only for his character - he was clearly all-in on his policies because he was so warped by his hatred for the Communists that he backed anything that was considered the ideological opposite. You'll find people like that in any part of the world that has a history with Communist regimes.

But apologies, back to the thread topic.

DJP otm. I can have some sympathy for kanye as an individual, but as a public figure he needs to disappear for a long time and not get the attention that fuels all this

I generally believe there ought to be a way back for celebs but once you release a song called "Heil Hitler" I feel like it oughta be over for you permanently

i'm with DJP i'm just so sick of even thinking about this guy, we've all devoted far too much time to it already

Agreed with DJP.

I think the meta conversation about mental health and accountability is way more interesting than Kanye West's specific case and could go to further interesting places if we stopped including him in it altogether...but then this is the Kanye West thread.

he surely has enough money to have a nice quiet life now and is not producing any music of interest so no reason to even consider him

I have a phrase i have to bust out at work at least once a week - you can be a complete fucking dick and still be vulnerable

he surely has enough money to have a nice quiet life now and is not producing any music of interest so no reason to even consider him

This entire sentence — every word — has been true for at least a decade, and I'd argue longer than that.

Unfortunately this is the same problem as when Huffpost said they were only going to report on Donald Trump in the Entertainment section back in 2015, because his campaign was not serious--we can decide people are not worth paying attention to, but they find ways to force you to pay attention.

Who amongst us is willing to take one for the team and listen to BULLY and tell us it's terrible as expected?

Supposedly a semi return to form but also uses AI? Good lord

Pete Rock gave a free talk for Lincoln Center last year where they went over his entire career, and IIRC they brought up how one of his beats was used on Watch the Throne. There was an awkward moment where Rock gave his praises for Kanye - he was doing that all night for an endless stream of people he worked with on various tracks, so it was done in that spirit, but it was more subdued as you could tell he was well aware of what happened with Kanye. IIRC both he and the moderator acknowledged it, believing everyone knew, but it got this tepid reaction without becoming overtly negative. I bring this up because I wonder if it's a sign that the hip-hop community will likely forgive him - as long as Kanye continues to act contrite, I imagine that'll happen and we'll hear more from him, but I imagine it'll be like Louis C.K. where he'll get his career back and find a way to make a comfortable living but he'll remain persona non grata to many who once cared about his music.

Looks to be playing out this way. Lauryn Hill, Travis Scott, North West, CeeLo Green, André Troutman, Zion Marley, and YG Marley all performed during Ye's "comeback" show at SoFi stadium.

i was wondering who the fuck would even attend that show in this day and age. disappointing to see people who should otherwise know better performing as part of it

although CeeLo is acknowledged as a rapist now, and Travis Scott is responsible for some people dying, so it's not like they are paragons of judgement

Show was reportedly "sold out" though I have no idea if people were paying substantial money to see it or if they managed to pack it in via other methods.

https://wirelessfestival.co.uk/

Thought this was an April fools thing but seemingly not

I mean, here’s who’s in the pit (teenage boys who were around 6 when Trump first took office), so what’s a deal-breaker for us may not be for them.

I remember going to a Kendrick Lamar show at Barclays in 2017 and feeling a rare moment of genuine optimism when I was surrounded by teenagers of all ethnicities who could rap along with every single word. This is like the exact opposite of that feeling.

From what I saw of that crowd, they were probably waiting for a very particular song.

Every picture and video of that crowd I’ve seen seems like mostly Los Angeles Latino kids?

Like the two or three crowdkillers in the foreground are obviously white bois but like if you look anywhere else in the frame it’s… a real stretch to call this crowd neo-Nazi

This is the floor ticket experience at Ye’s Night 2 show at SoFi stadium 😳

Would you have gotten these tickets? 🤔 pic.twitter.com/hAzSsyf6kw

— Frank Magana (@FrankMagana15) April 4, 2026

You’re right, it looks nothing at al like a Nick Fuentes convention.

what’s a deal-breaker for us may not be for them

that's the most depressing thing

Pepsi pulled their sponsorship of Wireless. Not sure what difference it'll make, but it's a better message than nothing.

Hate to admit it but that stage design is pretty cool.

Fuck this dude forever

Kanye West is banned from the United Kingdom, the country’s Home Office has announced. After weeks of heated debate about the rapper’s booking at Wireless Festival, the UK government told the BBC that Ye’s Electronic Travel Authorisation application had been refused, on the grounds that his presence would not be conducive to the public good. Wireless subsequently announced the cancellation of the 2026 festival, saying ticket holders would be refunded.

felt like some good personal growth for me, didn't even have the urge to check out Bully once out of curiosity

for a second I thought you meant Kanye went through some personal growth and I was like, “uh?”

Perhaps this belongs here since Sunday Service is West's gospel group...

M.I.A. Announces Seventh Studio Album, M.I.7

M.I.A. will release her new album ‘M.I.7.’ on April 17th.

The songwriter is firmly in her independent era, using Ohmi Music as the central platform for her art.

New album ‘M.I.7.’ is out on April 17th, and it features seven songs, written in seven places, over seven days.

Featuring American Gospel group Sunday Service, sessions took place in Ethiopia, Egypt, India, London, Australia, and Los Angeles, with the record being dubbed a gospel album “not in genre, but in spirit”.

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