Kanye West and Oscar nominated director Steve McQueen engaged in a lengthy bit of chat for the February edition of Interview magazine.
Never a shy conversationalist, Kanye opened up to McQueen (and the mag) about a whole host of topics, ranging from his 2002 car accident to his less than harmonious relationship with the Grammys.
"I wasn't even nominated for Best Album this year. This year, I only got two nominations by the Grammys: for Best Rap Album and Best Rap Song. ... I've been nominated for Best Album maybe three times," noted Kanye in response to McQueen's observation that some genres seem to get ghettoized at the prestigious award show. "I made Dark Fantasy and Watch the Throne less than a year apart and neither of them got nominated. "Ni**as in Paris" [off Watch the Throne] wasn't nominated for Best Song either. But let's go into the fact that I have the most Grammys of any 36-year-old or 40-year-old or whatever, and I've never won a Grammy outside of the Rap or R&B categories."
"You know, I like Shame as much as 12 Years a Slave," added Kanye. "But Hollywood likes the idea of a black director directing 12 Years a Slave more than it likes the idea of a black director directing Shame."
Kanye also opened up about his frustrations with the way he feels he's been presented in the media.
"People are strategically trying to do things to mute my voice in some way or make me look like I’m a lunatic or pinpoint the inaccuracies in my grammar to somehow take away from the overall message of what I’m saying," declared the "New Slaves" artist.
As you might imagine, the somewhat controversial (and definitely parody friendly) video for "Bound 2" scored a bit of talking time as well.
"I think people are afraid of dreams, and that video is one of the closest things to the way that dreams look and feel, or the way joy looks and feels, with the colors," explained Kanye regarding his Kim Kardashian co-starring promo. "You know, I think there are rules to fashion, with the all-black everything, and rules to art, with white galleries. There are rules to how a lot of things are: the concrete jungle, stone pavement, brick walls. There are even rules to what a Brooklyn apartment looks like. But this video completely didn't respect any of those rules whatsoever. [laughs] It's a dream, and I think the controversy comes from the fact that I don't think most people are comfortable with their own dreams, so it's hard for them to be comfortable with other people's dreams. I mean, look, it took some time for us to be comfortable with a walking, talking mouse, but that became an icon."
Speaking of Kim K affiliated projects, Kanye touched briefly on what life is like for him as a dad.
"It's all brand new, how it feels to be a father," shared the popular recording artist. "There are some things that I understand, certain things that I don't understand, certain things that I like to get off my chest in interviews, certain things that I want to talk about. But when we talk about love, I don't have an answer. All I can say is that I'm happy I have it."
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It might be a good couple of years if we talk about constant complaints.
