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Kanye West Interview: 2004 Right After College Dropout


hey guys i’m carly woods and welcome to
watchmojo.com today we are bringing you
a classic clip from the much vault where
a popped collar sporting Kanye West is
promoting the college dropout he shares
some serious opinions on Good Charlotte
and biker shorts and he’s struggling
with being too honest I guess some
so everyone’s screaming back there are
you used to getting this kind of
reaction yet well ever since the album
came out my life has changed a lot so I
definitely wasn’t used to getting that
back when I was at college so inside
you’ve got all those yearbook photos and
and pictures of you the poetry contest
what were you like in school just really
creative and I want to spend a lot of my
time doing an artistic stuff it you know
working on music drawing just figure out
ways to change the world other than just
keeping my head in the books at doing
what I said I was supposed to do nice
well working so much behind the scenes
now you’ve got all these people here
screaming for you could anything I mean
you had to kind of imagine what it would
be like but can anything really prepare
you for what it’s like to have your face
on a cover of a magazine and and to have
people react like that
nothing could prepare you I guess if
someone had sat down and mentored me or
something before I came out but no one
really sat me down so that’s the reason
why I went to a lot of interviews and
accidentally said how I really feel
about stuff and I didn’t know you
weren’t supposed to do that you can do
that here I don’t know you’re supposed
to like speak from nothing you weren’t
supposed to speak from the heart when
you got an interview so I’ve made that
mistake and I actually spoke from the
heart and a lot of people say he seems
kind of cocky it seems kind of arrogant
because I’ll be back as so many people
diss me and then like I sold all these
records so I was just like a sore winner
so you know I just apologize to
everybody for you know keeping it so
real I think we can forgive you for
keeping it so real what do you guys
think
well going on with you know doing things
differently your videos are so
refreshingly different from all the
other hip-hop videos we’ve been seeing
these now all of Outkast has good videos
you’re right you’re right my bad I’m
sorry but what about how involved are
you in the process of thinking up
concepts for your video I come up with
the whole concept yeah yeah and then
like I know like on this all falls down
video it was directed by Chris milk I
came up with the concept of Veeam first
person in and then he went in and
thought of extra things on the treatment
like going through the x-ray machine to
just bring the video to the next level
so we me and Chris milk collaborated on
that and right now i’m working on jesus
walks and i got a concept right but i go
up to all these directors and nobody
wants to do my concept so like i don’t
want to give it away but i’m just trying
to figure out what I’m gonna do for this
jesus walks video I’m going through this
problem right now like I went to about 7
of my favorite directors they say how
about you do this and I’m like no how
about I do what I want to do like so I’m
gonna figure out something does that
have to do with the song jesus walks
it’s a great song but like you said in
it that you said you know if you talk
about Jesus as your song I’m gonna get
played on the radio just does it work
that way with videos as well
yeah videos is a lot of stuff you got to
take you out like I wanted to have the
scene where he accidentally knocks over
a stray and burns down the church and
they’re like you can’t burn down a
church I’m like but it’s an accident no
you just can’t burn out after Jerry
yeah definitely because I’m trying to
get this point across so actually what I
think we’re gonna do for Jesus walk says
pay for five different videos and just
do a DVD because everybody has their own
take on it and I don’t want to take away
from that idea and I’m gonna do like two
of my my own ideas we’re gonna try to
get hype Williams Spike Jonze Michelle
Gauri Kristen milk Michael House may
need to take a bout video from Madonna
Sanji that everything is everything for
Loren and just put together my own DVD
for jesus walks because I feel like that
video that song has to just come across
and we’re doing it and also I’m doing
workout plan for this
I’m gonna do family business and you
know you got you got everything laid out
ahead of you you got the plans going on
yes yeah basically but we’ll get to a
video for it all falls down right now
and we’ll come back and chat some more
honey West all falls down we’re hanging
out with Kanye and um that video right
there a lot of familiar faces in that in
that video right there yes sir you got
Stacey dance from clueless yeah and the
finest all time right there oh you’re
good at least I agree with that
who else isn’t that one me yeah of
course
damn – common my new artist John Legend
GLC consequences are coming out on my
label very good so yeah great
Lena Johnson great video great video by
the way British one of our colleagues
here at the end of that video he would
have liked to have seen you and the limo
with another girl oh wow you know I’m
saying on the way back to wherever
you’re going I don’t think the girls
would like that right that I’ve been
wrong but see that’s the way Bruce is
though he’s all about the girls okay
you’re um you’re big in the fashion as
we see right here the Louie Vuitton Don
is what you call yourself yeah sometimes
I got a little fashion quiz okay um
which of the following articles of
clothing would we not find in your
wardrobe sport jackets yeah you find out
you find that everything you got one on
right there spandex shorts no how come
no sir no my like biking shorts from
back in the day yeah things yeah I think
I got to tell a reason why I wouldn’t
wear those like you got those never all
right
designer backpacks yeah you know that
yeah yeah cowboy hats naw no cowboy hats
yeah weights are pretty cool I’m sorry
all right I’m just not wearing them
right now overalls no no no overalls
rare vintage sneakers yeah yeah this
would be like vintage sneakers on with
it
those are sweet yeah and how about a
thong swimsuit come on everyone has a
thong swimsuit yeah we’re gonna be
my la you know you’re on the beach there
with the gear they would be on my
clothes I think my girl might have left
today moving on moving on you rank these
rappers in terms of their style the
first being the one you love and then
down from there okay we got four Andre
3000 common Eminem and Slick Rick Slick
Rick then Andre 3000 then comment there
Eminem
we saying like the one you like the best
at the top why send everyone I like the
bottom okay cool why that order Slick
Rick is just he said a lot of trends you
know the big Gucci robes he had the
blazes back in the days and not like try
to use a lot of his style and then Andre
you know who has a lot of polos just
like me and he you know he made a lot of
mistakes you know and finding his style
but now I think he found it they common
you know I ever sitting them down in the
studio yeah it’s just getting his act
together so that he could dress pretty
good there and whenever he just wear
jogging suits every day but I’m not
gonna say none edition because he’s not
gonna make a song about me and in my
career finally in the fashion quiz I’ll
give you the clothing line you give me
the artist you think this is gonna be
easy but it’s not well sir we’ll start
easy it’ll get tougher fetish Eve that’s
right how about made bleak this name is
out no that’s Atticus blink way to meet
is Good Charlotte Good Charlotte oh I
don’t like the Charlotte duh yeah no but
look they said no I’m gonna show you
something tell me say something that’s
Wednesday on TV they said this is the
anthem throw your hands up
I don’t want to be them weights take it
did my man JZ make this home.this anthem
don’t want to be like mom and then they
had a song talking about lifestyles of
the rich and famous and said but
everybody talking about was black people
the first one was OJ Simpson and second
so so that’s why you’re not into those
guys I don’t even know how to could make
them close I think they get help from
designers or something Kanye West here
with us tonight playing tonight it’s
about the docks with people’s more with
Kanye after this break come on back
enjoy
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in the best way it’s delicious right yes
I’m seeing now as well producing
producing back in the 90s who’d you have
the most fun with producing but of all
the artists that you’ve worked with Jay
definitely yeah because I knew when he’d
do the song I knew after it came out I
would just be way richer which other
artists have you worked with and you had
fun with um
Ludacris Talib Kweli mos def freeway
Brandi Brandi is one yeah I did Brandis
first single and that was crazy
Janet I did Janet’s first single now
it’s fun
Mariah Mariah yeah I’m showing how to do
yeah she got it down there’s also an
audience question I hear what the priam
[Applause]
accessible with your music and
everything and I was just wondering if
you have any other plants like opening
up a clothing line acting in movies or
having like a sports bar like jay-z does
anything well actually I just started
look at that Wow Wow
I guess that that answers your question
right jewelry line yeah cuz you know I
went to art school yes sir I just want
to be creative on all planes and you
know what happens if I can’t think of
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