2013 Jimmy Kimmel Interview [Part 1]

Jimmy Kimmel: My guest tonight is a
21-time Grammy award winning performer
Who last month threatened his very existence
By threatening one of America's
Most beloved television personalities
We had a big dumb fight on Twitter
But he was nice enough to agree to come and
Talk about it tonight please
Welcome Kanye West!

JK: How are you?

Kanye West: I'm okay

JK: I'm very happy that you
Came i'm glad you did
And I wanted to clear this up i really
Felt bad about all this stuff i did

KW: Mm hmm jK: I guess the first question
I should ask is, who are you wearing?

KW: It's Ralph

JK: Kramden? Lauren?

JK: Is that a new grill you have there?

KW: Nah they've been in my
Mouth for three years

JK: That one on the bottom? OK
Well it's good to see you

KW: Good seeing you too

JK: I guess we should
Talk about what happened
Because I do think that somewhere in you
You want people to understand where you’re
Coming from is that true?

KW: yeah, correct

JK: So we did a sketch on the show where
We had - you did an interview with
The BBC Radio and it was an intense interview
- and I’ll be honest with you
I only saw a couple of little parts of
The interview when we did this sketch

KW: yeah, that’s what I thought

JK: In fairness
There was context to it and we
Took it out of context
And we had a couple of little kids reenact it
Which I didn’t think would be
Something that bothered you do
You mind if we show a little clip of it?

Little Kanye: I've reached a point in my
Life where my Truman Show boat
Has hit the painting i'm not trying
To regurgitate myself i'm a
Product person: not just clothing, but
Water bottle design, architecture
Anything you could think about! Brought the
Leather jogging pants 6 years ago to Fendi
And they said no! How many motherfuckers have
You done seen with leather jogging pants?!
JK: I'm gonna tell you something
The truth is the main reason
I did that is because
I like to see kids curse i think it’s funny
(Kanye laughs) And I think that
Some people read into
It differently that we were
Positioning you as
A child, but that’s not true in fact, we’ve
Done this to other people, with Lady Gaga
With quite a few people that we've had
Kids say what they said and reenact
Them of course this is not something
You knew and this is not
Something that people who just watched it
Online or whatever knew and
You called me a lot of people
Think this is some kind of
Publicity stunt that you and I
Cooked up but this isn't, right?

KW: I mean everyone out there in TV world
Real world, whatever world you stay in
Needs to know that
I’ve never done a publicity stunt
In my life any
Time I went up and spoke my mind
Whether it put my career in
Jeopardy or whatever someone so called said
It was always what I thought
Was the truth whether I'm
Like reading from through a teleprompter
Or whatever I felt
Emotionally i don't follow like rules of
Normal celebrity or what their
Publicist tells them to say so
I don’t do publicity stunts
Period so don’t ever think that

JK: Me neither guys
(Laughter) So we talked on the phone
And I didn’t really know why
You were calling i
Heard you were upset but I didn't know the
Context, and we had a bad conversation
Right?

KW: yeah, I knew you before and I saw you
At a wedding and I remember you telling me
I want people to know this side
Of you and different things
Like this and I saw this good guy at the
Wedding so when I saw the
Skit - which I didn't
Watch all the way through
Because I didn't want
To be infuriated - I was like I know you
So it was a combination of me knowing you
But also me NOT knowing the
Person who put a bad
Headline on the cover of In Touch and me
Not knowing this person so I
Was like this is the
One person I know so I can go and let
Out everything that I feel about
Every single bogus weekly
Cover, every skit, every single
Rumor in barber shops
Everything that people feel is ok
To treat celebrities like
Zoo animals or act like what
They're saying is not serious
Or their life is not serious or their
Dreams are not serious and you
Know, it kinda just went and elevated
From a call that we
Just had as men… that elevates
Sometimes, you take a guy
Jimmy does his thing and I do my thing
And at a certain point these egos can
Flare up and we kind of just took it
Back to high school for a minute

JK: And I got beat up a lot in high school
So I didn't wanna go back to high school

JK: And this is something that
To be honest with everyone
This is something that when
You're with another celebrity we
Complain about this
Zoo animal, it's a perfect thing
Because people online they just want
You to click through so
They'll put whatever they can put
As a headline to get
You to click through and it can be damaging
And I think people look at you and they go
"this is a guy who’s got millions of dollars
He's got
A beautiful wife and a new baby, we can’t
Possibly hurt this guy" And to be honest
Even though I’m in that same position
Too - I don't have a
Baby - it’s not something that
Comes to my mind when
I’m cooking up a comedy sketch and
Some of these things are hurtful
And the truth is important and it's but
On the other hand, I will say a lot of
Times you I think you bring it on yourself
This kind of misunderstanding about you

So when I come on here, I can laugh and I can
Joke, and I can see a skit and we can say
Ok we love Kanye or we think his
Baby is cute or whatever, but
For me, it’s bigger than who
I am and my presence
Living it’s about when I was
On Earth what did
I do to help? And at what point
Did I hit a glass ceiling where people said
You’re a celebrity so you can’t help
In this box, you can’t help in this box but
I talked to Quincy Jones
At John Legend’s wedding
And you do music, you can do anything once
You learn how to produce, you’re a producer
You understand textures and colors
I have an art background even
Before I was a musician
People told me I couldn’t rap people had all
This advice for me about how
I shouldn't try to
Rap and I wouldn’t even say I’m a rapper
I’m more of a messenger than a rapper

So even when you say rap beef
It sort of undermines it, and keeps
Re-contexting what I said whereas if you
Look at the Zane interview
It’s really something extremely fearless
For someone in
My position to do because most
People just like bow down to
TV or bow down to these cameras like I could
Care less about any
Of these cameras, all I care
About is my family
I care about protecting my
Girl, protecting my baby
And protecting my ideas and my
Dreams and ya know
That's the reason why I went so crazy

JK: I wanna go back to
One thing you said which
Is when you say you’re a
Genius that upsets people
But the truth is a lot
People think they’re geniuses, and
Nobody says it because it’s weird to say it
But it is most certainly more honest
To say "I am a genius"

KW: I’m totally weird, and
I’m totally honest
And I’m totally inappropriate sometimes
And the thing is for me to
Say I wasn’t a genius
I would just be lying to you and to myself

JK: That's true, it’s false humility
KW: Oh my god it comes with your first ticket
To LA, soon as you get off the plane
Here’s your false humility maybe if
Keep up with this
Act long enough and go with this agency
They'll give you a star on the Walk of Fame
One day for kissing everybody's ass but it's
Like that's not what we're doing by the way
I want to shoutout the Walk of Fame
Because they said something like
They’re not gonna put my girl on the Walk of
Fame because she’s a reality
Star it's like people are so so dated and not
Modern there’s no way a Kim
Kardashian shouldn’t have a star
On the Walk of Fame
It's ridiculous old concepts
And you know for me
I’m just gonna give y’all the truth it’s
Like my grandfather loved Ali until he
Died, and my grandmother hated Ali
’til she passed so
You’re gonna love me or you’re gonna hate me
But I’m gonna be me

JK: Alright, Kanye West is here
More with Kanye when we come back

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