Getting Out Our Dreams

uzowuru: NY Times: When your debut album, “The College Dropout”...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:49:06 -0700

NY Times: When your debut album, “The College Dropout” came out, the thing that people began to associate with you besides music was: Here’s someone who’s going to argue for his place in history; like, “Why am I not getting five stars?”

Kanye: I think you got to make your case. Seventh grade, I wanted to be on the basketball team. I didn’t get on the team, so that summer I practiced. I was on the summer league. My team won the championship; I was the point guard. And then when I went for eighth grade, I practiced and I hit every free throw, every layup, and the next day I looked on this chart, and my name wasn’t on it. I asked the coach what’s up, and they were like, “You’re just not on it.” I was like, “But I hit every shot.” The next year — I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that’s how good I was. But I wasn’t on my eighth-grade team, because some coach — some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah — they’re all the same as that coach. Where I didn’t feel that I had a position in eighth grade to scream and say, “Because I hit every one of my shots, I deserve to be on this team!” I’m letting it out on everybody who doesn’t want to give me my credit.

NY Times: And you know you hit your shots.

Kanye: Yeah — you put me on the team. So I’m going to use my platform to tell people that they’re not being fair. Anytime I’ve had a big thing that’s ever pierced and cut across the Internet, it was a fight for justice. Justice. And when you say justice, it doesn’t have to be war. Justice could just be clearing a path for people to dream properly. It could be clearing a path to make it fair within the arena that I play. You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, “This is wrong.”

epic-humor: pleatedjeans: Women struggling to drink water. The...

Tue, 11 Jun 2013 20:46:34 -0700

epic-humor:

pleatedjeans:

Women struggling to drink water.

The thirst is real.

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joshlpadilla: Kanye West is notorious for working long and...

Wed, 29 May 2013 12:27:30 -0700

joshlpadilla:

Kanye West is notorious for working long and overly exerting himself while in the studio preparing records, and Ye is also notorious for falling asleep mid-sentence while taking small breaks in the wee hours of the morning, but would be up and at whatever he left unfinished prior to falling asleep the moment he’d wake.

This image was captured by the brilliant Nabil Elderkin during the My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy sessions at Avex Studios in Hawaii.

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joaquinhighroller: if only

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joaquinhighroller:

if only

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10knotes: This post has been featured on a 1000notes.com blog.

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10knotes:

This post has been featured on a 1000notes.com blog.

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boy-l-ommy: Ari edit

Tue, 21 May 2013 18:13:17 -0700

boy-l-ommy:

Ari edit

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crissle: pattilahell: rosyhills: ♡ more rosy here ♡ How Why

Tue, 21 May 2013 07:26:40 -0700

crissle:

pattilahell:

rosyhills:

♡ more rosy here ♡

How

Why

fullmetalstarterjacket: yeah but who has more rings

Fri, 17 May 2013 21:08:28 -0700

fullmetalstarterjacket:

yeah but who has more rings

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