Kanye West
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Kanye Omari West (pronounced "KAHN-yay") (born June 8, 1977 in Atlanta, Georgia) is an American record producer and rapper based in Chicago, Illinois.
- "Make black history every day, I don't need a month."
- " Brand New ," 2005
- "And I'm a big tipper, I don't even be trippin'. This my first real Rolex, it don't even be tickin'. This my first pair of earings I can can wear in the shower, without 'em clouding up in a half an hour!" - "My Baby", Damita Jo, 2004
- "You don't remember when you was my sweetest? You don't remember I called you Reese's Pieces? 'Cause there's no wrong way to do you know what!" - "Talk About Our Love", Afrodisiac, 2004
- "Jay's favorite line, 'Dog, in due time.' Now he look at me like, 'Damn, dog, you're where I am,' a hip-hop legend. I think I died in that accident, 'cause this must be heaven." - "Touch the Sky", Late Registration, 2005
- "It don't have to be mother's day or your birthday, for me to just call and say, hey mama." - "Hey Mama" , "Late Registration", 2005
- "I hate music where white people are trying to sound black. The white music I like is white."
- "They think they can say those words and take ownership of hip-hop. You can't. It's a lifestyle. It's a culture. It's not just music." - Interview with GQ Magazine, 2005
- "I hate the way they portray us in the media. You see a black family and they say we are looting, you see a white family and they say they are looking for food. And you know, its been five days because most of the people are black. And even for me to complain, I would be a hypocrite because I would turn away from the TV because it’s too hard to watch. I’ve even been shopping before even giving a donation, so now I’m calling my business manager right to see what is the biggest amount I can give. And just to imagine, if I was down there and those are my people down there. If there is anybody out there that wants to do anything that we can help about the way America is set up the help the poor, the black people, the less well off as slow as possible. Red cross is doing as much as they can. We already realize a lot of the people that could help are at war right now, fighting another way. And now they’ve given them permission to go down and shoot us. [...] George Bush doesn’t care about black people."
- - during A Concert for Hurricane Relief on NBC, 2005-09-03
- "Please don't download, because I want to get a pool in my second home."
- "Who gave Saddam anthrax, George Bush's got an answer... How to stop the Black Panthers, Ronald Regan's got an answer..." - Crack Music feat. Game
- "Little is know of sierra Lione/and how it connects to the diamonds we own/When i speak of diamonds in this song i ain't about the ones that be glown/I'm talkin' bout Roc-a-Fella my home..." Diamonds From Sierra Lione [re-mix]
- "I still think I am the greatest." - Accepting the Billboard Music Award for Artist of the Year.
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Bible References
"I walk through the valley where the shadow of death is,
Top floor, the view alone will leave ya breathless."
- - "Jesus Walks," off "The College Dropout"
- "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil, for you are with me; your rod and your staff they comfort me." --Psalms 23:4
"We still, pull up in Spreewells,
The ice sends me chills, like Gold Member, I love gold,
but what's the point to gain the world if ya lose ya soul?"
- - "Fly Away", off Miri Ben-Ari's "The Hip Hop Violinist"
- "For whoever wants to save his life will lose it, but whoever loses his life for me and for the gospel will save it. What good is it for a man to gain the whole world, yet forfeit his soul? Or what can a man give in exchange for his soul? If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father's glory with angels." --Mark 8:35-37
"I wanna fly, I wanna fly
I said I want my chariot to pick me up
And take me brother for a ride"
- - "Spaceship," off "The College Dropout"
- "And as they still went on and talked, behold, chariots of fire and horses of fire separated the two of them. And Elijah went up by a whirlwind into heaven." --2 Kings 2:11
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About West
- "That man is not in his own way," - John Mayer on his friend's justified arrogance (From MTV.com)
- "The one thing I fear for [Kanye] the most is if you keep talking about being the greatest, people eventually are going to want to watch you fail." — John Mayer (From MTV.com)
- "It’s alright to say ‘bit*h’ and ‘motherfu**ker” on the corner, but when you start operating on a different level you can’t talk like that.” Fine, you’re trying to get some street acceptance. Now that you got that, get back to your roots. You know that’s not where you came from. You know that’s not how you were raised." — Ray West (Kanye's father) on Rolling Stone magazinede:Kanye West
