Kanye West brags in a new interview that Kim Kardashian’s fashion missteps proves how much she loves him.
The “I Am God” rapper — who recently ran his mouth in a New York Times interview – sat down with W Magazine to discuss his girlfriend’s sartorial snafus.
“For her to take that risk in front of the world, it just shows you how much she loves me. And how much she actually loves the opportunity to learn,” he said.
“You got, like, a million companies saying, ‘This is impacting your brand! This is impacting your fans! And blah blah blah.’ But she still sees this light of beauty.”
Kardashian has made it no secret that she dresses to please her man. She famously threw out her clothes at the urging of her boyfriend during a 2012 episode of her E! reality show and declared in an interview, “I dress for my man way more than for myself!”
While her style choices more often leave us wondering, “What were you thinking?” versus “Where can I get that?” West claims less influence on her style than fans may think.
“Nobody can tell my girl what to do,” he told the publication. “She just needed to be given some platforms of information to work from.”
He enthused, “one beautiful thing is that as she discovers it, the world discovers it.”
Here are Six other dumb things West said in his W interview:
1. On why he chose to hole up in Paris to work on his new album: “In Paris, you’re as far as possible from the land of pleasant smiles. You can just trip on inspiration—there are so many people here who dedicate their lives to excellence.”
2. On writing the track “I Am God” after being told he could only attend one Paris Fashion Week show: “Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go. Man, I’m the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix. You can’t say that you love music and then say that Kanye West can’t come to your show! To even think they could tell me where I could and couldn’t go is just ludicrous. It’s blasphemous—to rock ’n’ roll, and to music.”
Then, finally: “I made that song because I am a god. I don’t think there’s much more explanation. I’m not going to sit here and defend [bleep]. That [bleep] is rock ’n’ roll, man. That [bleep] is rap music. I am a god. Now what?”
3. On his many gaffes: “God’s little practical joke on me—as an intellect who doesn’t like to read a lot—is like, I’ll say some superphilosophical [bleep], but I’ll say it the wrong way. I’ll use the wrong word, so it goes from being really special to completely retarded.”
4. On his “Keeping Up With the Kardashians” appearances: “Oh, that’s just all for love. It’s simply that. At a certain point, or always, love is more important than any branding, or any set of cool people, or attempting to impress anyone. Because true love is just the way you feel. Thoughts and feelings can disagree sometimes.”
5. On releasing his sex tape with an unidentified woman: “For the most part, I’d rather people have one of those home videos than some of the paparazzi photos that get published. At least I recorded the [bleep] myself. That tape couldn’t have hurt me in any way if it came out—it could only have helped.”
6. On his own narcissism: “On one end, I try to scale it back. Because I don’t want to close any of the doors needed to create the best product possible. But my ego is my drug. My drug is, ‘I’m better than all you other mother[bleepers]. Kiss my ass!’ ”