Marriage Advice
“If you ain't no punk, holla we want prenup/WE WANT PRENUP!/It’s something that you need to have/'Cause when she leave yo ass, she gonna leave with half.”
— "Gold Digger," Late Registration, 2005
“If you ain't no punk, holla we want prenup/WE WANT PRENUP!/It’s something that you need to have/'Cause when she leave yo ass, she gonna leave with half.”
— "Gold Digger," Late Registration, 2005
“Taylor Swift beat Beyoncé at the Grammys? Beyoncé be dancing in heels and shit.”
— show at the Hammersmith Apollo, 2013
"I am the number one human being in music. That means any person that's living or breathing is number two."
— via The Wendy Williams Show, 2007
“I have to dress Kim everyday so she doesn’t embarrass me.”
— via Twitter
"I'm doing pretty good as far as geniuses go … I'm like a machine. I'm a robot. You cannot offend a robot … I'm going down as a legend, whether or not you like me or not. I am the new Jim Morrison. I am the new Kurt Cobain … The Bible had 20, 30, 40, 50 characters in it. You don't think that I would be one of the characters of today's modern Bible?"
— radio interview with Tim Westwood, 2008
“[AIDS is] a man-made disease. [It was] placed in Africa just like crack was placed in the black community to break up the Black Panthers.”
— Live 8 concert in Philadelphia, 2005
“What's a B+ mean? I'm an extremist, its either pass or fail! A+ or F-! You know what, f–k you and the whole f–king staff!"
— blogged in response to a concert review in Entertainment Weekly, 2008
“George Bush doesn’t care about black people.”
— A Concert for Hurricane Relief, 2005
“I walk through the hotel and I walk down the street and people look at me like I'm f–king insane, like I'm Hitler. One day the light will shine through, and one day people will understand everything I ever did."
— performance at Big Chill Festival, 2011
"My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live."
— via VH1 Storytellers, 2009
“Kim doesn’t understand what a blessing I am to her.”
— via Twitter
“I just zoned on how ill it is to really fall in love… Pimpin’ is whatev… Love is that shit!”
— via Twitter
"Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed. I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph. I am a proud nonreader of books."
— via Reuters, 2009
"I'm like a tree. I feed the branches of the people."
— via The Daily Mirror, 2010
(Pictured with Sky Ferreira)
"I'm a pop enigma. I live and breathe every element in life. I rock a bespoke suit and I go to Harold's for fried chicken. It's all these things at once, because, as a tastemaker, I find the best of everything. There's certain things that black people are the best at and certain things that white people are the best at. Whatever we as black people are the best at, I'm a go get that. Like, on Christmas I don't want any food that tastes white. And when I go to purchase a house, I don't want my credit to look black."
— via Spin, 2008
(Pictured with Spike Lee)
"Yo Taylor, I'm really happy for you, I'mma let you finish, but Beyoncé has one of the best videos of all time. One of the best videos of all time!"
— MTV Music Video Awards, 2009
“Please corporations. Can you please support me, please? Me, Kanye West? I swear I'm a nice n—a now. I swear I'll put the pink polo back on. I swear to you. Please? Just for 3 million dollars. I need it so bad. I need a new pool in my backyard. So I'll tell all my fans your shit is cool. And if they believe in me they should also believe in you … Did the corporation send the check yet? What's my public rating right now? Are people liking me again? Enough to get some money from the corporations? Are they liking me now? They forgot about the whole Beyonce thing right? OK, cool. Is it OK now?”
— show at Hammersmith Apollo, 2013
“You may be talented, but you’re not Kanye West.”
— via Twitter
“The media crucify me like they did Christ.”
— “I Don’t Like,” Cruel Summer, 2012
“I feel like there’s still n—as that owe me checks. I feel like there’s still bitches that owe me sex.”
— Young Jeezy's “Put On" feat. West, 2008