My Next Guest Needs No Introduction (Kanye West)

West threatens to take over the interview multiple times, continuously going on tangential rants, cutting Letterman off, and directly addressing the audience as if constantly in a performance for the entertainment of others rather than an honest conversation.

Kanye really thinks he is living in a higher spiritual plane and believes everyone can be with him as well if they would only stop standing in the way of themselves. He thinks if they keeping themselves boxes in society, they are simply missing out on living like he could, which is far from torture, yet it is perceived as so in the society's eye.He truly has a special mind or, if I am to play devil's advocate, a mind truly warped by years of rapping with his hubris and bragadoccio. Kanye apparently has the answer but we refuse, in his eyes, to receive the blue pill to wake us up from this perpetual slumber.

He is so rich yet look at how white and clean his lives in his home. He creates a sense of calm and peace with his all white minimalistic furniture designed with the Japanese wabi-sabi sense of flow, a way so as to not cloud his thoughts with unnecessary and over abundance of details that would distract him in his artistic process of creating. He stated, "my power is the ability to not be influenced." The result can be heard in the incredible orchestral, Chicago drill, soulful, gospel sounding music of his ever growing discography. He takes in less to put out more than any artist has in the last ten years. He is a force in pop culture and he is using his voice to speak on this society and how it is progressing in its stigmatization of mental illness. Spoiler alert: it's not progressing.

There are so many instances to Kanye where, even though he has said what he has always wanted to say, he still finds problems in the media and its perception by the masses. He reveals his ideology slightly in this rant. His public support of Trump is more of a commentary on our inability as a society to listen to people's contrarian ideologies than it was genuine praise for the president. Kanye's never even cared enough to vote.

The move is very performance art in its nature, something dadaist. He does public acts to make others question everything about human nature and behavior, something that spans to global psychology and group thought. It seems like he began the interview with this frame of mind, which truly makes him a genuine person, instead of working his way towards what the audience wants from him.

He even tries to demonstrate this fear and inability in society by criticizing the #metoo movement from the "innocent" man's point of view. When retorted with a comment by Letterman with the woman's point of view, he catches letterman as if he fell for his demonstration's trap, the exact response he wanted to elicit from Letterman, yet no one will acknowledge his feat.

This dude is trying to find frequencies in bass that would hit you spiritually and affect you physically!! He thinks the basses he's used, though, has been negatively influenced by the Molly generation. He wants his music to be on the other end of the spectrum, the healing bright colorful music of gospel.

Is his Yeezy fashion line following this dadaist rule of thought? Does he make simple white t-shirts for $50 to point out the capitalistic greed and perpetual display of showmanship by the masses to attain the picture of success. If he had this intention, he must be on a different, impossibly complex, highly intelligent level. Or am I a sucker for finding this schtick believable? He even calls what he does, performance.

He says his end goal is world Peace but we may not have it in our lifetimes if there are people like me who are aware of this but are stubbornly resistant to a total human change to a state without fear and only love.

That means speaking my truth without the fear of harsh judgement, either from critics or friends or family or society. What an incredibly difficult thing to genuinely, truly do. If we behave without inhibitions, are we trying to be someone like Kanye? Are we not being "ourselves," as Kanye so dearly admires about certain people.

Kanye further hints at today's sociology by stating that he " uses art as a superpower to protect myself from the capitalistic world." Are our inhibitions what are holding us back from financial success, heightened elightenment, and shiny white bathrooms?

But then he immediately spits in that interpretation's face by saying he uses it to make money as well. Did he mean that as if it was a genuine motive for him to apply as a benefit for his family? Or is financial gain as an answer another joke for the supposed spirtually elevated artist? It's tough to determine from his short laugh with letterman.

Idk why but this interview made me think of the day I was in elementary school in first grade where I had to play statue for the longest in order to win candy. The teacher awarded me two pieces instead of the standard one piece because I had a more difficult stance. Did I really have a more difficult stance? Or did they just feel sorry that I was sweating trying this hard to win candy as a prize? This might be candy's influence over us and one of the factors that drive our inhibitions: sugar.

Coincidence: Kanye west likes and is trying to emulate his music and Sunday services like the healing artworks of James Turell, the same artist in charge of the criminally underseen installations in the Arya in Las Vegas, and where I was so inspired that I took pictures last year before ever seeing or hearing Kanye's work. Are we thinking on the same frequency?

What did I learn? Your faults aren't holding you back. They're your strengths. Sweaty hand and perspiration doesn't hold you back. Don't fear it and use it to better yourself.

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