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Later today (August 01, 19:00) Kanye West will feature on Annie Mac's Radio 1 show. The phone interview was recorded yesterday but will air tonight.
If you've listened to Radio 1 at all today, you will have no doubt have heard about it.
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This being a Ye interview, they probably have good reason to as they are usually dramatic affairs.
During the chat he touched upon many things, including his 2020 planned Presidential campaign and why he even wants to run for the job.
"We are numb, we're numb to 500 kids getting killed in Chicago a year, we're numb to the fact that it was seven police shootings in the beginning of July ... we're numb to places on the Earth that we don't live - like our life is okay but it's okay for other people's lives to not be okay," he told to Annie Mac.
West himself admitted that he has no real political opinions.
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He said: "I don't have any political views, I don't have views on politics, I just have a view on humanity, on people, on the truth. If there is anything that I can do with my time and my day, to somehow make a difference while I'm alive I'm going to try to do it."
Can he really commit to something like that? While it's still a long way away, usually when Kanye juggles so much, his output seems to suffer. The album roll out of TLOP was so drawn-out and the end result was an album that sounded like it was made by a man who was pre-occupied with other things, like making expensive trainers.
On the subject of fashion, West discussed creating a shoe with Adidas people can actually afford.
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"I'm going to Adidas and I'm like, Adidas," he explained. "I know you've never made a shoe under $50 but we have to make a shoe that costs $30 and I'm gonna be the coolest shoe of all. To me, this thing I'm saying is the thing I'm most excited about of anything I've ever done."
Like everyone he also loves flatpack furniture kingpin IKEA: "I have to work with IKEA - make furniture for interior design, for architecture and I know that if I do a minimalist apartment inside of a college dorm where the TV goes on the side of the wall... Yo, IKEA, allow Kanye to create, allow him to make this thing because you know what, I want a bed that he makes, I want a chair that he makes - I want more products from Ye."
He's very sure of himself but then when isn't he? Elsewhere, he touched upon his now infamous Glastonbury set and the number of issues that cropped up during the headline performance.
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"I started off the show and I completely messed up the music. And me, as you can imagine by this phone call, I'm a bit of a perfectionist," he mentioned. Before explaining that the aftermath left him feeling a little lost... "It really put me into a slightly depressed state and it put me back in the position of when I was in high school and I got fired from my job. I don't usually get nervous, I prepare, I get fully prepared. When that music messed up in the beginning it tapped into my nerves and when you're nervous or vulnerable something special and something different can happen."
To hear the full interview, tune into Annie Mac on Radio 1 on Monday from 7PM.
Words by Matthew Cooper
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