Kanye West Talks Marriage, Tweeting And Indie Rock

Becky Bain | August 11, 2010 6:36 pm

While debuting his delightful new track “See Me Now” on Hot 97’s Angie Martinez Show today Kanye West also discussed his current tweeting obsession, what he learned from his ex-girlfriend Amber Rose, and how he’s got marriage on his mind for the next lucky bald-headed lady to walk into his life. Watch ‘Ye’s interview below.

In the station’s wide-ranging interview, Kanye touched on several of the recent threads tying into his return to the spotlight after that incident with Taylor Swift — did you hear about this? It flew waaay under the radar at the time. Anyway:

:: Opening up about how he’s been spending his time, ‘Ye told Angie: “After the MTV thing I moved to Japan for three weeks so I just didn’t have any paparazzi… Then I ended up moving to Rome and I was interning at Fendi and really every day going to work, walking to work, getting cappuccinos.”

:: Asked about his reasons for (finally) signing up for Twitter (thus inspiring an entire sub-genre of Kanye-inspired Web culture), Kanye explains, “I got to the point where I didn’t even wanna do interviews anymore because I would have the interview and we’d be laughing, me and the reporter, and that’s funny, and then you read it and they completely just demolished all of my jokes… They just set ’em up wrong… I couldn’t communicate and now I can communicate just in a sound bite and give people a glimpse of everything.”

:: On his relationship with (tasty?) model Amber Rose, which ended earlier this year: “Yeah man, it was an amazing time and it came to an end… One of the greatest things that she showed me was just to be a nicer person because she was so disconnected from the concept of celebrity when I first met her,” West said. “A celebrity could be talking to people crazy and everyone’s used to it at the label like, ‘He’s wildin’ out. It doesn’t matter.’ [Amber] be like, ‘What?! You just talked to your fans so crazy right now. I’m not even talking to you right now.’”

Another relationship Kanye is building is with folk-rock group Bon Iver. According to Stereogum, West may be collaborating with the the group’s frontman Justin Vernon:

All through Lolla, the word came back to me that Kanye flew out Justin Vernon to his Hawaii studio for a few days, and that they worked together in some capacity, and that, at the very least, Ye’s expressed interest in using a well known Bon Iver song as a backing track/prime sample for a new Kanye song.

“Skinny Love”, perhaps? And is that awesome Wicked sample we heard a few months back going to end up on the record as well? We won’t know for certain for awhile, but Kanye revealed the exact date we can expect to find out: “They don’t want me to say November 16” is the day his still-yet-untitled album drops.

Another important date on the rapper’s calendar is September 12, the night of the MTV VMAs. (Or, as its known to Taylor Swift fans, the scene of the crime).

So the fact that Kanye is not only allowed back in the building, but is set to perform at the awards ceremony is kind of a big deal. Something is bound to be set-up between ‘Ye and Taylor… but what?! Will they hug it out? Will Taylor be able to interrupt him? Will they duet on “Rhiannon”? So many possibilities. Leave your best  guesses at what MTV will have planned for the inevitable Kanye/Taylor VMA reunion!

[Via MTV]

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