'We Have To Compromise What We Say In Lyrics So We Don't Lose Money,' Says Kanye West: See His Best Quotes From Latest Essay

Rapper Kanye West has written a long essay in Paper magazine where he shares his thoughts on music, art, racism, his passion for painting, art scholarships he let go off and also how he felt while working with clothing giant Gap. The rapper, who is known for having a way with words, has come out with really interesting quotes in the essay. Here are some of the best quotes from Kanye's Paper magazine essay.

1. “Information is not only power; it's simply everything. It can be a scary thing for people to think universally, to think in terms of the world. It's not traditional.”

2. “I think it's so important for me, as an artist, to give Drake as much information as I can, A$AP, Kendrick, Taylor Swift, any of these younger artists as much information as I can to make better music in the future.”

3. “It's funny that I worked at the Gap in high school, because in my past 15 years it seems like that's the place I stood in my creative path -- to be the gap, the bridge.”

4. “I believe that everyone is a fashion insider, because it's illegal to be naked.”

5. “I saw this article that asked, "Should Kanye leave fashion to the professionals?" That question is really ignorant, in a way, because the second I sell my first T-shirt or my first shoe, doesn't that make me a professional?”

6. “I had scholarships to Saint Xavier, the Art Institute of Chicago -- I went to the American Academy of Art on an arts scholarship, but I stepped back from that to paint in a different way.”

7. “Bravery and courage is walking into pain and knowing that something better is on the other side.”

8. “I am not what I would consider truly a musician. I am an inventor. I am an innovator.”

9. “I care about innovating. I don't care about capitalizing off of something that we've seen or heard a thousand times. I'm not a capitalist in that way. I'm an innovator.”

10. “We have to compromise what we say in lyrics so we don't lose money on a contract.”

11. “Madonna is in her 50s and gave everything she had to go up on an award show and get choked by her cape.”

12. “I think that artists have been brainwashed to look at money as a bad thing, and it's not.”

13. “When I was 10 years old I lived in China, and at the time they used to come up to me and rub my face to see if the color would rub off.”

14. “It's not about a post on social media from me when there are people dying. There's people in Chicago dying. There's people all across the globe dying for no reason!”

15. “One time I was at the dentist's office and I was given nitrous gas and I was vibing out -- I guess that's my version of Steve Jobs and his LSD trip.”

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