Kanye West Declares Himself the Biggest Rock Star of All, Blasts Designer Hedi Slimane

“Where’s the culture at? I’m sitting in the middle of it, whether I’m at a dinner with Anna Wintour or at a listening session with Pusha, or me and Virgil (Abolh, West’s adviser) are in Rome giving our designs to Fendi and over and over getting knocked down. We brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi and they said ‘No.’ How many motherfukers you done seen with the leather jogging pants? So when I see [Saint Laurent creative director] Hedi Slimane and it’s all like, ‘This is my take on the world.’ Yeah, he’s got some nice $5,000 jeans in there… There’s some nice ones, some good shit here and there. But we culture. Rap is the new rock stars.”

“It’s been like that for a minute,” Lowe adds.

“It’s been like that for a minute, Hedi Slimane,” he yells back. “It’s been like that for a minute. We the new rock stars and I’m the biggest of all of them!”

It’s hard to argue with West. Given hip-hop’s ubiquitous place in worldwide culture and his place on its throne, he sees himself as a cultural leader with the responsibility of tearing down the barriers before it.

Article Appeared @http://www.billboard.com/articles/columns/the-juice/5719514/kanye-west-declares-himself-the-biggest-rock-star-of-all-blasts

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