In an age where celebrities are media trained to within an inch of their lives, it’s refreshing when a celebrity says something that shocks even the person interviewing them.
Kanye West‘s latest interview on The Ellen Degeneres Show leftthe popular daytime TV host speechless after West went on an eight-minute rant talking about everything from news he is broke to his plans on how to ‘change the world’.
Reminiscent of Tom Cruise‘s infamous Oprah couch moment, 38-year-old West really cut loose. It all began with Degenres asking the rapper about that one time he asked Mark Zuckerberg for money on Twitter.
Mark, I am publicly asking you for help…
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) February 15, 2016
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There's 2 groups of people here - The ones who can't understand his point and think he's a nut case, and the ones who can't understand his point and so believe it must be some powerful truth. He is a nut case. I wish he had actually answered Ellen's question, as in how does he plan to change the world. He is totally deluded.
You have HOW much money and your changing the world by making a clothing line? You've lost touch with reality mate.
Sure...Kanye is an eccentric, odd dude. But what he's talking about here has such truth to it - he's speaking of a culture that looks to pull each other down, that beats down innovators - and what he is saying is that we should be working to make things better. There's nothing crazy about that.