Sat 22 Nov 2008
DJ Semtex interview with Kanye West
( Direct link, it may not play correctly for all of you)
“I don’t even listen to rap. My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in. I have to be in a way more grimey environment to turn any rap music on” – Kanye West
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November 22nd, 2008 at 5:35 pm
(Sighs) Seriously maybe Kanye should take some time off. Kanye’s entitled to opinion/preference but to degrade the genre of music that made him rich is somewhat self-defeating. I may be alone in this but in my opinion either Kanye is a real big attention whore (which I’m leaning towards)or a sellout. (Remembers Kanye has an album coming out on Monday) Yeah he’s an attention whore.
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November 22nd, 2008 at 6:08 pm
I must say, I’m pretty offended by him saying he’d “have to be in a way more grimey environment to turn any rap music on”.
But then again, aint he ALWAYS saying something STUPID?! If we ALL felt that way, he’d still be a broke nobody tho.
I aint buying 808s & Heartbreaks….
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November 22nd, 2008 at 6:37 pm
This “Semtex” guy is a jerk-off. I watched that other video with all the appearances in London and he sounded like a fawning little girl. Swagger this, swagger that, “look at my son’s swagger.” What a corn chip.
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November 22nd, 2008 at 7:06 pm
Lol at that quote. Too nice for hip-hop?
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November 22nd, 2008 at 9:03 pm
“My apartment is too nice to listen to rap in”
WHAT?!!??! I was waiting for this to happen… without the rap that your apartment is “too nice” for, u wouldn’t be shit, and you wouldnt have a head big enough to make the garbage shit ur making now.
wattup ye, are u ashamed of us now?
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November 22nd, 2008 at 10:10 pm
first time im feeling a kanye interview..sounds like a grown man..guess the death of his mother made him get serious
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November 22nd, 2008 at 11:47 pm
…..wow
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November 23rd, 2008 at 1:18 am
WOW This huy is something else….. I’m sure we shouldn’t give a fuck but how should hip hop take this Info? I know he different, I know he’s him whatever but straight up question….. How should Hip Hop take that statement…
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November 23rd, 2008 at 1:30 am
Nigga Please!!!!!!!!!
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November 23rd, 2008 at 7:38 am
I got here a CDQ audio version of the Kanye West Interview on DJ Semtex’ Show.
I record his show every weekend, here is the download link:
http://www.trackblasters.de/downloads/BBC_1Xtra_Semtex_21.11.08_1Xtra%20Hip%20Hop_Show_with_Kanye_West.mp3
Just listen and enjoy!
Greetz from Germany
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November 23rd, 2008 at 10:44 am
Does anyone know what song Dj semtex play around 8.10 to 8.50?
It doesnt sound like a kanye song and I havent heard it on the new album.
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November 23rd, 2008 at 11:48 am
bullshit!
I’m sure he doesn’t listen to it at home cos’ when home he’s lonely and depressed…shit…I’d feel the same way if i was in that position LOL
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November 23rd, 2008 at 2:49 pm
I love Kanye but why is he so melodramatic all the damn time? How can he be so disrespectful? SMH. He always has to act like he’s better than everyone else.
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November 23rd, 2008 at 5:40 pm
that statement is so wrong!
or is he too afraid of his neighbors who probably would call the police if he’d play rap?
i’m very disappointed…
peace from bln.
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November 23rd, 2008 at 9:27 pm
agree with everybody, what the fuck would he be without rap?! it shows in the way his music is these days – all autotune boring bullshit. im studying medicine and im hip hop all day, you don’t have to be “grimey” to enjoy/respect it. what a clown….from bars like:
“Now I could let these dream killers kill my self-esteem/Or use my arrogance as the steam to power my dreams….Killin y’all niggas on that lyrical shit/Mayonnaise colored Benz, I push Miracle Whips” to
“so keep your love locked down…your love locked down…” in a horribly off tune voice. i know what id spend money on, damn im mad!
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November 23rd, 2008 at 9:36 pm
LOL, at all the people who obviously didn’t listen to the interview and got mad at an out of context quote. After he said that he gave big props to Lil Wanye.
And for the record here are some pics of Kanye’s NYC apartment and I agree it seems way to nice to listen to a song where Lil Wanye talks about how much of a Pussy Monster he is:
http://www.dezeen.com/2007/01/18/kanye-west-shows-silvestrin-apartment-images/
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November 23rd, 2008 at 9:47 pm
As much as we all Looooooove (can you sense my sarcasm?) the commentary from Kanye West…this has got to be up there with the best “DUH, which way did he go?” comments of all time….I think that was the auto-tune talking though….I so wish it’s the auto-tune…
late,
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November 24th, 2008 at 2:09 am
yo has anybody heard this extended version of Say You Will; it’s actually kinda dope.
http://idjtoo.wordpress.com/2008/11/23/free-download-kanye-west-ft-vamoose-say-you-will-extended-version/
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idjtoo Reply:
November 24th, 2008 at 2:09 am
its featuring this group called Vamoose
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November 24th, 2008 at 12:31 pm
what a herb, dude swears he’s the ish
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November 24th, 2008 at 2:17 pm
Fuck anybody who hating Kanye West!! Kanye is the best in the game right now. Hes is a true artist so everything he does is a form of self expression. Pay attention to the level on which Kanye does everything. Everything he does is to make him better and free his mind and soul . Kanye is history is making because his life,music,style changes with him . Life is about growth and change even if you have to fight your way to do it. CHECK MY MANS GAME HIS ATTITUDE AND MUSIC IS KEEPING HIM IN THE SPOTLIGHT AND PAID . . . KANYE IS AN ARTIST FOR PEOPLE ON A HIGHER LEVEL AND MIND FRAME .
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November 24th, 2008 at 5:38 pm
Yeh. Those Vamoose cats are nice. I saw them do a show with Mickey Factz @ Crash Mansion. They went in hardbody.
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November 24th, 2008 at 7:28 pm
Fuk what S.Gaddis sayin’! Nobody hates Kanye’s Gay Lookin (Gay) Ass, just don’t like what he said Dummo!
Bottom Line IF it wasn’t for the grimey Hip Hop he speaks of, he’d still be in Chicago struggling tryna make a name for himself. The Roc sho’ NEVA woulda fuk’d widdim…
THEREFORE THERE WOULD BE NO NICE APARTMENT! Maybe a nice apartment on the SouthEast side of Chicago, shyt. (Probably would still have his loving Mom too, tho RIP Donda West!)
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November 24th, 2008 at 8:09 pm
Shyt, HE looks too grimey to be in his “nice apartment”! He been lookin’ like HANCOCK lately, scruffy as hell. He don’t even cut his nappy hair or wash his face no more. Looks a hot funky mess. Did he stop showering? UGH!
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November 24th, 2008 at 9:52 pm
Anybody who dont understand Kanye is LAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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November 25th, 2008 at 6:42 am
LOL. Read every comment I’ve left on this page to anything regarding Kanye in the last couple of months. Can’t say I didn’t call this shit.
By the way.. Sonja.. you can’t say Kanye is “the best in the game” when he’s concentrating on singing over half-ass techno music. He’s not even in the same game anymore.
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November 25th, 2008 at 7:33 pm
This homo just spit in the face of the music that got him to where hes at. His new album gave me more laughs than anything. He personifies sellout to the fullest nowadays.
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