Full Kanye West Interview With TMZ Gained A Lot of Respect for Kanye, Hopefully He Takes on the Status Quo

I gained a lot of respect watching Kanye's full interview with TMZ that presumably occurred recently. Kanye asserts we are all mentally in prison which I think is very observant, and how he asserted all people are hurt by our current prison system. He discusses how people currently choose to be slaves to our current status quo.

During the event a bystander at the interview, possibly someone who works in the office and challenges Kanye's ideas and Kanye walks up and hugs him. Kanye doesn't lecture him and in the spirit of Martin Luther King emphasizes love. Though Kanye didn't seem to well verbalize his view of pragmatism, but it seemed that Kanye was proposing a new kind of politics of no longer othering and dehumanizing those we disagree with and finally engaging in meaningful discussion about ideas.

At some point it seems Kanye compared himself to artists like John Lennon and Tupac who were assassinated, though I never was super fan of his music--though it all sounds fine, I really found his ideas in this interview to be more powerful in the right direction than I have seen from Lennon or Tupac, though I haven't investigated any of them that much. As Thoreau asserted though many attack the branches of evil very few attack the roots.

Kanye also discussed his opiate use and how we need to emphasize love and tolerance. I really hope Kanye keeps talking about the importance of free speech and free exchange of ideas and taking on those who try to intimidate everyone against speaking their minds. Kanye's ideas in this interview were very in the line of Martin Luther King Jr. who emphasized the importance of love as the key to ultimate reality in his last speech to SCLC, 8 months before his assassination at (49 minutes and 20 seconds in the youtube video above). I hope Kanye keeps pushing the envelope and standing up for civil society and free exchange of ideas.