If there's one thing Kanye West knows how to do, it's how to give an interview! The rapper sat down with Zane Lowe of Beats 1 to talk about his upcoming album Jesus Is King, which was supposed to drop last night but ... didn't. And his second, companion album Jesus Is Born, set to drop Christmas Day. In fact Kanye also told Jimmy Kimmel last night that the first album was already OUT, when in fact it wasn't. Ye later Tweeted to correct himself, writing: "To my fans,” he wrote. “Thank you for being loyal & patient. We are specifically fixing mixes on ‘Everything We Need’[,] ‘Follow God’ & ‘Water.’ We not going to sleep until this album is out!"



And of course West discussed a lot of other stuff but most of all he congratulated himself on being such an evolved and amazing human being. Some highlights from the sit-down:

  • "I am unquestionably, undoubtedly the greatest human artist of all time. It’s just not even a question anymore at this point. It’s just a fact."

  • "Now that I’m in service to Christ, my job is to spread the gospel, to let people know what Jesus has done for me. I’ve spread a lot of things. There was a time I was letting you know what high fashion had done for me, I was letting you know what the Hennessey had done for me, but now I’m letting you know what Jesus has done for me, and in that I’m no longer a slave, I’m a son now, a son of God. I’m free."

  • I just thank God for saving me mentally, physically, spiritually. I give it all up to God. And sometimes we’ll sit around and start to get mad about something or I’m about to scream about something and I’m rude. I had a rude spirit in me that I need to work on … The thing I pray for to be more Christ like is the Grace."

  • "Playboy was my gateway into full blown pornography addiction. My dad had a Playboy left out at age 5, and it’s affected almost every choice I made for the rest of my life. From age 5, to now having to kick the habit. And it just presents itself in the open, like it’s OK. And I standup and say, you know, it’s not OK."

  • "With God, I’ve been able to beat things that had a full control of me. That Playboy that I found when I was 5 years old was written all over the moment that I was at the MTV Awards with the Timberlands, the Balmain jeans - before people were rocking Balmain jeans — and the Hennessy bottle. That was such a script out of a rockstar’s life. My mom had passed a year before, and I had said, ‘Some people drown themselves in drugs. And I drown myself in my addiction.’ Sex. And that’s what fed the ego, too. Money, clothes, cars, accolades, social media, paparazzi photos, going to Paris fashion week, all of that."

  • "I have five years of marriage under my belt. What I learned from five years of marriage is, it is the greatest bond, it is a God bond to be able to have someone that you can call on, someone you can call out, someone that can call on you and call you out. Equally yoked. Someone to complain to and someone to grow with as we grow and raise our children."

  • "Christian innovation, Christian innovators. That’s the net that we’re casting for the organization that we have now. [I’m] no longer an entertainer. I’m not here for anyone’s entertainment. People say, ‘Oh this is going to kill your brand,’ but my brand is expressing how I feel whether it’s in line with what you thought the brand was even two days ago. A smart man has the ability to pivot and say, ‘I think something different now.’ I don’t think this because this was the culture, I don’t think North should wear crop tops just because I had her wearing a slip dress when she was 2 years old. I think and feel differently now, now that I am Christian. Now that I am the founder of a $3 billion organization and married for five years."

  • "Not only was I diagnosed with mental illness, mental illness is something that was used to take my dome down by 10 feet to wash me out, to control me. I do love the fact that I can show the world that I’m sitting here and have been diagnosed, put on medication to make me fat on purpose. They’re trying to kill the superhero. So, I’m trying to show that someone that’s diagnosed can still drive and be the founder of a multi-billion dollar organization. Can still be in service to Christ. Can still be a good husband and a good dad. My life does not end with this diagnosis and I will not be stigmatized and discriminated [against]."


Brah! That's a LOT of deep thought and we can't help but think maybe Ye really IS a genius!