John Safran

Like, there's just a context to things where it's not like you're censoring yourself, but you're going, oh, considering this context, that changes how it will be received, so I won't.

But that's very different to sort of like...

Like, for instance, like after 9-11, there was a couple of album covers that happened to have the World Trade Centre on them.

And then it's like, oh, let's redo the album cover.

And that's not self-censorship, I think, because they're saying, it's the artist going, oh, listen, we never meant it to be

I think if they meant it to be provocative and then they sold out and if for some reason before 9-11 they wanted to be provocative about the World Trade Centre and hate America and say, yeah, whatever, and then they compromised afterwards, then that would be self-censorship.

But if it's like, oh, listen.

this just changes the entire context of what I was trying to get across, then I think that's fine.

Yeah, so that might be a reason, like a certain context, like if it was like, oh, listen, it just –

You know, it's like the Sex Pistols, Sex Pistols have a song called Holiday in the Sun where it's about, you know, people going on holiday when there's like tragedies going on and stuff like that.

And yeah, yeah.

So totally, if the context was, if that's the point, would a change in context mean I wouldn't specifically do that?

Totally.

Totally.

So it was like a ghost town and Kanye is wealthy enough and has enough kind of power that he can kind of start a project and then quit a tenth of the way in, you know, like we all do.

Like it's like, oh, I'm going to build this birdhouse and then it's like, oh, it's too hard.

He's like that except...

Except I'm going to build a church that's going to be in the grounds of this huge property in Calabasas and I'm going to build essentially kind of, I don't know, what do you call that thing where the Greeks do their plays?

Yeah, an amphitheater.

Like he built a wooden amphitheater on the grounds, but there was also a mansion attached and then attached to that another house or whatever like that.