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Kanye West

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Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

Beautiful.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

Oh, well, I wanted to finish.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

The thing is, okay, you're going to ask me different questions, but I'm about growing and building and bringing the idea to life.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

So when I see you, I say, oh, this guy understands how to hire engineers.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

Where I'm coming from, coming from Hollywood, coming from press, coming from media, I'm

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

All of the guys, you know, that... So many of the guys that have been, like, voices and faces and talking heads, whatever, have not understood how to engineer product.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

And that's the reason why I was able to jump past everyone in the entertainment field and become...

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

Whatever the net worth is, $11 billion.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

I'm going to stop putting the whole Black thing on my worth.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

Let's just see where I am on the scale of life, because that's a cop-out for me to say, richest Black guy of all time, because that's feeding into the same trauma economy that Black Lives Matter feeds into.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

That's why I love and respect engineers.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

That's the only thing that we really need to teach in school is engineering.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

We don't need to teach history.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

We don't need to teach anything that is subjective.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

It needs to only be engineering taught in school, and everything else needs to be recessed.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

Nothing at all, any forced subjective information is just to weaken and indoctrinate

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

our species, and that's what schools do now.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

I don't 100% believe in anything, any concept of the future or any concept of history, because history was just written by the victors.

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

So if I see stuff happen on the day that later that day is reported wrong, so how wrong is something reported a thousand years ago?

Lex Fridman Podcast
#332 โ€“ Kanye โ€˜Yeโ€™ West Interview

And why would we argue about something that's not in the now?