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Kanye West

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

Let's say some.

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

Factually, for sure, there are some business people of all different walks and backgrounds that would like to be as rich and as popular as Elon Musk.

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

So let me just take a step back from the we're one species into the we're separated by race, gender, socioeconomic class conversation and say, as a Black owner of two tech platforms, hardware and software, I need to take action.

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

Let's not call it affirmative.

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

Let's just say I need to take action and I need to take accountability and ensuring that

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

Black engineers are hired, and guess what?

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

Hired together.

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

Because when the Black people that are brilliant are separated from our culture, we forget who we are.

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

And we'll get to a point where, you know, OJ would say, I'm not Black, I'm OJ.

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

Because just to be on the golf course, we put on the golf shirt.

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

But the golf shirt might not be something that our culture would have done.

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

And now our culture in poor communities is, oh, everybody's got Draco on them.

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

Everybody's got a gun on them.

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

Oh, if you run up on me on a gas station, I'm going to kill you.

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

Hey, you ain't got to talk to me like a man if I haven't killed at least five people.

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

But you know what happens is we can kill five people.

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

We could kill 10 people and still be in the media.

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

As long as we play by the rules.

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

Right.

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

Because what will happen is any of these guys that have talked about killing people and different things, unless Trump had pardoned them.