Kanye West | How I Escaped the Matrix (EYE-OPENING)

go listen to all my music it's the codes of self-esteem it's the codes of Who You Are if you're a Kanye West fan you're not a fan of me you're a fan of yourself you will believe in yourself I'm just the espresso I'm just a shot in the morning to get you going to make you believe that you could overcome that situation that you're dealing with all the time they have you in a box you can save the world but you are working on things that are too small take a step back stop worrying about

your college your loans stop worrying about what job that they got waiting for you in Silicon Valley MIT you can save the world kids in college you can save the world put my life on this interview right now it's up to y'all y'all have the ability to just step back from what you think culture is a day it's not it's not about any candidate it's not about red or blue it's about Humanity y'all talking about his 12 years of oxygen left tell me we go kill the art we can't kill the Earth we're gonna kill

the things that Keep Us Alive on the Earth and the Earth gonna survive it's up to y'all y'all the future but what y'all working on right now we are following other people's opinions we are controlled by the media and today it all changes we need to think how to think free we need to be free thinkers then we need to learn how to feel free people say feel free but we don't even know how to feel free or think free say what you feel positive and negative grounded in reality this reality has been forced upon

us it is a choice just like when I said slavery is a choice the reality we can make our own reality we can talk about history but not too long we need to talk about our now because we can fix and start loving each other now but the thing is we have the resources on this planet to have a human Utopia to have respect for each other Mankind we have that but we're too concerned about getting the next Hollywood film to Netflix we have the resources there's new billionaires every day you apply the right type

of thinkers like the Elon Musk the people with the real ideas like politics is dead it's over with politics like these kids need some type of real truth I'm gonna stand up and I'm gonna influence and I'm just gonna be me to the fullest because it's also in my Approach you know it's a certain point of a level of like frustration because waiting for everyone to agree may take too long I'm not going to sit inside of a corporation for 20 years the time is now the time is now to express and for people to

believe in themselves the time is now for it to be okay to be great people in this world shun people for being great for being a bright color for standing out but the time is now to be okay to be the greatest you your entire life is a test and when did you have the most anxiety in grammar school of high school no question on test day so your entire life become this test I ain't trying to say the right answer I am just doing what I feel my mama said trying is failing there is

no ifs Woods coulds shoulds it just is and we just are and it is so it's simple and this mentality should not be defeated yea cannot die yea can that be buried there is nothing and matter of fact no enemy the enemy is a concept that's out before I found price and gave my life to God I would try to lean on my own understanding and that's the universe is like a black hole of information what do you mean by your own understanding meaning when people ask Einstein said that you're the smartest person what would

you like to know reinstein's response was I'd like to understand the mind of God meaning God is all-knowing and we can only know or see and for me as a Visionary we can only know or see what God allows us to see and what he feels we're ready to see and understand to to maximize what our Maslow's hierarchy and need chart is you know what sets our dopamines what sets our serotonins off what makes us feel good basically like you know we we did a good deed and it's like it was somehow you know just

doing a beat for a local dope rapper really meant a lot to me when I was 14 years old doing a beat for just anyone famous that had a major record deal was a lot to me at age 19. me being able to you know put out my own music and that was a lot to me at age 24 meaning as I grow God sets new stages in The Game of Life for me that you get your satisfaction like Maslow's hierarchy of need is like our satisfaction chart what makes us feel whole and accomplished as

a human being so as I go through these different levels there's times where I would use confidence when I knew what I was doing and I would use arrogance when I didn't know what I was doing but I'd rather use arrogance than to let someone diminish my idea of myself because that is what keeps us going hope actually Keeps Us Alive anybody you as most people's like do you want tomorrow to come and they say yes they have they have hope for it but I went from having confidence and arrogance to having faith and faith

is the opposite of fear and that created this Fearless approach that I have and that's what now has made me the fearless leader that I am that I've like crystallized into the leader that my mom always knew I would be when kids followed me in preschool the leader that people saw when we changed the sound of music you know I like when Jay-Z said show you how to move in a room full of vultures isn't that like you don't really have to change who you are and start saying I'm gonna be a snake I'm gonna

be that you know what I'm saying just know you can't let people use you for misusing life is about using people though just don't misuse them I mean just in life if you like the type of music and you listen to it all the time you know why not follow your heart why not follow what makes you happy I remember when I I made this song American well I mean the movie American Werewolf in Paris came out and it had the theme song I think was by blur nothing hurts like your mouth laugh and like

me and my friends used to love that song so much and like we weren't supposed to like the song or something because of where we were from or we like songs like us so kiss me under the moon inside like all these songs with just these incredible Melodies from the 80s and from the 90s a lot of the 90s stuff the people keep on saying 80s but they were like Mr Jones and me all these sweeping Melodies and Nirvana and [ __ ] like that like [Music] I'm like I really love music and I love

the singing songs and I can make music so why not just make music the greatest thing that a man has to give to anyone when there's their kids whether it's their wife is time and how much time do we spend you know chasing the American dream or chasing money and materialistic things how much time do we actually give to the women and children and that's with this album more so than you know what type of music you know the way I chose to express it that message is what people need to leave with the most

I think there's a balance of family and calling that I specifically have I have to protect and take care of my family and make sure with the power that God has put in my hand that I do everything that I can as the father to provide the best chance at them being the maximum success that they can be I think people focus too much on the past and focus too much on regret even like when you deal with schools like you take like the slave idea my my point is I've heard of history class I've

never heard of a class that breaks down how you you know balance a checkbook or how you control your finances which are my father never taught me that and I've never heard of future class so they keep us so focused on history that we start to believe that it actually repeats itself and we become overly traditional and we can advance as a race of beings we get too caught up in the past and what everyone's saying and what everyone's tweeting and sometimes you just have to be Fearless enough to break the simulation I refuse to

follow those rules that Society is set up and the way that they control people with low self-esteem with improper information with branding with marketing I refuse to follow those rules it's about truth it's about information it's about awesomeness and the only luxury is time the time you spend with your family that's the only luxury to this concept a lot of people say okay well you know oh you have to do music I'm gonna keep doing music but what if people told me I couldn't rap what would have happened what if people told me I couldn't

perform I have other goals and other things and I'm going to use my platform every platform to stand up and say I want to make something I want to make the next Ralph Lauren that was the point of the Zayn interview they say people don't stand up and protect their dreams people are too scared of getting you know spoofed in a way