Kanye West, according to Kanye West

'Musical genius,' 'artist merchant,' 'in front of the joke.'  Kanye West ... according to Kanye West.

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00:00I am Kanye West

00:06And that feels really great to say especially this year

00:15I changed my name this week from Kanye to the face which stands for the face of the Grammys due to the fact that

00:21Ten nominations is the third most in history and um

00:24From now on I prefer to be called the face, but I've never been just okay

00:28I've always been amazing if I want to know what I would do if I didn't win I

00:37Guess we'll never know

00:53For me as a dad like you know

00:55I'm supposed to be like this this musical genius and everything, but I can't I I really can't work the car seat that well

01:02I can't sit with something on my spirit for more than a day. I can't go to sleep on it

01:06I got I have to express it reason why I'm not allowed to be empowered is

01:14because

01:15All they want to present to young black men is the idea of making it to

01:20The league or making it to be a rapper, but not the idea of becoming an owner the way

01:24I create my music the way I create my content

01:27it just takes me a little bit longer a lot more conversations and I

01:34Don't like to complain without trying to find or offer a solution

01:38Which takes even longer?

01:40models are

01:42Artists merchants is less than 10 that I can name in history

01:48Truman Ford

01:50Hughes

01:52Disney

01:53jobs

01:54West

01:56Just the ability to do what no one said you could do to do the impossible is the most inspiring

02:02things I don't have

02:05all the answers for

02:08every issue I've ever had I

02:11Don't have a sound bite for everything. Oh, I think lifetimes and lifetimes ahead I

02:18Fight for all of us. I do I do have a lot of empathy

02:21I need you to make sure

02:23that

02:25y'all let me

02:27Walk down the street and I wear whatever hat I want if you like this

02:31Yeah, I'd far rather be an Andy Kaufman than

02:36The majority of the way people are letting the media like push them around

02:40I'm in front of the joke. The joke is on everyone else

02:43so not only was I diagnosed with mental illness the mental illness is something that

02:50Was used to

02:52Take my dome down by 10 feet

02:55To wash me out

02:57To control me. I know that God's been calling me for a long time and the devil's been distracted me for a long time