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“People are finally seeing the oppression that’s been happening and overlooked, and that we, as a culture, have been fighting through every day,” he says. “We got a voice to try to make change. Allow me to help in any way.”
On his daughter Stormi Webster… “she’s got more Lambos than me!”
On his commitment to being a leading voice in the Black Lives Matter movement… “That means we got a voice to try to make change. People are listening, you know what I mean? And we want to try to make sure they understand that I’m a tool. Allow me to help in any way. Let me know where we got to go show up. It’s a big picture. It’s like a lot of groundwork we got to do. “You’re trying to get to a point where people are finally seeing the oppression that’s been happening and overlooked, and that we, as a culture, have been fighting through every day. I mean, look how many leaders we have in the Black community.”
On his decision to perform at the 2019 Superbowl that was largely boycotted by black performers:
“I couldn’t dare do that. For what? Who gains from that? Not my people… There’s things within that organisation that I do not agree with at all, and I was not about to go and be of service to them in any way.”
On his disappointment at Coachella being cancelled… “I was so looking forward to it, man. I was so ready, so happy,” he sighs. “It was two weeks before my birthday. I was like, man, I had it. This Coachella, it felt like it was a little more special, you know?”
On his faith inspired by Kanye West… “My grandmother and my grandfather always kept me in that. My mom and dad always. For sure, a thousand per cent. I still find faith in everything,” he says. “I mean, I’ve made records where I don’t curse. Not every song has to have a curse word in it for it to be good. So it’s not about that. And I think, even in the beginning, [Kanye’s music] was church-inspired, too.”
