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"Kanye West is a lot of things, but insecure is not one of them. Sitting down with BBC Radio 1 personality Zane Lowe for an hourlong interview airing Monday, Sept. 23, the rapper, 36, called himself &amp;quot;the No. 1 rock star on the planet&amp;quot; and said he&amp;apos;s here push the boundaries of everything we think we know about art, music, fashion, and culture.\r\nIn fact, the hip hop star and new dad (to daughter North, 3 months, with Kim Kardashian) considers himself to be something of a revolutionary. Though he conceded that &amp;quot;there would be no Kanye West if it wasn&amp;apos;t for Michael Jackson,&amp;quot; he also said he&amp;apos;d reached a point that even the King of Pop hadn&amp;apos;t seen in his lifetime.\r\n\r\n&amp;quot;I&amp;apos;ve got to a point that Michael Jackson did not break down. I have reached the glass ceiling, as a creative person, as a celebrity...and I&amp;apos;ve been at it for 10 years,&amp;quot; he told Lowe. &amp;quot;I look around and I say, &amp;apos;Wait a minute. There&amp;apos;s no one around here in that looks like me. And if they are, they&amp;apos;re quiet as f--k.&amp;apos; So that means, wait a second -- now we&amp;apos;re seriously like, in a civil rights movement.&amp;quot;\r\nWest went on to say that he&amp;apos;s had a hard time getting people to see his potential. &amp;quot;I shouldn&amp;apos;t be limited to only one place of creativity,&amp;quot; he lamented. &amp;quot;You guys don&amp;apos;t understand -- I did the Air Yeezys and they eBay&amp;apos;d for $90,000...but I didn&amp;apos;t get a call from Nike the next day.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nIn that way, he envies the empire his pal Jay Z has built. &amp;quot;Jay Z is more realized than me. More of his dreams and aspirations have come true,&amp;quot; West said. &amp;quot;You don&amp;apos;t realize -- I am so frustrated. Like, I&amp;apos;ve got so much I want to give...And I&amp;apos;ve got a million people telling me why I can&amp;apos;t do it.&amp;quot;\r\nThe aspiring fashion designer thinks he can do it -- and he&amp;apos;s determined to prove it. &amp;quot;I&amp;apos;m not trying to regurgitate myself,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I showed people that I understand how to make perfect. You know, [My Twisted] Dark Fantasy could be considered to be perfect. I know how to make perfect, but that&amp;apos;s not what I&amp;apos;m here to do. I&amp;apos;m here to crack the pavement and make new grounds sonically...and culturally.&amp;quot;\r\n\r\nHe added: &amp;quot;We culture. Rap is the new rock &amp;apos;n&amp;apos; roll. We the rock stars...We the new rock stars and I&amp;apos;m the biggest of all of them. I&amp;apos;m the No. 1 rock star on the planet.&amp;quot;\r\nThe &amp;quot;Black Skinhead&amp;quot; rapper also talked a little about Kardashian and their daughter. Asked whether he gets any time for himself, West said, &amp;quot;Yeah, it&amp;apos;s like family time. That&amp;apos;s what Kim gave me. She gave me everything, she gave me family, she gave me a support system. She was in a powerful enough situation where she could love me without asking me for money, which is really hard for me to find.&amp;quot;"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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