Hip-Hop Quotables: A Collection of Kanye Quotes

**Tennessee To Texas** · 03-11-2009

YouTube - Bush Doesnt Care About Black People

“George Bush doesn’t care about black people. They’re saying black families are looting and white families are just looking for food . . . they’re giving the (army) permission to shoot us . . .”
– said live on the NBC Hurricane Katrina relief program

“I think white people are allowed to say ‘bling.’ They are allowed to say old-school black slang, like ‘hottie’ and ‘homie.’ Actually, I do not think that (white people) are allowed to use slang until it is at least a year old. If you say a slang word too early, it’s like you’re trying to be black. So as long as the slang is a little played out, you’re all good.”
– giving a lesson on using slang

“If I don’t win, the awards show loses credibility.”
– said during a tantrum after he didn’t win an MTV Music Video Award

“In America, they want you to accomplish these great feats, to pull off these David Copperfield-type stunts. You want me to be great, but you don’t ever want me to say I’m great?”
– in an interview with Rolling Stone

“You never know how words can save a person’s life, physically or otherwise. People like Martin Luther King or Mahatma Gandhi . . . - people whose job it is - I see that in Kanye.”
– Donda West, on her son, in an interview with the Baltimore Sun

“I mean, my music isn’t just music - it’s medicine. I want my songs to touch people, to give them what they need. Every time I make an album, I’m trying to make a cure for cancer, musically. That stresses me out!”
– in an interview with BMI MusicWorld

“Sometimes I feel like I’m carrying the whole of hip hop myself, the state of pop music, too. I just try to push the envelope.”
– in an interview with NME.com

“If I was more complacent and I let things slide, my life would be easier, but you all wouldn’t be as entertained. My misery is your pleasure.”
– in an interview with Rolling Stone

“It’s like, you can’t please everybody, but if anybody’s got a shot, it’s me.”
– in an interview with BMI MusicWorld

“I look at me and Justin like Prince and Michael Jackson in their day.”
– on the professional rivalry between himself and Justin Timberlake, to the AP

“I have no words.”
– to USA Today, on Britney Spears’ embarrassing VMA performance

YouTube - RAW VIDEO: Kanye West's Backstage Meltdown!

**Tennessee To Texas** · 03-11-2009

Kept this gem separate due to the fowl langua....... cultural enlightenment.

YouTube - Kanye West Flippin Out

**MorningStar** · 03-14-2009

"He prays on old white ladies [who] drive the Mercedes with the windows cracked. . . . you should’ve heard the bitch screaming. . . . sticking guns in crackers’ mouths. . . . the cops can’t stop it. . . . remember 4-29-92, come on; Florence and Normandy coming to a corner near you, cracker; we’ve been through your area, mass hysteria; led by your motherfu***ng Menace Clan"; "Mad *****"; Menace Clan, Da Hood, 1995, Rap-A-Lot Records, Noo Trybe Records, Time Warner, USA.

"Kill the white people; we gonna make them hurt; kill the white people;but buy my record first; ha, ha, ha"; "Kill d’White People"; Apache, Apache Ain’t ****, 1993, Tommy Boy Music, Time Warner, USA.

"Devils fear this brand new sh**. . . . I bleed them next time I see them. . . I pray on these devils. . . . look what it has come to; who you gonna run to when we get to mobbing. . . . filling his body up with lead, yah; cracker in my way; slitting, slit his throat; watch his body shake; watch his body shake; that’s how we do it in the motherfu***ng [San Francisco] Bay. . . . sitting on the dock of the dirty with my AK"; "Heat—featuring Jet and Spice 1"; Paris, Unleashed, 1998, Unleashed Records, Whirling Records.

"*****s in the church say: kill whitey all night long. . . . the white man is the devil. . . . the CRIPS and Bloods are soldiers I’m recruiting with no dispute; drive-by shooting on this white genetic mutant. . . . let’s go and kill some rednecks. . . . Menace Clan ain’t afraid. . . . I got the .380; the homies think I’m crazy because I shot a white baby; I said; I said; I said: kill whitey all night long. . . . a ***** dumping on your white a**; fu** this rap sh**, *****, I’m gonna blast. . . . I beat a white boy to the motherf***ng ground"; "Kill Whitey"; Menace Clan, Da Hood, 1995, Rap-A-Lot Records, Noo Trybe Records, subsidiaries of what was called Thorn EMI and now is called The EMI Group, United Kingdom.

These rap groups are promoted by Sumner Redstone's MTV and ignored by the self-proclaimed anti-racists. Imagine if the roles were reversed. Imagine a white band promoting black genocide and horrible acts of violence against other races. Would they be advertised by the mainstream media?

Where's the condemnation by people who call themselves anti-racists? How many innocent whites have suffered injuries, rape, or death as a result of these lyrics that are listened to by thousands of black youth?

**Davy Crockett** · 03-14-2009

Kayne West must have been that object that floated over the Smoky Mountains a few weeks back. We Bears were wondering if it wasn't some kind of NFO or not?

Never realized that a person could have so much hot air between the ears.