Analysis
Kanye West talks about how the press treated him at the Yeezy Season 4 show. After that happened his
wife got robbed and he asked for a break but they forced him to announce a
second leg of the tour, and shortly after that he
was hospitalized. Now whenever Kanye accomplishes something they reference that moment and call him crazy.
Transcript of [Kanye West](https://www.forgedbytime.com/timeline/kanye-west)
*This transcript was initially generated with AI but is modifiable by usersWhat I want to say is, on Season 4, my show started late, and that's what the press is about. Now the show is starting late. Now I've been in fashion for a while and I've seen a lot of shows start late, but after my season, shows starting—my Season 4 shows started late—the press completely killed us.In the middle of the Louis Vuitton Island, there were campus-like swimsuit and sporting looks that we put together that ended up becoming a four-billion-dollar brand. There were colorways, there were sizes of boots. If anyone remembers that show, people were falling over in that show, and that's what the press wrote about.A week after that show happened, my
wife at the time got robbed right here in Paris. Then I told my manager at that time, Scooter Braun, "I just wanted to go to Japan. I just needed a break." And he said, "No, you need to go make more money, so we need to do a
second leg of the tour." And that tour lasted for four days, and
I went to the hospital.And every time I do something great, someone brings up that moment for the rest of my life. It's the ultimate stigma. People feel like they have the right to come to my face and call me crazy. Like, it doesn't hurt my feelings, or like you don't have to be crazy in order to change the world.People talked a lot of mess about the Tommy Ton photo. I feel like people remember that Tommy Ton photo. And there was a friend of mine that was in that photo that's not here anymore, but in that photo of the internet and the fashion world just wanted to talk about it.Everyone here has dedicated their lives to creating and to being a part of something. We ask—we have Shane Oliver, we have the kids that didn't make it into the house here tonight, and we're starting our own house right now.Sometimes a cut will be slightly off, a stitch could be slightly off, but we did change the look of fashion over the past 10 years. We are the streets. We are the culture. And we will not be bullied or treated differently than you treat any other fashion job that might start a little bit later just to present the best idea to you. For these pictures will last forever. This is something that you will not be able to un-Google.I am and everyone here knows that I am the leader.When we went to Gap, the colorways wouldn't come back. A patch would be missing, a store in Atlanta wouldn't open, and it felt like we were just there to be slowed down. But there's no slowing us down now. We have nothing to lose and only everything to gain. And I don't want any of y'all to talk to me about pain.I remember when me and Matt Williams and Virgil was styling Rihanna 14 years ago. But tonight, let's just celebrate. Let's just enjoy. It's a new frontier. The idea behind this collection is everything is put on and pulled over. This is the idea of supply—future of clothing. No hardware.Fashion has had a tendency to be extremely classist, to say that if you are pretty enough or didn't have enough money or weren't born into money or weren't scamming, that you can't afford this cut. When I was at the Gap, Demna made a cut of a t-shirt. Pulled away and made the cut that they felt was at the bottom of the Maslow hierarchy need chart. The people in the boardroom felt like they knew what the people in the streets wanted. And this is what we fought for.You know, I wonder if Elvis Presley had an Instagram, would he have been able to perform in Paris and not be held back by his publishing? You can't manage me. This is an unmanageable situation. You can't turn the music lower. This is a God's dream, a dream that can't happen without the help of God, the journey, the people who believed earlier, the people who sat in my car and listened to the early versions of "Jesus."When we moved to Paris, we were never given a factory. And I'm gonna tell you like I said, but I want to make it clear to you guys: Bernard, I know, is my new
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