Kanye West has delivered what is seemingly becoming his annual “speech” at the MTV Video Music Awards.
The 2016 edition of the VMAs saw Yeezy being given the opportunity, by the organisers, to do whatever he wanted.
Kanye took it to screen his latest somewhat controversial work, the Famous music video.
Before screening the video, Yeezy came out, dressed by himself no doubt – and gave a six-minute speech, covering a range of topics in the process.
“I came here to present my new video, but before I do that, I’mma talk,” said the controversial artist.
He opened by acknowledging the fact that his Famous video might lose to Beyoncé – which it did – but he didn’t mind because, “I can’t be mad, cause I’m always wishing for Beyoncé to win!”
Kanye went on to talk about the thought process of making the controversial piece of work, calling it “an expression of our now”.
He moved on to acknowledge the influential role artists play in leading pop culture.
Any Kanye rant/speech is incomplete without addressing the “haters”.
He talked about a lecture he had delivered at the Chicago Art Institute, where a young man described how he feared for his own life because he had seen three of his close friends killed around him.
Kanye responded by saying he had been told on several occasions by those around him to stop comparing himself to Steve Jobs, among other pioneers and industry leaders.
He said there were three ways to keep people impoverished: taking away their esteem, taking away their resources, and taking away their role models.
West – in retaliation – went on to name the very role models people told him not to compare himself to. He ended of the sentence by referring to himself – “West”.
It’s classic Yeezy, but that’s the Kanye people love, including himself.
Watch the full speech below: