D o you understand some people have felt that putting clothes and
bags is insensitive perhaps to homeless and other people.
>> Look, man, I'm an innovator, and
I'm not here to sit up and apologize about my ideas.
That's exactly what the media tries to do.
Make us apologize for
any idea that doesn't fall under exactly the way they want us to think.
This is not a joke, this is not a game,
this is not just some celebrity collaboration, this is my life.
I'm fighting for a position to be able to change clothing and
bring the best design to the people.
>> Kanye West is not only hip hop artist, producer, he is also an innovator
who likes to innovate, he's a creator, and he's just creating.
So he has this new line of clothes and collaboration with Gap Stores of course,
and he's put them out there, but there's a certain way that he's presenting them.
They touched on at the beginning, let's let them finish.
What's this about garbage bags, Kanye?
Let's go.
>> He also points out that these are not garbage bags as has been reported,
but Lawrence construction bags.
The reason he put their clothes in there, they're folded is to make people be able
to just informally reach in and help themselves with what they wanna buy.
He says his goal is to make life easier and informal so
that we can all basically dress in the dark.
>> Who doesn't like to dress in the dark in the morning before the light gets in
your eyes, and it's all annoying and crusty?
Come on bro, but let's get a picture of one person tweeted exactly how this would
look in the stores is in Gap store.
They said this, here we go, let's look at this tweet.
This is how they're selling Easy Gap.
>> [LAUGH] >> The sales associate said that he got
mad when he saw that they had it on hangers and this is how he wanted it.
They won't help you find your size either.
You just have to dig through everything and next you have a big pile of a mess
there of very nice clothing I guess we can assume so.
Kanye's reasoning got even better you guys, we're not done with this part.
He has a relatable reasons why he's not big on the hangers and the folding and
then the shelving.
What's more?
>> I don't like hangers back when I used to work at the Gap,
I used to sit and have to fold and make everything super neat and
I just felt like that gets fairly pretentious and classist.
And the whole point of why I came to the Gap was to make egalitarian clothing.
>> Egalitarian clothing, innovators, creativity, a new way to present things.
Forget the hangers and forget the folding.
What we've got is clothing.
Remember that word egalitarian.
This may be the only aspect I think you guys I may agree with you on because
again, egalitarian.
Let's go to this next, I scroll through the Kanye Gap collection.
The Easy Gap collection.
I want you guys to see a couple of these articles of clothing that they're selling
in these bags that you're digging through for yourself.
Let's watch, look at this.
Keep me up because I'm gonna tell you guys what we're seeing here.
So there's the line of dark, black or faded gray clothing.
There's a dove hoodie for $240.
There's some satin cargo pants for 220.
We have a tank top there for 60 bucks.
You got a different kind of tank top a loose one for not 80 bucks.
Men's long sleeve second skin.
One of my favorite things down here, it's underneath that set that there it comes.
It's a women's long sleeve bodies all-inclusive with hands as well.
300 bucks there.
>> Is this the Halloween collection?
>> [LAUGH] The only problem I have is that it's not egalitarian [LAUGH].
>> Yeah.
>> That's the only problem but outside of that,
my defenses in case you guys are wondering.
>> I can't wait until I try them in.
>> [LAUGH] My defenses, he's coming up with an idea.
So because he wants to put them in bags and
because he wants people to dig through it themselves, which isn't my thing.
Like, there's always anytime I defend Kanye, there's a thing,
it's his idea who am I to poo, poo on someone's idea.
Maybe people are gonna like it.
Maybe these 12, 15-year-old kids are gonna beg their moms and dads for
credit cards to spend too much on these clothes.
They're gonna be like I like digging through it ma, I'm a different person,
I'm an old man now, I'm be honest, I'm used to folding.
In fact,
my kid leaves stuff in a pot on the floor I get up,set like pick this stuff up.
Maybe this is the wave of the future, and we just don't know it.
Innovators sometimes get criticized until you agree with them.
>> That as new idiots for the record.
>> [LAUGH]. >> Idiots sometimes get criticized also.
>> [LAUGH] Yeah, I'm with Ben on this one, all right?
So first of all at least we all agree.
He's like you guys are being classist, that's why I'm charging $240.
>> [LAUGH] >> For
a sweatshirt that you can find in a garbage bag, okay?
But you're being classist.
>> Bro fair and balanced I presented the whole [LAUGH].
>> Okay, fair.
Now as to whether this is a good idea, JR said who am I to criticize?
Well I'm a talk shows, that's what we do.
>> Yep. >> Okay, so it's literally my job.
His job is to create weird really expensive clothing and
display it in really unattractive ways.
My job is to point that out.
[LAUGH] Okay, so now we're even and by the way, Kanye also innovator.
Okay, so you can't criticize me criticizing you because then you'd be
criticizing my job, and you just told us you can't do that.
So this is my way of doing it.
>> [LAUGH] >> My way of doing it Kanye.
Okay, so JR and I have been this a couple of times,
I think Kanye is mentally ill and this is another piece of evidence.
And he's always the victim, he's always like the media is always trying to
get you to think that I put clothes in a garbage bag.
No, the media didn't even think about it until you put clothes in a garbage bag.
>> Construction bags.
>> Folding clothes is not classist.
>> It is just an obviously superior way to go through clothes.
The employees even said we won't help you then fine, we're gonna have bags,
you dig through it yourself, it's gonna be a nightmare.
It's gonna be even harder to find your size.
They don't already like helping you now, it's gonna be even worse.
Some of his innovations and clothing are cool, his music has not been good in about
a decade now, and so he's just grasping at straws.
He always like Jake says plays the victim this guy,
there's nothing innovative about putting clothes and
bags that's what's done at garage sales since the beginning of time.
He's charging a bunch.
I don't wanna buy it wrinkled.
What is the argument for
presenting it this way other than Kanye trying to get attention again.
>> He answered that question too.
I don't have the video, but he did say he's seen sometimes when there's,
especially have clothes like this or maybe some folks are looking for clothes,
Maybe it's a needy population and there's a bag full of clothes.
The excitement that comes from folks when they get a chance to dig in and
really get their hands on it.
It's a tactile situation where it's an experience purchasing clothes,
especially when it comes to the Easy Gap Collection.
So you're gonna spend $240 on a hoodie,
you at least want to have your whole hand and putting it together.
Not some random sales associate handing it to your back room-
>> Yes, it's overpriced, but
you do get to touch it with your hands.
That's the exciting difference with the Easy Collection.
We overprice it, but we let you mash it like it's plato,
I think that justifies the markup in the price [LAUGH].
>> Okay, I wanna go back to that garbage bag, I'm sorry, construction bag picture.
>> Something like that.
>> Okay, because guys, I'm gonna point out the most obvious thing in the world, but
I'm gonna point out a couple of things.
First of all, the minute people start going through it,
they're all gonna fall on the ground.
>> Yap.
>> Okay, and then they're gonna have to stuff them back into the garbage bags.
>> Yes.
>> And they were going to be all over the ground all the time where people
are walking on it and
then on top of that as people are having to dig through to find their size.
You're not the only one who's gonna have that textile sensation,
everybody's gonna be touching those clothes.
So by the time you buy it, 80 dudes have touched it,
throwing it on the ground, stepped on it, stuffed it back into the bag.
>> Kids with sticky hands, popsicle residue on their fingers.
This is the dream for Kanye, I'm an innovator, not in the clothes, but
in the disorganized way we ruin the clothes.
>> My last attempt because I can understand where this is going.
>> [LAUGH].
>> When clothes are folded in your retail stores, grubby fingers are on it there
too, sales associates just came from the bathroom with the hall pass it's brown.
>> [LAUGH] >> Just came back and
re-folded everything.
I don't know what's on it.
When you buy your clothing, you should wash it even if it's folded and
hung in the store anyway, just saying.
>> Okay, yeah, look guys, there are two defenses of Kanye other than JR's, okay?
First of all, I don't think it's in the front of homeless people at all.
I don't even know how people got like,
there was like a weird way to criticize them on that.
No, it's an affront to me as a consumer.
That's what it feels,
it's an affront to my sanity that you're pretending that this is not crazy, okay?
Because it is crazy.
Now, the defense of Kanye is.
One is, okay, he's not trying to sell homeless people.
Number two is that look, the one thing he's good at is getting attention and
so if Gap wanted people to think, talk about Gap again.
Well, you put your clothes in a garbage bag, people gonna talk about you and
look at this, we're talking about him and so.
>> I wanna experience it.
>> And we did just show his catalog on the air with the prices.
So that's a good point.
>> Yeah, and.
>> Yeah. >> [LAUGH]
>> Look at that, all right,
fell right into his trap and
I hear I'll do another defensive because I loathe Kanye.
So this is unprecedented that I'm now doing three defense of them.
He apparently named two sneakers after Muslim angels, okay?
Angels that are in the Quran and people go, that's affront to Islam.
No, it isn't.
It's an homage.
Are people naming things after Muslims all the time?
And well we've had too much of it in America.
>> [LAUGH] >> Okay, no,
it's like the only time it's ever happened, take it,
take the win, all right?
>> [LAUGH] >> So [LAUGH] I'll defend him on that.
But guys,
overall the thing that always bothers me is like the idea that he's a genius.
It ain't genius.
>> Musically.
>> Musically, he used to be a genius.
>> I don't believe.
>> Until he stopped caring and became a fashion designer full time.
>> He has a lot of different.
>> My dark, twisted fantasy I thought was pretty genius.
College dropout was pretty amazing.
>> The word genius is so overused, Tony Larussa had a good season
with the cardinals a couple of years in a row, that genius.
>> That was a genius statement.
That was a genius state and I would like to as the sole Kanye hater left
on the panel here because we got two big fans over here.
>> [LAUGH] >> I just wanna make clear,
I think the guy just, he's just too selfish to be in the public eye.
All he does is do things that, I mean, even ran for president with this like,
emotional with the birthday party crying out in his wife's miscarriage or
abortion in public.
He just and did that and
could have swung the election by stealing votes from his liberal fan base even
though we knew he was a Trump supporter was probably doing it to support Trump.
So he's a menace I think at this point in his career, and
he needs to fall back on what he was used to be known for focusing on the music.
Like I said, college dropout great album.
Also, for a rapper that's bragging about their college education.
He at least had some college.
>> [LAUGH] Okay, and by the way, Jared Kushner put him up to running for
president, so he can take away black votes from Joe Biden.
So it was a despicable plan.
>> Yeah, very much.
>> And everyone encouraging him and his ailments and calling him a genius
while he's obviously disturbed is part of the problem including,
I mean, look, kaya might be the least culpable.
Because I think he has real mental health issues, but
like every time that he's challenged, what's his answer?
It's what Ben said.
He said it in that club.
This is my life.
Yeah, but that doesn't mean you do whatever you want and
then not get criticized.
>> I'm fighting for my life to put clothes and garbage bags.
Don't you get it?
We don't get it.
Okay, well, never mind, then.
>> [LAUGH] >> This is my life.
>> [LAUGH] >> All right,
I don't think it's gonna work, but I endorse his his chance to do that.
>> I'm just looking forward to the response clothing line from
Skeet Davidson.
I mean, Pete Davidson.