- [Kanye] I just love these ceramics
- [Dave] Oh yeah, I didn't to in here because I didn't if
I was allowed to come in here.
But these are fantastic.
- They're an artist named Ueta,
represented by Takashi Murakami.
So Murakami is like top three pop artist,
and he's a good friend of mine.
So I just got these so like my Christmas present to myself.
- You're familiar with the cultural pursuit
of Wabi-sabi in Japan?
- This house is Wabi-sabi vibes.
- Thank you.
What do I win ladies and gentemen?
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- You gotta check out this bathroom.
- Whoa.
Oh geez!
This is fanastic.
But look at this good-looking guy standing over there.
- Yeah.
- Come in here.
Maybe I can just move in here, at a modest rent.
Is that possible?
- [Kanye] Yeah, you could just rent
out our bathtub actually.
- [Dave] Oh my goodness!
You my friend are getting it done.
- Yeah.
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- [Dave] So what do you represent in this process?
- Yeah I'm the creative director of Yeezy.
- Your life is led, or you are in the pursuit of art in
many different ways.
- I think I use art as a super power to protect myself
in a capitalistic world, and then I give it as a gift
to other people and also I can use it to make money.
- You don't have to agree but I know I look great now.
(laughing)
People were saying when you talk to Kanye how would you
describe your look?
And what I came up with was, you're aware of Howard Hughes?
- Uh hm.
- And you're aware that he went through a period where he
was a recluse and disappeared and there was a guy named
Melvin Dummar's who was driving through the desert in Nevada
and an old coot like guys waves down Melvin Dummar's and
Melvin Dummar's picks him up and takes him where he's going
and it turns out the guy was Howard Hughes.
Anyway, Howard Hughes in the desert, old coot,
is kind of what I got going on.
- That's a vibe.
- [Dave] Yeah.
(laughing)
- [Kanye] Yeah.
- Oh it's more than a vibe my friend.
- Yeah.
- I don't want to look like an old guy trying to look cool.
I want to look like a cool, old guy.
- Yeah.
- And I don't want my son making fun of me.
- Yeah.
- Can you stop that all together?
- Yeah, we can.
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- This kills me, this your mom here huh?
- That's Eazy-E on the next one.
We call these shirts spirit shirts.
Like these are like a window to the soul.
When I wear this Eazy-E t-shirt I do feel like the spirit
of Eazy- like if I have to go and deal with some
business meetings, you know, Eazy-E was like an original
black business shark!
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700's right here.
So these shoes, the style is called a dad shoe.
You could just call it a shoe cause you're a dad.
- And then now dad,
does that suggest I'm off the cool meter?
- Nah it was like this thing were taste-makers started
wearing dad shoes, I think almost to be ironic.
- [Dave] Yeah.
- And I just take everything literal.
Every, like how Andy Kaufman just started literally being
a wrestler, it wasn't like a play.
It's like, break his arm, everything.
- You invoked Andy Kaufman.
- Yeah.
- Tell me what you knew of him,
what was the influence there, what did he do to you,
for you, anything?
- Gave me courage.
- Is that right?
- Yeah, how do you deal with the media?
- Yeah.
- Here's an example, I far rather be an Andy Kaufman than
the majority of the way people are letting the media
like push them around.
I'm in front of the joke, the joke is on everyone else.
That looks fire with the socks, there you go.
- Now listen he used to be on the old show all the time.
And at the end of his appearance on the show,
he would lean in and he said
"now, be sure to send me all the hate mail"
(laughing)
I just loved that I thought this is fantastic.
- It's alternative sources of energy.
- Yeah.
- You can take, 'specially coming up from the South Side
of Chicago and you can take your energy from people telling
you can't do stuff.
- Sure.
- Even like working on fashion,
everyone was like you can't do clothing.
- Yeah.
- And it just gave me more energy.
- Yeah.
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- There.
Yeah.
- Oh ho ho buddy!
I think this is it.
- Yeah.
- Let me know when the sale starts.