After Kim breaks the internet with going totally nude on the cover of Paper magazine, her husband Kanye West lands a cover page deal for the same magazine. On the cover for April 2015 issue of Paper Magazine, he spoke about his career, fashion, music, racism and the American dream.
On the American dream, he said "I know people want to talk about the
American Dream, but my dream is a world dream. It's a world in which everyone's main goal would be to help each other."
Click to see more photos.Recounting his experience in China as a coloured skin kid, which was re-enacted in the photo shoot, he said...
"When I was 10 years old I lived in China, and at the time they used to come up to me and rub my face to see if the color would rub off. It was really fucked up, but I feel like it was preparing me for a world perspective that a lot of my friends who never got a chance to travel didn't get."
" When I was in fifth grade in China, when kids would come up to me and touch my face, it was like they had never seen a black person before, but that was a while ago. That was 20 years ago and of course we've come a long way now. That's not the current state of mind. On "Never Let Me Down" I rapped, "Racism's still alive, they just be concealing it," but for the next generation that's not necessarily true. Racism is something that's taught, but for the new post-Internet, post-iPad kids that have been taught to swipe before they read, it's just not going to affect them as much. They realize that we are one race. We're different colors -- my cousins and I are different shapes and we're all from one family.
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