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“ILLFIGHTYOU”(2013) - ILLFIGHTYOU out now ILLFIGHTYOU.com
Debut project from the dumps of the Dugout, spreading positivity and knowledge.
Project produced by KReam Team
Recorded/Mixed/Mastered by John McRae
i think the last time i went to a museum, was in like november not too long after i turned 21. my manager let me borrow his range rover for the weekend, i picked up vince and we went to the getty. i can’t remember what was there though, probably nothing too special if i can’t remember it. i’ve been telling myself for months i’d see the kubrick exhibit at lacma, but i never go. i’m slipping. i think it ends the 30th of this month, i’ve got to see it
idk any good “new” albums that you probably haven’t already heard. but you can put my spotify “starred” tracks on shuffle, hopefully something you’ve never heard pops up
i can probably count all the times i’ve cried in the past 5 years on one hand. i don’t cry much for some reason, doesn’t mean i don’t feel anything. crying’s just not what i do. i think the last time i cried though was a couple months ago. i think for a 20-25 year old man, it’s very ok to cry. especially if it makes you feel better, or if it’s honest. and if it’s not “ok”, do it anyways if that’s what you want to do
NY Times: When your debut album, “The College Dropout” came out, the thing that people began to associate with you besides music was: Here’s someone who’s going to argue for his place in history; like, “Why am I not getting five stars?”
Kanye: I think you got to make your case. Seventh grade, I wanted to be on the basketball team. I didn’t get on the team, so that summer I practiced. I was on the summer league. My team won the championship; I was the point guard. And then when I went for eighth grade, I practiced and I hit every free throw, every layup, and the next day I looked on this chart, and my name wasn’t on it. I asked the coach what’s up, and they were like, “You’re just not on it.” I was like, “But I hit every shot.” The next year — I was on the junior team when I was a freshman, that’s how good I was. But I wasn’t on my eighth-grade team, because some coach — some Grammy, some reviewer, some fashion person, some blah blah blah — they’re all the same as that coach. Where I didn’t feel that I had a position in eighth grade to scream and say, “Because I hit every one of my shots, I deserve to be on this team!” I’m letting it out on everybody who doesn’t want to give me my credit.
NY Times: And you know you hit your shots.
Kanye: Yeah — you put me on the team. So I’m going to use my platform to tell people that they’re not being fair. Anytime I’ve had a big thing that’s ever pierced and cut across the Internet, it was a fight for justice. Justice. And when you say justice, it doesn’t have to be war. Justice could just be clearing a path for people to dream properly. It could be clearing a path to make it fair within the arena that I play. You know, if Michael Jordan can scream at the refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, “This is wrong.”
