Kanye West seems to hold his wife Kim Kardashian’s reality show Keeping Up With The Kardashians to higher esteem than the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. In a recent interview, he said the show should have “plenty of Emmys by now.”
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Speaking with fashion website SHOWstudio, the hip-hop icon said, “I feel proud to be in a family that has, you know, so many people breaking ground for the generations to come. I just feel it’s like, ‘Whoa, reality show, that’s so fucking new of an art form.'”
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West continued, asserting that there’s a prejudice against reality shows just like there used to be against rap music.
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“My wife and my family should’ve had plenty of Emmys by now, but reality shows are considered to be like rap was when the Mondrian [hotel] wouldn’t let Run-D.M.C. and mother-fucking Will Smith stay there because they were rappers,” he said. “The idea of a reality star not being allowed into a fashion show or not being nominated for their show, even if it’s the longest running and the most popular and… everybody I know watches it.”
Elsewhere in the nearly two-hour interview, Yeezy compared himself to Michelangelo, discussing his art, the fashion industry and his place in it all.
Watch the full discussion here: