Kanye Goes To Harvard
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Kanye West showed up and gave a quick talk to students at Harvard University’s Graduate School of Design before a show in Boston over the weekend. He was accompanied by Virgil Abloh, creative director of DONDA, Kanye’s experimental design agency, which is sponsoring a lecture series.
Few people have the knack for sounding this thoughtful and completely off-the-wall at the same time. First, he gives everyone tickets for the show, which is nice, and then goes on to say that he believes the world can be saved through design, which, sure, obviously, and then expands upon that idea, extolling the virtues of independent thinking:
I believe that utopia is actually possible when we’re led by the least by the least knowable, the least dignified, the least tasteful, the dumbest, and the most political…so…in no way am I a politician…I’m usually at my best politically incorrect [LAUGHTER] and very direct. I really appreciate you guys’ willingness to learn and hone your craft, and not be lazy about creation.
Kanye is magical. Here’s video.
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