WORK HARD, STUNT HARDER

It doesn’t take long after glancing at my blog that I’m a huge Kanye fan. No matter how much you love him or hate him, there's no denying how hard it works. Complex just came out with an article about today about Kanye working on his new album in Hawaii, and it is just extremely inspiring.

“I remember a conversation I had with Kanye every time I sit down to write now. Every single time I sit down, I remember him asking, ‘What is it that you wanna say? It's not about rhyming words, it's about what you really wanna say.’ The fact that he wasn't even looking at me when he said it—he was on the computer looking at naked girls, I think—it was just a life-changing experience. Outside of Wayne, no one has ever spoken to me that way and caused me to better my craft. I credit him with bringing out something miraculous in me, I really do."
-Nicki Minaj
"Kanye West is the hardest working man in music. If it wasn't for deadlines, I don't know if anything would be finished. I've heard things that I thought were perfect, and I come back and they're more perfect—and they're still not done. The guy's the maestro. It's a totally unorthodox way—well, it's unorthodox to me, 'cause I've never seen anyone work in pieces like that. IProxy-Connection: keep-alive Cache-Control: max-age=0 20was really on some Quincy Jones shit, man. We could easily be working on one song, thinking we're in a mode, and he'll hear a sound from someone like [producer] Jeff Bhasker and immediately turn his whole attention to that sound and go through his mental Rolodex to where that sound belongs on his album, and then it goes straight to that song, immediately. Now, mind you, his album is a collage of sounds. It has one consistent theme, but you really have to be some type of weirdo to be able to do that. It's like turning on the drop of a dime, in a car. A Maybach on a two-lane highway making a fucking U-turn.
"He's the most meticulous individual ever. I've never penned so many verses for one particular record. ‘So Appalled’? That's a one-take verse. He was like, ‘Go, please. I love this. Thank you, goodbye.’”
-Pusha T
During my five days in Hawaii, Kanye never slept at his house, or even in a bed. He would, er, power-nap in a studio chair or couch here and there in 90-minute intervals, working through the night. Engineers remained behind the boards 24 hours a day.

Recently, I have been swamped by work, which will definitely overflow into Thanksgiving break. I haven’t been sleeping or eating regularly trying to get all this work I have done. So many times I have felt like throwing in the towel, but whenever a new Yeezy article is out, I take out time from whatever I’m doing and read it. This is the case for the timing of this Complex article. In the midst of my hectic work schedule, this article demonstrated how hard a man can work. This guy is definitely inspiration for me. Now it’s back to work.

All of this and more can be found at Complex.com, definitely hit that up to get the full read.

And My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is out today. Support!