S. Samuel
Grammy-winning rapper Kanye West is making headlines today (November 26) after getting into a heated argument with hip-hop personality Sway Calloway.
Audio from Kanye’s tense “Sway In The Morning” interview has started to circulate online.
“I’m standing up and I’m telling you, I am Warhol,” said ‘Ye. “I am the number one most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh. Walt Disney, Nike, Google–now who’s gon’ be the Medici family and stand up and let me create more? Or do you want to marginalize me till I’m out of my moment?” Sway responded, “Or why don’t you empower yourself and don’t need them and do it yourself?” But Kanye didn’t take too well to the question and barked back. “How Sway?! You ain’t got the answers, man. You ain’t got the answers. I’ve been doing this more than you.” (Rap-Up)
Despite the intensity, Sway managed to bring Ye back to his senses.
When Sway told him to “chill out,” he said, “You ain’t spend $13 million a year of your money trying to empower yourself.” Sway explained that he has spent hundreds of thousands on his clothing line, to which Kanye said, “And it ain’t no Ralph [Lauren] though. What’s the name of your clothing line? We don’t know.” After Sway calmed him down, ‘Ye apologized for his outburst. “I love you man. I’m sorry.” (Rap-Up)
Over the spring, Kanye revealed hooking up the hip-hop personality with his first TV.
Earlier this year, Sway, along with a panel of hip-hop writers and personalities, ranked Kanye number seven on MTV’s “Hottest MCs List.” Kanye did not like this. He called into Angie Martinez’ radio show and described why the list was incorrect. Before he hung up, he added, “I just wanted to tell everyone I gave Sway his first TV. And he needs to remember that.” Sway responded by taking said TV on MTV’s RapFixLive and describing the story of how he got it, which involved him going to Kanye’s house back in 2001 and seeing the TV in a bathroom sink. (XXL Mag)
Calloway later came forward and confirmed Ye’s nice gesture.
“Kanye, first of all, is one of the most talented visionaries we have in this business,” Sway told viewers, “so him inviting me to see his house, of course I did it.” After a hang-out session, Sway made his way to West’s bathroom when, to his surprise, he found a TV in an odd spot. “When I opened the bathroom door — which was probably the size of a closet, the first thing I saw was this hunk of a TV sitting in Kanye West’s sink. I thought it was abstract art,” Sway chuckled. (MTV)
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