Kanye West Drops Gems On Graduation Day: “When You’re The Best, You Get Hated On The Most”

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Grammy-winning rapper Kanye West dished out some words of encouragement at a graduation event Friday (May 29) night in California.

According to reports, Yeezy spoke out at Los Angeles Trade Tech College to give graduating fashion students words of encouragement.

Kanye was front and center for the runway show held by graduating fashion students at L.A. Trade Tech College, we’re told he went backstage prior to the event to give the students encouragement, sat in the front row during the show, and then spoke in classic Kanye style. The most memorable line … “When you’re the best you get hated on the most.”
The school is the same place Kanye did his community service for his assault case involving the LAX attack on a photog. But we’ve learned Kanye already completed his community service, so he didn’t have to show for the event. He just wanted to. (TMZ)

Footage and pictures from Kanye’s appearance have surfaced online.

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Last year, 19-year-old Andre Pitts said he had no idea Yeezy would come through to teach.

“None of the students knew that he was going to show up. We were asked if some students wanted to help other students with their work after class, so I agreed to try to help other students with their work. … I mean, nobody had any idea. All I knew is that I was gonna help other students after school with their work, and then all of a sudden Kanye walked in through the door after we were done with our presentations.” (Complex)

According to Pitts, Kanye dished on everything from late music icon Tupac Shakur to Apple creator Steve Jobs.

“He was all over the place. He reminds me of my brother, the way he didn’t really stick to one thing. He talked about Tupac. He was watching the movie Juice, and he was inspired by Tupac being in the movie. He talked about how Ice Cube is one of his biggest inspirations and one of his biggest let-downs. He talked a little bit about Steve Jobs. He mentioned a little bit about how the media portrays him negatively, but he’s saying that he’s not anything negative, it’s just him being real and calling out bullshit all the time. He spoke about his grandfather, actually, and him being in Chicago, and after that it was kind of cut off short, and he had us go into questions and answers.” (Complex)

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Written by Cyrus Langhorne

SOHH.com Writer. When I'm not covering hip-hop news and announcements, I'm deep into an Audible book and eating veggies.

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