Name: Joe Rogan Experience #1554 - Kanye West
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Watch the stand-up comedy video 'Joe Rogan Experience #1554 - Kanye West' from PowerfulJRE on Comedy Buff. Published 2020-10-24. Transcript available.

Joe Rogan Experience #1554 - Kanye West

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The Joe Rogan experience.
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Hello, Mr. West.
What's up?
What's going on, man?
Good to see you.
Good seeing you too.
We finally did it.
We're here.
We made it happen.
We're in the building.
Yes, sir.
So, what are you doing?
You're running for president.
Yes.
What made you decide to do that?
Aren't you busy enough?
Clothing company, successful rapper, family man?
It was something that God put on my heart back in 2015.
A few days before the MTV Awards, it just, it hit me in the shower.
And when I first thought of it, I just started, like, laughing to myself.
And it, like, all this, like, joy came over my body, just through my soul.
And I could just, I just felt that energy.
I felt that spirit.
So, then two days later, I accepted the Michael Jackson Video Vanguard Awards
at the MTV Awards.
And I, instead of performing, you know, I gave just my perspective on award
shows, but always, I knew at the end, I was going to tell people, I'm running
for office.
I'm running for president in 2020.
And, you know, just to have the, it even took heart to say it in that context.
And people were just like, oh, like their, their minds were blown.
And then I was hanging out with different, I had different friends that were,
you know, some people in the music industry, some people tech elites, different
things like that.
And they would really, you know, they just really took it as a joke.
And they're telling me all these millions of reasons why I couldn't run for
president.
I remember running into Oprah two days or one day after that.
She's like, you don't want to be president.
You know, people just, you know, thought projecting, putting this on you.
And I remember saying, one of my responses to one of the people that, one of
the naysayers was, well, I'll definitely be a billionaire by that time.
And not that that's a reason why someone should become president.
But it's to say, you know, at that time I was 50, around $50 million in debt.
And I knew I had the confidence that I would be able to turn that around.
And now, you know, just going into, I want to just give you a, that's a clear
answer.
Right, I know what you're saying.
I don't want to go off into a much of a riff right there.
What you're basically saying is you know how to set goals, you know how to
achieve them.
But what was Oprah's rationale when she said, you don't want to be the
president?
Like, what was she saying?
Because remember when people were saying that that's our next president?
Remember when Trump got elected, you know, they showed Oprah and they were
saying, like, there was, I believe it was like NBC tweeted it.
This is our next president.
Like, they, a lot of people wanted Oprah to run.
And they felt like if Trump could win, Oprah could win.
When I saw Trump win, I was like, see, you can win.
You know, I was, you can win if you're coming from outside of politics.
I was young when Ronald Reagan was in, was president.
I don't remember.
But Ronald Reagan was the governor of California before he was the president.
He had actually proven himself as a politician, at least somewhat.
Which is an idea that people have thrown out at me to.
To be governor of California?
To be governor of California.
Anyone's better than this guy.
Just do, just go ahead.
Start there.
Give it a shot.
Open things up again, man.
But I think, I think my calling is to be, I believe that my calling is to be
the leader of the free world.
Not, not, I mean, if, if it's in God's plan that part of my path is to be the
governor, then that's fine.
But my calling is to be the leader of the free world.
So when you say this, like, when you say your calling is to be the leader of
the free world, what, what does that mean to you?
Does that, does it mean, do you have a plan that's different than the plans
that have been implemented before?
Does it mean that you have ideas?
What kind of plan?
Like, the plan to be the leader, like, what would you do if you were the leader
of the free world?
Like, what would be different about the way you would handle things?
Like, if that's your plan, like, what is it about that that, that is your
calling?
Like, why, why would you want to do that?
Like, what do you want to do differently if you were the leader of the free
world?
Well, well, there was a couple questions in there.
You said, why is, you know, why is that your calling?
There's people who will say to me, you know, they'll say, well, music is bigger
than politics or more influential than politics or celebrities are more
influential.
And I thought of it like if I was a pastor of a hundred thousand person church,
but then I was also a captain, a sailor.
And then we went to war and I said, I'm going to man this ship that has a
thousand people, a thousand soldiers on it, because God is calling me to take
this position.
Even though I'm the pastor for, you know, however big my audience is in hip hop,
in music, or as a, just an influencer or celebrity, or just as a dad and a, and
a husband in my house.
The world is like, there couldn't be a better time to put a visionary in the,
in the captain's chair.
And that's not to say we, we haven't had visionaries be, uh, before I'm not
coming here to down any of the other, uh, I'm not here to down Trump, down
Biden.
Uh, I'm just here to express why, um, uh, why God has called me to take this
position.
So when you say a visionary, you, you think of yourself in, in terms of like,
as an artist, as a creator, as someone, someone who has these thoughts that
they manifest in, in terms of music and art and creation design, the things
that you do.
That's why you, you think you're different as a, as a visionary.
Yeah.
I, I, I, I think that I think I'm different from, I mean, we're all different,
so I'm definitely different from everybody.
We're all different from each other.
I mean, I do bump into people that seem to be like the same character inside of,
it's like, I've seen those before.
Yeah.
People play the same role.
It's like, well, I just met you before that.
You're just like the head of this company over here.
You're the same kind of person.
Um, yeah, you know, I mean, I manifest, I see things.
I'm a great leader because I listen and I'm empathetic and I feel the entire
earth and I feel us as a, as a species, as the human race.
Like I did, sometimes people think of, uh, utopia as almost like a negative
word.
That's, that's like, we couldn't have that.
But I do believe in world peace.
Like the people hit me with the, oh, one of the things Oprah said is she said,
you got to bone up on your foreign affairs.
I remember this like, cause it's Oprah talking, so I'm going to remember a lot
of what the conversation was, but that's the first thing she said was, you know,
uh, foreign affairs and foreign policies.
Like just, I think the reason why I say leader and not politician and not even
specifically, uh, president is, uh, this is the time, you know, when, when the
constitution was written, that was an innovation.
Now the world is innovated all around our political system, but we haven't
innovated and simplified our political system.
So I met with, um, this gentleman, Sam, uh, one of the founders of Y Combinator.
So Y Combinator is a, a, um, is a contract that my friend, the head of Dropbox
use, um, and that a lot of tech guys use.
And it's a standardized deal.
So one of the ideas I had when I was, um, uh, as I'm in this process of
innovate, I'm not in, I'm not in war with the music industry.
It's just, it's time for us to innovate.
Uh, and we need to have contracts that make sense with exactly how we sell
music.
So, you know, people, every Vicinia, and that's like, uh, every 20 years, that's
like the, like decade is 10, Vicinia is 20.
And as you see now, it's like the world has just stopped for a second.
And there's an opportunity to look and say, what are the things we need?
What are the things we don't need?
So I don't know if you saw when I posted my contract, I had 10 contracts that
kept on putting me inside a labyrinth and there's things that we don't need.
Now, I believe that the distribution partner that the label is like Prince
would go and say, oh, we don't need the distribution partner, especially if
Prince was, you know, really alive and thriving in this internet era.
I'm the kind of person where I'm not trying to go and eliminate anyone's job.
So record labels are afraid of saying, okay, we're going to hand over the
distribution completely to you guys, which is, you know, that's a possibility.
There's a way where both parties can be happy and that these infrastructural
partners can be of service to the influencer, to the artists.
Like these, these deals can be flipped in a way that they're just more fair.
You know, a record, you know, I just, let me just go into this specific place
with the record labels for a second.
And I'm talking about that confusing thing for people on the outside.
Yeah.
So before, when I told my father, I wanted to wrap, he was a very like leery of
that idea.
He said, this, this, I heard this business is terrible.
And, you know, he's right.
Like people are all seeing things that are wrong inside of contracts, turning
blind eyes to it.
And everyone's responsible.
Everyone's a part of it.
You know, it's like when the me too movement happened, you know, it wasn't just
the guys that were getting tagged and, you know, some of the guys should have
got hit with it.
Some guys shouldn't, you know, that's not what I'm here to talk about.
I'm saying that in a way, everyone's responsible.
Everyone's a part of the problem.
That's why I really loved that Black Mirror episode when, you know, everyone
was making comments and anyone that even made a comment, the bees, it was about
these, you know, mechanical bees.
Anyone, and this is a spoiler alert if you haven't seen this episode, but
anyone who made a comment, the bees came to go get them.
And that's the thing about what you put in the universe, even a thought, you
know, you put that thought into the, it's another thing to say something
negative and put that into the universe.
It's another thing to see someone being raped.
You know, that's the reason why I compare what's happening to in the music
industry to me too, because artists are raped.
You've heard that term before, I'm not, this is not like a new thing that I'm
making up.
The contracts are made to rape the artist.
And, you know, I put my, like, I think about, you know, this is like a thought
right now.
It's like, is this a negative thought that I'm putting into the universe?
But I have to say, like, when I was going on Twitter, I was thinking about
Bruce and Brandon Lee.
That crossed my mind to say, I'm, this is Sony.
This is universal.
And I'm willing to put the blue paint on my face and go out and do this because
it's the right thing to do.
Like music, like at this point, it loses me money.
It doesn't make, it doesn't make me money.
It's my $5 billion net worth and $300 million of cash that I see a year.
Music is like negative $4 million for me.
So these contracts for me were kind of like Wangro and Heat, where this guy had
everything, but he still said, Wangro messed up this heist that we were going
to do.
Like, I look at the music industry, not music and the love of music itself, but
the music industry.
I look at it like Wangro, like, I blame, you know, the loss of my mother
partially on the entertainment industry.
The always fighting to, you know, represent, you know, who you are against
media, entertainment industry that's trying to tear down anybody that's not
going with the flow.
I see, you know, I've got those kind of reasons personally, but vengeance is
mine, said the Lord.
So it's not a matter of going in for revenge.
That's just me as a human being where I fall short.
Like, I'm not a monk.
Can you explain what you're talking about with Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee?
Like, I lost you there.
Okay, so Bruce Lee and Brandon Lee were b