Kanye 'Ye' West: I don't believe in history

Full podcast episode: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4AWLcxTGZPA Lex Fridman podcast channel: youtube.com/lexfridman Guest bio: Ye is a legendary artist, producer, and designer.

New drinking game. Take a shot every time Ye says “engineer”

It says here in this history book that; luckily, the good guys have won every single time. What are the odds? Norm MacDonald

Kanye: I don't believe in history. Also Kayne: I believe I'm a direct descendant of an extremely specific historical group. Me: ?!

It's unbelievable how smart Kanye thinks he is.

The king doesn't need to say he's the king. Kanye, "I'm maybe the 4th best writer to have ever existed", also Kanye, "I don't spell as well as John Legend"

I don't believe in history, now I will give you a historical quote to prove it.....

He started writing that sentence and caught himself “ahhhh…I actually don’t know how to spell engineering” 😂 Lex over here like “what am I doing right now?” Ahahahaha

Kanye took Lex out of his comfort zone, Lex took Kanye out of his comfort zone. Iconic interview.

I need to see a psychologist react to these videos.

The problem with the world today is the stupid are full of noise and the smart ones are really quiet.

I love that Lex isn't afraid push back on Kanye, and that Kanye respects Lex and acknowledges his insights. The two actually have a great chemistry together.

Kanye: I am a genius, top 5 writers ever existed. Lex: Says a random phrase about engineering. Kanye: <*Writes it down word by word barely able to spell it*> Hold on, now I am the best writer in the world.

Did Kanye just learn the word “engineer”? He used it sooo many times in these interviews after the tweet.

I got my degree in history and let me just say, the things I’ve read and studied intensely and had deep discussions about has brought my level of understanding and awareness of the world into a clearer lens. And history is definitely not written by the victors. There IS history that was written by victors/winners/whatever you want to call it, and it CAN have that bias. But that’s not history as a whole. Everything we know about ourselves and the world and the wins and the defeats and the highs and the lows and the how’s and the why’s and the who’s and the what’s and the where’s and the when’s… you get it, it’s all history. It’s all entirely history, it’s our past lives transcending and enlightening and educating our present and future lives. Without history, we know nothing and we care about nothing. Kanye is one of those that cares about nothing, except for himself. His narcissistic outlook on life and his own life is what drives him to do his wrongs (and his rights). Only a rich entitled person would suggest the idea of learning only engineering and nothing else because everything else is meaningless and wrong. He thinks of himself as a prophet and it’s dangerous. We have examples of that in history, he would be aware of it himself if he didn’t disregard it so swiftly but that’s the pattern with minds like his. They intentionally disregard history so they can keep ppl blind to the past and committed to their view of the future… follow what they say and you’ll get the “truth.” But the majority of people are not so dumb to do that so his disjointed egocentric comments about anything other than making products to sell people shouldn’t be treated with any intelligence or importance. He’s an entrepreneur and an artist with signs of personality disorders and delusions. That’s all it is

I wish I had even just a smidge of Ye’s self-confidence.

CAN WE PLEASE AGREE that a man who writes down another person's quote (misspells it, then states that the quote is going to take him from the "top 5 writer in human existence" to the fourth or third) IS NOT A GENIUS?

I'm amazed how majority people haven't realized Kanye usually do these weird media runs when he is trying to promote a product (album, clothing, etc.) and then disappears for awhile once whatever he is selling does well and then repeats the cycle when he has a new product.

He is one of the best examples of the Dunning-Kruger effect.

he thinks he knows everything and can't spell simple words, amazing