Who knew that Kanye West and Nigel Farage had so much in common? Just as the Ukip leader believes race discrimination legislation has become outdated, so West has said “racism is a dated concept.”
The rapper-cum-fashion-designer was talking to the French web channel Clique TV. In an interview he said of racism: “Racism is a dated concept. It’s like a silly concept that people try to touch on … to separate, to alienate, to pinpoint anything, it’s stupid. … It’s something that was used to hold people back in the past, but now there’s been so many leaps and breaking of the rules that it’s played out, like a style from the 1800s.”
West said class and economic inequality was now the main factor in holding people back.
In other Kanye news, what appears to be a finished version of a love song to his wife, Kim Kardashian, has appeared online. The song, Awesome, sees a heavily Auto-Tuned West insisting Kardashian is awesome, and “you don’t need to listen to your manager/ You’re way too hot for them to handle ya.” The song then moves on to West repeatedly insisting: “I’m also awesome.”
