{"id":96301,"date":"2015-03-04T07:16:20","date_gmt":"2015-03-04T07:16:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=96301"},"modified":"2015-03-04T07:16:20","modified_gmt":"2015-03-04T07:16:20","slug":"obama-sometimes-calls-me-up-kanye-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=96301","title":{"rendered":"Obama sometimes calls me up – Kanye West"},"content":{"rendered":"

Kanye West has been telling Oxford University students that US President Barack Obama calls his home phone – in a long and frequently bizarre speech.<\/p>\n

The US rapper visited the city’s Museum of Natural History at the invitation of a student society.<\/p>\n

He was greeted by a standing ovation, but according to the independent student newspaper Versa, he looked unimpressed.<\/p>\n

Its editor Ruth McLean, 21, was one of around 300 students in the hall.<\/p>\n

“It was surprising how he barely talked about music at all,” she says. “The talk mostly flipped between art, philosophy and politics and I think he sees no separation between those worlds.<\/p>\n

\"Kanye<\/figure>\n

“Some of the stuff he said about how only the rich having access to beauty in the form of luxury suggested a pretty explosive political agenda – which suggests to me some projects beyond music to come in the future.<\/p>\n

“I’m interested to see where he takes these ideas.”<\/p>\n

To give you a flavour of the star’s speech, here are Ruth’s top five highlights:<\/p>\n

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  1. My goal, if I was gonna do fine art, I would have become Picasso. When you think about someone who’s done that much, in your life you’re not allowed to think you could do that much. That idea suppresses humanity.<\/li>\n
  2. Now I understand that I’m just serving, and with my voice and my ability to build relationships, and call Elon Musk or Obama out of the blue – Obama calls the home phone, by the way – with that I have a responsibility to serve.<\/li>\n
  3. They need to do an awards show for the Nobel Peace Prize. I guess that wouldn’t be so good for MasterCard. But you know, at the Brits, that MasterCard logo – it was a big logo.<\/li>\n
  4. One of my biggest problems has been my ego. And if I, Kanye West, can remove my ego, I think there’s hope for everyone.<\/li>\n
  5. When you’ve lost the ideal of holding on to that concept [of being number one], you can leave the mountaintop finally, and walk down and readjust and see what your position on earth can be.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Aled Jones, a 22-year-old law student at the university, described the talk as “totally surreal and brilliant”.<\/p>\n

    “It was basically a 45-minute long stream of consciousness, a speech about aestheticism, society and inequality. He couldn’t be stopped. Not even when someone’s phone went off and OneRepublic started playing,” he said.<\/p>\n

    Other students said he was “odd”, “more humble than I expected”, and “a bit wishy-washy”.<\/p>\n

    –<\/p>\n

    Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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