For a long time Kanye West has clearly had an inflated opinion of himself, but now his ego appears to have undergone some sort of explosion, and it seems to have affected his speech. Well, there's a lot more speech than before.

Kanye's mind has clearly come unfurled like a corrugated iron roof in a wind. It's flapping away and his eyes are frightened but the more he talks the more his mind flaps, until one day it will just fly away into the distance. Hopefully soon. Here are some excerpts from an interview he gave to Details magazine. First up 'Gays according to Kanye'.

 

"In the past two, three years, all the gay people I've encountered have been, like, really, really, extremely dope. Y'know, I haven't, like, gone to a gay bar, nor do I ever plan to. But where I would talk to a gay person—the conversation would be mostly around, like, art or design—it'd be really dope. From a design standpoint, kids'll say, 'Dude, those pants are gay.' But if it's, like, good, good, good fashion-level, design-level stuff, where it's on a higher level than the average commercial design stuff, it's, like, gay people that do that. I think that should be said as a compliment. Like, 'Dude, that's so good it's almost . . . gay.'"

 

That's so profound it's almost…gay. Or idiotic. To be fair, Kanye is under some pressure, what with being the voice of a generation for music, as he points out.

 

"Put this in the magazine: There's nothing more to be said about music. I'm the fucking end-all, be-all of music. I know what I'm doing. I did 808s in three weeks. I got it. It's on cruise control."

 

One day, when he's shivering in a padded cell with his hair all awry and his eyes glazed, we'll miss him. Or lament that we missed the chance to crucify him as the new Messiah, because that's exactly what Kanye is.

 

"If not me, then who? Someone could be a better rapper, dance better. But culturally impacting? When you look back at these four and a half years, who's the icon at the end of the day? Who broke down color barriers? What other black guy would a white person use as a fashion reference?"

 

There's no doubt that Kanye has had a massive cultural effect. So did the Black Death but at least it had the decency to die out after a few years.