Kanye West Wants To Change The World
Posted: January 5th, 2012 | Author: Fish | Filed under: Hip-hop, News | No Comments »
Kanye West just went on another Twitter rant…and I’m kinda inspired. Kanye gets a lot of disrespect for the Taylor Swift moments but he’s clearly an intelligent and passionate guy. As a semi-frustrated College student finishing up 16 years in the public school system, I especially agree with his thoughts on education. With this in addition to the “being humble is fine, but don’t be afraid to be AWESOME” speech throughout the Watch The Throne tour, I really dig what Kanye’s been saying lately.
The phrase “I want to change the world” has become about the most cliche thing you can say and I think that’s kinda sad. Yeah, some of this is probably a little over-the-top and overly ambitious but I applaud him for actually trying to do something positive with his power. So many rich and successful people close themselves off from the outside world and hide in big fancy houses with bigger bank accounts. I respect Kanye’s approach and would do just about anything to be involved in whatever he’s planning.
I included the whole thing below in a more readable form than Twitter, but you can also check it out on his Twitter Page in all its glory (at least until his publicist wakes up an makes him censor this).
“What good is fame and prestige if you can’t use it to help people? I want to help by doing what I know how to do best … Create. I have started a new company and I’m so excited about the name…. it’s got the best name ever of all companies of all time!!!…. The name of the company is DONDA.
DONDA is a design company which will galvanize amazing thinkers and put them in a creative space to bounce there dreams and ideas… I used to blog all the time an fit was a way to get my opinion out… Dr Dre redesigned headphones and made more impact off of one product. I am assembling a team of architects, graphic designers, directors musicians, producers, AnRs, writers, publicist, social media experts, app guys, managers, car designers, clothing designers, DJs, video game designers, publishers, tech guys, lawyers, bankers, nutritionists, doctors, scientists, teachers…
DONDA will be comprised of over 22 divisions with a goal to make products and experiences that people want and can afford. I want to put creatives in a room together with like minds that are all waaaay doper than me. We want to help simplify and aesthetically improve everything we see hear, touch, taste and feel. To dream of, create, advertise and produce products driven equally by emotional want and utilitarian need.. To marry our wants and needs.
This will all take time but I wanted everyones to know what I really care about… I care about people. I care about my fans. I care about people who have never heard of me… There are over 7 billion people on the planet now…It’s something about coming from music that makes me so optimistic… Music travels and is not limited to only the wealthy.
Sometimes my grammar is wrong but my thinking is right : ) My mom was an English teacher so I know she sends an SMDH from heaven : ) 5:18 am in London… My dreams keep me woke. The Watch the Throne tour was a small example of what a Donda Experience can be… We’re taking everything 10 steps at a time LOL!
I wanted to put this in the world in hopes that the people who can actually make a difference will stand up and reach out. We need as many amazing powerful smart talented wealthy people to be involved… Come get on board… don’t just sit there… reach out. We can collectively effect the world trough design. We need to pick up where steve jobs left off. When I said wealthy I wanted to point out there are so many billionaires in the world that can come together and help to redesign it.
Help education. School systems were designed to turn people into factory workers. Schools should be designed to prep human beings for real life.
Spike Jonze and I want to do a Summer school that tries new forms of curriculum. Math classes should teach addition, subtraction, multiplication, division, accounting and money management aaaaaand cut!!! …. UNLESS YOU’RE A MATH MAJOR!!!! Kids you should be able to take majors starting in grammar school like how it is at performing art schools. Instead of kicking kids out of schools for using there iPhones… why not promote it? Allow kids to use search engines to do test like the real WORLD!!! Give kids the amount of test they would have in a year in one day but they have to get everything perfect…
Some kids have better memories than others… what about emotional IQs… what about kids who do bad in school because of how bad there surroundings are? I meant to say their…Excuse me… I just get excited at the possibilities… The more excited I get… The more grammatical errors you’ll see…
We need to take what Michael Jackson felt and Mcqueen and Steve Jobs and we need make things better… When me and Jay toured, every night I peered into the audience astonished by the different walks of life that came to support us.
The adrenaline is running… I don’t know if I can even get to sleep now… From Wall street to the London riots to Chicago murders… I sit everyday and ask what can I do to make a difference. I know this is not a very rapper thing to say but I haven’t bought a new car or piece of jewelry in about 2 years…
I invest every dime back into creativity… hiring amazing creatives paying for flights, offices … etc… My area of expertise is in music, my passion is in music design film and products… my strength is connectivity…
There are so many broken systems from the economy to school systems jail systems… we need experts for this… We need scientist and top world designers to directly affect governments. If anyone would like to reach out email us at contactDONDA@gmail.com.
I just wanted to share what’s been on my mind…
‘If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple but if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.’ – George Bernard Shaw”
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