Kanye West Turns Over New Leaf: After LAX Paparazzo Fight, Battery Charge, Yeezy Decides To Play Nice

Is this a new, more reasonable Kanye West? Or was Yeezy just advised to play nice with the paps while he's got a battery case pending? We may never know.

What we do know is the Yeezus rapper gave one of the most well thought out, intelligent and reasonable responses TMZ photographers have ever seen. 

When a paparrazo came at 'Ye, chastising him for saying that people from Chicago deserve respect on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kanye proceeded to lay a logical smackdown on the celeb-chaser that made the whole enterprise look foolish.

"It's not about being a superstar, it's about being a human being. And I don't really appreciate that. One of these guys here was saying some bullshit earlier like, 'You're supposed to respect doctors.' Nah, you got to respect human beings.

"You know, my family is growing up. Think about this, if you had a daughter ... and you guys say crazy shit to me all the time. You say it to my family and ask about this and [that]. I couldn't imagine my daughter being 4 years old, you know, and you guys screaming at her. I think somebody screamed at Tom Cruise's daughter or something like that.

"The guy set me up at the airport the other day. He was fucking laughing and shit, and ... What I didn't get to say on Jimmy Kimmel is that's the day I found out that my grandfather was not gonna make it. He passed two weeks later. But when I'm coming out the airport because, 'It's Kanye, whatever, we're gonna fuck with him, we're gonna antagonize him.' I tried to stop his camera and stuff. He fell down, faked it, then people we're talking about, 'Oh yo, why did you hit that guy?' I obviously didn't hit the guy, but I'm going through shit. I'm trying to have a business call.

(Yeezy is currently facing battery charges over the incident in question)

"I know you guys are gonna photograph me, I know it makes a cool photo. I got a cool ass car and shit. I got a dope-ass outfit on. It's all good and shit. But it's like, we're in this together. You guys help me influence, you help with the family. You help Kim's power and everything. I'm not trying to fucking be at you guys in any type of negative way, I don't want you guys being negative to me. And I would prefer that we just have a decent relationship."

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Check out the video for the full effect over at TMZ.

In closing, Kanye's life is dope and he says dope s#it.