Kanye West compares himself to Solomon Northup of '12 Years A Slave'

By Star Connor | Nov 21, 2013 05:53 PM EST

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According to BET, the "Yeezus" rapper said in a recent interview with author Brett Easton Ellis on his podcast, that he feels "enslaved," when others try to take away his creativity. In one of his famous cry outs, the fashion idol rapper compared himself to Solomon Northup, in the movie, "12 Years A Slave," as he called out huge brands like, Nike, Louis Vuitton and even Zappos for failing to recognize his talents and insight visions.

"For me, I felt like the main character, "Solomon Northup" in what I'm dealing with, even as a mega popular-rich-celebrity-f----you-who-do-you-think-you-are-to-complain-about-anything situation that I'm in. Or, in the past, when I've dealt with attempting to create in other fields (such as) clothing," he said. "I was sitting in Paris and dealing with all of these companies that I promoted, and...my friends promoted, and the reason literally why they would sell on Barney's floors, is because me and Jay-Z wore it," he continued.

"It will be something that I sort of discovered maybe four years before...and then you say, 'Hey, I want to be part of the creative conversation and be able to make money off of that,' - and they stop you right there." He continues, "I kind of saw that...as the parallel of the main character in,"12 Years A Slave." When it was taken away from me, it felt like as a creative to be enslaved, to have all of these ideas for product, things you were talking about earlier."

Do you see the comparisons? The outrageous words rapper, is set to walk down the aisle with fiancèe Kim Kardashian sometime next year, early summer, and exits off the interview with a tribute to his own "awesomeness" with this, "So me having like a world view of just being super dedicated to awesomeness, and making things better, because particularly in clothing...I can do this parallel."

I think Kanye needs his own dictionary because its hard to comprehend him sometime, but hey, he seems to keep the world entertained.

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