“Ik ben de Steve Jobs van de modewereld.” Dat zei rapper Kanye West dit jaar in een interview met The New York Times. Dat de Amerikaan er de laatste tijd alles aan doet om ook in de modewereld god te worden, is duidelijk. Maar wie wist dat Kanye al jaren rapt over fashion?
1. “Man, I promise, I’m so self-conscious / That’s why you always see me with at least one of my watches / Rollies and Pashas done drove me crazy / I can’t even pronounce nothing, pass that Ver-say-see” (All Falls Down, 2004)
2. “What’s Gucci, my nigga? / What’s Louis, my killa? / What’s drugs, my dealer? / What’s that jacket, Margiela?” (Niggas In Paris, 2011)
3. “The Lyor Cohen of Dior Homme / That’s Dior Homme, not Dior, homie” (Devil In A New Dress, 2010)
4. “You don’t see just how wild the crowd is? / You don’t see just how fly my style is? / I don’t see why I need a stylist / When I shop so much I can speak Italian” (Champion, 2007)
5. “Dinner with Anna Wintour, racing with Anja Rubik / I told you muthafuckas it was more than the music / In the projects one day, to Project Runway” (Cold, 2012)
6. “So if the devil wear Prada / Adam, Eve wear nada / I’m in between but way more fresher” (Can’t Tell Me Nothing, 2007)
7. “Doing clothes, you would have thought I had help / But they wasn’t satisfied unless I picked the cotton myself” (New Slaves, 2013)
