While Kanye is known for saying some fairly off the wall things regarding his levels of genius, and so on, he uttered some really touching sentiments during an interview with SHOWStudio team at Paris Fashion Week.
As it was a Q&A, Vogue's Anna Wintour sent in the following query: "What will you name your son? And what are your hopes for him as he gets older?"
Here is Kanye's response, and it will warm the cockles: "I don't have a name for him, but what I hope for him is that he can feel purpose. That he can learn that he has the opportunities to..." And here he paused to insert a tangent, but sure we're used to that at this point. He added:
"The other night I was driving in Paris, and I saw these three high school kids running top speed. I didn't know if they were chasing a guy or what, and there was a bus on the side of the street that was about to pull off, and they were beating on the side of the bus. And I looked at the time and it was like, 1 a.m., so that might be the last bus of the night, and I was just like, really saddened. I was like, 'How can I make my son feel that?' Because once you've felt that, then none of these f--king questions matter. When you've missed that last bus before, when you have the opportunity to get on the bus? You don't give a f--k about any of this. And having to sleep downtown in a parking lot, it's almost like not feeling anything. It's almost like being numb because of what I went through."
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Speaking if he's concerned by how the press views his family, he added: "Do I worry about being in the public eye and raising kids? Yeah... but it's champagne problems. It's people who can't feed their kids. That's something to worry about more... These aren't real issues. There's people at war. There's people trying to make it to London right now.... That celeb s--t, it's not real s--t... You know what, I'm alive. I'm breathing... I have no problems."