Kanye West has done the unthinkable and admitted that he was wrong - this time, in relation to the comments that he made about Beck after the latter won a Grammy Award for Album of the Year in February.
West famously pretended to interrupt Beck's acceptance of the award, and then spoke about his win in a post-ceremony interview, claiming that Beyoncé should have won the award and that Beck "needs to respect artistry".
In an interview with the Sunday Times, however, he said that his comments were "inaccurate".
"I don't make suggestions, I make propositions," he said. "I don't give requests, I give directives. There's no in-between. I'm fine to apologise for inaccuracies. You know, I send flowers for inaccuracies. I talked to Beck's wife, and I think I had a point about Beyoncé's album, but I think I was inaccurate with the concept of a gentleman who plays 14 instruments not respecting artistry."
The rapper did, however, go on to draw parallels between his work and that of Leonardo Da Vinci in the same interview. "Imagine if Da Vinci or Michelangelo or Galileo were asked not to think of anything except for the one thing they first became famous for. So da Vinci could only have one idea," he said.
"For all haters, I’m not saying I’m Da Vinci, but I feel it’s right for any human being to compare themselves to anything. I could compare myself to this chair, I'm saying, 'I've got all this on my back, so I'm a chair.' People get really uptight about my comparisons, but I'm an extreme speaker, and I speak through comparisons."
