Kanye West Says Having Daughters Hasn't Changed His Attitude Toward Women
Kanye West and Kim Kardashian have three children together: a son, Saint, and two daughters, North and Chicago. Kardashian has talked openly about her children in the past, sharing several photos of them on social media, including this super-cute one of Chi and Saint. West, on the other hand, hasn't said much about his children. He appears on the cover of this month's Harper's Bazaar with North and Saint, and in a new interview with Jimmy Kimmel, he opens up about what it's like to be the father of daughters.
"Do you feel like your attitude towards women has changed since having daughters?" Kimmel asks West during the chat, which aired Thursday night (August 9). Right before this, the pair discussed a song on West's new album that focuses on how he'll feel when North and Chicago start dating men.
"Nah, I still look at PornHub," West said, causing the entire studio audience to laugh. West and Kimmel started laughing, too. The two then briefly discussed which type of porn West watches, which...you can watch the video, below, if you're curious.
West's answer here is just one of many...interesting...things he said during his Kimmel interview. After deflecting Kimmel's soft-ball questions about the president with one-liners, West then gave a lengthy response when asked if he thinks Donald Trump is a good commander-in-chief.
Read his full response, below:
You know, it's funny. In this world that we live in, there's two main motivating forces. And I tweet about it all the time. It's love or fear. And you can't explain love. You know, my cousin is locked up for murder, and I love him. So he did a bad thing but I still love him. And just as a musician, an African-American, guy out in Hollywood, all these different things, you know, everyone around me tried to pick my candidate for me. And then told me every time I said I liked Trump that I couldn't say it out loud. Or my career would be over. I'd get kicked out of the black community because blacks are supposed to have a monolithic thought, we can only be Democrats and all. So, even when I said it right before I went to the hospital, and I expressed myself, and when I came out, I had lost my confidence, so I didn't have the confidence to take on the world and the possible backlash. It took me a year and a half to have the confidence to stand up and put on the hat, no matter what the consequences were. And what it represented to me was not about policies, because I'm not a politician like that, but it represented overcoming fear and doing what you felt no matter what anyone said, and saying, 'You can't bully me. Liberals can't bully me, the news can't bully me, the hip-hop community can't bully me, they can't bully me.' At that point, if I'm afraid to be me, I'm no longer Ye. That's what makes Ye. And I quite enjoy when people actually are mad at me about certain things—I actually quite enjoy it.
Kimmel tried to interrupt by bringing up a lyric from West's song, "Wouldn't Leave," about his wife being mad at his comments on TMZ about how slavery was "a choice," but the rapper was undeterred.
"Right or wrong, or even if I changed my mind about it or thought about it more, which I'm not saying I did, just place the thought out there that everyone's not thinking sometimes," he said. "Galileo, they wanted to chop his head off for saying that the earth was—what did he say? That the sun revolved around the earth, and vice versa."
Kimmel challenged West one last time toward the end of the interview. "There are families being torn apart at the border of this country," he said. "There are literally families being torn apart as a result of what this president is doing. And I think that we can't forget that, whether we like his personality or not, his actions are really what matter. I mean, you, so famously and so powerfully, said, 'George Bush doesn't care about black people.' It makes me wonder what makes you think that Donald Trump does, or any people at all?"
To which West sat in extremely awkward silence, saved by Kimmel cutting to commercial. Watch for yourself, below:
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