What’s up with this dude Kanye? Check out what he said to MTV:

“I made a decision. I wanna make popular music, but I want less fans. I want the freedom of having less fans. It’s like the freedom of having less money. If you have less money, you have less responsibility. It’s like Björk. If she wanted to pose naked, you’d be like, ‘Oh, that’s Björk.’ But if I wanted to pose naked, people would draw all type of things into it. I definitely feel like, in the next however many years, if I work out for two months, that I’ll pose naked. I break every rule and mentality of hip-hop, of black culture, of American culture.”

I go neck-and-neck on Jay-Z and [Lil] Wayne as far as who’s the best lyricist. Jay-Z has longevity.”

No one is gonna argue the talent of Kanye West. He is one of the top sampling producers if not the top (only DJ Premiere can argue the number one spot in most people’s opinion). Many people also rank Kanye as one of the best emcees we have right now. However the guy is nuttier than a lunatic masturbating in a Snickers factory while drinking daiquiris (shout out to Karboso for the line). The guy wants to make popular music but doesn’t want as many fans. How is that possible? Isn’t having a lot of fans what makes an artist popular? That’s like saying, “I want to kill a lot of people but I don’t want to be considered a murderer”. The funniest part is that he feels that people want to see him pose nude and it would only take him a month of working out to get in proper shape. Also, someone correct me if I’m wrong but is there really a place for men to pose nude other that gay men magazines?

What a gambler.

[MTV via ReaTalkNY]