Kanye West - Visionary Stream of Consciousness on Taylor Swift and Racism lyrics

[Kanye West] I'd rather just let the music speak for itself. You know, it's like, I was happy to be in a situation where people couldn't say, oh, I was trying to promote my own song. For the times that I've, like, defended myself... I'm pushing the envelope! I wrote my f**in' 'Run This Town' verse for a f**in' month! When I heard Eminem's verse on the Drake sh**, I went back and rewrote my sh** for two days. I canceled appointments to rewrite! I f**in' care! You know what I'm saying? And that's what I'm saying. Because I did that, Taylor Swift cannot win over Beyoncé! Because I wrote my verse in two days, Taylor Swift cannot beat Beyoncé. As long as I'm alive! And if I'm alive, k** me then! k** me then! As long as I'm alive, you gon' have to deal with it. Cause there ain't gonna be no more motherf**ing Elvises with no James Browns [Female voice] Why are you so angry? What's the anger? [Kanye West] Because my mother got arrested for the f**in' sit-ins. My mother died for this fame sh**! I moved to f**in' Hollywood chasing this sh**. My mother died because of this sh**. f** MTV It ain't no love. What the f** was Pink performing? Don't nobody know that song. Pink performed twice! Two songs? How the f** Pink perform twice and I didn't even get asked to perform "Heartless." "Heartless" is the biggest song of the year! It had the most spins of the first quarter! I don't know that Pink song! But I noticed that she's pink! They put me in a f**in' room and projected it [Male voice] How the f** did Eminem get the Best Hip-Hop song in 2008? [Kanye West] Eminem won Best Video! Rap Video! Yo, when he won that sh**, I was so happy. I was so happy I ran all this sh**. I said, "n***a, I'm gon' do this until y'all put a bullet in my head. I'm runnin' up to y'all, put a..." [tape cuts]