Last Friday, Kanye West stopped by a class at L.A. Trade Technical College. He was there to serve out a court-mandated 250 hours of community service, but by the looks of things, Yeezy relished the opportunity to chop it up with young men and women about fashion, art, and music. Photos surfaced from the class session led by a college dropout, but anyone who wasn't getting their higher education on could only speculate what knowledge was being dropped.
Because 'Professor Yeezus' is too tempting of a subject to leave alone, we got in touch with a student who was in the class that Kanye taught. Andre Pitts, a 19-year-old L.A. native who's majoring in Visual Communications (which is just like graphic design, he says), spoke with us about the surreal afternoon, and what, according to him, went down in the near-two hours that Kanye led the class.
What class was it? Graphic design, one of the visual communications classes. It was technically a separate class from our actual program, because it was after school.
That's why you should always volunteer to help out other students, right? Because Kanye might show up?I mean, nobody had any idea. All I knew is that I was gonna help other students after school with their work, and then all of a sudden Kanye walked in through the door after we were done with our presentations.
So once the excitement died down after he walked in, did he just start talking? No, he walked through the door and then nobody was yelling or anything obviously, but everyone kind of just started talking to the people around them and he went over to the instructors of the class and spoke to them quietly for a minute. And then he introduced-well he didn't introduce himself-but the teacher kind of said, 'Well all of you know who this is obviously,' so then he started talking.
That's crazy. What do you remember him speaking about?A lot of stuff. He was all over the place, but I mean, one of the main things he was talking about was... he was giving examples of different things and saying that having a Rolex or a Benz is not something that actually represents your success because there's always something more expensive to buy. So, he was saying that success was really being able to do things for others as well as the people around you and yourself.
Is there anything else that really stuck with you that he made sure to emphasize as a significant point? He was all over the place. He reminds me of my brother, the way he didn't really stick to one thing. He talked about Tupac. He was watching the movie Juice, and he was inspired by Tupac being in the movie. He talked about how Ice Cube is one of his biggest inspirations and one of his biggest let-downs. He talked a little bit about Steve Jobs. He talked a little bit about, how 'they want to control us.' And 'they want to keep us on drugs,' and all this kind of stuff. And that 'we are slaves to our house.' And 'We are essentially economic slaves.' He mentioned a little bit about how the media portrays him negatively, but he's saying that he's not anything negative, it's just him being real and calling out bullshit all the time. He spoke about his grandfather, actually, and him being in Chicago, and after that it was kind of cut off short, and he had us go into questions and answers.
Did he have any advice for your class because you're all aspiring artists and designers to try and break through and make it? Not necessarily. Although that would've been good. I think he didn't know what to say because the class was a little mixed up. It wasn't all specific fashion designers so he couldn't give out that kind of advice, so he didn't really say anything like that.
Did he talk about his new album? Someone asked him about that, he said he's waiting on it. He didn't say anything else except that except that he's waiting for it to come out.
What was your reaction like after he left? I was still shocked about what happened when he left. I felt a little bit disappointed that I wasn't prepared. I felt that if I would've been told a day before I would've brought my actual camera. But you know, I feel like I'm gonna see him again so I wasn't that upset. I was still kinda happy on the inside that I got to meet him. I'm only 19 but I've been listening to him since I was younger, so it was a surreal feeling.
Well now you can say, 'Yeezy taught me.' 'Yeezy taught me?' What do you mean?
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