Interestingly enough, Kanye’s community service work as a professor at LA Trade Tech involves teaching kids about fashion. He’s also divulging new perspectives on his career outlook and what inspired him to become the artist he is today. Andre Pitts, a student in the class West talked to, talked about West’s lecture.
“He talked about Tupac,” Pitts says in an interview with Complex. “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 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 was all over the place,” Pitts adds, “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.”
