Kanye West Went on a Passionate Rant About Changing the World on 'Ellen'

Kanye West went full Kanye and said he wants to change the world in his latest appearance on 'The Ellen DeGeneres Show.'

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On Thursday afternoon, Kanye West will appear on The Ellen DeGeneres Show to discuss his infamous Twitter rants, his family, his fashion interests, and more. Clips from the show have already made their way online, and they feature Kanye talking extensively about the impact he wants to make on the world.

At the beginning of his sitdown interview with Ellen DeGeneres—which you can watch in the clip above—Kanye began by saying, "Nope," when Ellen asked him if he regrets anything he has ever sent out on Twitter. However, he then admitted that he probably should have saved the tweets he sent out about Mark Zuckerberg in February for Facebook. If you don't remember, Kanye asked Zuckerberg for financial assistance in a series of tweets and said he needed money "to bring more ideas to the world."

"Now I understand why he didn't hit me back," Kanye told Ellen. "I understand that Zuckerberg doesn’t use Twitter. Even though I have had dinner with him and his wife and told him about how I wanted to help the world and he said he would help me and blah, blah, blah. That’s how it feels. It’s like The Pursuit of Happyness. It’s like you’re trying to sell this bone density machine or something. I feel that if I had more resources, I could help more people. I have ideas that can make the human race’s existence, within our 100 years, better."

After Kanye provided that answer, Ellen pushed him to explain himself further. She asked him to provide people with specific examples of how he plans to change the world, and Kanye responded by going on a long, passionate rant that included him touching on everything from his music to his clothing line. He also heard several people in the Ellen audience laughing towards the end of his rant and apologized for his "realness." You can read his full rant here:

We’re in a renaissance period. We’re in a place where people are multi-disciplined artists. Like Steve McQueen who directed 12 Years a Slave. He was considered to just be a photographer, but then he won an Oscar. We’re not in a place where people can only have one career or one profession throughout their entire life. So the exact amount of emotion and color palette and sonics and everything I put into my music, I put them into shoes and they worked.

In a less serious segment, Kanye and Ellen played a game called "5 Second Rule" that required them to name three things that applied to a prompt in less than five seconds. After he was asked to "name three things that are hairy," Kanye replied with "balls, balls, balls."

During his Ellen appearance, Kanye also talked about how his daughter North is adjusting to the birth of his son Saint. 

"She's really advanced for her age," he said.

"What does she do?" Ellen asked.

"She'll prop him up on the pillow," Kanye said.

Kanye's Ellen interview will air on TV this afternoon. If you missed it, you can also check out Drake's appearance on Ellen from Wednesday here.

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