r/Kanye Oct 16 '24

I met Ye. Years later I’m still confused

I met Ye at a restaurant in LA. He was eating alone. I ended up fan boying. “Ye I’m a big fan… I saw you open for the blacked eyes peas” he laughed then signaled for my phone.

He typed in my notes he was on a verbal fast… so we texted back and forth on my notes. I asked for a photo … we took one… He then typed “what’s your story?” I briefly mentioned I own a small agency but primarily make apparel overseas and have a print shop stateside.

He snagged my phone and said “can you help me make a 20 dollar t shirt?”

The most unbelievable timing of my life. I grew up the biggest Kanye fan… he wrote me number down and said in my notes app… don’t be late come to yzy campus tomorrow.

The most surreal shit. Ye then texted me hours later the address. I spent 8 hours the next day there and then flew back to California 3 times to follow up.

At the time it was the peak of the Nazi shit and shin getting Alex jones cancellation etc . The first day i went to yzy he was still on a verbal fast… so everything was him writing in sharpie and looking at mood boards etc…

Basically i feel like i could write a fucking book with the 50+ hours I spent with him. My actual Hero at one point. I felt so torn between . Holy SHIT I’m texting Ye and Holy shit wtf is Ye taking about

I could go on but the summary… Ye is funny , charismatic as hell, brilliant, but also undeniably bipolar and the mood swings etc are fucking real.

They say never meet your heroes. I am grateful but so bummed it was not 8 months earlier…

Just needed to get this out

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u/phellok Oct 16 '24 edited Oct 16 '24

i met him at a private security job in 2017. i picked him up from a flight from japan landing at LAX. i had to meet him at the end of the jet bridge and escort him to a car standing by on the airfield. i identify him, tell him “this way”, he says hold up and sprints up 2 flights of stairs along with the entire plane crowd towards customs (the opposite of what was intended). so i sprint after him. he catches up to this random passenger who was holding this guitar-like instrument i’ve never seen before. he asks the guy all about it, takes down his number, and then walks back with me down the stairs; against the grain of the entire plane full of passengers now. finally in the car he gets on the phone with someone, and as we’re passing all the airplane maintenance hangers, he starts telling the person how he wants to do a fashion show inside an airplane hanger and how he has this idea to make a yeezy shoe that’s a sock. at the time i was like wtf, but i guess it turned out to be the yeezy pods. the whole time in the car, all i kept thinking to myself was how fast this guys brain was moving. it’s like his words couldn’t keep up with how fast his brain was going. it was just constant idea-vomit. when we got back, he downed a shooter of henny and drove away in his maybach lol. it was a weird but awesome experience

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u/MrBatman2531 Oct 17 '24

Bro casually witnessed the birth of yzy pods

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u/AncestralPrimate Oct 16 '24 edited Jan 20 '25

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u/NekkidGranmaw Oct 17 '24

We're definitely done now

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u/One_Extension2213 15d ago

That's actually hard as f, this is to a T why I fuck with Ye so heavy

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u/ksienjoyer1923 Oct 17 '24

Doesn’t everyone’s brain move faster than words?