The Real Reason Kanye Wears A Mask When He Performs….

If you attend a Kanye West show, two things are gonna happen for sure; He will wear a mask…and he will deliver one of his infamous rants. Oh boy! On Friday,  that’s exactly what 50,000 concert-goers were treated to at the London Wireless Festival, after Yeezy performed as a stand-in for Drake (who was too sick to perform).
During a 15-minute rant about his struggles as a celebrity and black man wanting to do fashion, Yeezy also revealed something we’ve been wondering since last year: What’s up with those bejeweled Martin Margiela masks?
As it turns out, the masks aren’t fashion statements, but more so a f-ck you to the fashion industry who think they know what Kanye West should be.
He explained:

You know damn well no black guys or celebrities making
Louis Vuitton nothing. They let Pharrell make those [Louis Vuitton] glasses, and we liked ’em, right? They let me make those [Louis Vuitton] shoes and we liked ’em, right? They said, ‘No, no, no n-gga. Not no more. That’s too much. Stay in your place. Stand in front of that show and wear this jacket I made you. Stay in your place! Do what you’re paid to do! Don’t embarrass yourself trying to chase your dreams. Save face.’
That’s why I got this f-cking mask on. Cause I ain’t worried about saving face. F-ck my face! That sounded wrong. Pause. They finally got a headline. But f-ck whatever my face is supposed to mean and f-ck whatever the name Kanye is supposed to mean, it’s about my dreams! It’s about anybody’s dreams. It’s about creating. It’s not about the idea about being a f-cking celebrity, it’s not about the idea of being a black man trying to do fashion and sh-t.

Elsewhere in his speech, he proved that so far (with the exclusion of gaining respect in the fashion world), he’s done everything that he’s set out to do, including marrying Kim Kardashian.

These walls that I break down, and we will. And I’m arguing with my friend [director] Spike Jonze in the car and he said, ‘Kanye, what you need to say is you’re gonna try, you’re going to try to break them down. Don’t say you’re just going to do it.’ I said, ‘I am gonna do it!’ I told Kim [Kardashian] seven years ago, ‘I’m gonna marry you!’ I didn’t say I’m gonna try. And I’m telling you right now as I stand on this stage, all this sh-t you heard me talking about, I’m gonna come and back all that sh-t up.

Kanye sounds so frustrated lately, but at least we know he’s not going out without a fight.