Kanye's Most Gemini Moments

Birthday wishes to the Louis Vuitton Don.

Must Be 2 Sides - It's the season of the Gemini, and one of her brightest stars Kanye West turns 38 today. As we celebrate Mr. West's born day, let's take a look at a few of his most contradicting and passionate statements and opinions because he's definitely lived up to his zodiac characteristics. —Michael Harris (@IceBlueVA)(Photos from Left:  Ethan Miller/Getty Images, Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

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Must Be 2 Sides - It's the season of the Gemini, and one of her brightest stars Kanye West turns 38 today. As we celebrate Mr. West's born day, let's take a look at a few of his most contradicting and passionate statements and opinions because he's definitely lived up to his zodiac characteristics. —Michael Harris (@IceBlueVA)(Photos from Left:  Ethan Miller/Getty Images, Universal History Archive/UIG via Getty Images)

So Appalled - Kanye has stated in the past that he wasn't happy with some of  the fashion business deals because the price point was too high and out of reach for some of his fans. Despite that tirade, the Chicago MC partnered with A.P.C. and oiled his fans up for $120 for a plain white tee back in 2013. Oh yeah, it was made with Egyptian cotton. (Photos from Left: Kevin Winter/Getty Images For 102.7 KIIS FM's Wango Tango, A.P.C)

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So Appalled - Kanye has stated in the past that he wasn't happy with some of  the fashion business deals because the price point was too high and out of reach for some of his fans. Despite that tirade, the Chicago MC partnered with A.P.C. and oiled his fans up for $120 for a plain white tee back in 2013. Oh yeah, it was made with Egyptian cotton. (Photos from Left: Kevin Winter/Getty Images For 102.7 KIIS FM's Wango Tango, A.P.C)

The Passion - Before there was Yeezus, there was this, likely inspired by the success of Kanye West's 2004 hit "Jesus Walks."(Photo: Rolling Stone Magazine, February 2006)

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'I Am a God' vs. 'Jesus Walks' - Going from one extreme to the next, Ye walked into the game with Jesus having his back in 2004, but by 2013 he was being deified himself as he expressed his holiness on "I Am a God." There he quipped, "I just talked to Jesus/ He said, "What up, Yeezus?"/ I said, 'S**t I'm chillin'/ Tryna stack these millions.' I know he the most high/ But I am a close high/ Mi casa, su casa/ That's our cosa nostra." (Photo: Rolling Stone Magazine)

'New Slave' vs. 'All Falls Down' - Kanye turned up with "New Slaves" as he showed that the degrees of hate just intensifies on different levels as you climb that ladder of success. Breaking down his broke n***a vs. rich n***a racism analogies, the message was still the same as he rapped, "See they'll confuse us with some bulls*** like the New World Order/ Meanwhile the DEA/ Teamed up with the CCA/ They tryna lock n****s up/ They tryna make new slaves/ See that's that privately owned prison/ Get your piece today..."Y'all 'bout to turn shit up/ I'm 'bout to tear s**t down/ I'm 'bout to air s**t out/ Now what the f**k they gon' say now?"(Photos from Left: Sean Gardner/Getty Images, Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

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'New Slave' vs. 'All Falls Down' - Kanye turned up with "New Slaves" as he showed that the degrees of hate just intensifies on different levels as you climb that ladder of success. Breaking down his broke n***a vs. rich n***a racism analogies, the message was still the same as he rapped, "See they'll confuse us with some bulls*** like the New World Order/ Meanwhile the DEA/ Teamed up with the CCA/ They tryna lock n****s up/ They tryna make new slaves/ See that's that privately owned prison/ Get your piece today..."Y'all 'bout to turn shit up/ I'm 'bout to tear s**t down/ I'm 'bout to air s**t out/ Now what the f**k they gon' say now?"(Photos from Left: Sean Gardner/Getty Images, Kevin Winter/Getty Images)

Watch the Throne - Geminis are very emotional people and they'll go all out to defend their cause whether right or wrong. Ye put his foot in his mouth on several occasions and this year's Grammy Awards were no exception when he hated on Beck for besting out his sister-in-law for Album of the Year. In true Kanye fashion, he admitted that he never listened to Beyonce's competition. He stated, "The other day I went out to dinner with Taylor Swift and ironically they were playing the Beck album in the background. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of good. I ain't gonna lie.' ... I got his number, and I'm supposed to call him, but just keep forgetting. I bet you the album is really good. I'm gonna listen to the album, and maybe it was potentially an album of the year. But the Grammys are still ... they have a commercial component to it. And they want to sell commercials.&qu...

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Watch the Throne - Geminis are very emotional people and they'll go all out to defend their cause whether right or wrong. Ye put his foot in his mouth on several occasions and this year's Grammy Awards were no exception when he hated on Beck for besting out his sister-in-law for Album of the Year. In true Kanye fashion, he admitted that he never listened to Beyonce's competition. He stated, "The other day I went out to dinner with Taylor Swift and ironically they were playing the Beck album in the background. I was like, 'Man, this is kind of good. I ain't gonna lie.' ... I got his number, and I'm supposed to call him, but just keep forgetting. I bet you the album is really good. I'm gonna listen to the album, and maybe it was potentially an album of the year. But the Grammys are still ... they have a commercial component to it. And they want to sell commercials.&qu...

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Blood on the Leaves - Kanye has always had his own way of looking at things and he made that clear when he started rocking and selling apparel with the Confederate flag logo in 2013 while on his Yeezus tour. Despite his pro-Black lyrics and stances, they say Gemini's lack decision making ability but Mr. West explained his thought process behind the bold and questionable statement with L.A. radio station 97.1 AMP.“React how you want. Any energy you got is good energy. You know the confederate flag represented slavery in a way — that's my abstract take on what I know about it. So I made the song ‘New Slaves.’ So I took the Confederate flag and made it my flag. It's my flag now. Now what are you going to do?”Not stopping there, Kanye-isms further included, “I just think people look cool in it. They look nice. And it’s colorless also. It’s super hood and super white boy approved at th...

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Blood on the Leaves - Kanye has always had his own way of looking at things and he made that clear when he started rocking and selling apparel with the Confederate flag logo in 2013 while on his Yeezus tour. Despite his pro-Black lyrics and stances, they say Gemini's lack decision making ability but Mr. West explained his thought process behind the bold and questionable statement with L.A. radio station 97.1 AMP.“React how you want. Any energy you got is good energy. You know the confederate flag represented slavery in a way — that's my abstract take on what I know about it. So I made the song ‘New Slaves.’ So I took the Confederate flag and made it my flag. It's my flag now. Now what are you going to do?”Not stopping there, Kanye-isms further included, “I just think people look cool in it. They look nice. And it’s colorless also. It’s super hood and super white boy approved at th...

Geeting Out Our Dreams - Kanye has been a walking contradiction when it comes to his entrance into the world of fashion. Hating and loving the game at the same time, Kanye still wants to do business no matter how much the fashion giants try to block him because at the end of the day, he needs their blessing. He has expressed his love and discontent stating, "The reason I'm influential, the same reason why you want me to come to your show or why you want me to wear your product, is the same reason why you gotta involve me and you gotta cut me in."Nevertheless he points out the insulting part of his fame and points out, "When I take these meetings and s**t, people talk to you like you’re stupid or something… I’m not gonna call no names. I’m not going to mention Nike or nothing like that. I’m not dissing Luis Vuitton, I’m not dissing the Gucci group and s**t. I’m just ...

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Geeting Out Our Dreams - Kanye has been a walking contradiction when it comes to his entrance into the world of fashion. Hating and loving the game at the same time, Kanye still wants to do business no matter how much the fashion giants try to block him because at the end of the day, he needs their blessing. He has expressed his love and discontent stating, "The reason I'm influential, the same reason why you want me to come to your show or why you want me to wear your product, is the same reason why you gotta involve me and you gotta cut me in."Nevertheless he points out the insulting part of his fame and points out, "When I take these meetings and s**t, people talk to you like you’re stupid or something… I’m not gonna call no names. I’m not going to mention Nike or nothing like that. I’m not dissing Luis Vuitton, I’m not dissing the Gucci group and s**t. I’m just ...

Black Skinhead - Ye has some extreme views but his Gemini passion can’t be denied. He also knows that you have to play the game no matter how hard you may hate it because it’s the only way for a chance to win. He expressed his disdain for big business and corporations but admitted he needed them too. In his interview with Zane Lowe, he explained:"No! This is the thing you guys don't understand…I did the Yeezys and they EBAY'd for 90 thousand dollars and people wanted them bad...But I didn't get a call from Nike the next day. You guys don't understand that I've met with companies and they say, ‘What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you and control that.’ If you're an architect and you're a world builder and you have all these ideas and you're Gaudi, and you want to build buildings, if you don't ever get that out, what's gonna happen?"As a creativ...

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Black Skinhead - Ye has some extreme views but his Gemini passion can’t be denied. He also knows that you have to play the game no matter how hard you may hate it because it’s the only way for a chance to win. He expressed his disdain for big business and corporations but admitted he needed them too. In his interview with Zane Lowe, he explained:"No! This is the thing you guys don't understand…I did the Yeezys and they EBAY'd for 90 thousand dollars and people wanted them bad...But I didn't get a call from Nike the next day. You guys don't understand that I've met with companies and they say, ‘What we're trying to figure out is how we can control you and control that.’ If you're an architect and you're a world builder and you have all these ideas and you're Gaudi, and you want to build buildings, if you don't ever get that out, what's gonna happen?"As a creativ...

Paranoid - Since their breakup and Amber Rose's marriage to Wiz Khalifa, Kanye has sent several shots aimed at his ex both subliminal and direct. In one interview with The Breakfast Club, he confessed, "It's very hard for a woman to want to be with someone that's with Amber Rose. I had to take 30 showers before I got with Kim." Kanye was well aware of the fact that someone that lives in a glass house shouldn't throw stones so he put his own wife's sexual past out there to soften any future blows. Airing out his own laundry, he rapped on "Trophy," "I made it over NBA, NFL players/ So every time I score it’s like the Super Bowl." On "Clique," he also put Kim's sex tape with Ray J on front street again as he spit his superficial flaws, "My girl a superstar all from a home movie." (Photos from Left: Frederick M. Bro...

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Paranoid - Since their breakup and Amber Rose's marriage to Wiz Khalifa, Kanye has sent several shots aimed at his ex both subliminal and direct. In one interview with The Breakfast Club, he confessed, "It's very hard for a woman to want to be with someone that's with Amber Rose. I had to take 30 showers before I got with Kim." Kanye was well aware of the fact that someone that lives in a glass house shouldn't throw stones so he put his own wife's sexual past out there to soften any future blows. Airing out his own laundry, he rapped on "Trophy," "I made it over NBA, NFL players/ So every time I score it’s like the Super Bowl." On "Clique," he also put Kim's sex tape with Ray J on front street again as he spit his superficial flaws, "My girl a superstar all from a home movie." (Photos from Left: Frederick M. Bro...

Heartless - Mr. West has held his “Big Brother” Jay Z on a pedestal since he walked through Roc-A-Fella’s doors, but it wasn’t Jigga who signed Kanye and believed in his talents, it was Dame Dash. Kanye claims to be a loyal rider so it surprised some when he sided with Hov after the dismantling of The Roc.Admitting to The Breakfast Club that he was split down the middle and that he was disloyal to Dame, he stated,  “...I wouldn’t have a record deal if it wasn’t for Dame Dash. And I wasn’t [loyal]. And this was an extremely visionary move on my part. To move without him. To roll with Jay Z. I mention Dame a lot in raps but the story is not done...It was the moment when Roc-A-Fella split. It made more sense for me career-wise to roll with Jay even though Dame had supported me. And then I wonder, where would we be had I rolled with Dame. Would I had been more successful? Less su...

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Heartless - Mr. West has held his “Big Brother” Jay Z on a pedestal since he walked through Roc-A-Fella’s doors, but it wasn’t Jigga who signed Kanye and believed in his talents, it was Dame Dash. Kanye claims to be a loyal rider so it surprised some when he sided with Hov after the dismantling of The Roc.Admitting to The Breakfast Club that he was split down the middle and that he was disloyal to Dame, he stated,  “...I wouldn’t have a record deal if it wasn’t for Dame Dash. And I wasn’t [loyal]. And this was an extremely visionary move on my part. To move without him. To roll with Jay Z. I mention Dame a lot in raps but the story is not done...It was the moment when Roc-A-Fella split. It made more sense for me career-wise to roll with Jay even though Dame had supported me. And then I wonder, where would we be had I rolled with Dame. Would I had been more successful? Less su...

Can't Tell Me Nothing - Ye loves to give his opinion even when not asked and has expressed his disapproval of artists like Taylor Swift and Beck in the past, but the enraged Gemini can’t take the heat when it’s directed his way. Back in 2008, Yeezus snapped on an Entertainment Weekly writer who reviewed his Glow in the Dark tour stop in Seattle and told critic Chris Willman to exit the earth at his own hands. Taking to his blog, Kanye unloaded with:“Yo, anybody that’s not a fan; don’t come to my show. For what?! To try to throw yall to cents in? Yall rated my album s****y and now yall come to the show and give it a B+. What’s a B+ mean? I’m an extremist. It’s either pass or fail! A+ or F-!You know what, f**k you and the whole f*****g staff!!! I know I shouldn’t dignify this with a comment, but the reviewer threw a jab at all the artists. I just wanna know when was the last ti...

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Can't Tell Me Nothing - Ye loves to give his opinion even when not asked and has expressed his disapproval of artists like Taylor Swift and Beck in the past, but the enraged Gemini can’t take the heat when it’s directed his way. Back in 2008, Yeezus snapped on an Entertainment Weekly writer who reviewed his Glow in the Dark tour stop in Seattle and told critic Chris Willman to exit the earth at his own hands. Taking to his blog, Kanye unloaded with:“Yo, anybody that’s not a fan; don’t come to my show. For what?! To try to throw yall to cents in? Yall rated my album s****y and now yall come to the show and give it a B+. What’s a B+ mean? I’m an extremist. It’s either pass or fail! A+ or F-!You know what, f**k you and the whole f*****g staff!!! I know I shouldn’t dignify this with a comment, but the reviewer threw a jab at all the artists. I just wanna know when was the last ti...