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"Kanye West has revealed that he is on a crusade against the &amp;quot;dumbing down of culture&amp;quot;. The rapper made the comments while introducing a secret listening party for his new album Yeezus in Switzerland, The Daily Beast reports.  &amp;quot;Right now it&amp;#039;s a fight against the separation and constant dumbing down of culture, and I&amp;#039;m standing in the middle of it,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;So if you know what people say are my lowest moments, those moments where I sat and saw them try to dumb down culture, and I would not allow it to happen on my clock.&amp;quot; West appeared to suggest that people never used to realise how influential rap artists could be, saying: &amp;quot;When I used to go to fashion shows with my boys and we&amp;#039;d be eight deep, it was almost like a civil rights, like a sit-in. They wouldn&amp;#039;t even let us in. &amp;quot;They had no idea what rap would mean to this world, what rap would mean to the art world. Before the Kendrick Lamars and the A$AP Rockys, it was Kanye West in a hotel room at the Le Maurice getting a, &amp;#039;No, no, no, no&amp;#039; to every single fashion show. But I thought it was so important to get close to the artists who worked so hard on making a usable form of art.&amp;quot;  West continued his speech by acknowledging his relationship with reality star Kim Kardashian, with whom he is expecting a baby. &amp;quot;I fight in my position of being a very commercial celebrity boyfriend,&amp;quot; he said. &amp;quot;I fight to push culture forward every chance I get. And I only frown because paparazzi ask me dumbass s**t all the time, and I think about changing the world, and I think about what I can do to make things better.&amp;quot; Watch a teaser for West&amp;#039;s new song &amp;#039;I Am A God&amp;#039; below:      "^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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