Kanye West Unleashed in Fall 2005 Issue of america magazine

NEW YORK, N.Y. (The DuVernay Agency)- "This whole game is about ego. I think that everybody in my family has it. My grandfather, my mother. I was born with a big ego!" - Kanye West

america magazine, the world's first urban luxury publication, presents its Fall 2005 edition with quadruple covers featuring multi-platinum hip-hop artists Kanye West, Missy Elliott and Sean "Diddy" Combs with Penelope Cruz, as well as Bollywood icon Aishwarya Rai.

In Kanye West's one-on-one interview with america, the Time Magazine cover subject whose new album "Late Registration" is currently the No 1 album in the country with sales of 1,400,000+ TKTK albums, opens up to america readers at his recording studio. West speaks frankly about his music, his perfectionism and his desire to be heard at all costs.
Outlined below are select passages from america magazine's current cover feature on stands now: Kanye West: The Ego Has Landed:

ON BEING OUTSPOKEN

"It's fun - the whole saying stuff just to get under people's skin... I just wish that people could put my thought process into the interviews. I think people would be able to grasp my personality more if they could see, 'Well, why did he say that?'"
ON HIS MUSICAL ABILITY

"Like the other day I was like going through the album and I accidentally went to `Diamonds From Sierra Leone' and I wanted to like change it. But it was so good to me. Like the raps in the second verse: Throw ya diamonds up like a bulimic / Yeah the beat cold but the flow is anemic. Like, oh my God! Thank you God for helping me write that, for giving me those lines..."
ON EGO
"This whole game is about ego. I think that everybody in my family has it. My grandfather, my mother. I was born with a big ego!"

For interviews with america Editor-In-Chief Smokey D. Fontaine or transcripts of the complete Kanye West interview as it appears in the Fall 2005 Issue, contact Ava DuVernay or Ellene Miles, The DuVernay Agency, 323.860.7060
america magazine is the world's first urban luxury publication. Launched in 2004, the magazine's past covers have featured Mariah Carey, 50 Cent, Alicia Keys, Pharrell Williams, Lenny Kravitz, R. Kelly, Usher and Gisele Bundchen. Visit the magazine's website at www.americamag.us.