Kanye West has been called many things, but these days the best description -- according to him -- is family man.
The 36-year-old rapper
appeared on Kris Jenner's daytime talk show "Kris" on Friday to discuss
his relationship with Jenner's daughter, Kim Kardashian, and their new
addition, North.
But if Kanye was smart,
he'd hire Jenner as part of his PR team. The reality TV momager, who has
extended her family's brand from E! to Fox with this test run of her
talk show, reiterated several times that the stone-faced and difficult
Kanye portrayed in the media is not the man she's come to know. (Kanye,
after all, is now living in her home.)
"I'm so excited that I've
gotten to know you like I have," Jenner said. "There are a lot of
things that people don't know about you that are so interesting to me
that I want other people to hear."
Kanye spoke about the effect of the birth on his outlook.
"To me it's such a
blessing, and I feel like it's going to give me the stability that I
need to really create and really do God's work in the way I should,"
Kanye, wearing a "what would Jesus do" bracelet, told Jenner.
"Someone to be
accountable, someone to be responsible for. After I lost my mother there
were times I felt like I would put my life at risk, I felt like
sometimes I didn't have something to live for. Now I have two really
special people to live for, a whole family to live for. I want people,
when they remember me and my family, their thought association to be
someone who helped, someone who brought joy."
He did bring plenty of
joy to Jenner's show, as she beamed while displaying North's photo for
the audience. North, who was born June 15, has her mother's eyes and
father's cheeks, according to Jenner.
"The thing I think about
as a dad is just protection. That's my only goal, to Kanye said his goal
is "to protect my daughter. That's my instinct."
"To give my daughter as
many opportunities to just be a child. Of course, a big thing that
plagues us is this idea of the paparazzi chasing a 5-year-old around and
screaming at them. ... You have enough things to deal with and to learn
being a new parent and you add that on top of it, and it becomes really
intense."
According to Jenner,
Kanye's been into his girlfriend for a long, long time, and would even
use Photoshop to draw himself into the yearly Kardashian-Jenner
Christmas card. (Seriously -- Jenner showed proof.)
Although he couldn't quite remember the first time he met Kardashian, 32, Kanye did know it was love at first sight.
"I'm trying to remember
if the first time we met was her being in the studio when she was
Brandy's assistant, and I think she brought us in, like, something to
drink," he said. "Or it might've been when I was doing Brandy's video
and I remember asking my manager, 'Who is that girl right there?' ... I
was in love with her before I even got to talk to her."
Kim, he said, was always someone he dreamed about being with, but more importantly, he feels that they're "equally yoked."
"Being in the limelight,
you have to have a match, or someone that's equally yoked," he told
Jenner. "It's difficult, because there's people that you would date who
would try to date you to maybe be more famous, or people who would want
you to be less famous than you were, and just not accept who you are in
life. And when I would be on the phone with her, even at my lowest
moments, she'd give me energy and remind me of who I was. And I needed
that support at all times."
Kanye knows that there
are those who think he and the Kardashian family wouldn't have much in
common. But he's trying to grow both spiritually -- "I'm a Christian,"
he said, "That's what's important to me, that I grow and walk and raise
my family with Christian values."
"People feel that me and
my girlfriend's mother are of different brands in a way," he said. "But
it's not about any of us being at odds, it's about us helping each
other and improving each other. I might be one of the only guys in the
world that knows how to pick out a pair of shoes for a girl, but I have
improvements that I need to make as a human being ... the way that I
talk to people, being too sharp with people, or being too edgy. As a
creative guy, sometimes it's hard for me to small talk. ... And that's
something that (the Kardashian) family and Kim are teaching me, helping
me to be a better person."
Given the negative press
he's had -- from that infamous mic-jacking at the 2009 MTV Video Music
Awards to more recent run-ins with the paparazzi -- does he have any
regrets? Not exactly.
While there are things
he wishes he could change, he also believes that "everything happened
for a reason, and I've grown from it," he said. "I feel that I'm very,
very, very blessed, and with that comes great responsibility. With the
way my parents raised me and the information that they gave me and this
feeling that I have that I want to help, I think anything that could be
considered a mistake will help me to make better decisions in the
future."
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