Kanye West Gives Lecture at Harvard Graduate School of Design [Video]

Kanye West has been known to rant. He’s been offensive, insightful, inappropriate, intelligent and egotistical. Everything he says kind of invites you to be angry, yet makes you respect him more. He loves to speak his mind in hopes to inspire, confident that he knows best despite what anyone else says or does, and it’s gotten him in trouble. Many times. All he needs is the right platform.

In fact, West did find the perfect forum to speak his mind. A place where his thoughts and ideas can be fostered and used to progress. Yesterday, he gave a talk at the Harvard School of Design alongside Virgil Abloh, creative director of Kanye’s art agency DONDA, which has been behind the album art for Pusha T’s “My Name Is My Name,” 2 Chainz’ “B.O.A.T.S II: Me Time,” Lil Wayne’s “I Am Not a Human Being 2,” Big Sean’s “Hall of Fame,” and Kanye’s own “Yeezus.”

During the talk, West touched upon the importance of modern design and the obstacles in our way of achieving a greater future. “I really do believe that the world can be saved by design,” he said. “I believe that utopia is actually possible, but we’re led by the least noble, the least dignified, the least tasteful, the dumbest, and the most political.”

At the end of the lecture, which is part of the “DONDA design lecture series,” West gave everyone in attendance tickets to his show. You can check out a video of the talk here.