YACHT Design "Kanye, Am I a Real Artist?" Website

Wondering whether Kanye West thinks you’re a real artist? Well, YACHT have created Kanye.am, a website that tells you whether to keep strumming that uke or give up on art school.

“I built this site the day after the Grammys but forgot to tell anyone about it,” YACHT wrote on Tumblr. “It’s a magic 8-ball, ask Kanye if you’re real artist and load it. Then refresh if you want a different answer.” The site incorporates Kanye’s own quotes into its answers. (“No, but we’ll still go play basketball and stuff.” “No. I’m going to talk in third person like I’m a crazy person — but it’s very hard for Kanye West to not be very true and vocal to what he feels.”)

Kanye, if you’ll remember, had a lot to say about “real artistry” following the Grammys, where he nearly interrupted Beck’s acceptance of the Album of the Year award. “If the Grammys want real artists to keep coming back, they need to stop playing with us,” he told E! “We ain’t gonna play with them no more. ‘Flawless,’ Beyoncé video. Beck needs to respect artistry and he should have given his award to Beyoncé, and at this point, we tired of it.”

He continued, “When you keep on diminishing art and not respecting the craft and smacking people in their face after they deliver monumental feats of music, you’re disrespectful to inspiration.”

Watch YACHT perform “Summer Song” on Pitchfork.tv:

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