Things We Learned from Kanye's Trip to the GSD

Kanye West stopped by the Graduate School of Design on Sunday night to share some words of wisdom—or maybe just words—with a crowd of students before he and Kim Kardashian headed to the Boston stop of the "Yeezus" tour. Here's what Flyby learned from his visit.

Everything can be "architected."
According to Kanye, anything can be architected. That's right, anything. That's his justification, at least, for employing architects to design t-shirts for his creative agency, DONDA. We expect the GSD to announce a new course, "STU 232: The Structural Integrity of T-Shirts" any day now. Unfortunately, it seems that the creativity of these architects might not translate so well in Kanye's t-shirt biz, judging by the stunning originality (not) of his $120 plain white tee and his confederate flag shirt.

Utopia is possible... Therefore Kanye is politically incorrect.
Kanye cemented his belief that "like, utopia is actually possible," and claimed the only thing holding society back from it are the leaders, who are "the least noble, the least dignified, the least tasteful, the dumbest, and the most political." He continued his logic to say he is "in no way a politician—I'm usually at my best politically incorrect and very direct." So there, next time Kanye makes some ridiculously offensive and inconsiderate comment, just remember he's doing it to create a utopia.

People who work in offices stink.
Kanye complained about "people in offices" who "stop the creative people, and [who] are intimidated by actual good ideas." Maybe that's why Kanye hates Obama so much these days. That’s the real problem with the President, the oval office keeps holding him back.

Kanye does in fact get embarrassed.
Kanye admitted that he does sometimes get "self conscious," and not about the things you might expect (you know, embarrassing pop stars at awards ceremonies, various rants, underwhelming fashion endeavors—we could go on). No, not even his poorly designed t-shirts or publicity nightmares give him pause, but showing the concert stage to a bunch of students from the Graduate School of Design does. "The stage does have flaw in it," he said. "It's an expression of emotion so give me a pass on that." Don't worry, Kanye: after the free tickets you handed out, we will let the architectural flaws in the stage slide, no problem.

Famous people talk to other famous people.
As if we didn't already know this as Kanye and Kim strolled into the GSD. Kanye wasted no time in name-dropping Oprah in his remarks. We get it, Kanye, you and Oprah are buds. If you’d taken a leaf out of her book and given away free cars, people may have been more excited by this.