{"id":806417,"date":"2020-04-15T11:39:30","date_gmt":"2020-04-15T17:39:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=984396"},"modified":"2020-04-15T11:39:30","modified_gmt":"2020-04-15T17:39:30","slug":"kanye-takes-to-beeping-at-his-friends-calling-words-the-lowest-forms-of-communication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/kanye-takes-to-beeping-at-his-friends-calling-words-the-lowest-forms-of-communication\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye Takes to Beeping at His Friends, Calling Words the \u2018Lowest Forms of Communication\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"
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For the time being, Kanye West<\/a> seems done with \u201cman-made constructs\u201d like time, space, money, and, most likely to the detriment of those around him, the human language. It\u2019s a dubious move for a musician who has built a majority of their career on the recorded spoken word.<\/p>\n

\u201cI think words are one of our lowest forms of communication,\u201d West begins in a new GQ<\/em><\/a> cover story. \u201cMusic, sound, food, dancing are nonverbal forms of communication. We get so wrapped up into words. We got to make things that are speechless. We have to make things that leave people speechless. We have to make things to the level where no one can say anything.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s also the issue of West calling music a \u201cnonverbal\u201d form of communication, which seems to discount a wide swath of musical professionals, including singers, songwriters, and rappers, all of whom tend to use words. From there, West reveals he\u2019s been replacing human sounds with beeps. \u201cThe greatest freedom is to challenge the vernacular,\u201d West continued. \u201cOr add something to the vernacular. I saw [Alyx designer and former DONDA member] Matt Williams in the hotel lobby at the Mercer a couple weeks ago. Right when I saw him, I started communicating in, like, beep sounds. You know the beginning of the Bobby Digital song? Like that.\u201d<\/p>\n