Kanye West Just Received His Honorary Doctorate

Kanye West just received his honorary doctorate so we now can introduce him as Dr West. Here is his full speech below. 

"I'm sorry, that's just my opinion. I am a pop artist. So my medium is public opinion, and the world is my canvas. 'I'm sorry' is something you can use a lot, it gives you the opportunity to give your opinion, apologize for it, and give your opinion again. People say, 'You should not be sorry for your opinions.' George Bush...has some very cool self portraits [laughs]. I didn't know he was an artist. I felt my nerves a bit, and I don't feel that feeling a lot. The nerves of humility and modesty when being honored. A humanization, a reality of being recognized, and all I thought as I sit here, kind of shaking a little bit, is I need to get rid of that feeling. I need to not be nervous.

This honor is gonna make your lives easier. Two reasons: You don't have to defend me as much and I'm gonna make all of our lives easier. And it's these Floyd Mayweather belts that are needed to prove what I've been saying my entire life. Whether it's the co-sign of Paul McCartney grabbing me and saying, 'It's OK, he doesn't bite white people.' Or The New York Times cover, or the Time Most Influential cover, and now a doctorate at the Art Institute of Chicago. When I was giving a lecture at Oxford, I brought up this school because when I went on that mission to create in other spaces—apparel, film, performance—it would've been easier if I could've said, 'I had a degree at the Art Institute of Chicago" [laughs]. Thank you."

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