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Kanye West Covers GQ Magazine, Talks New Single 'All Day' & Jay Z & Beyonce Missing His Wedding

Kanye West is no stranger to GQ Magazine. He graced their covers back in 2007 on the Man Of The Year issue and worked with them several times before that during his 'Late Registration' years. Fast forward to 2014, the 37-year old musician is covering GQ's August Issue and he's in good spirits. They met up with him at the Mercer Hotel in New York City just ten days after his highly covered wedding with Kim Kardashian.

Kanye is not one to bite his tongue and this latest interview is no different. He speaks on Drake running last Summer, Paparazzi issues, Jay Z and Beyonce missing the wedding, having the most liked photo on Instagram ever, 'Yeezus', whether he learned from Kim, and happiness. At one point the Chicago native compares himself to a blowfish and Kim to a fighter jet or dinosaur.

"You mean to tell me that this girl with this f*cking body and this face is also into style, and she's a nice person, and she has her own money and is family-oriented? That's just as cool as a f*cking fighter jet or dinosaur! And just as rarely seen." says 'Ye.

As for new music, Kanye speaks of a single called 'All Day' which will go like "All day, nigga, it's Ye, nigga. Shopping for the winter, it's just May, nigga. Ball so hard, man, this shit cray, nigga". He also hints he's looking to drop his next studio album sometime in September.

Check out excerpts from the interview below and read the full thing over on GQ Magazine.

On Drake:

“Currently that spot is taken,” West says. “Let’s be honest—he got last summer. Yeah. He got last summer. And I’d never given it up till last summer. Now he’s thinking about taking it back. “It’s a real question for me. Do I want to?”

On Upcoming Single 'All Day':

I think just my usual pattern is like that. It's like a pendulum. The pendulum gains momentum by swinging in the other direction. Even lyrically, I think about certain lines that I say on my new single, which is called "All Day," that usually Jay would say, but Jay's not on there. So I say, All day, nigga, it's Ye, nigga. Shopping for the winter, it's just May, nigga. Ball so hard, man, this shit cray, nigga. You ain't getting money unless you got eight figures. Right? Jay would have said that. And then eventually I would have came in with, like, whatever I come in with. But the balance of a meal is that when people walk in, they want water first. People definitely weren't getting water first on Yeezus. I do fight with myself to say, "Keep fighting." But also, you know, you can't win every single fight. It's a long war, and if you're out there trying to, like, blow up every single building, you won't win the war.

On Having The Attention On Him:

That wasn't my goal. My goal is just to be respected as a man when I walk down the street with my family. I don't care what your job is, you're not gonna talk down to me, you're not gonna try to get a rise out of me. I'm a man first. And in establishing that, some interesting things have happened. [laughs]

But if you read a lot of the tabloid coverage, the implication is: Kim and her family are bringing you down. Jay Z and Beyoncé didn't show up at your wedding because of them. That kind of thing.

All that, I wouldn't even speak on. It doesn't even matter to me whatsoever, who would show up. Because the most important person to show up there, to me, was Kim. And that's all that matters to me. I had to fight for that for seven years. But the fact that these other people showed up that are from such different worlds but have done such dynamic things—they're all, in a way, equal to what Kim has done in TV or what I had done in music. I was so moved that I just wanted people to stop and think they weren't sitting at a table full of fashion people, they weren't sitting at a table full of celebrities, they weren't sitting at a table full of movie directors. It really was a representation of the way we receive information today, post-Internet. And so Page Six can't overshadow the main point: Carine Roitfeld was sitting next to Kim Kardashian. That alone to me is like the same moment when I brought Mos Def to the studio with Jay Z. It's about the people, and the fact that they're from different walks of life, and that they're working together and not discriminating against each other. There was a class system, and now there's a creative class system, and I think that's what you were talking about a bit—the class system of creativity.

Are you the father you hoped you'd be? There's that song on Watch the Throne, "New Day," where you and Jay Z talk about your unborn children, and you basically say: "I want my kid to be completely the polar opposite of me."

And the joke was that I was supposed to say on the song, "Come on, Jay, you know we're both gonna have daughters." And I'm so mad, because you know when I pop that creative-genius shit? If I had had that, that could've been my one moment where I'm like: "Okay, fuck all the conversation. Look at that. I called that one."

Were you mad when Rick Rubin came out and said that you did half the vocals on Yeezus in two hours before hopping on a plane?

Yeah! Because yeah, I rapped them. But I worked on them for like eight months! And the thing is, I had to finish the verses in order for the album to come out, and it's game time. I didn't freestyle those verses. That shit was worked and processed and Disneyfied and everything. By the way, those lines are super scary and serious, and everything that I'm saying on Yeezus is super politically direct, so I think that it's funny that you said that, because I think he needs to clarify that to people—that I didn't make it up in that time. I just said them in that time.

Another gifted communicator in your life is Kim. Have you learned from her?

That's funny that you're saying that. One of the reasons why I think that me and Kim are very powerful together isn't just the concept of celebrity or this mega rap star and this mega-beautiful pop star. It's something I explain to my girl: She is who she is. I am who I am. We have advisers and friends and everything, but those people are who they are and we are who we are. And what I had to learn from Kim is how to take more of her advice and less of other people's advice. There's a lot of Kim K skills that were added. In order to win at life, you need some Kim K skills, period.