Paul McCartney Compares Kanye West To John Lennon

[Bebe 16,579]

In a move which is sure to fire up Beatles fans and Kanye-haters everywhere, Sir Paul McCartney has said that his experiences working with West were similar to working with his legendary songwriting partner John Lennon.

In a recent interview with The Sun, McCartney discusses what it was like working with West on FourFive Seconds, a collaborative track which also featured Rihanna.

McCartney equates the back-and-forth he and West had to what he and the late Lennon once had.

“When I wrote with John, he would sit down with a guitar. I would sit down. We’d ping-pong until we had a song. It was like that [with Kanye],” McCartney said, before recalling more about his time with Yeezy.

“We sat around and talked an awful lot just to break the ice. One of the stories I told him was about how I happened to have written Let It Be.

“My mum came to me in a dream when she’d died years previously. I was in a bit of a state — it was the sixties and I was overdoing it. In the dream she said, ‘Don’t worry, it’s all going to be fine. Just let it be.’ And I woke up and thought ‘Woah’, and wrote the song.

“I told Kanye this and he said, ‘I’m going to write a song with my mum,’ so then I sat down at the piano.”

The song the pair then worked on would turn into West’s Only One (below).

“This is about his mum, and his daughter North comes into the lyrics too,” McCartney said.

On getting involved with Kanye’s work, McCartney said he wasn’t sure what he was getting himself into at first. “My first thought was, ‘Whoa, what am I going to get into here?’

“He is amazingly talented but controversial and can make eccentric moves. I realised if it didn’t work out we’d just say so and shake hands and leave.”

McCartney said he and The Beatles were never afraid of a little outrage, though. “It was like when [The Beatles] got MBEs off the Queen — some people objected. They didn’t like the idea of four scruffs getting the same honour they got.

“They’d say, ‘Oh their hair’s too long.’ We got used to it, we just rode it out.”

McCartney said that when people on social media started either purposefully or mistakenly saying that West had discovered a cool new singer called “Paul McCartney” after the pair started collaborating, it spread his name even further.

“Kids who didn’t know me suddenly did because of Kanye and Rihanna,” McCartney said. After comparing Lennon to Yeezy, the number of McCartney-mad kids might just continue to grow.

 

Source: http://musicfeeds.com.au/news/paul-mccartney-compares-kanye-west-to-john-lennon/

[Yanko 9,860]

kanye>lennon

[Alii 2,039]

I don't know a lot about John Lennon, but he seemed kind and not a narcissist.

[Dangerous Man 9,245]

and their difference is the other one has a huge ego while the other one is humble.

 

[Computer 10,967]

Sounds about right, both very messy and eccentric and out of control.

[monketsharona 48,141]

please Kanye compared to Lennon ? Shame on him...

[darkchylde 14,857]

Please, Lennon is disgusting. Kanye > Lenon.

[Head Empty 23,814]

There is absolutely no need to rank or compare two completely different artists. Both have their own talents in their respective fields.

All McCartney did was compare a method of writing music, not the artists themselves.

[Mills 446]

I've always seen Kanye West as the closest to John Lennon in terms of being a great lyricist and a vocal activist. So it's actually no surprise that Paul would say that his working experience with Lennon was 'like' with him working with Kanye West. Both were/are very blunt. And the more blunt one is with his collaborator, the more likely the collaboration would turn out better.

I don't know a lot about John Lennon, but he seemed kind and not a narcissist.

​

and their difference is the other one has a huge ego while the other one is humble.

 

​Not really. I wouldn't call John Lennon, as much as he was an astounding artist, someone who's "humble" or "not a narcissist". He's the same guy who once said that they, as the Beatles, "are bigger than Jesus" at the height of the Beatlemania in the 1960s. That remark caused a huge uproar which even led to some boycotting The Beatles altogether. He was 'controversial' because of how vocal he was, arguably in the same way why Kanye West is 'controversial' all these years.

As for being 'kind', I believe everyone is at least 'kind' to anyone whom they love or who are 'kind' to them. So I couldn't say Kanye is absolutely not a 'kind' person. Perhaps to some he's not, but I'd bet that he's showing 'kindness' to the ones whom he personally cares for. 

[yxi 4,999]

Queen Yoko needs to clock him

[Yanko 9,860]

I've always seen Kanye West as the closest to John Lennon in terms of being a great lyricist and a vocal activist. So it's actually no surprise that Paul would say that his working experience with Lennon was 'like' with him working with Kanye West. Both were/are very blunt. And the more blunt one is with his collaborator, the more likely the collaboration would turn out better.

​

​Not really. I wouldn't call John Lennon, as much as he was an astounding artist, someone who's "humble" or "not a narcissist". He's the same guy who once said that they, as the Beatles, "are bigger than Jesus" at the height of the Beatlemania in the 1960s. That remark caused a huge uproar which even led to some boycotting The Beatles altogether. He was 'controversial' because of how vocal he was, arguably in the same way why Kanye West is 'controversial' all these years.

As for being 'kind', I believe everyone is at least 'kind' to anyone whom they love or who are 'kind' to them. So I couldn't say Kanye is absolutely not a 'kind' person. Perhaps to some he's not, but I'd bet that he's showing 'kindness' to the ones whom he personally cares for. 

​omg yes my German teacher who was a nun she died few months ago said that she loved the Beatles but she didn't like it when lemon said he was bigger than jesus

[Spock 20,290]

First he degraded himself by playing accompanying guitar on a Rihanna track and now he is degrading himself even further by being Kanye's new PR person and insulting one of the great musical icons ever.

Mess

[XoXoJoanneGaga 629]

I don't know a lot about John Lennon, but he seemed kind and not a narcissist.

​He was a narcissist and a known wife-beater, plus emotionally abused his son..

[LoveandMagic 1,731]

 

There is absolutely no need to rank or compare two completely different artists. Both have their own talents in their respective fields.

All McCartney did was compare a method of writing music, not the artists themselves.

​That's what I got too. 

I also applaud them for sitting down face to face and actually feeding off each other. That doesn't seem to be something done anymore in music.