Kim Kardashian covers Billboard Magazine - Interview inside

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The TV & Music Issue: How Kim Kardashian West Went From Reality Queen to Pop Culture Rock Star

Sorry, haters: With mogul status in TV, apps and social media and a model marriage to rap’s brash genius Kanye (plus two adorable kids), Kim Kardashian West has banished the notion that she’s “famous for nothing."

On a recent September morning, Kim Kardashian West woke up at dawn and dressed, as usual, in an outfit her husband, Kanye West, helped her select. She spent the morning shooting her E! reality series, Keeping Up With the Kardashians, and now, just after noon, is floating through a scrum of paparazzi waiting outside of New York’s Mercer Hotel. Her look involves clear vinyl thigh-high boots; an old pair of Levi’s denim shorts; a sheer, pale-blue, nipple-revealing La Perla bra, worn as a top; and an oversize denim jacket from the line of fashion-y merch that Kanye put out around his latest album, The Life of Pablo.

In the time it takes her to step out of her chauffeured Mercedes and reach the hotel door, photographers snap the outfit dozens of times. The images quickly make their way to the Internet, and by the time Kardashian West, 35, is halfway done with lunch in the hotel lobby, texts begin flooding her phone. “I have maybe 10 messages from Kanye’s publicist, my publicist,” she says, glancing down at her iPhone and sounding low-key excited. “Everyone wants to know, ‘Who makes those boots?’ Everyone is trying to do a story about the boots!”

In fact, the boots, which make Kardashian West look a little like she stepped out of an Austin Powers movie, are the world’s first glimpse of the fourth season of her husband’s Yeezy fashion line. The clothes debuted the following day, in the most attention-getting and polarizing show of New York Fashion Week, marked by frazzled buyers and fashion editors, who were bussed hours early to the event’s remote location, and models sporting layers of outerwear under the hot New York sun.

It’s no accident, of course, that Kardashian West was teasing Kanye’s big moment. She has become not only her 39-year-old husband’s muse, but his sounding board and amplifier of his message — and thus one of music’s most influential non-musicians. Kanye, meanwhile, brags about the success of his wife’s apps, her era-defining sex appeal and powers of mass communication. The two are, says Kardashian West, “obsessed with each other.” In a world where they have both been the recipients of more than a little ill will, they each have the other’s back.

“They’ve elevated each other,” says Ryan Seacrest, a longtime friend of Kardashian West and a producer of her show. “Kanye is constantly thinking about innovation and different perspectives, and you’ve seen that influence manifest in the things she has done over the last handful of years.”

Kardashian West is a little sleepy today. She was out late last night, hanging backstage after the first of two Saint Pablo shows at New York’s Madison Square Garden, where Kanye played to a packed house that included friends like Chris Rock, Alicia Keys, Sean “Diddy” Combs and Naomi Campbell, as well as daughter North West, 3, who, at her first big concert, was alternately captivated by Daddy and focused on her iPad. Kardashian West, who’s attending almost every show on the tour, spent the first couple of nights moving around the arena to experience it from different vantage points, including dipping into the “pit” — the general admission floor, which often turns into a roiling mosh zone underneath Kanye’s floating stage. “Everyone was grabbing my ass,” she says, sounding amused but vaguely scandalized. “I was like, ‘I have to get out of here.’”

In person, Kardashian West is friendly and focused, with a more down-to-earth vibe than you might expect. Still, her makeup-enhanced beauty gives her a slightly surreal quality, as if she somehow managed to get a Snapchat filter to function in real life. She orders a bowl of chicken soup and a kale salad, adding, “Oh, the fries here are so good. Should I do it?” (She does not.)

Music, of course, is just one world in which Kardashian West has worked her magic. She has not only leveraged her role as history’s greatest reality show star into unparalleled influence in social media, fashion and beauty, but established herself as a Silicon Valley power player, standing to earn hundreds of millions of dollars in 2016 from her blockbuster apps Kimoji, Kim Kardashian: Hollywood and the Kim Kardashian West Official App, which provides subscribers with exclusive content about, well, you know who. And she’s not just a businesswoman — she’s a mother of two with an African-American husband, biracial kids and a dazzling work-life balance, a woman who glamorously models a distinctly modern American life. She’s even taking steps into politics, endorsing Hillary Clinton and recently placing a full-page ad in The New York Times challenging denials that Turkey’s early 20th-century slaughter of Armenians was genocide (an issue of great importance to her late Armenian-American father, Robert Kardashian).

 

INTERVIEW HIGHLIGHT:

 

During the key moment of Kanye’s year, however, she didn’t merely offer her opinion — she masterminded the entire narrative. The story is already something of a pop-culture fable. Kanye released the song “Famous,” which includes the lines “I feel like me and Taylor might still have sex/Why? I made that bitch famous,” then tweeted thatTaylor Swift had approved the lyric. Swift issued an statement condemning the song and claiming she had never been onboard. The issue simmered for weeks, until Kardashian West gathered up all her swagger, celebrity and influence and struck back, saying in an interview that she had proof that Swift approved the song. Then, timed to a KUWTK episode centered on the topic, she released, on Snapchat, video of the call, in which Kanye shared some of the lyrics with Swift — thus ending the feud with a resounding win in the court of public opinion.

How did the couple settle on Kardashian West as the messenger? She sighs theatrically and says, “Ugh, do we really have to talk about Taylor Swift?”

Just a little bit. “I’m so over it,” she says with a laugh. “If it were up to Kanye, it all would probably never have come out. He can handle it, he has no hard feelings. He doesn’t even really care. I just wanted to protect my husband. I saw him getting a lot of shit.”

You did a good job of it. “It wasn’t even about a look or anything, or to have this feud — it was like, ‘OK, here’s the truth.’ Done. Let’s all move on. I feel like I don’t want to talk about her anymore.”

Kardashian West really does sound worn out by the whole thing —  more exhausted than triumphant. According to Jenner, it’s easier for her daughter to deal with criticism directed at herself than at Kanye. “She’s a protective wife and mom,” says Jenner. “Today’s social media-filled world can be so toxic. People angry and unhappy and lashing out — my kids weren’t brought up that way.”

 

 

Read the entire interview here: 

http://www.billboard.com/articles/news/magazine-feature/7525611/kim-kardashian-west-kanye-tv-music

 

[Pacify Him 9,073]

I have a feeling she's only getting richer and more famous when others write fanfictions about herself 

But slay Queen 

[BeerFear 5,915]

Isn't billboard a magazine for music acts tho?  I thought it was about the hot100, other charts, interviews with artists etc.

[LePetitGAGABLover 21,234]

Why is she covering a music magazine?

next thing you know it she will be billboards woman of the year

[Iwontell 7,312]

Nice pics.
And, you guys, she's so closely associated to Kanye at this point - and she's wearing his stuff in some of the pics - that I really see this as Kanye promo, which is not weird at all to see in a BB issue...

[Pierre 10,480]

4 minutes ago, BeerFear said:

Isn't billboard a magazine for music acts tho?  

 

[BLACKOUTbritney 22,356]

5 minutes ago, BeerFear said:

Isn't billboard a magazine for music acts tho?  I thought it was about the hot100, other charts, interviews with artists etc.

 

3 minutes ago, LePetitMonstr said:

Why is she covering a music magazine?

next thing you know it she will be billboards woman of the year

Technically she's a music act  

 

[Guest]

I still can't believe the whole Kimye vs Taylor thing actually happened. It was such a kindergarden show.

[BLACKOUTbritney 22,356]

2 minutes ago, Pierre said:

 

We posted at the same time

Great huntys think alike

 

[Sugarfall 3,723]

2 minutes ago, Pierre said:

 

"Going to work like I'm playing my bills"

Modern masterpiece.

[KURUSHITOVSKA 20,451]

Can she not pose like a rockstar lol you don't have any talent, stop. 

[Gypsy Life 118,907]

How Kim Kardashian West Went From Reality Queen to Pop Culture Rock Star

 

Stopped reading here

[lego 44,165]

How Kim Kardashian West Went From Reality Queen to Pop Culture Rock Star

 

 

 

 

 

model marriage to rap’s brash genius Kanye (plus two adorable kids), Kim Kardashian West has banished the notion that she’s “famous for nothing."

 

 

What happens when they divorce as 99% famous couples do?

[Bebe 17,093]

"Kim Kardashian West woke up at dawn and dressed, as usual, in an outfit her husband, Kanye West, helped her select."

I've heard this stuff before, but it always makes me feel a little uncomfortable. The husband dictating what his wife will wear gives me very controlling vibes.

Other than that good for her, she is actually incredible. Love her or hate her, you can't deny she is a mogal. She managed to become a Playboy cover model who made millions from generic brand endorsement, which is impressive by itself, and then managed to turn herself into a Vogue cover model with apps and high end endorsements. Only a couple of years ago the thought of Kim Kardashian being embraced by the high fashion world would have been unthinkable.

 

 

 

 

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She built an entire brand around her name. That's super impressive.

 

[Kim Kardashian 2,708]

19 minutes ago, KURUSHITOVSKA said:

Can she not pose like a rockstar lol you don't have any talent, stop.