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Kanye: I’m a Blowfish, Not a Shark

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Says celebrities are oppressed.

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Kanye West wants to set the record straight: He is not a shark. In an interview with GQ, the Yeezus rapper dispels the myth that he is a “shark or predator in some way.” Describing his more gentle side, “I don’t have fangs. I’m a porcupine. I’m a blowfish. Like, I’m a—what’s the fish that blows up?,” West says. “I’m not a shark, I’m a blowfish.” West had other convoluted and offensive verbal gems, including his claim that celebrities are “treated like blacks were in the ’60s, having no rights.”

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