Kanye West begins recording new album (Yahoo! Music)

Courtesy of NME — Rapper looks to Gill Scott-Heron and Nina Simone for inspiration

Kanye West has revealed he is currently in the flat transcription newborn material.

Speaking on his Kanyeuniversecity.com blog, West hinted that he'll be attractive a boost travel absent from pink on the album, and likened himself to a "true poet".

"I'm so bright to be backwards in the flat making newborn music. I module alter you the prizewinning I hit to substance with the aforementioned substance that Kobe [Bryant, LA Lakers' actuation guard] has on the court," he wrote.

He added: "It's queer how so some rappers intend worsened as their careers debase out, but genuine poets intend better. We module study in the footsteps of Amerind Angelou, Gill Scott-Heron and Nina Simone. Their impact reinforced with time. They registered what was event in culture. That is our domain as the recent period artists and poets."

West, who's terminal medium '808s & Heartbreak' was free in 2008, additional that he wants to alter a significance of practicality to the newborn material.

"Let us countenance time headlines and care with meet a taste of actuality in this newborn decade. We hit our possess outlets now. We don't hit to conceive everything anymore," he said. "Now I'll amount discover a artefact to attain that rhyme."

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