Kanye West on his Career as a Designer: ‘I feel like I’m Eminem’

Kanye West believes that when it comes to his career as a designer, he is just like Eminem.

In a recent interview with Complex, the 37-year-old rapper was asked if he received support from well-known fashion designers, who are also his friends. West answered by talking about being accepted into the fashion world regardless of his identity.

"I feel like I'm Eminem," Kanye said. "You don't think 'white rapper.' You just think Eminem. You don't think celebrity designer, straight designer, black designer, all these types of things that kind of held me back conceptually in being accepted as a designer. You just think of those words. But when those moon boots come out. You put them on your feet and just swag out and go somewhere with your friends, those words don't matter."

In the interview, Kanye also talked about his evolution from his bachelor lifestyle to a husband who respects women.

"Before, when I drove down the street I would see these brands and think they're really desirable for a girl who would dream of one day walking in that runway show or something like that. And that's a, you know, dated view and degrading to women, in a way," Kanye said. "Because when I was a single bachelor rapper, and with the access that I had, I realized that I wasn't respecting women the way I needed to. God has an amazing way of teaching people, and literally for two years I lived with all alpha females and a daughter, you know? [Laughs] So I had to learn to really do what my mother taught me, and become the man she always knew I could be, and bow as a creative."

Kanye's first collection for Adidas was displayed during New York Fashion Week on Thursday, Feb. 12.