Is Kanye West the smartest rapper ALIVE?

Kanye West has proven that Huge heads come with Huge egos! According to The Louis Vuitton Don, he believes he’s the smartest rapper alive in the world. Kanye claims to only surround himself with the intellectually gifted, and as for contoversy with hip-hop rivals, Kanye doesn’t do beef ’cause it’s pointless especially since he believes he’s going to come out as the victor. He tells Complex magazine,

“I feel like if a rapper disses me, they’re just trying to get a rise out of me and get me to play in their field to find some way that they can beat me. I feel like there are a lot of rappers that can beat me in ignorance. So why would I play a sport that I’m not particularly trying to get better at or beaten in? There’s a lot of rappers that can beat me in ignorance, but there’s only a few that can play with true intellect”.

He adds,

“The fact that I love to collaborate with people, I think, is a very non-arrogant thing. I absorb information, and I want people to know where the information is coming from so those people can be in a position for people to listen to them and capitalize off of the genius they bring to the table - because I only surround myself with geniuses”.