While everyone else can only repeat the “Yeezy taught me” refrain from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy‘s “Blame Game,” Andre Pitts can say he actually lived it.
This 19-year-old Visual Communications student’s life was forever altered this past Friday when his graphic design class at the Los Angeles Trade Technical College was guest-taught by none other than Kanye West.
Complex caught up with the aspiring graphic designer to get the inside scoop on what went down in the Professor Yeezy-taught class and what the L.A. native learned from “the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation.”
“It was on Friday at about 1:30 in the afternoon. I walked into my class and…then all of a sudden Kanye walked in through the door after we were done with our presentations,” Pitts told Complex. “Well my heart dropped, I didn’t believe what I was seeing. For four seconds I was like, paused. I was like, “Is that who I think it is?” After that I just started to try to pull out my phone and get a photo of him.”
The “I Am A God” MC, who was leading the class to satisfy his court-mandated 250 hours of community service, needed no introduction. He just launched into an almost two-hour dissertation about his thoughts on life in general and his inspirations.
“He was all over the place, but I mean, one of the main things he was talking about was…he was giving examples of different things and saying that ...
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