Dr. Kanye West!!!!!!! I’m so proud of you baby & I know your mom would be so proud too!!!! ????

A photo posted by Kim Kardashian West (@kimkardashian) on May 11, 2015 at 1:18pm PDT

This is an Instagram from Kim Kardashian – she was not in Chicago for this moment, but she honored her husband Kanye West as he received an honorary PhD from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Some people are bitching about Kanye receiving an honorary doctorate, but… I don’t know? I think it’s kind of cool. Most colleges give out those honorary doctorates to cheeseball local politicians and it’s not like Kanye is now going to go by Dr. Yeezus (although that might be righteous).

The NYDN has an audio clip of Kanye’s speech and he sounded… genuinely honored. He took it seriously, and he was moved to be receiving the doctorate, and it felt like he was thinking a lot about his mom. You can hear the clip here. At one point, he talks about being a pop artist, and whether it’s a good thing to say “I’m sorry.” He ended up doing a funny little riff about George W. Bush (“…doesn’t care about black people…”) too.

“I am a pop artist. So my medium is public opinion and the world is my canvas. ‘I’m sorry’ is something that you can use a lot. It gives you the opportunity to give your opinion, apologize for it, and give your opinion again. You should not be sorry for your opinions!”

“George Bush … has some very cool self-portraits. I didn’t know he was an artist.”

[From WaPo]

Kanye pauses for a long time in between “George Bush” and “has some” and the kids in the audience all laughed. They probably hoped that he would say “doesn’t care about black people.” Incidentally, George W. Bush cited that moment at the Hurricane Katrina Relief fundraiser as “one of the most disgusting moments in my presidency.” As in, Bush thought it was disgusting that Kanye basically called him a racist. Bush was not disgusted that he abdicated crisis management to incompetent idiots and left an American city to drown and rot. God, even typing those words, I get mad about it all over again. I wish Kanye had gone on an old-school anti-Bush rant.

Thank you SAIC… This is my greatest honor to date and would have been my mother – Dr. West’s – proudest moment. pic.twitter.com/UmbmkJDHhq

— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) May 12, 2015

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