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Paul McCartney loves working with Kanye West

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Press Trust of India Los Angeles
Last Updated : Aug 11 2016 | 1:42 PM IST
Paul McCartney, who collaborated with Kanye West in early 2015, said he enjoyed working with the rapper.
The 74-year-old former Beatles star appreciated West and called him a great artist with about today's hip hop music, reported Entertainment Weekly.
"I listen to it for, you could call it, education. I hear a lot of it and go to concerts occasionally. I went to see Jay Z and Kanye when they toured. I've seen Drake live. It's the music of now.
"I think Kanye's a great artiste. Take 'My beautiful dark twisted fantasy'. I played it when I was cooking, and it was like, 'This is good. There's some really innovative stuff," McCartney said.
The musician also opened up about his musical collaboration with the "Famous" hitmaker and discussed how it all happened.
"The only deal I made with Kanye was that if it doesn't work, we won't tell anyone. I didn't know his system. I'd heard things like, 'He's got a room full of guys working on riffs, and he walks around going, 'I like that one.'
"It reminded me of Andy Warhol, these artists who use students to paint their backgrounds and things. It's a well-used technique. I thought, 'I don't know how I'm going to fit into that, but let's see. Here goes nothing.
"It was only when I got this song ('All day'), the Rihanna record ('FourFiveSeconds') and 'Only one,' the three tracks we did, that I went, 'I get it. He's taken my little whistle-y thing.' It returned to me as an urban hip hop riff. I love that record," he said.

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First Published: Aug 11 2016 | 1:42 PM IST

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