Kanye West Recounts Racial Experience In China As A Child

Kanye West recalls racial experiences in China at 10. Kanye West says experiencing racism as a child gave him a better 'perspective' of the world as he recalled instances when as 10-year-old, he was subjected to racial prejudice. He told Paper magazine: 'When I was 10 years old I lived in China, and at the time they used to come up to me and rub my face to see if the colour would rub off.'

'It was really f***ed up, but I feel like it was preparing me for a world perspective that a lot of my friends who never got a chance to travel didn't get. Now my perspective, a lot of times, is so much wider than someone who's limited to the concept of any particular so-called world that's not the real world.'

The 37-year-old rapper, previously revealed he thinks the term racism is a 'dated concept.' He said: 'Racism is a dated concept. It's like a silly concept that people try to touch on to either … to separate, to alienate, to pinpoint anything. It's stupid. It's like a bouncing ball in a room with two cats, or something, when you don't feel like playing with a cat.'

'Let them literally fight over the bouncing ball. And the bouncing ball has nothing, no purpose, anything other than that: It bounces. That's racism. It's not an actual thing that even means anything.'