Paul McCartney has spoken about working with Kanye West, and the former Beatle seemed to be more than happy just to make it onto Kanye’s radar, despite him having been one 1/4 of the most iconic band in music history.
McCartney collaborated with West on a number of tracks set to appear on the rapper’s upcoming album, along with the Rihanna single ‘FourFiveSeconds’. Speaking with the Evening Standard about how he reacted to the news that Kanye wanted to work with him, McCartney said: “It’s good to connect with different artists.The secret is I keep myself very open to suggestions – I still feel like I’m about 30. I’m lucky that someone like Kanye would go, ‘Yes I would like to work with Paul McCartney’.
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“I was quite flattered – I thought, ‘Why does he want to work with me?’ It was a few months later when I was starting to think, ‘should I ring him and ask him did anything come of the stuff we did?’ But then I thought ‘I can’t do that — that’s too soppy!’ I’ll just leave it and try and act cool.”
Paul McCartney must surely be one of the most humble musicians to have ever lived. Sure, Kanye is a pretty big deal, and I can imagine working with him would be exciting for anyone, but he’s Paul McCartney. If I was once one of The Beatles, I’d never shut up about it. A delivery guy would come to my door in order to hand me an Amazon package, and without any prompting I’d launch into a conversation about how I wrote Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.
His humility is even more impressive when you consider that he’s 72, which is roughly the age in which men begin repeating stories about their younger years. But whereas most old men typically repeat boring tales of their days spent in the army, McCartney has tales of being in the biggest band in the world. Who’d complain about hearing those over and over again?
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