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Read the full transcript of Kanye West's latest Twitter rant

by Nicole Villeneuve

It started with “I love being back at my fashion office learning and creating,” and ended with a George Bernard Shaw quote. There were some LOLs and some smily-face emoticons. There were a lot of ellipses.

Last night, for exactly three hours, Kanye West reemerged on Twitter to talk about inspiration and education and the Jetsons (!) and, inevitably, announce his new fashion venture/vague creative company, Donda, named after his late mother.

Starting at 10:23 p.m. EST and wrapping up at 1:23 a.m. EST (which is actually 5:23 a.m. in London, where Ye was), it was a typically Kanye rant, and the good, brave folks at Spin have not only broken it down by the numbers, but have transcribed the entire thing, in case you wanted to read it as a full, stream-of-consciousness…paragraph? It’s a long paragraph. Over 1,600 words, actually.

Check out an excerpt below, and head over to Spin for the full effect.

I love being back at my fashion office learning and creating. It’s so challenging and fun and I’m surrounded by amazing people. They so you only live once but every time I come to work I feel like I’m starting a second life. You guys might think I have some type of backing for my line but I don’t. I did the first fashion show out of my own pocket and used the money I made touring to follow my passion. I’ve been working at this for 8 years now …from the first offers to do urban clothing lines that I turned down… To begging Bape to do my line and never making any real headway… To having an office in LA that was shut down after the “MTV” moment along with my tour with GAGA I moved to Japan for one month after that and designed every night in my room… I had this opportunity to intern at Fendi and was also.. …offered a position to at Versace wich I could not take due to my contract with LV which was for 2 years… I moved to Rome after I left Japan and worked at Fendi for 4 months under cover … I was there to give ideas for the men’s collection I snuck to Giuseppe Zanotti Factory still under contract and learned to design woman’s shoes for 2 years before my first show in Paris After doing the first LV collection I was sure I would get a second shot to create but was never given the opportunity I designed a sneaker called the YEEZY with Nike. I’m “allowed” to design 1 pair of sneakers every 2 years. I have more ideas…

[Read the rest at Spin]