Kanye West Promotes Latest Album in a Truly Artistic Fashion [VIDEOS]

36 year old Grammy award winning rapper and producer, Kanye West, has become as well known for his music as he has for his tumultuous relationship with the public.

West even admitted during a June 11 interview with the New York Times, "I don't have some type of romantic relationship with the public. I'm like, the anti-celebrity, and my music comes from a place of being anti."

The artist, who has a baby girl due with reality starlet Kim Kardashian, has been hiding away in his Parisian Loft recording his latest album, Yeezus, which is set to release in stores June 18.

With the upcoming release of Yeezus, West has come out of seclusion and has been spotted all around the world promoting the project.

West performed two tracks, "Black Skin Head" and "New Slaves" from the upcoming album on the legendary NBC show Saturday Night Live. Then a few weeks later continued promotion for the album as well as the first single off the highly anticipated album by displaying visuals on the side of 66 specific buildings around the world simultaneously.

Since then West has held a listening party for the Yeezus in New York City which was then described by an attendee as, "for the most part, very very dark."

"At times, the whole night felt a little bit like that opening scene in Blade (cue the blood sprinklers!). But it was also just a party, with an open bar and dancing and a lot of complicated handshakes between old friends and scenester acquaintances." The attendee continued.

Not too long after, West held an impromptu preview of the upcoming album at the Design Miami/Basel Fair. The rapper unveiled the first two tracks from Yeezus, which he played straight from a laptop computer and before he could release a third, he was interrupted by chants demanding that he sing live.

According to an attendee at that listening party, "West hesitated, then yielded, delivering an aggressive, a capella performance of 'New Slaves'."

Of course, a performance by Kanye West is never complete without a rant of some form or fashion.

According to a New York listening party goer, "Ye himself onstage, delivering an impassioned, rambling, and sometimes impenetrable introduction - there was a lot of talk of artistry and marketing ("I got a new strategy, it's called no strategy. I have a plan to sell more music, it's called 'make better music.'") and something about Lindsay Lohan and Jessica Simpson's clothing lines - before he wrapped with "I had to learn about giving, this whole album is about giving... this whole process is about giving ... NO F--KS AT ALL."

While debuting Yeezus at Design Miami, and performing his lead single "New Slaves", an attendee called it "a potent song that climaxed with an anti-Montauk mantra: "I'd rather be in the Factory than the Maybach" and "F--- the Hamptons House!"

During an interview discussing West's life and more importantly his music, the rapper explained the the inspiration behind his latest project saying, "I lived in Paris in this loft space and recorded in my living room, and it just had the worst acoustics possible, but also the songs had to be super simple, because if you turned up some complicated sound and a track with too much bass, it's not going to work in that space. This is earlier this year. I would go to museums and just like, the Louvre would have a furniture exhibit, and I visited it like, five times, even privately. And I would go see actual Corbusier homes in real life and just talk about, you know, why did they design it? They did like, the biggest glass panes that had ever been done. Like I say, I'm a minimalist in a rapper's body."

"This album is moments that I haven't done before, like just my voice and drums." He said.

"There's no opera sounds on this new album, you know what I mean? It's just like, super low-bit. I'm still, like, slightly a snob, but I completely removed my snob heaven songs; I just removed them altogether." West continued.

When asked about whether he felt as if he was still fighting his way in, West replied, "I feel like I don't want to be inside anymore. Like, I uninvited myself."

Check out Kanye's visual for "New Slave" as well as his SNL performance HERE