Kanye West says he's the 'number one rock star' and that Kim Kardashian gave him 'everything' in BBC interview Kanye West has opened up in typical style in a rare interview, telling the BBC he is the number one rock star on the planet and that album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was "perfect." KANYE West has said he is the number one rock 'n' roll star on the planet and that he likes being with Kim Kardashian because she doesn't love him for his money. In a rare, hour-long BBC interview with Zane Lowe, the typically outspoken rapper said Michael Jackson broke down racial barriers for black artists in pop music, but that he had gone beyond Jackson. We culture. Rap is the new rock "n" roll. We the new rock stars and I'm the biggest of all of them. I'm the number one rock star on the planet," West said. Admitting "there would be no Kanye West if it wasn't for Michael Jackson," West said wants to continue to stretch himself creatively, but admitted he was frustrated at his inability to get further in fashion and design. I showed people that I understand how to make perfect. You know, Dark Fantasy could be considered to be perfect. I know how to make perfect, but that's not what I'm here to do. I'm here to crack the pavement and make new ground sonically and culturally. The New Slaves rapper also touched on girlfriend Kim Kardashian and their baby daughter North, saying Kardashian had given him a family. She gave me everything, she gave me a family, she gave me a support system. She was in a powerful enough situation where she could love me without asking me for money, which is really hard for me to find. However, West admitted he feels he has hit a ceiling creatively, and channeled that frustration into his latest album Yeezus. "I shouldn't be limited to only one place of creativity," West said. I've got to a point that Michael Jackson did not break down. I have reached the glass ceiling, as a creative person, as a celebrity, and I've been at it for 10 years," West said. My Truman Show boat has hit the painting. I look around and I say 'Wait a minute. There's no one around in here that looks like me. And if they are, they're quiet as f***. So that means, wait a second, now we're seriously like, in a civil rights movement. West said he admires how friend and Watch the Throne collaborator Jay-Z has fashioned an empire. Jay Z is more realised than me. More of his dreams and aspirations have come true. You don't realise, I am so frustrated. Like, I've got so much I want to give, and I've got a million people telling me why I can't do it.