Bruce Springsteen calls Kanye West 'incredible' in NPR interview

It seems that lately everyone is asking celebrities, especially musicians, what they think of Kanye West. Most recently we learned that President Barack Obama is a fan of West's music despite having had beef with him in the past. Now, thanks to an interview with NPR (via Consequence of Sound), we've learned that Bruce Springsteen is also a fan of Yeezus.

Ann Powers asked the Boss about whether hip-hop had an influence on his latest effort, High Hopes, because she noticed that with some of the songs the credits read, "loops by Bruce Springsteen."

He responded:

"At one moment particularly you had 'White Lines' and this was stuff that was talking about what was going on in the streets and in the inner cities with people who were struggling. And that was something that, I mean, I had my own context for that, you know, that I wrote about it in my own way. But it was the music that came along and gave voice to those things outside of what was then considered a protest music context, you know, and did so really beautifully. And so, you know, I'm not well-versed in it but I have listened over the years. You know, Public Enemy, Notorious B.I.G., I listened to Tupac, I listen to Kanye West. Kanye West is incredible, you know. I mean, the record-making facility, you know, there's a lot of hours in those records and they're.."

"He's a perfectionist like you," she interjected.

"I mean some of these, there's like, just the production. And I saw him on television, he did the song called 'Blood on the Leaves' on the Later...With Jools Holland — it was fantastic, you know. He's a very, I still find him very interesting. I'm not necessarily driving [to] it in my car, you know. I probably fall back on the stuff that I listened to as a kid or something if I'm driving around. But I do listen. I listen to a lot because there's a lot of information in it and it's just fascinating record-making."

Check out the full interview here, and let us know what you think in the comments section below!

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Bruce Springsteen, Kanye West