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After years of press silence, Kanye West has been giving some selective interviews surrounding Yeezus. In addition to his career-spanning talk with The New York Times, he sat down with W Magazine throughout the spring. According to the W interview, West still claims to be creative director of an in-the-works film based on "The Jetsons" cartoon, as originally mentioned in his epic January 2012 Twitter tirade.

At the time, Vulture reported that this was false, and that the film did not have a director and was only in early stages of development. (Vulture also confirmed that West had been attempting to work with Warner Bros. on the potential "Jetsons" film for years.)

However, W's Christopher Bagley now writes:

We weave through highway traffic as West makes calls about an upcoming "Jetsons" movie on which, he tells me, he is creative director.

The Jetsons producer Donald De Line told Vulture in 2012:

The last two years I had various forms of communication from the studio that he had this real love and interest in "The Jetsons" as an artist. My response was always through representatives, ‘Well, that’s great. We’ll let him know when we have a screenplay.’ I was thinking he was interested in it on a musical level, but apparently he’s deeply interested in art and architecture and wanted to be involved.

Speaking with W, West also shared some details behind his Daft Punk collab "I Am a God":

Last fall, a few days before Paris Fashion Week, West was informed that he’d be invited to a widely anticipated runway show only on the condition that he agree not to attend any other shows. “So the next day I went to the studio with Daft Punk, and I wrote ‘I Am a God,’ ” West says. “Cause it’s like, Yo! Nobody can tell me where I can and can’t go. Man, I’m the No. 1 living and breathing rock star. I am Axl Rose; I am Jim Morrison; I am Jimi Hendrix.” West is not smiling as he says this, and his voice is getting louder with each sentence. “You can’t say that you love music and then say that Kanye West can’t come to your show! To even think they could tell me where I could and couldn’t go is just ludicrous. It’s blasphemous—to rock ’n’ roll, and to music.”

Below, watch Kanye's American Psycho-inspired short film starring Jonathan Cheban and Scott Disick, and check out the intro clip from the original retrofuturistic "Jetsons" cartoon. And read our recent feature on Yeezus here.