Kanye West has led a tribute to all the style icons of the rap industry after been named the best dressed rapper of all time by Complex Magazine.
Kanye, who has turned his hand to designing now, won with 77% of teh vote but admitted he takes inspiration from fellow artist Pharrell Williams.
Kanye wrote a note of thanks and acknowledged other artists who helped make hip-hop a more stylish place. He said: "Man, I want to thank everybody. this is a real honour! This whole year has been so overwhelmingly positive. "It means a lot to be able to get respect from my core and peers even though everybody knows I get a little crazy with the clothes sometimes...
"It's nice to read something positive for a change! Pharrell pioneered what I do now. He was the original to break down doors between real fashion and hip hop worlds, doing beats for Noreaga and running around with the model chicks.
"(Rick) Ross gets real fresh. T.I. has a great effortless sense of style. Jay(-Z) has set mad trends and is the Sinatra of our era. Nobody is as fresh as Ralph Luaren (sic) himself, only Andre 3000 and (Fonzworth) Bentley get close but there's still work to do. The uphill battle we have as hip hop artist (sic) is hip hop is rootedin trends.
"True style and trends very seldomely (sic) meet. That's why we have a tendency to wear stuff that's laughable 2 years later. When I see crazy stuff I've worn and people laugh at me, all I can do is laugh with you and think, I had fun though."
We don't really understand that Kanye but congrats!
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