Kanye West has proclaimed that Madonna is the "greatest visual" music artist that the world has ever produced.

The singer told Steve McQueen for Interview magazine that the Queen of Pop uses imagery like no other musician.

He said: "Madonna, I think, is the greatest visual musical artist that we've ever had.

"If you look at her photo log, the photographers that she was able to work with throughout her career framed her in the proper way. It was the proper context. It was that visual that made sure that everything was gonna cut through in a certain way."

West meanwhile said in the same interview that his family help him to stay grounded:

"Well, I've got my astronaut family. You know, becoming famous is like being catapulted into space - sometimes without a space suit. We've seen so many people combust, suffocate, get lost in all these different things. But to have an anchor of other astronauts and to make a little space family..."  

"I mean, it's not like I'm the guy in 'The Hunger Games' begging for people to like me. I'm almost the guy with the least amount of 'likes'. I wanted a family. So god gives you opportunities, and you make sacrifices for something that's greater."