Rapper Kanye West has revealed that he's on a personal crusade to fight against the "constant dumbing down of culture" and will do what he can to show that he isn't just a "commercial celebrity boyfriend".

He made the speech during a secret listening party for his upcoming new record, 'Yeezus', in Switzerland and The Daily Beast quotes West as saying:

"Right now it's a fight against the separation and constant dumbing down of culture, and I'm standing in the middle of it. So if you know what people say are my lowest moments, those moments where I sat and saw them try to dumb down culture, and I would not allow it to happen on my clock."

"When I used to go to fashion shows with my boys and we'd be eight deep, it was almost like a civil rights, like a sit-in. They wouldn't even let us in. They had no idea what rap would mean to this world, what rap would mean to the art world."

He continued: "Before the Kendrick Lamars and the A$AP Rockys, it was Kanye West in a hotel room at the Le Maurice getting a, 'No, no, no, no' to every single fashion show. But I thought it was so important to get close to the  artists who worked so hard on making a usable form of art."

The 'Love Lockdown' superstar also addressed his relationship with Kim Kardashian, with whom he is expecting a baby, adding: "I fight in my position of being a very commercial celebrity boyfriend. I fight to push culture forward every chance I get. And I only frown because paparazzi ask me dumbass s**t all the time, and I think about changing the world, and I think about what I can do to make things better."