Rapper, record producer and designer, Kanye West is getting some things off his chest without mincing words. In a new interview with New York Times, K
Rapper, record producer and designer, Kanye West is getting some things off his chest without mincing words. In a new interview with New York Times, Kanye West opened up on several things; from his new ‘Ye’ album to his controversial TMZ interview where he said slavery is a choice which he later denied, being seen as an agitator, why he’ll never stop speaking up for what he believes in and several other issues.
Here below are excerpts of the interview
On being at a low point last year
Really medicated, shoulders slumped down, and my confidence was gone, which is a lot of the root of my superpower because if you truly have self-confidence, no one can say anything to you.
On speaking up to defend Donald Trump
I felt that I knew people who voted for Trump that were celebrities that were scared to say that they liked him. But they told me, and I liked him, and I’m not scared to say what I like. Let me come over here and get in this fight with you.
On feeling pressurized to support Hillary Clinton from family
The family meaning the world — because you’re black, because you make very sensitive music, because you’re a very sensitive soul, it was like an arranged marriage or something. And I’m like, that’s not who I want to marry. I don’t feel that. I believe that I’m actually a better father because I got my [expletive] voice back, I’m a better artist because I got my voice back. I was living inside of some universe that was created by the mob-thought, and I had lost who I was, so that’s when I was in the sunken place. You look in my eyes right now — you see no sunken place.
On the effect of his slavery comment on his marriage
I was worried for my marriage (to reality star Kim Kardashian). There was a moment where I felt like after TMZ, maybe a week after that, I felt like the energy levels were low, and I called different family members and was asking, you know, ‘Was Kim thinking about leaving me after TMZ?’ So that was a real conversation.”
On suicidal thoughts
“Oh yeah, I’ve thought about killing myself all the time. I think about it all the way through. If I didn’t think it all the way through, then it’s actually maybe more of a chance of it happening.”
