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Kanye Westis addressing being called “crazy.”
During part two of his sit-down interview on Fox News’Tucker CarlsonTonightthat aired Friday, the controversial rapper, 45, said, “They keep on using the ‘Oh he’s crazy, he’s crazy’ thing. And it hurts my feelings when people say that.”
“It hurts my feelings that people can ask, ‘Hey, are you OK?’ "
West’s latest remarks come after he received backlash for a concerning tweet he sent to Boosie Badazz (formerly Lil Boosie) after the fellow rapper criticizedWest’s White Lives Matter t-shirt.
“Don’t speak on me Lil Boosie speak to me,” he tweeted in an all-caps message that hassince been deletedbut has been captured and shared on Twitter.
West — along with exKim Kardashian— has been open abouthis journey with bipolar disorder.
In a 2019 cover story forVogue, theKardashiansstar, 41, said that her husband accepted that he is bipolar, though he opted out of treating the disorder with pharmaceuticals.
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“For him, being on medication is not really an option, because it just changes who he is,” she explained at the time, adding that the couple had reached a “pretty good place” in his mental health journey.
“It is an emotional process, for sure,” she added. “Right now everything is really calm. But we can definitely feel episodes coming, and we know how to handle them.”
In part one of West’s interview with Carlson, the “Stronger” rapper doubled down onhis White Lives Matter apparel, which he debuted at his recent Yeezy Season 9 presentation during Paris Fashion Week.
“I do certain things from a feeling, I just channel the energy. It just feels right. It’s using a gut instinct, a connection with God, and just brilliance,” West explained of the creative choice.
He recounted his father Ray West’s reaction to the shirt, which right-wing punditCandace Owensalso wore in a backstage photo with West.
“You know, my dad is an educated ex-Black Panther, and he put in a text to me today, he said, ‘White Lives Matter. Ha ha ha ha ha,’ " he recalled. “And I said, ‘I thought the shirt was a funny shirt. I thought the idea of me wearing it was funny.’ And I said, ‘Dad, why do you think it was funny?’ He said, ‘Just a Black man stating the obvious.’ "
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TheDondaartist continued: “That [was] my favorite response. Cause … people, they’re looking for an explanation, and people say, ‘Well, as an artist you don’t have to give an explanation,’ but as a leader, you do.”
“So the answer to why I wrote White Lives Matter on a shirt is because they do. It’s the obvious thing,” West said.
source: people.com
