While Kanye West tries to do well, there is a great chance that will is not genuine. In a new interview with the New York Times, West is queried about his recent publicized actions which include his support for Trump, TMZ slavery comments, and Black fan base. The most alarming out of all, including his bipolar disorder diagnosis, include his TMZ commentary in which the Ye curator seems to be extremely nonchalant about despite his attempt to take responsibility for its poor transpiration.
According to Kanye, his stance was breaking down how slavery notes as a choice, but in reality is not. Yet, the rapper/producer/fashion designer believes he shouldn’t have voiced his thoughts for the sake of self-protection and finds TMZ at fault for presenting his commentary in a misstated manner.
“I said the idea of sitting in something for 400 years sounds — sounds — like a choice to me, I never said it’s a choice. I never said slavery itself — like being shackled in chains — was a choice,” said Kanye. “That’s why I went from slave to 400 years to mental prison to this and that. If you look at the clip you see the way my mind works.”
Apparently, Ye owned an expectation from the masses to find the entire TMZ clip as a display of how his “mind works.” Regardless, the experience forced the Chicago rapper to delve into the “context” of the word “slave.” Bouncing from A to Z, he correlated his experience to that of Nat Turner’s deeming his recorded behavior as legendary as the famed revolutionary slave.
“I learned about the context of the idea of the word slave. I didn’t take it in that context. I think that my personality and energy mirrors Nat Turner, or it had in the past, but that showed me that also that Nat Turner approach would land me in the same place Nat Turner landed, and that I would be legendary but also just a martyr.”
When asked if he believed slavery in America was a choice, Ye did not give a direct answer but instead denied he even made such commentary. The following query posed how would he frame the comment if he ever got the chance to say it again and Kanye vaguely stated he won’t reframe the comment because he never actually said it. He finds the outrage of response by the masses as one that is misconstrued and compared the narrative of reframing the comment to being falsely accused of a robbery.
“I wouldn’t frame a one-liner or a headline. What I would say is actually it’s literally like I feel like I’m in court having to justify a robbery that I didn’t actually commit, where I’m having to somehow reframe something that I never said. I feel stupid to have to say out loud that I know that being put on the boat was — but also I’m not backing down, bro. What I will do is I’ll take responsibility for the fact that I allowed my voice to be used back to back in ways that were not protective of it when my voice means too much,” Kanye admits.
Clearly, West is not very apologetic about his commentary that day on TMZ. He finds his voice to be too important and because of such notion, he obviously regrets making the “slavery was a choice” comment but does not see the importance of taking responsibility. Especially, when you are a Black artist in America, wouldn’t it be wise to address to a matter of this nature-even if it was solely for publicity? At least?
