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Based on what you've just said here, it sounds to me you got precisely the reaction you wanted by wearing that hat.
I didn't. I didn't. I didn't want the reaction you wanted. A reaction? No. You knew there was gonna be a reaction. I knew there was gonna be a reaction. But I'm just living my life day by day, doing what I feel and what the spirit calls upon me to do. But it also—you realize it is a log that you're not apologizing because everybody else, when they make a statement like that, they end up apologizing because they're so worried about what people say in social media.
Well, you know why? You know why? When I went to visit him the first time, right after the election, yeah, and I took the tweets down and everything, done because I was drugged the [ __ ] out, bro. I was drugged out. I was on opioids two days after I got off of opioids, and I was addicted to opioids. Two days I got off for opioids. Um, I'm in the hospital, right? I'm taking two—everyone listening to this, please—two days before I was in the hospital, I was on opioids. I was addicted to opioids. I had plastic surgery because I was trying to look good for y'all. I got liposuction because I didn't want y'all to call me fat, like y'all called me fat at the wedding and made him fly home before me and Kim got married. I didn't want y'all to call me fat, so I got liposuction, right? And they gave me opioids, right? And I started taking two of them and then driving to work on the opioids, right? Then my boy—and I'd always ask my boy, you know, to—Hemme of us, you know, we on tour—give me some weed, Beauvoir. So he had to go give me the opioids, and there was talk amongst my camp like, yeah, he's popping J's, popping pills, right? So when he handed to me—this to me—said, you know, this is used to kill genius, right? So I didn't take it. Two days later, I'm in a hospital. I was taking two pills a day at that time. When I left the hospital, how many pills you think I was given? Seven. I went from taking two pills to taking seven. So the reason why I—now is why I dropped those tweets and everything because I was drugged the [ __ ] out, bro. And I'm not drugged out. This—these pills that they want me to take three a day, I take one a week, maybe two a week. Y'all had me scared of myself, of my vision, so I took some pills so I wouldn't go to the hospital and prove everyone right: We are drugged out. We are following other people's opinions. We are controlled by the media. And today it all changes. You got to pop and linen in that hallway. Today it all changes. We need to think how to think free. We need to be free thinkers. Then we need to know how to feel free. People say, feel free, but we don't even know how to feel free or think free. Say what you feel, positive and negative. I just got off the phone with Jay Cole. He said, how do you feel when they said the Crips is gonna kill you? I said, man, that was the headline, but when they said they wanted to beat me up, I said, that's great. They're my brothers. They love me. They don't want nothing happening. Yeah, it is. You wanna beat some sense into me? I love—I love the Crips. I love the Bloods. I love everyone. How many people are feeling—how many people felt something that I said today? Raise your hand if you felt something I said today. Do you feel that I'm feeling? Do—do you feel that I'm being free and I'm thinking free? Yes?
Do I actually—I don't think you're thinking anything. I think what you're doing right now is actually the absence of thought. And the reason why I feel like that because, Kanye, you're entitled to your opinion. You're entitled to believe whatever you want, but there is fact and real-world, real-life consequence behind everything that you just said. And while you are making music and being an artist and living the life that you've earned by being a genie, the rest of us in society have to deal with these threats to our lives. We have to deal with the marginalization that has come from the 400 years of slavery that you said—but our people was a choice—every day we have to walk into that truth, while you choose to say things that, to be honest with you, dog, are nonsensical. You want to—for think freely, that's fine. I'll come back—you're free thought with my free thought, because mine is grounded in a reality that I've been given and a reality that I'm going to change, but I'm not going to do it by pretending that the enemies are on the same team as me. And frankly, I'm disappointed. I'm appalled. And, brother, I am unbelievably hurt by the fact that you have morphed into something to me that's not real. That's the way I feel. Stand on all the coffee tables you want to stand on, say whatever you want to say, but don't throw a stone, didn't hide your hand, like the rest of us are just gonna swallow it. Yay, ba! I'm off it forever. Do you—but remember the life that I live is as a real person, an actual person.
Now the thing is, he said some—he said grounded in reality. This reality has been forced upon us. It is a choice, just like when I said slavery is a choice. The reality—we can make our own reality. We can talk about history, but not too long. We need to talk about our now because we can fix and start loving each other now. When I say we have no enemies, we don't have enemies. Black people have a tendency to focus and march when a white person kills a black person or wears a hat, but when it's 700 kids being killed in Chicago, it's okay. It's okay for blacks to kill blacks, but if it's a white thing that way, we're saying that's more focused and more marches. Yo, don't worry—killing black kids in Chicago's killing each other—that's a lot. There are black people working—there are—no, you're too far. You have to be closer to me. Single brother, don't dream because it will make us look—yes—crazy. You screaming, you don't talk—it does—it—no. Right, talking about because he's a—to different version of somebody else's truth—slavery, right? Okay, I don't mean to insult him—a hug. I love you, and I want to give you a hug. I feel like you want to fight me right now, but I love you. I don't—I don't fight with my fists, man. I've been through that. This is my saying, so if I come over there, you're not gonna fight me. No, I'm not gonna hit Kanye West. Easy, bro. You got to be responsible, man. Bro, I'm sorry. I got you. You got to be responsible. I'm sorry I hurt your own brother. Your voice is too big. I'm sorry I hurt you, bro. I love you, bro. I'm sorry. I'm sorry I hurt you with my words. I love you, bro. Off of the leg, bro. I didn't mean—I didn't mean to say things to hurt you. I didn't mean to wear the hat out of the blue and shock so many people and not give him a way out of the pain. I understand that that gave him pain, that made him see pain. But guess what? When I went into the hospital—we're now in the hospital—TMZ is the hospital to fix the world. We—Obama was our opioids and made us feel like everything was true. Yeah, that's not true. Listen, first of all, calm—what's your wish—your name, though? I'm bad, and I'm sorry for disappointing you, man. Yeah, calmly. Yeah, what you saying up there second ago—the statistic of all black-on-black violence is true. What they don't tell you is there are people dedicate their lives to working throughout the problems of black people. There are black people every day, boots on the ground. They are all over the place that are working towards this, like every single day. People are trying to fix this problem. The narrative that black people don't care about black lives until a white person takes them—it's false. That is not true. But the problem is the people that are doing this work in communities every day, guys all over the place, they don't get the type of reference, they don't get the type of shine, they don't get the type of light—spot and spot it on in the spotlight, should I say—that other people do. Those people are the ones that need to be in power. The people that can help Chicago, they can help solve Andrews, it can help those places that are working there every day, they doing it, and they dedicate their lives to it, but they don't get bigger by rappers, they don't get invited to things, they do it for nothing because they have to. So what I'm trying to say is, why we have all of these conversations about stuff that gets covered on the news, who's gonna talk about what doesn't get covered on the news? Like, to me, for me, for a lot of years, the dude that inspired me to be more than what I was in Baton Rouge, that was—you ask everybody in this room, for years—ask everybody in here how many times we've had a Kanye West story, and I stood there, the only person to defend Kanye West because what you meant to me. And then after that, you slapped me in my [ __ ] face by giving next to people who mean me hard and who are not—who don't even care about the fact—about being honest about the fact that they mean me hard. I think that we have to get next to everyone. You don't like Trump, we have to talk to them. We have to talk. We have to talk. Because Trump is a human being also, and he's in a very powerful position, and he's doing a lot of things to actually help business owners be able to go pass all these fake laws and rules. And I'm in Canada to give you the facts better—better than that. But we need to speak to people. Einstein says the definite sanity is doing the same thing expecting a different result. So we keep on saying, I hate you, I hate you, [ __ ] you, [ __ ] you, [ __ ] you. How are we going to get a different result out of hate? Why don't we just try love? Why don't we just try love? Why can it be okay for an influential rapper in the black community to go up to the president and talk to him about how we can make a change, one by one by one? We have the resources for a peaceful world. I believe that Kim Jong—who didn't believe that Obama was crazy enough to come at them—you know, sometimes you need some crazy [ __ ] to change something. Steve Jobs is crazy. Now we all know Steve Jobs phones. They say Trump's crazy. They say I'm crazy. But I'm here to show love, and we're gonna make it through. I know I disappointed you today, brother, and I know I disappointed the black community when I wore the hat, and I'm sorry for disappointing you, but like I just told Jay Cole on the phone right now, it's a bigger plan, and I'm just doing what the universe told me.