People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best r... by Kanye West

People say I've got a bad reputation. I think I've got the best reputation in the building.

Kanye West

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When you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years?! That sounds like a choice. Like, you were there for 400 years and it’s all of you all? Like, we’re mentally in prison. Like, slavery goes too direct to the idea of blacks, so prison is something that unites us as one race, blacks and whites being one race. We’re the human race.

He will do the things that are necessary to make that happen because he's got an ego like all the rest of us, and he wants to be the greatest president, and he knows that he can't be the greatest president without the acceptance of the black community.

On Jimmy Kimmel we had a great time having a dialogue. I ’m reading that I was stumped by a question. Let me clarify the click bait. I was n’t stumped. I was n’t given a chance to answer the question, the question was so important I took time to think. And then I was hit with the let’s go to commercial break. That interview showed strong personalities with different opinions having a civil conversation.

Just as a musician, African-American, guy out in Hollywood, all these different things -- you know, everyone around me tried to pick my candidate for me. And then told me every time I said I liked Trump that I couldn't say it out loud or my career would be over, i'd get kicked out of the black community because blacks, we are supposed to have a monolithic thought, we can only be Democrats and all.

It represented overcoming fear and doing what you felt, no matter what anyone said, liberals can't bully me ; news can't bully me ; the hip-hop community, they can't bully me. Because at that point, if I'm afraid to be me, I'm no longer Ye. That's what makes Ye. And I actually quite enjoy when people actually are mad at me about certain things.

Well, Jimmy Kimmel's Jimmy Kimmel. by Kanye West

Well, Jimmy Kimmel's Jimmy Kimmel.

I think it's important to have open conversations about mental health -- especially with me being black. Because we never had therapists in the black community. We never approached taking medication.

I think everybody got something, but like I said on the album, it’s not a disability. It’s a superpower.

I was so self-conscious about the nanny and the housekeeper that I didn't want them to hear me screaming in the living room, i think that that's such a metaphor of something for the existence of so-called well-off people that they're not really well-off -- they won't even scream in their own house.

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.

Oh yeah, I've thought about killing Kanye West all the time. It's always a option and [ expletive ], like Louis C.K. said : I flip through the manual. I weigh all the options.

He could look at me and you know, I don't know why he mentioned suicide, but he could tell that I was very low, 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.

Don't call me, after the robbery, and say' How you feelin' ?' You wan na know how I'm feeling ? Come by the house, bring the kids by the house, like we're brothers.

I had never been diagnosed [with a mental condition] until I was 39, but like I said on the album, it’s not a disability, it’s a superpower.

I’m so blessed and so privileged because think about people that have mental issues that are not Kanye West that can’t go and make that and make it feel like it’s all good, think about somebody does exactly what I did at TMZ and they do that at work but then Tuesday morning they come in and they’ve lost their job. But they can’t go in there and make that. That’s why God put that on me.

He’s doing really good, he’s in Wyoming recording, he has a couple of albums coming out so he’s just focused on that.

[ T ] o make myself clear. Of course I know that slaves did not get shackled and put on a boat by free will. My point is for us to have stayed in that position even though the numbers were on our side means that we were mentally enslaved.

Being in competition with so many elements at one time. On a race against time, your age, you're getting old, race against popularity on the radio. ' Saint Pablo' ain't playing.

I might be president one day, i might be in that situation where it's harder for me to explain to the masses why something isn't happening that they feel the concept of a president should be able to fix.

We good. We're texting each other as positive energy, i haven't s... by Kanye West

We good. We're texting each other as positive energy, i haven't seen him, but I can feel him.