A tweet from Ariana Grande led to Kanye West going on a lengthy tweetstorm Saturday morning in which he opened up about his feud with Drake, his own mental health and how Chance the Rapper helped him “reconnect” with his faith.
This all started earlier this week, when West’s on-again-off-again feud with fellow rapper Drake was turned back “on.” Grande appeared to reference the two in a tweet Wednesday night, writing: “guys, i know there are grown men arguing online rn but miley and i dropping our beautiful, new songs tonight so if y’all could please jus behave for just like a few hours so the girls can shine that’d be so sick thank u”
West didn’t take to kindly to that, answering back on Saturday morning with, “don’t use me or this moment to promote a song.” Shortly thereafter, Grande responded, writing: “With all due respect, I don’t need to use anyone to promote anything. Period. I was making a comment [about] what men were doing at the time vs. women. It was a joke which I understand now was probably insensitive. I apologize if I was in any way triggering and hope you feel well today.”
https://twitter.com/ArianaGrande/status/1073979228545273862?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1073979228545273862&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.vulture.com%2F2018%2F12%2Fkanye-west-slams-ariana-grande-for-using-him-to-promote-song.html
West then went on a long tweetstorm regarding his own mental health (he was briefly hospitalized in 2016 after suffering a mental breakdown) and touched on his long-simmering feud with Drake.
“No one would ever choose to end up in a mental hospital and diagnosed with a mental disorder but god chose me to publicly go through this journey and it is beautiful,” Ye wrote. “I am able to experience first hand how people who have mental health issues get written off by society. Don’t listen to him cause he’s crazy. He’s washed cause he’s crazy etc…”
West also said he chose to go off his medication six months ago, and now he “can feel me again.”
“I cannot be on meds and make watch the throne level or dark fantasy level music,” he wrote. “You don’t make runaway on medication Even alcohol is and addictive substance called spirits that actually block our earthly connection to our spirit when we drown ourselves in it.”
Grande’s ex-fiancee, “SNL” regular Pete Davidson, took sides in an Instagram post Saturday… and he chose Yeezy.
“Bravo Kanye West for standing up for yourself and speaking out against mental health,” Davidson wrote in a post that has since been taken down. “I can’t explain to you enough how difficult and scary it is to be honest about stuff like this. We need people like Kanye. No one should ever point fingers at you for your bravery in speaking about mental health. I’m seriously disgusted.”
You can read more of his tweets below:
I know Ariana said this to be cool and didn’t mean no harm but I don’t like even slightest level of slight commentary from someone I know loves and respects me pic.twitter.com/T9VXaIj9MX
— ye (@kanyewest) December 15, 2018
People will no longer take mental health for a joke
— ye (@kanyewest) December 15, 2018
Drake verbally attacked Cudi when he was in the hospital and went at me after TMZ because I decided to release albums in June Is snowballed and he refused to meet with me but texted my mother in law and did sneak disses on peoples records that I consider family
— ye (@kanyewest) December 15, 2018
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1073921666541973506
No one would ever choose to end up in a mental hospital and diagnosed with a mental disorder but god chose me to publicly go through this journey and it is beautiful
— ye (@kanyewest) December 15, 2018
I am able to experience first hand how people who have mental health issues get written off by society. Don’t listen to him cause he’s crazy. He’s washed cause he’s crazy etc…
— ye (@kanyewest) December 15, 2018
I don’t blame people for not knowing how to handle this that said we as a society will learn together
— ye (@kanyewest) December 15, 2018
I’ve been trying to do a serious interview speaking on mental health but it seems as though all members of press are afraid to speak to someone who has been diagnosed but is still everyone’s favorite super hero
— ye (@kanyewest) December 15, 2018
People said my career was over after TMZ I need to show the world that we so called crazy people will not be just written off
— ye (@kanyewest) December 15, 2018
I need to speak about how Chance demanding that we record in Chicago reconnected me with my roots and also my faith in Jesus Christ
— ye (@kanyewest) December 15, 2018
Perhaps we stop looking at my tweets as rants and start looking at them as therapy testimonials and some even ministry
— ye (@kanyewest) December 15, 2018
I cannot be on meds and make watch the throne level or dark fantasy level music
— ye (@kanyewest) December 15, 2018
You don’t make runaway on medication Even alcohol is and addictive substance called spirits that actually block our earthly connection to our spirit when we drown ourselves in it
— ye (@kanyewest) December 15, 2018
I’m loving the new music I’ve been working on. 6 months off meds I can feel me again. Remember when dark fantasy came out I used to tweet a storm also.
— ye (@kanyewest) December 15, 2018
I love that we are destigmitizing mental health Gucciman and Quavo have a song Bipolar this is so good for culture
— ye (@kanyewest) December 15, 2018