[eerie tone]
-[North] Daddy.
-[Ye] Yeah.
[North]
You know, if you falls asleep...
...you would not even walk.
Oh, no.
I need to stay awake then.
[ethereal ambient music]
[rumbling building up]
[rumbling fading away]
-[grim music]
-[crackling]
[announcer]
Ladies and gentlemen,
please welcome Kanye West.
[soft applause]
[staccato piano notes playing]
Kanye starts here, right?
So he's on one side of the stage
and I'm here
on this side of the stage,
and I'm trying to get to him
and he's trying to get to me.
-He's got the fame...
-[man] Right.
-...and I want the fame, right?
-[man] Okay.
So he's in a dark, cultish,
-um, tormented
spiritual world...
-[eerie music]
...that's void of,
of naivete and hope.
[Ye] Yeah, there's times
where it's like,
"Yo, we really like this guy."
And sometimes, like,
"Wow, he's kind of, like,
talking about the Matrix
a little bit."
And you're not supposed
to speak about that.
-You know,
you're in your position now.
-[inaudible chatter, laughter]
Shut up, make money.
Thanks to Kanye West,
Lorne Michaels,
SNL, the crew members.
Thank everybody in here.
-Thank you.
-[crowd cheering]
Kanye, the number one man
in the world right now.
Number one album.
-Ain't nothing been going on.
-Okay.
-I'm about to slide.
-It's a amazing record.
It's your best...
It's your best album.
-[crowd cheering]
-[heroic music playing]
[Ye speaks indistinctly]
-[applause]
-[indistinct chatter]
[Ye]
Hey, man, I had
to adjust my swag
'cause a lot of my swag was,
like, copying off you
'cause you, like,
definitely one of my idols.
And sh*t, I felt like
the Diddy coming out of me.
I was like,
"I gotta adjust my swag
-'cause he's here and sh*t."
-[laughter]
-'Cause I was like... [laughs]
-I can't even
talk to you right now.
I can't even
talk to you right now.
That sh*t was so incredible.
Eyes-- my eyes water, like...
I can't, I can't even talk.
I'm just stressed out.
I don't even know
what to do with myself, n*gga.
For real, I need
to get drunk or something.
That sh*t was crazy, man.
-Forget it.
-'Cause that n*gga say it.
-Forget it.
-[woman] Forget about it.
-Yeah.
-We're all in there,
we were in there,
n*gg*s was saying
at the same time, in unison,
and you can say I said it,
-"Michael Jackson."
-Yeah.
-[ambient music]
-[crickets chirping]
[Portwood]
'Cause I remember
you telling me once.
You said, "I want my work
to be like Stevie Wonder."
And you said,
"I got to be the best."
-You did.
-[Ye] I said that back then?
You said-- yeah, you said,
"I got to be the best."
[Ye]
I don't think
I would have came up with this
if I hadn't dealt with--
I dealt-- you know, I dealt
with multiple, you know, uh, uh,
a few losses in a row.
With losses, you know,
it brings great art.
-[fireworks popping]
-And I, kind of,
went crazy with that
to keep from
just going crazy, period.
[newscaster]
Kanye West and Lady Gaga
are canceling their tour.
The cancelation comes
on the heels
of all that negative publicity
for Kanye West's,
um, interruption
of Taylor Swift at the VMAs.
[woman on TV]
"Here I am. I'm just
an innocent 19-year-old girl
-minding my own business...
[continues indistinctly]
-[laughter]
[woman]
Uh, uh-oh, uh-oh.
Somebody's interrupting me.
Uh-oh. No! No! No!"
[hip-hop music
playing on loudspeakers]
-[chuckling] It's nothing.
-[indistinct conversation]
This is the beginning for a lot.
But everybody was
singing that sh*t.
-Of course.
-That was so good, man.
-You k*lled it.
-Yes, sir. Thank you very much.
Thank you. Thank you.
[indistinct chatter]
Let's have a toast
for the douchebags!
It's in history now.
From now on, you'll hear that
for the rest of our lives.
-[man] Yes!
-[Ye] It's here now.
Another, another term.
-[man] Toast to the douchebags!
-[all] To the douchebags!
-[all cheering and laughing]
-[soft tense music]
Hey, I'm gonna cut
this m*therf*cking Yeezy up
right quick.
-Hey.
-[man] Oh, no.
Hey, y'all, I'm about
to cut the cake
-in m*therf*cking half...
-[men chuckle]
...right now. Hey, y'all...
-[man 1] Man, watch the knife.
-[man 2] The-- the knife.
-[laughter]
-Hey, quit it. Hey, be careful.
I got the drink in me
and I got the knife in my hand.
-What the f*ck you want?
-[woman 1] The knife.
[woman 2]
Kanye, please be careful
of the knife.
-[indistinct conversation,
laughter]
-Yes, ma'am.
-[woman 2] Cut that sh*t,
m*therf*cker.
-[indistinct conversation]
[Ye]
Everybody, watch me
cut the cake!
[cheering]
[Ye exclaims]
[all exclaiming]
-[distorted camera shutter]
-[voices echoing]
[camera shutter clicking]
[cheering fades]
[tense music]
[Ye]
Yeezy is, it's not just
a shoe company,
it's not some apparel company
or a fashion company.
It's an idea company.
We've got our own thing to say,
and we've got
something new to say too.
Something past, uh, brutalist,
uh, modernist,
utopianist, minimalist.
There's all these lists.
You know, f*ck all these lists
and sh*t, you know?
We've got just something
that just is.
It's like it's this time
that we have
inside of
this particular dimension.
And how do we express ourselves
as a collective, as a community?
[ambient synth music]
-What, this your guy?
-[Ye] Yes.
-Oh, okay, okay. How you doing?
-[Nico] Hey.
You know, it's like
I look at life like,
like it is a movie.
Like, I'm a actor in your movie.
You're a actor in my movie.
And I don't think
about what trend just happened.
I just look at it like
if we were directing a movie
about our time right now,
200 years from now,
what would you use?
That whole
second-life conversation
and who we are in real life,
and are we method acting,
who are you on the internet,
who are you in public eye,
that sh*t is all
part of the movie.
But we're designing into,
like, four or five dimensions
at this point now.
[indistinct conversation]
I want to be able
to present ideas
of ways that we should
live in the future.
But we're just
so in our own way.
I still am, sometimes,
in my own way.
Doing this documentary, I think,
is gonna be
you controlling the ether.
Life is your therapy.
[inaudible conversation]
You're asking the questions now
with the camera.
[Ye]
Like, I'm documenting, uh,
everything now because
we're gonna do a documentary
about mental health.
-Oh, amazing.
-Yeah.
So just talk about,
you know, my experience
since I got out of the hospital
and just understanding that,
you know, mental health is,
it's a health issue.
It just so happens
that it's on your brain.
[inaudible chatter]
What's the bigger thing is,
like, the shoes selling out
or... ...me coming to terms
with the stigma
of mental health and sh*t.
-Yeah.
-You know, and the--
I, I got a responsibility
to talk about it
because I've been so blessed.
God was like, "Okay--"
You know, this is the scene
in the f*cking Bible.
He's like, "Okay,
I'ma, I'ma not have
your wife leave you.
I'ma not have Adidas drop you.
I'ma not have, you know,
all your fans
turn their back and sh*t.
We're gonna
keep them right here.
But you're gonna,
in the same way
how you're asking everybody else
to deal with you
in a truthful way,
you, you're in a position,
-you got to deal with us
in a truthful way."
-Mm-hmm.
"Because there's a lot of people
who need you right now, Ye.
'Cause there's a lot of people
who ain't got the Yeezys,
ain't got the albums,
ain't got the wife
and kids and sh*t
that's dealing
with the same exact medication.
-They got the exact medication
as you, in their drawer."
-Mm-hmm.
One, one f*cked up facet,
just like a diamond,
one f*cked up facet
can f*ck the whole thing up.
-Mm-hmm.
-Right?
So you can't put out a single,
a first single,
and the sh*t go left
from what you already hinted
of where you were f*cking going.
'Cause then people going--
they're gonna--
Now they're gonna question
everything that you do
after that.
And they might even
go retrospectively
and go back in the past
and start pulling out
your other flaws that you--
they forgave you for
because they thought
you were what?
-Great.
-Huh.
-You are taking control
of the water in the fish tank.
-Yeah.
This is, this is yours.
But it's very easy
to slip and f*ck all this up.
[grim music]
[footsteps approaching]
I was just thinking. Ah...
And like, even like,
after this day,
you know what's cool
about when you film,
it's like,
you're not just showing me,
you're also understanding
what it could be.
-[indistinct conversation]
-[man 1] Yo, what up?
-[Drake] What's good?
-[Ye] What's good, bro?
Man, we just had to switch shoes
outside and sh*t.
-[Ye] Uh-oh. What--
-'Cause we-- [chuckles]
-What's up, man?
-[man 2] What's up? How are you?
Good to see you.
Good to see you. Yes, sir.
-What's up? How are you?
-[indistinct chatter]
-What's up, my guy?
-[man 3] Hey, man.
[man 4]
What's good?
Always didn't fit in
And started to do it
On purpose
Was I really being different
Or just being different
On the surface?
Is rapping really
Method acting connected
To a bigger purpose
Seem to destroy
Everything I've built
On the pursuit of perfect
Happiness is accepting
Everything won't be perfect
And the worst parts
Of this movie called life
Gonna be worth it
When n*gg*s act phony
I did this to me
When n*gg*s backstab me
I directed that movie
All the sizes in front of you
Just matter
What you want to do
[exhales] That verse is crazy.
Yeah, it was like
a mix of, like,
-kind of--
-I'm just an extra.
-I just, yeah, I just,
you know, that's--
-Yeah.
I know what that is.
-Yeah.
-I get excited about those.
-Yeah.
-Damn.
There's some sh*t in there.
-Yeah.
-There's some sh*t in there.
["Amistad" by Kanye West
playing]
Uh, yeah
Uh, uh
Hopped off the Amistad
And made "I'm a God"
It's always a lituation
When I'm involved
It's always a lituation
When I'm involved
See, I say what they say
When the mic is off
Parents are the strippers
Stripped kids
Of they confidence
Teach white dominance
Question your common sense
See, I've been washed
In tradition and I'ma rinse
Hopped off the Amistad
And made "I'm a God"
See, I say what they say
When the mic is off
-Yo, Harvey, that's enough,
that's enough.
-[all laughing]
Hip-hop star
and fashion designer
Kanye West is facing backlash
from some fans
and music industry peers
after praising President Trump
on Twitter.
Yesterday he wrote... [reading]
[Ye]
I have to show an example
of a non-perfect Black celeb
that still wins.
-I gotta--
-[Candace] Yes. Like--
Because if you're a celebrity
and you're Black
and you're perfect,
you're their housekeeper.
-[man] Mm.
-Yes. Yes! You get this.
That's what I'm saying.
I'm like,
"You're a glorified sl*ve."
-You're the help.
-"You're a glorified sl*ve,
man."
Like, you're-- Why would you
want to be a glorified sl*ve?
Culture will always be
upstream from politics.
Whoever can control culture,
can control politics.
Like you getting political,
you're talking about 2024,
you being open
to different ideas,
different conversations,
you wearing a MAGA hat,
it broke the internet.
-[jet engine whirring]
-[pensive music]
[radio host] You're here
in Chicago. You wanted to talk
to the people here in Chicago.
You wanted to come home
and you had felt like,
you know, you had some things
that you wanted
to get off your chest
or you wanted
just to address the people.
So what was your reason,
specifically,
for wanting to make
this particular trips?
[Ye]
W-- My skin
was turning gray in LA...
-[crowd cheering]
-...and as soon as my feet
touched back home,
I came back to life.
[crowd cheering loudly]
[uplifting music]
[Ye]
And I need y'all as a city
to just have my back.
And I, I promise you,
you're gonna see a new Ye.
You're gonna feel the impact.
So, the first thing on my mind
that I have to tell you is,
I gotta let y'all know
that I've moved back to Chicago.
-I'll never leave it again.
-[crowd cheering]
[cheering fades]
Now, Kanye, we're live.
Just quick question, man,
we're live, really quick.
Hey, man. How does it feel
to be home in Chicago?
-Feels great, friend.
-What have you got going on?
-What's here?
What's going on right now?
-Um...
It's a super inspiring place
that made me who I am, and,
uh, I, I believe
there's some work
that, uh, that I can
contribute to.
Do you still feel love
from the city of Chicago?
-Definitely. Look at all
this love right here.
-[laughter]
-[gentle piano music]
-[birds chirping]
[motorcycle engines revving]
-[woman] Kanye.
-[indistinct background chatter]
-What's your name again?
-Tara Scarborough.
-I live right there
on the first floor.
-Okay.
Your mother,
I know what happened.
What happened?
-I don't want to do that.
-No, tell me.
-I don't want to do that.
-No. It ain't about what?
You need to tell me.
-She had a operation.
-[Ye] Huh.
-What happened?
-She passed.
Yes. I know that.
I know the whole story
about you.
And I live right there,
and I see her in the window.
I'm not gonna lie to you.
I'm-- I ain't got no time
to do that.
-I'm too old for that.
-[man] Step up, step up.
-I'm too old.
-Yeah. All right.
And she wanted me to hug you.
-[Ye] Okay.
-[man] This way.
She wanted me to hug you.
-Can I come with you?
-[Ye] Yes.
I... I understand.
I understand quite well.
-Mm.
-[Tara] That's, that's
what you have to hold on to,
all the time, you're gonna
have to remember.
Remember where the f*ck
you came from.
Don't you ever forget!
Don't you ever forget
-this the thing.
-Yeah.
Bet you don't think
you're gonna be bigger
or wanted something better
or dreams to get
the hell out of here?
-Yeah.
-[chuckles] I know you did.
'Cause I did too. I did too.
Oh, I come from the same sh*t,
but I'm not famous.
When you said, "Get over here,
this is a moment
I want you to remember,"
I didn't-- I didn't--
I felt that was my mom.
I told you.
I watch her from the window.
When you said
you were coming to Chicago,
I find out on the internet
you're moving to Chicago.
-I find out--
-No, no. I told you that
before we had that conversation,
-we already talked about that.
-Not a serious conversation.
It was a con-- Any conversation
I have is serious.
-I don't joke. I don't play.
-I, I did not think
-that that was serious.
-You don't be taking me
seriously. And, like,
a, a lot of m*therf*ckers
don't be taking me seriously.
You said we were gonna move
into your mom's house.
So my bad
for not taking you seriously.
So you just have to understand,
with the spectrum of things,
-you're around
a bunch of new people--
-Also, you need to make sure
-you needed
to come here yourself.
-I needed to come here to make
-sure-- Yes, you're right.
-Yeah. So don't make
assumptions.
And don't be talking to people
that you don't really know.
-I'm off my meds
for five months now.
-[birds chirping]
And now I've got
albums coming out.
I got a number one record.
I'm Ye again.
I have, like, like, literally,
a spiritual connection.
I'm guided by that.
When I go into my ramp up,
it's a calling
by the f*cking universe.
We can talk about that later
and more thoroughly, but--
It ain't no but!
Babe, are you gonna,
like, walk off?
[soft tense music]
We gotta go. Like...
All right.
[softly] I don't want
to film this.
But so, Sakiya,
you're gonna have to have
a serious talk with everybody
'cause everybody be like,
"Oh, he's ramped up.
He's this. He's that." You know?
Making my wife worry more,
this type of-- type of sh*t.
And like I said, it's like...
...I ain't getting
out the street
and running round
and jumping on the floor.
I'm in the master of my mind.
This is my personality.
This is who I am.
And this is why I am who I am.
-[eerie ambient music]
-[curtain swishing open]
[gentle piano music]
[inaudible]
[kids chattering indistinctly]
-Love you, bruh.
-You're the best
of the best, Kanye.
Old Kanye.
[indistinct conversation]
[man]
What am I allowed to touch?
[Ye]
Well, you're allowed
to touch anything.
I don't have
a "do not touch" situation.
[man]
Okay. So I don't want us
to start filming,
and then you'd be like,
"Hey, don't do that."
[chuckles]
So I just don't want to--
However we gonna write this,
whatever idea it is that
we're gonna come up with,
I just want to know
what's off-limits.
Um... I don't have any,
uh, off-limits.
I'm literally
inside of current sl*very.
And being...
...like, accosted
by my own people
to not free my mind.
'Cause the m*therf*ckers
that own the stadiums,
if you go back
to they last name,
own the sl*ves.
We just more expensive now.
Even if we work at NBC.
Even if we work with Adidas.
Even if we move out
of our hometown and go to LA
and try to start doing
"TV shows."
We just more expensive now.
But we ain't the owners.
For me, they said
it cost me $80 million
to get my what back?
What's the word? Masters back.
It cost me $80 million
to get my masters back.
And usually, with a sl*ve...
'Cause Prince
couldn't afford it.
He ain't have no shoes.
I got four masters.
I got Bravado, Sony, Universal,
and you know the last one.
-[man] You did.
-Yeah, but that one...
...we're gonna have
to stay in business for a while.
I know what I mean to the stock.
So if I was to leave Adidas,
that would be
$200 million loss for me,
it would be a multibillion
dollar loss for Adidas.
When I wear the hat,
it ain't about every one
of this man's principles.
It ain't about, you know,
it's not about
the detention centers,
which we know were here
through a bunch of presidents.
It ain't about
it's a 72-year-old white man
give a f*ck about Black people.
It ain't about that.
It's about 1984.
Orwell.
It's about mind control.
It's about Big Brother.
It's about
if I use the word "Hitler,"
am I not canceled?
Did I lose my Adidas deal
if I say the word "Hitler"
-out loud?
-[dramatic tone]
[Swizz]
We both know that that man is
undoing for our country...
-[Ye] I ain't talking
about that man.
-...for our, for our people.
[Ye]
I'm talking about what it
-meant for me.
-But why, why--
but why is that n*gga
so fresh
you got his hat on, though?
-You know, it's--
-No, it's my hat.
I made this version.
-I understand,
I understand you made...
-It's a different shape.
...the version and the shape
and the crap, but f*ck the crap.
This man is, is, is,
is very r*cist.
-And there's people that's
being k*lled that, that, that--
-I don't care about,
I don't care about racism.
You know who more r*cist
than white people? Black people.
But you can't do that
to the culture.
-And I can't tell you
what to do.
-Yeah, you can't.
-That's the thing.
-I can't tell you what to do.
And this is your session.
This is your session.
But we have a brother--
I f*ck with you,
you know what I'm saying?
Like, that sh*t be hurting me
a little bit,
and it hurt everybody
around you.
And they just not-- not--
They just not up enough
to tell you.
It keep my thoughts in here.
The hat is like this.
Everything someone else
wanna say, Black, white...
Like that. It must,
like, "Now begone."
[chuckles]
The fit is lit. Lit fit.
[indistinct background chatter]
-All right. So, quick note.
-[Ye] Uh-huh.
-For the, for the last song...
-Uh-huh.
...um, dress rehearsal
ran about six minutes.
We-- In real life,
we're gonna have about four.
So you need
to get to that, that rap
earl-- the break--
the breakdown earlier, do it.
-All right.
-And then, Lorne would prefer
not to have the cast come up.
But if you could just bring up--
'Cause he thinks that they would
look really awkward and weird.
He's, like, not into it.
So he's asking
if we could bring up our crew,
like Teyana, Pump,
blah, blah, blah, blah.
-Like, our team...
-[door opens]
...our squad, you, you know,
blah, blah, blah.
-[Ye] Mm-mm.
-That, that was--
That's what's...
Thanks to Matt Damon,
Rachel Dratch,
Teyana Taylor, Lil Pump,
this cast, these writers,
Lorne Michaels.
Once again, Kanye West.
[all applauding and cheering]
[Ye]
You can't get controlled
by monolithic thought.
You can't always have--
Every time you got
a Black subject matter
like Cosby,
that you have to have
a Black comedian talk about.
You know what I mean?
They bully me.
They bullied me backstage.
They said, "Don't go out there
with that hat on."
They bullied me backstage.
They bullied me!
And then they say
I'm in a sunken place.
You want to see
the sunken place? Okay.
I'm gonna
listen to y'all now.
I'ma put my Superman cape on.
Follow your heart
and stop following your mind.
That's how we're controlled.
That's how we're programmed.
If you want the world
to move forward, try love.
[indistinct crowd chatter]
[Chris]
Twenty years ago, I was in--
I was here.
-[Ye] Yeah.
-And Sinead O'Connor ripped up
the picture of the Pope.
-Yeah.
-And everybody lost
their f*cking mind.
They were screaming and crying,
"I'm not going out
with that b*tch.
She's out of her f*cking mind."
[grunts]
And Sinead--
Sinead O'Connor was shaking
and she lost everything she had.
And it's 20 years later,
-that b*tch was right.
-[Ye] Mm-hmm.
-[Chris] The b*tch was right.
-[Ye] Mm-hmm.
-[Chris] They don't give a f*ck.
-[both chuckle]
-That's what I said, bro.
-[laughing]
-You right.
-Yeah. Yeah.
[Chris]
Okay? Nobody knows nothing.
-[exclaims]
-[both chuckle]
[indistinct chatter]
[Ye] Thanks for still
wearing the Yeezys, bro
Appreciate you.
-You good with me?
-[Ye] Yes. Yeah.
-For real?
-[Ye] Yeah.
-That was f*cked up.
-[Ye] Why was that?
Why do you wanna call me out
on the f*cking--
if I don't got a chance
to say anything for myself?
[Ye]
No, I wasn't calling. I said
that was about
Leslie coming back
-and they want to do that.
-I, I'm the Black comedian.
I'm here to talk about Cosby.
That's f*cked up.
-Why would you do that to me?
-[Ye] Oh, man.
I love you though, bro.
-I was talking about--
-I love you, too. I'm a fan.
But why would you do that to me?
-[Ye] I wasn't doing it to you.
-Like, I work here.
-[indistinct chatter]
-[Ye] Yeah.
I work here. Like, come on, man.
Like, we, we treat everybody
that come in like family,
and you're gonna sell us out?
Like, that's f*cked up, man.
We look up to you.
We love you. Why...
What you got against us?
-I mean, I do have
some things against SNL.
-That's cool...
-In general.
-...but I mean,
airing it out like that
without letting us be able
to reply is kind of foul.
-Yeah, you right about that.
-You wait, you wait
till the last,
you wait till the last song,
and then say
that foul sh*t to us.
-And we brought you
in here for--
-[Ye] Nah.
Let's, let's talk about it
when we cool off, all right?
-But what--
But I'm not cool though.
-I get it. I get it. I get it.
-That's foul.
-I get it. I get it, but, but...
Yo, you're a hero to us, man.
We love you.
-Like, seriously,
we love you, man.
-Look, look, alright.
That's, that's wrong
to do to us, man.
-[indistinct chatter]
-[Ye] We can start--
We can start over.
Yeah. Let's just reconvene
in a second.
-Yeah, all right, all right.
-Can you not do that, please?
Can you not record that?
It'd be helpful for us.
Thank you.
[melancholic music]
[Ye]
Nico, what was
your take on that?
[Nico]
I think, or I feel, it's
the start of the transition.
That's like the first step
in the, the messaging
that, that kind of,
opens up the conversation.
How do you feel about it though?
[Ye]
I just feel that...
Yeah, I felt that it was good
and that it was positive.
And I think the dude
that he-- with the thing
he felt the way about,
that he was mad about is like,
man, well, don't be
letting them use you.
[man]
Kanye! Kanye.
[man 2]
Congrats on that...
[indistinct background chatter]
-[inaudible conversation]
-[jet engine whirring]
[suspenseful music]
[jet engine whirring]
[man]
White House, sir?
Yes, White House.
[chuckles]
Sir, there's Jared Kushner
that wants to speak to you.
[Ye]
Okay, that's fine.
No, I need to go
the, the exact way
that a foreign dignitary
would go.
That's the only way
I'm gonna go in,
and I have to go the exact way
that a foreign dignitary
would go.
That's the only way
I'm gonna go in.
Wait, wait a second.
Listen, listen to me.
I'm not gonna step outside.
I'm not gonna
put my life in danger.
I put my life in danger
by wearing the hat.
And I need to be loved
and respected as such
because it could be
someone out there
that could be trying
to take a shot at me.
There's people
who potentially want to k*ll me
for wearing this hat.
I have the hat on as we speak.
And we need me,
because if I get k*lled
from wearing the hat
in front of the White House,
you're not gonna win
any midterms.
You're not gonna--
Listen, listen--
Finish listening to me
and hear me.
-Let me ask you this question.
You're in the Oval Office.
-Okay.
How does it feel
to be in the Oval Office?
-Oh. It is good energy in this.
-Is it good energy?
And what Kanye is doing
has been incredible.
All over the world,
they're talking about this.
And I have to tell you,
I had important meetings today
with senators
and with everything.
Nobody cared.
They wanted this meeting.
This is the meeting.
-Is that right?
-[reporter] Is this a future
presidential candidate?
Uh, could very well be.
-On-- Only after 2024.
-Could very well be.
-We, we, we gotta--
-[indistinct chatter]
What I need Saturday Night Live
to improve on,
and what I need
the liberals to improve on is
if he don't look good,
we don't look good.
This is our president.
But I love this guy right here.
Let me give this guy
-a hug right here.
-[all chuckling]
-I love this guy right here.
-That's really good. Come here.
-Yeah. Yeah.
-That's, that's really nice.
And that's from the heart.
I didn't want to put you
in that position...
-[all chuckling]
-...but that's from the heart.
Special guy.
[camera shutters clicking]
[Kim on phone]
I just-- It's like,
I can't sleep.
I've been crying all day.
It's just this bad dream
that's not ending.
You're losing.
Everyone around you
is, like, ick.
There's a way to talk
about what you feel
-but when you're this erratic--
-Wait, who's everyone ar--
Who's-- No.
Who's everyone around me?
-Tell me who everyone is.
-I'm just saying,
people in the music business,
people in the--
-in your work field.
-I don't care
about the music business.
I don't care
about the work field.
-This-- I'm in a sl*ve business.
I'm a sl*ve to Universal.
-Okay.
What are you talking about?
Of course they're losing.
Just 'cause you have a job
and you work hard
doesn't mean you're a sl*ve.
That's demeaning,
because I work hard
-with brands
that are similar...
-Well, yeah.
-...and all of that.
-E! is a sl*ve--
E! is a sl*ve ship for you.
And I'm very grateful for them.
And that's not how I look at it.
So I think you're offending
a lot of people,
including McDonald's...
-Um--
-...because they provided
a life for me
that I never would have
been able to provide.
And I'm very grateful for that.
And I'm not about
burning bridges with companies.
-Yeah.
-You're gonna wake up one day
and you're gonna have,
like, nothing
because no one's gonna,
you know...
-No, never--
[loudly] Never tell me...
-...support this...
-...I'm gonna-- No! Never--
-...erratic behavior...
No! Never tell me
I'm gonna wake up one day
and have nothing.
Never put that
into the universe.
[soft tense music]
[Ye]
It's really cool, bro.
It's like...
...they try to scare you
and try to control you,
all that. Like...
Because I felt emasculated.
And it's all Kris Jenner
and my wife, all that,
you know what I'm saying?
I felt, I felt
emasculated tonight.
Y'all emasculated me
and made me feel like
a piece of sh*t.
And the only way
you got away with it
is 'cause I was medicated.
God, I would rather be...
...dead, not in jail.
'Cause I won't-- I'd rather be
dead than to be on medication.
No one from the family
has taken any responsibility
for my hospital visit.
But if you want to go online,
that's 50% of what people say,
at least!
Or maybe-- Am I lying?
-It doesn't matter.
-Am I lying? It does matter!
[loudly] It does matter!
It does matter!
What do you want me--
You just said, you know...
[Kris]
I haven't finished the sentence.
-It does matter!
-It matters to us and you.
It doesn't matter
what the internet says.
-It matters what we think, Ye.
-[Ye] So what do you think?
Did you have an effect
on my mental health?
[Kris]
Yes! Yes. Yes.
I'm saying yes.
And I love you.
I love you.
I don't want you to be...
...not perfect.
[crying] I love you.
And I want my daughter
to love you
the way you want her
to love you.
[indistinct chatter]
[engine roaring]
[helicopter blades whirring]
[whirring slows down]
[Ye]
I just want to talk
about mind control.
The worst thing, I feel like,
when people
try to tell me what to do,
I feel like
they're touching my brain.
Imagine you, like,
cut your like skull open
and somebody, like,
touch their brain,
touch your brain
with their hand,
how that would hurt you,
that's how it hurts me
when people try to tell me
what to do,
when I'm going from my heart.
Try to tell me what to say.
This ain't programmed.
Like, I've, I've f-- forgotten
-how to talk...
-[inaudible]
...not clear,
'cause I'm so programmed.
[sighs] You know,
you gotta just question,
like, when people
get on TV shows
and, you know,
who all are they
doing business with?
What are they connected to?
What's their agenda?
They want y'all all to be
just mind controlled.
We will say what we feel,
not what we're
programmed to think.
We will say what we feel.
We will do what we feel.
We will do what we feel.
We will do what we feel.
We will say what we feel.
You see, I did that as a mantra.
We're going to get supplies,
resources, architects, doctors,
teachers, guides, musicians.
-[interviewer] Hmm.
-I'm gonna go get
some resources.
[ambient music]
Another thing in my approach
to the president,
to y'all at Animal Planet,
is same as with Trump.
Same approach.
Like, "Look,
let's make this Disneyworld."
This is a beautiful country.
Country from, from border
to border to border,
let's make-- let's,
let's expand this hotel.
Let's build this
as the number one tourist,
safest place in, uh, Africa.
And what you do is
you make the people rich,
the country rich.
You bring Bobi Wine
-and the president
back together.
-No, no.
No. Don't even
bring up his name.
[screaming]
You can't change my mind!
You-- None of you
can change my mind!
-It's not right!
-You're putting yourself
and your family
in danger of being m*rder*d.
Okay, well, go home. Go home!
No, I told you
I'd protect you with my life.
-I'm not doing that.
-It ain't about my life.
It's the calling on my life.
[sobbing] But at some point,
it's a reality
that people say no.
People say no to me
on a daily basis.
And I don't just start screaming
and throwing a tantrum.
-That's just not normal.
-[Ye] That's my personality.
But your personality
was not like this
-a few years ago.
-[Ye] What do you mean?
I used to scream backstage.
-There's, there's tapes of me,
like, screaming backstage.
-[Kim] But it was
very far and few in between.
It was not on a daily--
every single conversation.
-[crickets chirping]
-[soft tense music]
[Ye]
Did anyone else in this room
know about the conversations
of trying to, like,
make me get on the plane
back to America
'cause I was trippin'
last night?
I slept last night
with a bulletproof
f*cking vest on
and f*cking, on my--
over my hood.
I won't let nobody
f*cking control me no more.
Joseph was like,
"Kanye, do this. Don't do that."
f*ck you!
[birds chirping]
I'm only here
because I'm worried about him.
-[woman 1] Of course.
I'm worried too.
-[woman 2] Nico, go, go.
[Nico]
Watch out.
[Ye]
Come here. Re--
Record me while I'm talking.
[speaking indistinctly]
Get out of here.
[car engine idling]
-Anyway, the crew is here.
-[Ye] Wait a second. Who's
these other people walking out?
[Kim]
That's my security.
This is all
the presidential security, sir.
-You are in good hands, sir.
-[Ye] Okay.
You are in good hands, sir.
I don't feel
comfortable here, babe.
-Okay.
-Let's give you some space.
That's totally fine.
You know, I don't, I don't know
what triggered this
for you to feel this way.
The hell would I lie
with the Trump sh*t?
I'm dealing with a lot.
Got this Adidas deal
on the table. You know?
I'm dealing with, you know,
and they're trying
to take the Adidas deal away
but, you know, if it gets
taken away, I'll be okay.
Can't base my whole life
on losing the deals.
That's how people control you.
I'm not gonna be controlled.
I'd rather not be here
than be controlled.
[jet engine whirring]
[inaudible]
[plane whooshing by]
[bell tolling]
[soft tense music]
[man speaking in German]
[indistinct conversation]
[Jacques]
What is this?
A blown-up version of...
[continues indistinctly]
[indistinct conversation]
Architecture doesn't have
these traditional,
um, limits anymore.
As much as
I still like this house,
I can also like or do things
which are totally organic
or different
from what we've seen before.
[ambient synth music]
[muffled conversation]
[Jacques]
We try to get rid of any style.
That's why we use all the forms
that I was saying,
what I was saying.
I love this form
as much as I u--
I like the Kramlich thing,
which is totally
fluid and organic,
and-- because
I wanna be independent
from, from material and style
and form and, you know,
whatever is right for a space,
then we do it there.
-And you do something else
somewhere else.
-Mm.
And that's, that's why
you see such a diversity
of different forms
of appearance.
It's nothing than
a form of appearance.
because you perceive
a thing in a different way
than I perceive it.
Because you have a diff--
Because you're a different
you-- in-- individual.
And I like to give people
their own individual perception.
-I love that.
-That's what you told me
on the phone,
that we should not be the sl*ves
of all these companies
and all-- of all the, um,
uh, information that is, uh,
coming towards us.
-Mm-hmm.
-We should free ourselves
from that.
[Ye]
You know, it's turning the world
into a skatepark.
This idea of, like, this home
where, um, a kid, five years old
could live in this space
for 30 days by themselves
and not get hurt, not drown,
not die, not fall over,
be able to feed themselves.
And then this will allow us
to be children
'cause we were--
we're forced to be adults.
The idea is you come
right into the center.
From the center,
you can get to every place.
That's the vibe.
[Jacques] By the way,
if this side is agreed,
then it's... [stutters]
Because we just need
the half like this
which is much more contemporary
than this one.
Oh, we don't have
to work on it then.
It's not-- I'm not, I'm not--
-No, no.
-I'm not, I'm not really asking
your opinions on this and stuff.
-I know I'm right.
-No, no,
but I'm just saying one thing.
This here is form.
And whether the form
is like this or like that
doesn't make it more
open for the future. You know?
Form is not necessarily
saying what future is.
It's more how we live
in those spaces
than how the spaces
really look like.
[Ye]
Yes and no.
Look. Remember when
phones looked like that?
Houses looked like that.
Now phones look like this,
-houses look like this.
-But in the future,
in the future,
phones will not
look like this anymore
-and houses will not look--
-Yeah, I'll show you the--
Anything is possible
in a timeless world.
Any form.
Any form is contemporary
in a timeless world,
not one form more than another.
This, this isn't about
a f*cking sketch and sh*t.
This is literally
about my, like, life, bro.
I'm putting this sh*t online.
I'm literally in the White House
talking about people being
overdosed with drugs
on camera,
you know,
shot to the entire world.
So I need arms.
I need assistance.
You know, I'm not here to argue
on whether the, the roof is
-better or not.
-[Jacques] Exactly.
-But it's not better.
-[man chuckles]
No, no, but the question is
what can we do?
-How do we start?
-Yeah.
m*therf*ckers don't believe me.
Like, I'll go meet
with Howard from IIand he'll be like, "If--"
or you know, "If you're serious
and if this..."
Look in my f*cking eyes.
I am absolutely f*cking serious.
I'm absolutely f*cking
out of my mind too.
But I'm absolutely
f*cking serious
at the same time.
And it takes
that kind of personality
to change everything.
I am Picasso.
What are you,
what are you guys' feelings...
What are you feeling?
Not what are you thinking.
What are you feeling?
And when was the last time
you actually had a feeling?
'Cause I can feel
that you feel something,
-but I'd like for you
to verbalize it with me.
-[sighs]
I think, um, I listen because,
because I wanna understand
who you are.
And maybe right now,
I'm a bit overwhelmed
to respond
because there is
no concrete answer.
I think you are asking us to,
to, um, take your inspiration
and put that into something
that becomes real
because we, we're architects,
we work.
At the end of the day,
we have a space
or a, a, an environment
you, you feel, your body senses.
And, and that's how we work.
That's why we need to,
to have these kind of dialogues
and, and also maybe
fight about it,
because then, then you get
something great out of it.
And this is the power
of architecture,
not of us as individuals,
but of architecture
to make a contribution to this,
to this, to make the planet
a good planet.
The, the, the balance
of the thinkers in this meeting
that you have, are perfect,
because you guys
are understanding
through all of my rants,
exactly, you know...
...what needs to be done.
I need to finish that sentence.
[camera shutter clicks]
-Smile also. [chuckles]
-[camera shutter clicks]
-[Ye] Let's do a toast.
-[Jacques] I wish
some of our dreams come true.
-[woman chuckles]
-[Ye] Let me,
let me add to that toast.
And it is so.
No longer dreams, now reality.
-[man whoops]
-[all] Cheers.
I have made a decision
to step back from having
any opinions on politics
and focus on creative.
It's created too much noise
for my family,
for my community and, um,
you know, I, I need
to just focus on my music
and creating architecture
and, and fun things
for the world.
The politics is not something
that I'm a career
professional at,
and I need to just
give my people a break.
Meaning, my community
as a Black community,
meaning my fans as liberals
and musicians and artists
and writers and designers,
architects and also my wife.
My immediate wife and my family,
they need to get a f*cking break
and it needs to be
a statement that says,
"Look, enough already.
We got the f*cking point across,
we f*cking get it.
Now let's just
get to this f*cking music."
-[indistinct conversation]
-[uplifting music]
[indistinct chatter]
[giggles]
It's scary for this.
[children chattering]
[Ye]
It's time to really bring God
into the equation,
and I'm just focusing energy
into my wife and my kids.
Like, I'm like
a stay-at-home dad now.
Just really
getting the family tight
and just really establishing
-just a presence.
-Yay!
[spray hissing]
-[woman] All right, my love.
-[indistinct chatter]
[calm ambient music]
[Kim]
Give Daddy a hug.
[Ye] You know,
the best thing about being
a artist is just like...
["New Body" by Kanye West
playing]
[Ye breathes deeply]
And being bipolar is
anything you do and say...
...is a art piece.
There's thoughts, feelings,
human emotions
that artists have
to express out loud
to really push
and make room for all of us.
We all have said things
that can be used against us,
but no weapon formed
against us shall prosper.
You know, when people
push me to a limit
of getting so frustrated and,
"Argh, I wanna,
I wanna k*ll this person.
I wanna k*ll myself," whatever,
it's actually pushing
and making me stronger.
I've suffered so much trauma,
the fact that I'm still here...
...and still breathing
right now,
just another day,
every day is a blessing.
Every day is a blessing
to be alive.
Every day is a blessing
to be free, mentally free,
spiritually free.
And freeing up more
and more and more.
It's all a blessing.
And right now, we're free.
I'm, I'm talking to you
with a dog mask on, man.
And this is beautiful.
[ominous music]
[inaudible conversation]
[water lapping gently]
[inaudible conversation]
-[music continues]
-[birds chirping]
[saxophone playing
"Over the Rainbow"]
[inaudible conversation]
[soft ambient music]
[razor buzzing]
[Saint giggling]
-[birds chirping]
-[soft piano music playing]
[Kim]
Me and Saint practiced this.
Me and North
practiced this, right? Okay.
"You are my husband.
You are my best friend,
my biggest believer
and one true love.
I promise, in front
of our family and friends..."
-[voice breaking]
I said I wasn't gonna cry.
-Momma!
"...and before God,
that I will be
a supportive and loving wife
to you for all time.
I vow to make you laugh,
to respect you
and to always be there for you,
to keep your soul stimulated.
I vow to celebrate
your achievements,
to support you in times of need
and to honor your decisions.
I vow to always protect you
and look to you
when I need protection myself.
I may not be
comfortable dancing,
-and I might be stubborn,
and I might be...
-[woman laughing]
...tough to deal with, at times,
but I need you to know
that I vow to always love you
from the deepest parts
of my soul.
And I will strive to make you
feel supported and cherished.
And I vow to take
one dance lesson."
[laughter]
"Your love has given me
the confidence
that only you saw for so long.
Babe, I love you
from this life into the next.
I love you
with every piece of me.
I give you the best of me,
my heart,
my soul, my forever."
[music fades]
[ethereal music]
[Ye]
When I went to the hospital
a couple years ago,
I was just writing
all these ideas down
like Beautiful Mind.
And one of the ideas
was to do a church,
and I was like, you know,
it can be a scary concept
to go and just make one.
And then, 2019, it was,
like I was saying,
just overcome all the fear.
[David]
Uh, this to me, seems like
it has universality to it.
-Do you get that feeling?
-[Ye] Yeah.
[David]
Where, whereas,
uh, individual records,
individual songs,
individual genres,
uh, have and find whatever path.
This, uh, seems to be universal.
How will you know
when it's complete
if, if we're still, uh,
monkeying with the canvas?
How? There'll be world peace.
-[keyboard playing]
-[all vocalizing]
[electronic music]
[camera shutter clicks]
[people cheering and applauding]
[Ye]
After doing Sunday Service,
I was, uh,
about four months in,
I got delivered.
[pastor]
In the name of Jesus,
let us pray.
"Please bring us back home!
Instill in us the word
which is our backbone!
We're just children
and not grown."
[Ye]
Ellen, what it means
to be delivered is to...
...accept Jesus
as your Lord and Savior...
...and understand
that he died for our sins
and that he is
the only way to Heaven.
-[cheering continues]
-[serene music]
[inaudible]
[woman vocalizing]
[Ye]
We went to visit
James Turrell at, uh,
at the Roden Crater in Arizona.
And when you're in that space
I had to just, you know,
take some steps back to say,
"The only thing
that I can contribute
that can match James Turrell was
for me to contribute
something musically
and to learn,"
because we've been
making music
that's been inside of a car,
radio, nightclub,
even a Coachella concert
and a church.
But this is a whole
different level of sonics.
And this is the minimalism
that I've been talking about.
[music continues]
[vocalizing]
[James]
I remember reality
with only a consensus.
-That's it.
-[James] And that consensus--
-This n*gga fly. This is--
-[all laughing]
And that's what we--
I feel we will do
is we will change the consensus.
It's the music of the future,
I think.
It's quite, uh... really...
It also has this quality
of timelessness
because it's almost
like the situation
of the Gregorian chants
that are sung in a space
-to resonate...
-[Axel] Mm.
...this quality of the space
they were originally sung in.
-[gospel music playing]
-[all vocalizing]
[music stops]
[Ye]
We're gonna take this church
to 100,000 a weekend.
I can give the message
in church.
[choir vocalizing]
[Ye]
Over 300 prophecies in scripture
describe the coming savior.
Jesus Christ fulfilled them all.
One prophecy in particular
declared the sign of His coming
to be marked by a voice.
[vocalizing continues]
[cheering and applauding]
[Joel] Hey, everybody,
come on, let's welcome
Mr. Kanye West today.
[cheering loudens]
Awesome to have you.
All right, guys,
y'all can be seated.
So awesome to have you
at Lakewood
and just feel blessed
-and... [clicks tongue, sighs]
-[audience cheering]
[Ye]
Uh, someone that's sat down
with Sammy Davis Jr.,
and he leaned in and said,
"You know, Satan is
as powerful as God."
And that is the mentality
that people have a lot of times
when they're in service to fame,
money, manpower.
You start to feel like
Satan is the most powerful,
and you start to feel like,
if you service God,
that, in life, it means
you will not prosper.
The trend, the shift,
is going to, to change.
Jesus has won the victory.
[audience cheering and whooping]
Following the Bible
can free us all.
And it was, you know,
interesting, you'd think,
you know, when we're
at the prisons, you know,
professing how
-Jesus can set you free.
-[tense music]
It's true.
[all chanting]
[inaudible]
[applauding]
[inaudible]
We be real careful
when we, uh, do these.
It's not the same performance,
not the same show.
This is a mission, not a show.
This is our eternal soul
-This is our eternal soul
-[applauding]
It's pretty simple.
It's pretty clear.
Paradise or Fahrenheit.
Salvation or eternal damnation.
[music continues]
[inaudible]
[music fades]
Ladies and gentlemen,
put your hands together
for my friend,
Christian billionaire,
Mr. Kanye West.
[audience applauding
and cheering]
[Ye]
The reason why Larry said
Christian billionaire
is because I did
one magazine this year.
I met with the guy
who talked to everybody
at Forbes...
...and I loved it.
I love to see Joshua
'cause he's always complaining
about the magazines
and the perception
that people have
and I, um,
I show them the receipts
from the company...
...and they still refuse
to call me a billionaire
because they want my story to be
about mental health.
[wind blowing]
[water flowing]
-[birds chirping]
-[cattle grunting]
[soft music]
[gentle piano music]
Are you ready
for a Kanye West White House?
Here's what Yeezy tweeted
yesterday, quote...
[reading]
I have, uh,
13,000 acres in total
in Wyoming right now.
I got two ranches,
and we're, like,
just buying up
property around it.
And we're gonna build
a sustainable city
that runs completely off
of air, fire, earth and water.
-[music continues]
-[birds chirping]
America is God's country.
So Jared Kushner
is coming to fly--
he's flying
to come see me in two weeks
out here in Cody.
And I'm gonna present to him
what I feel is truly the cure
to the new America.
[music continues]
Trump.
It was just...
...such a good precursor to Ye.
[inaudible]
Father God, rain down on us.
Wash us in the blood of Jesus.
Free us. Put your hands on us.
Thank you for the revealing.
That is what Jesus does.
They reveal.
The devil had it sealed
and with Jesus, it is revealed.
Shield us, protect us.
In Your name, Father God.
Wash us in Your son's blood.
[music continues]
[inaudible]
I say Your name loud
from the mountaintop
on land that is my own.
Jesus Christ,
wash us in the blood.
You are of order.
God is of order.
That everyone here
is working for Christ
in building a new society
that will free life.
That Jared Kushner
is flying here in ten days,
and the only reason
why he decided to fly
is 'cause I decided to run.
Matter of fact,
I need Trump flying here too.
In the blood of Jesus,
in Jesus' name, amen.
"Don't run."
Seems like
I've heard that before.
"Don't run, sl*ve."
But when God calls Moses,
he has to leave his comfy--
his comfy job
working for the Egyptians
and free the people.
And the freedom does not come
from an election.
The freedom comes from
you not loading up p*rn*graphy.
-[agreeing murmurs]
-The freedom comes from
you not taking the Percocet.
The freedom comes from you
not downing your brother
and your sister.
-[woman] Whoo!
-The freedom comes
from you putting that g*n down
and not sh**ting people
at the gas stations.
It has nothing to do
with this election.
It only has to do
with God and God's people.
My mom saved my life.
There would've been
no Kanye West
because my dad was...
[voice breaking] ...too busy...
[audience murmuring, exclaiming]
[applauding]
[shrieking unintelligibly]
...no good for us.
[shrieking unintelligibly]
-[woman] We love you, Kanye.
-[agreeing murmurs]
[melancholic music]
[screaming]
I almost k*lled my daughter!
I almost k*lled my daughter!
Then they said to me,
"You can't..."
[continues unintelligibly]
They made me put... my daughter.
They made me put... my daughter.
[overlapping voices]
[Ye continues unintelligibly]
-[music continues]
-[inaudible chatter]
[Ye]
We live in a society
that will attack someone
and say that they're
inside of a psychotic break
because they cried
about almost aborting
their first child.
This society
is what's psychotic.
That's a real emotion
that someone should have
if that subject is brought up.
So even if my wife
were to divorce me
after this speech,
she brought North into the world
even when I didn't want to.
[news anchor]
Kim Kardashian
reveals the moment
she knew she wanted
a divorce from Kanye West.
Kim is upset over the rant,
especially his comments
about their daughter.
-[fireworks popping]
-All of this comes
after reports claim
that the rapper is in the midst
of a bipolar episode.
People close to Kanye want him
to end his presidential run now
before he does
more damage to himself,
his brand and the family.
-[grim music]
-[inaudible chatter]
[music intensifies]
[Ye]
I'm not an artist.
I'm a outright alien superhero.
It's straight up
Steve Jobs talking.
I've been
to the hospital and back.
Now is not really--
They had took
my wife away from me,
now she back.
Like, it's literally...
Laaa, la, la-la
You realize I have to do this
because, how many times
do artists, throughout history,
got pressure on them?
Let me tell you what this is.
They said if I don't
drop that album...
Right now I have a contract,
I drop the album by the 14th,
then I'm, uh,
I'm out of my deal
with Universal.
[inaudible chatter]
But if I don't drop it
by the 14th,
I'm not out of the deal
with Universal.
[hip-hop beats playing]
-[music stops]
-[Ye] Let's play "Off the Grid."
We got to get into that--
Don't worry. Don't worry.
You could-- Worry--
I mean, fix, don't worry.
[laughs] All right, go off--
-Play "Off the Grid."
-[man] Yeah.
Do y'all think
that's m*therf*cking funny,
when, when I, when I be myself
and y'all m*therf*ckers
be chuckling and sh*t?
It ain't no m*therf*cking
game, man.
It's like eight hours
left of this sh*t.
Y'all taking away,
I give instructions?
My m*therf*cking condition
is a f*cking joke?
Like, I don't want to hear
no f*cking chuckling,
no... [mimics chatter]
"Look at him. Look at him.
Look at how he acts.
Look at how
that f*cking genius acts.
Look at how
that most influential artist
of 20 m*therf*cking years acts.
Look at how
the most important artist
in human history acts."
It's not a m*therf*cking game,
man!
No f*cking chuckling
and nothing and nothing,
-no kind of way.
-[inaudible murmuring]
All right, play "Off the Grid."
Black man
Still can't breathe
Granddaddy
Still can't read...
[Ye]
I don't like this verse,
throw that verse.
Grandmamas cooked and--
...grid, grid, grid
[speaks indistinctly]
How you feel about that?
That hard? Why you
don't like Pusha's verse?
-[Ye] I don't know.
-[man] What you talking about?
-Not on my music.
-[man] What we gon' do?
I'd rather y'all be like,
"I'm k*lling 20 n*gg*s
and I'm f*cking
this many b*tches."
I'm throwing all this sh*t,
then y'all saying
some Black Lives Matter sh*t.
On my sh*t. [chuckles]
Black Lives Matter is, like,
worse than the devil to me.
It's mind control.
Let's get this.
-[crowd cheering]
-[uplifting music]
[news anchor]
Kanye West wants some attention.
He certainly knows
how to get it.
Ye lit himself on fire
and burned down his--
a replica of his childhood home.
We just learned this morning
the Donda album
is scheduled to be released
on September 3rd,
but we'll see.
[music continues]
From bringing
controversial artists
on stage with him
to having his estranged wife
walk out in a wedding dress,
West's had many "What the..."
memorable moments
during his Donda
listening party last night
at Soldier Field.
[music continues]
But the documentary
is so crazy, it's like...
I don't know if it's like,
has to be, like,
played at my funeral
or whatever,
you know what I mean?
But it's like this is,
this is...
Uh, Africa, the full sh*t,
is a part of this.
-[man] Oh, for sure.
-The more and more you do,
like, beautiful things,
the more and more you gotta show
the dark things.
You know what I'm saying?
Where people try to--
The people try to hide the dark
'cause there's no light,
so they stay inside of the gray.
-It's very mid.
-[man] Right.
But we can show all
the spectrums of who we are,
dark and the light.
[soft rumbling]
[indistinct background chatter]
[soft dramatic music]
[woman]
Close. Close for a sec.
[music intensifies]
[indistinct conversation]
[indistinct conversation]
[music continues]
[crowd cheering]
[inaudible conversation]
[whooshing, crackling]
[music continues]
[indistinct chatter]
-[man] Oh, you're here.
-Yeah!
-[laughter]
-[man] Wow!
Yeah, thanks for inviting me.
This is an amazing experience.
Um, it's a rare experience.
-It was.
-I didn't know what to expect.
[stuttering]
It's an amazing production.
-Yeah, thank you.
-Yeah.
-What is this? Oh!
-It's an idea of a bedroom.
-[Elon] Okay.
So this is the bed?
-Yeah.
[Elon]
Interesting.
-Could you imagine, like--
[chuckles softly]
-This is pretty good.
So, so are you and Kim, like,
off and on or something?
Or, I don't know.
It's hard to tell.
-[laughs]
-[Ye groans]
Claire and I-- Grimes...
We were sort of...
[mumbles inaudibly]
[stutters]
You know, in the, in the same,
in the same text stream,
she's like, "I love you."
And then, like, you know,
a day later, like,
"I hate you." [laughs]
[speaks inaudibly, laughs]
-And what did you do?
-You probably know exactly.
And I'm like, "Whoa, uh, okay."
I...
Yeah, exactly. [chuckles]
-Really? Why?
-[softly] I don't know.
I don't have answers, like,
answers to everything
except for that.
-Yeah.
-[indistinct chatter]
[female newsreader]
Kanye West
might be splitting assets
with his wife, Kim Kardashian,
in their divorce,
but his money
isn't going anywhere.
In fact, his finances
have skyrocketed
past the six billion dollar
mark,
which makes him
the richest Black man
in US history.
[grim music]
-The updates is crazy,
right? [chuckles]
-[man] Right.
We're on the next frontier.
It's only... two options
at this point.
[birds chirping]
Victory or victory.
[music continues]
[newsreader]
Kanye's Yeezy
shoe and streetwear empire
are seeing a surge in value.
The fashion venture
is worth $3.7 billion dollars.
That's just that one venture.
The rapper also has
a Gap apparel line,
that's worth
another billion dollars.
We're also learning
that he will keep a portion
of Kim's Skims brand,
which is valued
at $1.7 billion dollars.
[Ye]
There is a possibility of us,
you know, co-parenting...
...the products that we make
that work currently.
But not in a way
where I'm not getting say-so
over colorways.
Not in a way where they're
treating me like I'm dead.
[man on phone]
You know they're gonna wanna
get the hell out of this.
All of your IP has been stolen.
There will be repercussions
for stealing your IP.
-And they'll have
to pay for it.
-[Ye] Yeah.
[man]
Everything. There's going to be
lots and lots of damages.
It's time to go to w*r.
We're gonna go get
what's due to you.
And then we're free
to do whatever we want
with whatever company we want.
But first,
the number one priority
is to get out of the contracts.
We gotta get you
out of the Adidas contract.
They've breached it,
and you're liberated.
-You're free.
-[Ye] Yeah, yeah, yeah.
This is the kind of thing
that we looked
throughout history,
there has been
ramifications for this.
But this time around,
the hero wins.
Look, man... [sighs]
I'm an innovator
and I'm not here to sit up
and apologize about my ideas.
That's exactly
what the media tries to do,
make us apologize for any idea
that doesn't fall under
exactly the way
they want us to think.
This is not a game.
This is not just
some celebrity collaboration.
This is my life. You know?
I'm, I'm fighting
for a position
to be able to change clothing
and bring the best design
to the people.
[soft clatter]
[man]
We good?
-Hey, guys, you ready?
-[host] I can hear you.
[man]
Okay, cool. Let's start.
[host over call]
Joining me now is Ye West,
founder and designer
of the multi-billion-dollar
fashion company Yeezy.
West has collaborated
with Gap, Adidas,
and Nike for the Air Yeezys.
He's established himself
as the leader of an iconic
global fashion brand
for clothing and footwear.
Forbes estimates his net worth
at two billion dollars.
The entrepreneur
you see here began
as a music producer
and hip-hop artist.
He's won 24 GRAMMYs
and sold 20 million albums
across hip-hop, pop and gospel.
And he made news today
by terminating his large deal
with The Gap.
You see the headlines.
This is his Beat debut.
Thanks for being here.
[Ye]
Why'd you have
the Forbes net worth?
Did you read
when the net worth was,
uh, 6.6 two years ago?
[host]
Tell me about your net worth.
That's why you're here
to talk to us.
If it's more than two billion,
that's one estimation.
And tell us why
you're terminating this deal
with The Gap.
[Ye] I'm just saying,
by using Forbes,
that's a hostile thing.
They obviously-- Uh, you know,
I was a billionaire
for three years
before they even show it,
you know.
-So for you to start by that...
-[host] Yeah.
...that's like a,
a hostile approach.
-My name is Ye,
without the West--
-[host] Yeah, let's get into it.
-Go ahead.
-[Ye] Get into what?
Let's get into the news
you're making.
You-- If you're worth
more than two billion,
this is your chance
to tell us about it.
I, I take your point
that there's more
than one source for that.
Uh, and you
definitely made waves
terminating the Gap deal.
[newsreader]
Check out shares of Gap today.
We've been watching them
all day. [speaks indistinctly]
Down more than 4%
after Kanye West,
now known as Ye,
said he is terminating
his deal with the retailer
for failing to meet obligations
in the agreement,
including product distribution
and opening Yeezy Gap stores.
Joining us now to discuss,
we've got a surprise guest
for you,
is Ye himself.
It's good to see you.
Thank you for, for joining us.
Absolutely.
Thank you for having me.
So, talk to us
about what happened here.
Why are you terminating
this deal with Gap?
Don't bring a leader in
and have him not lead.
You know, why would
I argue with people
who are getting paid by The Gap?
I'm sorry, you know,
I'm not gonna argue
with people that are
broker than me about money.
[jet engine whirring]
[Ye]
I'm looking to get
out of fashion.
I'm gonna leave Adidas.
I'm gonna no longer
be a billionaire.
I'ma take myself
out of that conversation.
And I'm only gonna work
on the schools
and work on farming,
and work on regenerative
and work on all that sh*t.
Because when
you're a billionaire,
all you do is
just get a bunch of--
like the way
that contract looked
when I sent it back.
Like da, da, da, da,
da, da, da, da.
I want to fly
Can you take me far away?
Give me a star to reach for
Tell me what it takes
And I'll go so high
I'll go so high
My feet
Won't touch the ground
Just stitch my wings
And pull the strings
I dream these dreams
And I won't fall down
[Ye]
My kids are gonna do
whatever they feel like doing
and be respected by the people
they feel like doing it with.
They will never be
in the same situation
where their daddy
had to literally go crazy...
[song continues muffled]
...to demand his respect.
And I won't fall down
-[woman] Whoo!
-[kids laughing]
Yo, man, I had to, like,
keep it holded in, man.
It was just so beautiful.
Like, that music, like,
that sh*t was just
bringing me to tears, bro.
And I just be like...
Yeah, I just been so...
Yo, just, like, embarrassed
or ashamed to cry, man.
'Cause people, like,
telling me like I cry wrong
and my cry is not cool.
I need to--
Like I'm not allowed
to express my emotion, but--
[Nico]
Who made you feel
it was wrong to cry?
Just the society?
-Yeah.
-[Nico] Or people around you?
I just feel like...
...I'm not allowed to cry,
because anytime I cry,
people want to put me
in a hospital.
-[Nico] Mmm.
-So I'm not allowed
to show any emotion.
I'm not allowed
to raise my voice.
I'm not allowed--
I have to talk really low
at all times,
with everything that I do...
...in order to serve God.
Because also, when I, like, cry
or if I, like, snap at somebody,
if I'm short with somebody,
if I get loud with somebody,
is it like, is that righteous
in me or is that my ego?
Is that my impatience?
You know, I'm going
through a whole 'nother,
uh, stage of puberty,
in, like,
what God is doing with me
and, like, the position
that He's put me in.
Like, why does He have you
right here for so many years,
like, faithful to the mission
with so many ups and downs.
-[Nico] Mm-hmm.
-You know.
[pensive music]
[Ye]
I lost my wife.
I lost my best friend.
I lost my mind.
I lost my mother.
There's nothing to lose.
[music swelling]
[indistinct chatter]
[indistinct conversation]
[Ye]
What do you think,
what effect will it have if I--
when I walk around
with my White Lives Matter
T-shirt?
-[woman] Well, that might--
-[man] What, you have
a T-shirt like that?
Yeah. It's in my,
it's in my head, so--
-[man laughs]
So you might have one.
-We will.
Nobody has had the audacity.
Everyone has kowtowed
to the Black Lives
Matter movement,
knowing it was fraudulent.
People that I know,
they know it's fraudulent,
they know they're lying,
but because it's about race,
they have to just say,
they have to stay away from it.
To go in
and to embrace the debate,
to not only embrace it,
but to say something
as decisively as,
"White Lives Matter."
-[Ye] Yeah.
-[woman] Which,
right now, the sentiment
across the country is
they don't matter. [stutters]
Every white person's
just being told to shut up.
It's so r*cist.
This sh*t finna gonna go off.
By the time we get to Paris...
...burn.
[traffic humming]
[siren wailing]
[whistle blows]
-[all cheering]
-[gentle piano music]
We were talking about you.
You were ten minutes away.
[indistinct chatter]
Hello.
[indistinct conversation]
[music continues]
-Michle.
-[Michle] Kanye.
-This is Candace right here.
-[Michle] Yeah.
-Hi. How are you?
-[Michle] Hi. I'm good.
-Nice to meet you.
-[Ye] Look at this T-shirt.
-[Michle] Yeah.
-Now look at the back.
Wo-- [laughs]
[indistinct conversation]
[Ye]
Let me explain this sh*t.
Light it up.
-I hear you.
-It's my f*cking show.
-Light it up, bro.
-I hear you, but Nick--
-Nick told me to--
-No, yo, it's--
-Turn on the light, please. Now.
-Sure, no problem.
Nick-- It ain't Nick's show,
bro. I shouldn't have
to act out.
I'm paying for--
Everybody here, I paid for.
[soft tense music]
Now, now, call Nick
and ask him what to do,
'cause guess what?
Nick listens to me,
unlike the rest of y'all
that work here in Paris.
I'm not dying like Virgil.
I'm here to take over.
Get used to it.
[music dramatizes]
[indistinct chatter]
Hey, everyone.
Good evening. It's Ye.
[people cheering and whooping]
Uh, what I want to say is,
on season four,
my show started late.
And that's what
the press is about.
A week after that show happened,
my wife, at the time,
got robbed,
right here, in Paris.
Then I told my manager,
at that time,
Scooter Braun,
that I just wanted to,
I just wanted to go to Japan.
I just needed a break.
And he said, "No, you need
to go make more money."
So we need to do
a second leg of the tour.
And that tour
lasted for four days.
And I went to the hospital.
And every time
I do something great,
someone brings up that moment
for the rest of my life.
It's the ultimate stigma.
People feel like they have
the right to come to my face
and call me crazy.
Like, it doesn't
hurt my feelings.
Or like, you don't
have to be crazy
in order to change the world.
[reporter]
Tonight, a firestorm
of controversy
for Kanye West.
Ye and conservative commentator
Candace Owens...
-[crowd cheering]
-...wore shirts with the phrase
"White Lives Matter"
on the back,
a phrase activists say
is harmful
and has been used
by white supremacist groups.
And Kanye West appears to be
sticking by his decision
to wear the shirt.
Kanye took to Instagram
to respond to the backlash,
saying, quote,
"Everyone knows that
Black Lives Matter was a scam.
Now it's over. You're welcome."
[people cheering]
[car rumbling]
Listen, like, I need to get
into some proper
midlife crisis sh*t.
-[chuckles]
-[indistinct background chatter]
It's time to get
into some proper
midlife crisis sh*t.
[laughs]
Too rich now, too.
Yo, it's so funny.
I was thinking
that the White Lives Matter
was so past the fact
that it wouldn't even be
funny anymore.
And I was wrong.
It's really funny.
Like, really funny.
[laughs]
It's just like, it's crazy.
It's-- [laughs]
It's...
This mental health sh*t
is amazing.
[laughter]
It's a joke.
It was a joke, guys.
Everybody knows
white lives don't really matter.
[laughs] It was a joke.
Like, what the f*ck?
Matter of fact, you know what?
I decided that I am white.
How about that?
I'm doing a race change.
[grim music]
If that T-shirt don't have
White Lives Matter on,
then I quit.
-Right.
-Why?
'Cause I make
whatever the f*ck I want!
And I'm not screaming at you,
but period!
Period. On Virgil,
on my mama, on my family,
on my kids that they trying
to sexualize,
I write whatever
the f*ck I want, when I want.
It's f*cking words.
They're k*lling us
with McDonald's.
They're k*lling our ability
to think outside of
the f*cking box!
I'm writing that sh*t.
I'm wearing that sh*t.
I'm wearing my f*cking red hat!
I'm saying, "Jesus."
I'm saying, "pro-life."
[echoing] Black!
[newsreader]
The controversy has been growing
ever since Kanye wore
a White Lives Matter shirt
to his fashion show in Paris.
But now a backlash
over Kanye's weekend
of anti-Semitic
social media posts
is growing after this threat.
"I'm going DEATH CON3
on Jewish people."
[music continues]
[paper rustling]
I got a T-shirt for you.
[man]
Okay. Let's go.
[man]
What is "DEATH CON 3"?
[Ye]
What we're on now.
The darker Jew have to create
our own platforms
and we have to come together
and not be separated by ego.
So, what I did, is say,
"Everyone's saying,
'Oh, you'll be labeled
anti-Semitic'."
I said, "Okay, well,
label, label me that, though.
Label me Black, g*y,
crazy, anti-Semitic."
Put it all on there.
[laughs]
[slurping]
[soft music]
[indistinct chatter]
Sometimes you're promoting
the fashion line,
sometimes it's, uh,
it's, uh, an album,
and now it's an idea.
What's the idea?
The idea is free speech.
Let me do what, like, um,
what r*cist, uh,
white people always do.
Let me show you
one of my Jewish friends
right here.
-Is that-- Are you a Jewish man?
-[laughing] Let me show you
-one of my Black friends.
-No, but are you a Jewish man?
-I am.
-[Billy] Come on in.
-But I don't want
to be in this--
-[Ye] No!
Because a person
in a position of power
has now been called r*cist.
So, let me show you
all of my Black friends
right now.
[Chris]
Can you hear me? Can you see me?
[Ye]
Uh, you guys are
supposed to be made aware
to use my legal name, Ye.
I've changed my name,
like how Cassius Clay
changed his name
to Muhammad Ali.
But Anise on the chyron
changed my name to Ye.
So, look,
there is no Jewish media,
cabal, mafia.
Uh, that is a figment
of either your imagination
or a projection of a prejudice.
[Ye]
Over 50% of the executives
in Hollywood,
the CEOs are Jewish.
-And these guys know each other.
-That's different than saying
it's a mafia and that they
act as Jews in some way
as opposed to just
being businessmen.
[Ye] They need to hear me
saying out loud
what the truth is.
There's a bunch of people
in Hollywood that are actors,
that play basketball,
that play sports,
that are on music,
that know what I'm saying,
that feel what I'm saying,
and they're happy that
I'm saying what I'm saying.
It's not from a place
of anti-Semitism.
-Some of my best friends
are Jewish, and I'm also Jew.
-[Chris speaks inaudibly]
I'm trying to make sure
that you're healthy
-and you're taking care
of your health.
-No, I--
I, I'm--
Did you work out this morning?
-No.
-[scoffs] Okay.
-The thing is--
okay, so when do I have a--
-But I took my medicine.
-But let me tell you--
-But I took my
antidepressant medication
-that I take every day.
-Why do I--
-Bro, you're cutting me off.
When do I get a platform?
-It's all you. Go.
-Thank you for telling me
how I should feel. Good night.
-You just asked me.
-Thank you for telling me.
Good night.
-Ye, good luck to you.
All right,
where are we headed now?
The thing about it,
me and Adidas, it's like,
I could literally
say anti-Semitic sh*t
and they can't drop me.
I could say anti-Semitic things,
and Adidas can't drop me.
Now what?
-[tense tone]
-[newsreader]
Now they just dropped you.
Today, Adidas joined
the long list of companies
cutting ties with Ye.
The move costing Ye
his billionaire status.
JP Morgan and Chase
kicked him out of the bank.
Talent agent CAA
dropped him as a client.
Twitter and Instagram suspended
all of his social media,
everything.
Not a good day for Ye at all.
[gentle piano music]
[Ye]
Everything is
gonna be shut down.
Now, the media wins.
-[gospel music playing]
-[Ye vocalizing]
[all praying indistinctly]
[Ye]
They're attempting
to destroy me,
which I love this part
of the movie, by the way,
I'm a bit of a masochist.
[jet engine whirring]
It's one of two things
is gonna happen now.
Either they destroy me
or I destroy it.
"It" meaning "label."
[suspenseful music]
I'm destroying the labels.
[yawns]
The label of crazy,
label of anti-Semite.
Label of Black, label of white.
Straight, g*y, rich, poor.
Cool, uncool.
I'm destroying the labels.
All the f*cking labels.
[rain pattering]
Uh, I'm in Portland,
in the rain,
showing up to this deposition
six minutes before it starts.
Uh, the Adidas deposition.
[rain continues pattering]
[woman]
Ye. Mm, a mediation is
a confidential proceeding.
Everybody has to sign.
Your attorney had signed.
Apparently, this wasn't
given to you yet.
-Um...
-Are you asking that guy
that films our films?
I see, I thought you were
hinting towards it.
[woman]
Oh, no, I'm not hinting.
[soft suspenseful music]
[music intensifies]
This last year was crazy.
Like, right now,
AEG and Live Nation
won't offer me a tour.
I went to the Sphere in Vegas.
The sh*t's empty
when I was there.
You know, it was, like,
f*cking 30 people there.
I'm like, "Yo, let me do this,"
and they're, like,
not hitting me back,
and it's just, like, really...
I appreciate that sh*t.
I'm almost, like, a masochist.
There's times I just
don't want to get up.
I don't want to work.
I'm just walking around,
like, f*cking barefooted
in Italy or whatever,
and then you just look up.
-[melancholic music]
-And sometimes I think, like...
...see that little inkling,
like, "Man, should I have
blown up the Gap sh*t?
Should I have blown up
the Adidas sh*t?
Should I have blown--"
But the answer is yes.
[inaudible chatter]
[music continues]
[Nico]
Everyone that works for you,
like, has a dream.
Like, no one really,
I feel, like works for you
that ever wants
to only work for you
for the rest of their life.
Everyone wants to have
their own movie, but...
...you see what happens
to a lot of people
who are, like,
around you for years,
and it's because, like,
they won't be able
to match that elsewhere.
[Ye]
We don't know
if we glued together the story.
And if you're documenting
every almost waking moment,
and sometimes sleeping moments
of my life,
and you don't understand
the through line,
then the world's
not gonna understand
the through line.
It's just gonna look crazy,
or it's gonna be one antic...
-[Nico] Yeah.
-...to the next antic,
the way you know,
the way the media words it.
[gentle piano music]
[music fades]
No sleeping, or you'll explode.
[Ye chuckles]
You got that right.
In real life.
In real life? No.
-Yes.
-Yeah.
No, in real life. In real life.
-I promise.
-In real... [echoing] life.
[tense piano music]
[music continues]
[music fades]
Use this gospel
For protection
-It's a hard road to Heaven
-[baby cooing]
We call on His blessings
-And the Father
Who put our faith
-[baby crying]
The King of the kingdom
Angels are singing
Slaying the demons
And the Father
Who put our faith
[humming]
-[continues humming]
-[baby coos]
[humming echoes and fades]
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