- Dressed in a bulletproof jacket with "safety" written on it, Kanye West delivered a disjointed speech during a meeting reserved for guests this Sunday.
- Portions of this speech went viral on social media, causing excitement, anger, and concerns about the singer's mental health.
- Portrait of a rapper who takes himself for God and who sings it loud and clear.
We are never out of surprises with Kanye West. The rapper started to cry this Sunday while delivering an anti-abortion speech at a confused political meeting supposed to mark the launch of his candidacy for the November presidential election in the United States, this Sunday in Charleston, Carolina from South. Dressed in a bulletproof jacket with "security" written on it, he delivered a disjointed speech during this meeting reserved for guests who had to sign a coronavirus release form, wear masks and practice distancing social.
Rapper, singer-songwriter, producer but also designer, Kanye West established himself as one of the most talented artists of his generation in the early 2000s and won no less than 21 Grammy Awards between 2004 and 2012, a record . But in recent years, he has also stood out for his demonstrations of ego, delusions of all power and polemical political positions. Back on a follower of excess.
God's complex
Kanye West, who claims to be saved by religion, regularly mentions God and Christ in his songs (and not only). From his first album in 2004, he sang his faith in Jesus Walks . In 2013, he released his album Yeezus , in reference to the nickname he gave himself. "West is my slave name and Yeezus my divine name," he reportedly said at a party in New York. In the song I'm a god from the same album, he imagines a discussion with Jesus, before repeating "I am a god".
In case we didn't understand, he put a layer on it five years later with the album Ye and officially changed his stage name to Ye, which means "you" in the Bible. It is also a reference to the last two letters of his first name. In the fall of 2019, the 43-year-old rapper released the album Jesus is King . In parallel, he organizes Sunday services in the United States, evangelical masses halfway between the gospel concert and the nagging religious services. Let's not forget that two of the children he had with Kim Kardashian are called Saint and Psalm… Normal.
Trump's support and controversies
From 2018, he speaks more and more frequently on politics. In his title Ye vs the people , he shows his support for Donald Trump. "I know Obama was an envoy from God, but since Trump won, he has proven that I can be president." On Twitter, another field of expression for the rapper, he went so far as to describe the President of the United States as a brother, posing with a cap "Make America Great Again", the slogan of Donald Trump during the presidential campaign in 2016 .
Kanye West also met the Republican President head to head in the Oval Office in 2018. An event which won him many criticisms, as did his remarks on slavery in the same year which placed him at the heart of 'controversy. “We hear about slavery that lasted four hundred years. For four hundred years? It sounds like a choice, "he told TMZ.
At the end of 2019, he declared that his open support for the Republican president was intended to irritate his democratic opponents and make his way. Kanye West announced his candidacy on Twitter on July 4. He has passed the deadline to appear on the official list of candidates in several states.
Psychological instability
Parts of the speech delivered on Sunday evening went viral on social networks, and caused excitement, anger and concerns about the singer's mental health. We remember Kanye West's emergency hospitalization in 2016. A few days earlier, he had stunned his audience at a concert in Sacramento where he had only performed three songs before launching into a disjointed speech. Diagnosed bipolar, he also often refers to his illness. On the cover of his album Ye , he wrote: "I Hate Being Bipolar It's Awesome" (I hate being bipolar, it's great). God, next president of the United States or delusional character ... The rapper excels in any case in the art of being talked about.
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