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[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 shit, I felt like the Diddy coming out of me.
I was like, "I gotta adjust my swag
-'cause he's here and shit." -[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 shit 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, nigga.
For real, I need to get drunk or something.
That shit was crazy, man.
-Forget it. -'Cause that nigga say it.
-Forget it. -[woman] Forget about it.
-Yeah. -We're all in there,
we were in there, niggas 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 shit.
-Of course. -That was so good, man.
-You killed 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 motherfucking Yeezy up right quick.
-Hey. -[man] Oh, no.
Hey, y'all, I'm about to cut the cake
-in motherfucking 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 fuck 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 shit, motherfucker. -[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, fuck all these lists and shit, 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 shit 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 shit.
-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 fucking 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 shit.
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 shit
that's dealing with the same exact medication.
-They got the exact medication as you, in their drawer." -Mm-hmm.
One, one fucked up facet, just like a diamond,
one fucked up facet can fuck the whole thing up.
-Mm-hmm. -Right?
So you can't put out a single,
a first single, and the shit go left
from what you already hinted of where you were fucking 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 fuck 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 shit.
-[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 niggas act phony I did this to me ♪
♪ When niggas 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 shit in there.
-Yeah. -There's some shit 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 ♪
♪ 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 slave."
-You're the help. -"You're a glorified slave, man."
Like, you're-- Why would you want to be a glorified slave?
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 fuck 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 shit, 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 motherfuckers 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 fucking 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 shit.
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 slavery.
And being...
...like, accosted by my own people
to not free my mind.
'Cause the motherfuckers that own the stadiums,
if you go back to they last name,
own the slaves.
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 slave...
'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 fuck 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 nigga
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 fuck the crap.
This man is, is, is, is very racist.
-And there's people that's being killed that, that, that-- -I don't care about,
I don't care about racism. You know who more racist 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 fuck with you,
you know what I'm saying? Like, that shit 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 fucking mind.
They were screaming and crying, "I'm not going out with that bitch.
She's out of her fucking mind." [grunts]
And Sinead-- Sinead O'Connor was shaking
and she lost everything she had.
And it's 20 years later,
-that bitch was right. -[Ye] Mm-hmm.
-[Chris] The bitch was right. -[Ye] Mm-hmm.
-[Chris] They don't give a fuck. -[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 fucked up. -[Ye] Why was that?
Why do you wanna call me out on the fucking--
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 fucked 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 fucked 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 shit 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 kill me
for wearing this hat. I have the hat on as we speak.
And we need me,
because if I get killed 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 slave business. I'm a slave 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 slave.
That's demeaning, because I work hard
-with brands that are similar... -Well, yeah.
-...and all of that. -E! is a slave-- E! is a slave 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 shit.
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 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 murdered.
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 fucking vest on
and fucking, on my-- over my hood.
I won't let nobody fucking control me no more.
Joseph was like, "Kanye, do this. Don't do that."
Fuck 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 shit?
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 slaves 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 fucking sketch and shit.
This is literally about my, like, life, bro.
I'm putting this shit 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.
Motherfuckers don't believe me.
Like, I'll go meet with Howard from IIT and he'll be like, "If--"
or you know, "If you're serious and if this..."
Look in my fucking eyes.
I am absolutely fucking serious.
I'm absolutely fucking out of my mind too.
But I'm absolutely fucking 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 fucking break
and it needs to be a statement that says,
"Look, enough already.
We got the fucking point across, we fucking get it.
Now let's just get to this fucking 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 kill this person.
I wanna kill 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 nigga 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, slave."
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 pornography.
-[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 gun down
and not shooting 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 killed my daughter!
Then they said to me, "You can't..."
[continues unintelligibly]
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 motherfucking funny, when, when I, when I be myself
and y'all motherfuckers be chuckling and shit?
It ain't no motherfucking game, man.
It's like eight hours left of this shit.
Y'all taking away, I give instructions?
My motherfucking condition is a fucking joke?
Like, I don't want to hear no fucking chuckling, no... [mimics chatter]
"Look at him. Look at him. Look at how he acts.
Look at how that fucking genius acts.
Look at how that most influential artist of 20 motherfucking years acts.
Look at how the most important artist in human history acts."
It's not a motherfucking game, man!
No fucking 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 killing 20 niggas
and I'm fucking this many bitches." I'm throwing all this shit,
then y'all saying some Black Lives Matter shit.
On my shit. [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 shit, 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]
[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 war.
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 shit.
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 shit 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 racist.
This shit 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]
-Michèle. -[Michèle] Kanye.
-This is Candace right here. -[Michèle] Yeah.
-Hi. How are you? -[Michèle] Hi. I'm good.
-Nice to meet you. -[Ye] Look at this T-shirt.
-[Michèle] Yeah. -Now look at the back.
Wo-- [laughs]
[indistinct conversation]
[Ye] Let me explain this shit. Light it up.
-I hear you. -It's my fucking 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 shit.
-[chuckles] -[indistinct background chatter]
It's time to get into some proper midlife crisis shit.
[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 shit 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 fuck?
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 fuck 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 fuck I want, when I want.
It's fucking words.
They're killing us with McDonald's.
They're killing our ability
to think outside of the fucking box!
I'm writing that shit. I'm wearing that shit.
I'm wearing my fucking 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, gay, 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 racist, 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 racist. 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 shit
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, gay, rich, poor.
Cool, uncool.
I'm destroying the labels.
All the fucking 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 shit's empty when I was there.
You know, it was, like, fucking 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 shit. 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, fucking 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 shit?
Should I have blown up the Adidas shit?
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]