The Life of Pablo debuted last week at number-one on The Billboard 200 Chart.
And how did Kanye West celebrate this accomplishment?
By talking more about Taylor Swift and whining about how difficult his life as an artist can be, of course.
At a concert in Manila, Philippines on April 9, Kanye went way back in time and addressed his interruption of Taylor Swift"s acceptance speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards.
He referred to that incident as the "beginning of the end of my life,” yet also stated that he “just said what everybody else was thinking."
What about his reference to Swift as a "bitch" and to how he made her "famous" and to how he thinks the two "might still have sex," all of which he sings on the track "Famous?"
“This is the song that broke the writer’s block for me, because it’s something I wanted to say so bad,” West tells the crowd below.
“So if I get in trouble for saying the truth, what’s being said the rest of the time? And I had to fight every day of my life, with the whole world turned against me, for saying out loud what everyone else felt.
"But that’s the job of an artist, of a true artist: not to be controlled by their finances, not to be controlled by perceptions, but only to be controlled by their truth.”
Man, Kanye West is SO profound, people.
Just listen to all he has to say here:
