After departing from social media last week, Kanye West (Ye) returned to Twitter today to share four videos – one of which sees the artist go on a stream of consciousness for almost ten minutes, mostly about mind control and control in general.
The other videos consisted of a 17-second one titled “Aha” and two short videos around the 15-second mark titled “mind control”.
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West appeared to post the videos from Africa where he says he’s currently recording music.
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1051253667687526400
“I just want to talk about mind control. You know when people try to influence you through social media and try to tell you what to do or if you post something that’s positive on Instagram and it gets taken down if it’s not a part of a bigger agenda — that’s like mind control.”
West goes onto heavily criticise social media before sharing his IQ score (133) and comparing it to Sigmund Freud and Nikola Tesla.
He continues:
“I feel like when people try and tell me what to do, I feel like they’re touching my brain. Like for a woman, she doesn’t want nobody – she wants to be in control of her body and choose who she wants to give it to and no one can come up and touch her or take it or tell her what to do with it. It’s up to her what she does with it so I feel like that with my mind. It’s all these people – black people – like, people on social media, people trying to control us and make us all monolithic thought. And they’re trying to control our mind – they’re trying to control my mind. And when someone tries to tell me what to do, tries to tell me what I can wear I feel like they’re touching my brain.”
At one point, West talks about his contract with Sony:
“I went to go buy my publishing from Sony/ATV and they said, ‘It’s $8 million, $9 million’ and when I went to buy it, they told me ‘No,’ I couldn’t buy my publishing.
“They told me I couldn’t buy my publishing and it’s like the control, like I can’t say what I want to say on ‘SNL’ that I can’t say what I want to say – I will positive energy into the universe. We will say what we feel, not what we’re programmed to think. We will see 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, we will say – you see, I did that as a mantra, I did it multiple times.
“I’m not worried about any type of blog, social media – y’all already saw it was a lie. Social media told you that Hilary Clinton was going to win and she didn’t win. Social media told you that people didn’t like me but everybody loves me, everybody loves Ye. But if you read social media, it makes you think something different. Unprogram your minds open up your heart, let the spirit guide you, let your conscious be free, we free. We free, bro.
“Just positive energy, I’m saying this – I’m in Africa recording, you see we just took them to the future… the music is the best on the planet. I am the best living recording artist…”
After repeating a new mantra, West shares that he got rid of his laptop:
“I have references there. I don’t need the references, the spirit will give me new ideas – ideas in the air. We don’t own them, we’re just merely a vessel. We’re here to do God’s work. We’re merely a vessel. And when you feel great art, that’s the universe and I have to be open and free to do that but If I let human beings – humans rather and people tell me what to do, tell me what I can’t do then I can’t be a vessel to you.”
West ends the video by telling Sony that he wants to be released from his contract.
“Whoever’s involved, I need my publishing, I got the money. I’m not going to say the s-word, I’m not Prince, I don’t need to write it on my face.”
In public protest against his record company Warner Bros., Prince would appear at shows with the word “SLAVE” written on his cheek.
