“I feel so blessed,” the 40-year-old rapper tweeted in response to the news that all seven songs from hislatest albumYEhold the top seven spots on both the Apple Music and Spotify charts. The album also currently holds the top spot on the U.S. iTunes chart.
“For everyone that didn’t turn they back. I’m in tears right now. I love all of you,” he added.
Sharing a similar sentiment on Saturday, West shared ascreenshot of the charting songson iTunes, writing, “For all my dogs that stayed down, we up again .”
Prior to the album’s release, many social media users said the outspoken musician should be “canceled” forsuggesting slavery is “a choice”during an interview with TMZ and forpublicly supporting President Trump.
“It was just too sensitive,” West explained, adding that he felt “so blessed and privileged because think about people that have mental issues that are notKanye West, that can’t go and make [an album] and make it feel like it’s all good.”
“Think about somebody that does exactly what I did at TMZ and they just do that at work, right? But then Tuesday morning, they come in and they lost their job and they can’t go back and make that,” he continued.
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On the album, Westconfirmed he is bipolar, calling it his “superpower.”
Additionally, the album’s artwork — which Westshot on the way to the listening party— features an image of the mountains with a lime green text overlay reading, “I hate being bipolar it’s awesome.”
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However, while the rapper may have edited out a reference to the hot-button topic, he did reveal how his wifeKim Kardashian Westreacted after the interview was published on track “Wouldn’t Leave.”
“I said, ‘Slavery a choice,’ they say, ‘How, Ye?’ / Just imagine if they caught me on a wild day / Now I’m on 50 blogs gettin’ 50 calls / Wife calling screaming saying we’re about to lose it all / I had to calm her down ‘cos she couldn’t breathe / I told her she could leave me now but she wouldn’t leave,” he rapped. “This is what they mean for better or for worse, huh?”
source: people.com
