Ye (fka Kanye West) spent approximately three minutes doing an interview with Piers Morgan before storming off, which, to be fair, is probably about as long as we’d want to spend talking to Piers Morgan.
Which is not to say that, in this instance — to paraphrase the tweet — you gotta hand it to him. Ye’s exit was prompted by a dispute about social media followers, and preceded by a hilariously contentious exchange with Morgan about the views in Majorca and some not-so-thinly veiled comments from Ye about “being attacked by the banks.”
Ye’s appearance on Uncensored got off to a rip-roaringly stupid start when Morgan asked how he was doing and Ye replied, “I mean, you see that view? … Judge it on the view, as the answer to how my life is. Judge me by the view.”
Morgan then suggested the serene Balearic view behind him was in stark contrast to the tumult that’s engulfed the rapper/mogul/troll’s life over the past few years. It was a remark that successfully piqued Ye into his first little diatribe: “I already disagree,” he said. “It’s not in contrast, there’s so many people and artists that are championing the idea of someone being able to just express who they really are, and have been able to go through the war of being attacked by the banks, being attacked, you know, by the banks — that’s the best way to put it. Being attacked by the banks, and to still be here with this view is, you know, that’s the win. So I think that’s — I’m in contrast to your contrast.”
Impressively, the veteran journalist Morgan did not run with the follow-up that many would find obvious in light of Ye’s longstanding history of antisemitic comments and ask him what he meant by “the banks.” Rather, he managed to inadvertently derail his interview by getting Ye’s follower numbers on X wrong. Morgan said 32 million, to which Ye fired back, “Look right now, you’re not gonna take inches off my dick, bro. How many followers do I have?” (That Ye knew 32 million was wrong immediately is extremely unsurprising.)
After Morgan confirmed that the correct number was actually 33 million followers, Ye leaned in one last time, spouting, “I’m a gift, bro. Why do all you people in media act like you haven’t played my songs at your weddings or graduations or funerals or when your child was born? … It just shows the hate you put out for people that put love, there’s so much love.”
When Morgan tried to interject that he had no idea what Ye was talking about, Ye returned to the pressing issue of the incorrect X followers: “Now you’re not taking accountability or responsibility. This is what you get for now. We can circle back when you can count.”
Ye then got up and left, leaving Morgan to spend the next 10 minutes or so talking to the popular/controversial social media personality, Sneako. To which we must paraphrase another tweet: we ain’t watching all that, happy for you though, or sorry that happened.
