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Kanye West Talks Mental Health Struggles & More With David Letterman [Video]

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Kanye West has been candid in times past regarding his struggles with mental health, and once again he let the world in on his journey. During a discussion with David Letterman via the host’s Netflix show venture, the Chicago artist revealed how bipolar disorder has affected him.

As Entertainment Tonight exclusively shared:

The celebrated yet publicly troubled rapper speaks at length with David Letterman in a season two episode of the acclaimed Netflix series, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction With David Letterman, about his experiences with “ramping up” and the effects it’s had on his mind and his life.

“If you don’t take medication every day to keep you at a certain state, you have a potential to ramp up and it can take you to a point where you can even end up in the hospital,” West tells Letterman during the candid interview. “And you start acting erratic, as TMZ would put it.”

West famously sat down with TMZ for a controversial conversation last year, amid several headline-grabbing outbursts that garnered him a great deal of negative press and put a strain on his marriage to Kim Kardashian West.

“When you ramp up, it expresses your personality more. You can become almost more adolescent in your expression,” West explains. “This is my specific experience that I’ve had over the past two years, because I’ve only been diagnosed for two years now.”

West has opened up regarding mental illness in the past in a sit-down chat with Charlamagne Tha God back in 2018.

Check out a new teaser trailer for the upcoming episode below.

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Dave Chappelle Thinks Kanye West’s White House Meeting Was a Manic Episode

Dave Chappelle and Kanye West have been friends for quite a while, in spite of their varying political views.  During a show in Dublin, a fan asked the comedian to weigh in on Ye’s most recent meeting with Donald Trump, and Chappelle blames it on his mental illness.

“Honestly, all jokes aside, I felt like my friend is bipolar, and I felt like he was having a manic episode on television,” Chappelle said in leaked audio from the show, obtained by Too Fab. He prefaced the statement by explaining how well he knows ‘Ye.

“I gotta state my bias: I fuck with Kanye, he’s like literally a friend of mine. I had a lot of thoughts and feelings, and as you can imagine I got asked a lot about what happened in the Oval Office,” Chappelle said. On the other hand, other artists like Snoop Dogg, T.I., and 50 Cent weren’t here for it.

Dave concluded by saying that he still has faith in the rapper. “I don’t think [Kanye] forgot us. I trust him as a person of intent, I just think that this nigga is betting on the wrong horse. Lucky for me, I know him well enough to not take political advice from him. I’m keeping my Yeezys and I’m still buying the records, but when he’s on CNN, nigga, I’m turning the channel.”

Needless to say, Kanye has been making headlines for his undying love for our current, controversial President. During Ye’s meeting with POTUS, he revealed that he believes he was misdiagnosed with bipolar disorder and referred to racism as an “invisible wall.”

There’s no telling if Yeezy caught wind of what Dave Chappelle said about him, but when he does, we’re sure he’s going to let us know in a tweet.

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