John Legend opened with Kanye West via Fallout

John Legend Looks back at his friendship – and Fallout – with a competitive rapper Kanye West.

In an interview with The times Legend was released on Saturday, May 10, that West was a different person than the couple met in the early 2000s.

“Back then Kanye was very passionate, very talented, and he had great dreams not only for himself, but also for all people around him,” he said.

The legend was friends with West during the release of his pioneering album College DropouT. “Kanye blew up after producing Jay-Z’s album The blueprint In 2001, “he said.” Then he experienced a buzz as a solo artist and was with him all the time, who made shows with him and not only received attention as a singer and keyboard player, but also as an artist himself. I was rejected everywhere by labels. “

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The attention on the west rubbed the legend in a good way. “Then The college failure In the first week, 400,000 copies were sold, everyone wanted to know what was happening in our camp, and all those people who rejected me suddenly decided that my music sounded much better than the first time, ”added Legend.

The singer “All of Me” pointed out a big loss in Western life as a turning point for his former friend. When asked why West is so different now, the legend replied: “I don’t think we qualified for him to psychoanalyzing him, but after his mother died in 2007, there was definitely a difference. His descent started at the time and seems to have accelerated lately.”

In recent years, West has made headlines for anti-Semitic comments and behavior and its ongoing custody saga with ex-wife Kim Kardashian. On April 30, the rapper made a rant in a livestream in which he spoke about not being able to see the four children of the couple North, 11, Saint, 9, Chicago (7) and Psalm, 5.

“(DJ) Academics put this battery in my back, brother. Because I was alone at the airport … I do these children, man!” According to a video from Hollywood, the rapper said that was unlocked. “I do these children, brother. I speak to the lawyers – it comes to the point where I don’t lose my damn spirit, where I got used to not seeing my children.”

West previously compared the dynamics with “visit” in the “prison”.

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“I don’t just want to see my children. I have to raise them. I have to say that they are going to school and who their friends are and who (sic) houses about weather (sic) My daughters wear lipstick and perfume,” he wrote in a post from March since then. “Kardashian Mob Hulu and Disney and the larger agenda were all of these rights to use the selectively bred black children to use platforms to influence blacks.”