14 DAY TRIAL // Though he promised he’d do his best to be a “good celebrity” and not just an awesome creative person, Kanye West has had it with the media – as he clearly states in a long rant on his official Twitter page.
What prompted the breakdown and the promise of not doing any interviews from now on, it seems, was a taping for Matt Lauer’s show, where the host allegedly tried to force him into saying things he didn’t want to say.
As the rapper puts it, Kanye only agreed to do the interview because he wanted to show he was “empathetic” to George Bush, whom he once labeled a racist, because now too he was tagged as such.
“I don't mess with Matt Lauer or the Today Show… and that’s a very nice way for me to put it!” Kanye says. Yet what happened on the show was more than he could take, so he’s coming out with it – in his trademark caps.
“HE TRIED TO FORCE MY ANSWERS. IT WAS VERY BRUTAL AND I CAME THERE WITH ONLY POSITIVE INTENT,” Kanye tweets.
“I feel very alone very used very tortured very forced very misunderstood very hollow very very misused,” he goes on to say.
“I don’t trust anyone but myself! Everyone has an agenda. I don’t do press anymore. I can’t be everything to everybody anymore. I can’t be everybody’s hero and villain savior and sinner Christian and anti Christ!” he also writes.
He’s now come to the conclusion that the media is deliberately trying to find fault with him because that’s the only way it can sell, which means he will be criticized no matter what he does or says.
In the end, these things shouldn’t even matter, he explains: because all he wants to do is to create. He’s also come to understand how Michael Jackson must have felt.
“I wish Michael Jackson had twitter!!!!!! Maybe Mike could have explained how the media tried to set him up!!! It's all a [expletive] set up!!!! This is rock and roll life my people… you can’t stop the truth you can’t stop the music and I have to be strong or ‘they’ win!!!!” Kanye concludes by saying.