14 DAY TRIAL // Rapper Kanye West is gearing up to make his music comeback and, as such, he’s finally speaking out about the period shortly after the Taylor Swift-gate, when he walked up on stage at the VMAs and cut short her acceptance speech.
Kanye was on Ellen DeGeneres the other day and, aside from explaining why he felt the need to cover his teeth in gold and diamonds, he also talked a bit about his life after the infamous episode and his upcoming album.
This is officially the first time that he’s so open about the incident, which, he says, brought him on the brink of ruin as he considered suicide and then, later on, leaving showbiz altogether.
However, he probably also realized that such drastic measures would not undo the harm, so Kanye simply slipped off the radar and went to remote destinations to rediscover himself.
“I left America. I stopped doing music all together. I just took some time. I went to Japan just so I could get away from paparazzi all together,” Kanye says.
“Then in November I moved to Rome and just lived there and when I came back to the states I moved to Hawaii. I lived there for about six months and just worked on music,” the rapper reveals.
This was the first break Kanye allowed himself since becoming a household recording artist – and one that was overdue since his mother died.
“It was the first time that I got to stop since my Mom had passed. I had never stopped and never tried to even soak in what all had happened…” Kanye recalls.
The time off also helped him rediscover himself as an artist, not just as an individual.
“It was time to take a break and develop more as a person as a creator and focus more on my thoughts and my ideas and what I wanted to bring to the world,” he says.
The result of all this traveling, soul-searching and reinventing of the self is the album “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy,” whose cover has already been banned by Walmart, as we also informed you the other day.