Kanye West was the latest guest on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” Watch the full interview below. Kimmel celebrated the occasion by wearing Yeezys and acknowledging the “dragon energy” in the room during his monologue. Kimmel asked if Kanye would consider designing uniforms for Trump’s Space Force. “I do like designing,” Ye responded, laughing. He then asked if Kanye was concerned when his wife Kim Kardashian was alone in the Oval Office with Trump. “He is a player,” Kanye joked.
At one point, Kimmel asked Kanye about the situation where families were separated at the border. “Whether we like his personality or not, his actions are really what matter. You so famously and so powerfully said ‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people.’ It makes me wonder, what makes you think that Donald Trump does?” Kanye then went silent for a few seconds, and the show went to commercial.
When they returned, the conversation turned to the songs from his new album ye. Kimmel singled out “Violent Crimes” and its lyrics about his daughter North West. After being asked if he worries about men objectifying his daughter and whether or not his attitude toward women has changed since he’s had daughters, Kanye talked about all the porn he looks at. They discussed the song “I Thought About Killing You” and the quote on the cover of the album, ”I hate being bipolar it’s awesome.” Kanye said, “It’s important for us to have open conversations about mental health. We never had therapists in the black community.”
Later, he talked about the string of records he released in June—records by Pusha-T, Teyana Taylor, Nas, and his Kid Cudi collaboration.
Kanye was a guest on “Kimmel” in 2013 after a heated back and forth with the show’s host—Kimmel mocked Kanye’s BBC Radio 1 interview with Zane Lowe and it went down from there. In 2016, Kimmel shared a mash-up parody of HBO’s hit show and the rapper’s infamous 2013 interview called called “Kanye Westworld.”
Read about Kanye’s 2005 track “Hey Mama” in “10 Great Rap Songs About Family” on Levels.
