Speaker 1: You're listening to Comedy Central. Why say again, why am
Speaker 1: I beefing with ya? That's a that's a that's an
Speaker 1: interesting way to phrase it, because a beef has to
Speaker 1: go both ways. No, it does. It genuinely does. I think,
Speaker 1: first of all, you know, in in my limited understanding
Speaker 1: of the world, beef has always been something that generally
Speaker 1: will happen between two hip hop artists. I wasn't never
Speaker 1: beefing with Kanye West. I was concerned about Kanye West
Speaker 1: and no, and genuinely, I mean this because if somebody
Speaker 1: says to me or to anyone that they have a
Speaker 1: mental health issue, and they say to everyone that when
Speaker 1: they don't take their medication, they're unable to control themselves,
Speaker 1: and then everyone ignores when that person is having an
Speaker 1: episode and they haven't taken their medication, and then they
Speaker 1: platform the person and then they put them out. I
Speaker 1: I sometimes think it's a little um, it's a little
Speaker 1: shitty to be honest with you. You know, Like, my
Speaker 1: grandfather was bipolar, and one thing we knew in the
Speaker 1: family was and I'm not saying Kanye is, by the way,
Speaker 1: I'm just saying my grandfather was bipolar. And one thing
Speaker 1: we knew was you know, when he was having one
Speaker 1: of his episodes, he could act in a certain way,
Speaker 1: could do certain thing, to take the family car. He'd
Speaker 1: be gone, he'd be driving up. But our job was
Speaker 1: to support him, like did he take his medication? What
Speaker 1: he's saying? What is he not saying? It said? It
Speaker 1: would be weird if I was there going, oh, Mike,
Speaker 1: my grandfather's But you know, he was having an episode again,
Speaker 1: and I'm going viral today. It's I think it's I
Speaker 1: think it's a little bit strange, and so it's it's
Speaker 1: interesting how you know, you what you're asking me makes
Speaker 1: sense because that's how you see the framing. Somebody be
Speaker 1: having beef, even if you see in any of the
Speaker 1: comments I said about him as a concern, Definitely. I
Speaker 1: grew up loving Kanye with a few hip hop artists
Speaker 1: who have shaped how I see music. The punch lines
Speaker 1: that he had in every single song. It was like
Speaker 1: listening to comedy, the sketches that he had. He loved
Speaker 1: stand up comedy. Do you know what I mean? His mom,
Speaker 1: You know, his mom's influence on him, His influence on
Speaker 1: hip hop culture, his influence on fashion, how he changed
Speaker 1: the paradigm. I grew up loving this man. I still
Speaker 1: love him despite the ship that he talks, and so
Speaker 1: for me, it's not a beef. But one thing I'll
Speaker 1: tell he is when I grew up in South Africa,
Speaker 1: one thing I loved was you grew up in a
Speaker 1: space where people would say, buzzle jail I, we're gonna
Speaker 1: tell you to your face. You know what I mean.
Speaker 1: We're not gonna We're not gonna sit by and see
Speaker 1: you doing something and just act like, oh no, we
Speaker 1: didn't see it. I sometimes feel like Americans enjoy doing that.
Speaker 1: They see it, they see it, they see it, and
Speaker 1: then something really bad happens and they're like, I wish
Speaker 1: we had spoken about it. I wish someone had said
Speaker 1: something up. Yeah, I'm like no. So so for me,
Speaker 1: you know, I think there are elements of Yea where
Speaker 1: he knows, he knows when he's being an ashole and
Speaker 1: he's admitted this. He knows he knows when he's pushing
Speaker 1: the envelope and he's trying to say But there are
Speaker 1: moments where I go, people, what what is happening here?
Speaker 1: Like you know what I mean? So it's it's not
Speaker 1: beefing with somebody. I don't have beef with a human
Speaker 1: being who has expressed openly that they're dealing with a
Speaker 1: mental health issue. Don't have beef with that human being.
Speaker 1: What I have beef with is us as society not
Speaker 1: coming together around a person and going like, hey, hey,
Speaker 1: maybe this is not the moment to put a microphone
Speaker 1: in your face so that you just go off saying everything.
Speaker 1: If this is what you want to say when you're
Speaker 1: on your medication, then then that's a different story. But
Speaker 1: because you've told us that, I'm not going to sit
Speaker 1: by and say that, So if he wants to process
Speaker 1: it as beef, I understand it. I've never had beef
Speaker 1: with him. I'm still playing college dropout, I'm still playing
Speaker 1: the music. I still love the man that I think
Speaker 1: he is, and I understand that he's gone through a lot,
Speaker 1: you know, and and I don't take that for granted.
Speaker 1: But yeah, I've promised myself I'll never be the person
Speaker 1: who just sits by and gleefully says things about people
Speaker 1: that I care about and then also joins the group
Speaker 1: of mourners afterwards and acts like I wasn't part of it.
Speaker 1: Too many people like to mourn you when you did,
Speaker 1: and they don't say anything to you when you're alive.
Speaker 1: So I don't know where it will end. Away won't.
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