Yung Lean Reveals Why He Had To Cut Ties With Kanye West

“Kanye is mentally unwell,” he defined. “I’ve been there and I really feel for him, and I feel all these things that he says about Jewish folks—my grandfather was Jewish… I don’t know, I can’t defend him, but it surely’s a mentally unwell one that nonetheless did ‘Flashing Lights.’ [… ] I haven’t seen him for a very long time now, as a result of it’s an excessive amount of, I can’t actually be round it.”

“Once I was alone with him like three years in the past and we simply had dinner, it was pretty,” he continued. “It was enjoyable. It was like two youngsters sharing concepts, and he has an enormous coronary heart, and you may inform that it’s all good. However then, the following time I noticed him, I might really feel that the vibe had gone darker, after which the tweets began coming. It was an excessive amount of.”

Yung Lean went on to make clear that his determination to distance himself from Ye stemmed from a necessity to guard his psychological well being, not his public picture.

“I imply, the general public sh*t, I don’t actually care an excessive amount of about, however I simply felt like, ‘Oh, I’m being dragged into one thing that I’ve been dragged into myself,’” he stated. “And one of the best factor I might do just isn’t, you already know, make a tune with this man. It’s extra like, ‘I’ve been manic, too, I’ve been psychotic. Lithium works, this works.’ However he’s not going to pay attention to anybody. And that’s his factor.”

Yung Lean later emphasised the truth that folks can nonetheless be inventive whereas treating their psychological well being points with treatment. “I’m not saying I’ve it found out, however proper now I really feel very shut,” he added.