Kanye West assured Twitter users Wednesday, April 25 that he is no longer in the sunken place, but fans and celebs alike aren’t buying it.
After going on a Twitter spree saying that he is all about love and has no political affiliations, he said, “I’m all the way out the sunken place. And I’m not scared anymore. I’m not scared of the media. I’m not scared of the past and I’m optimistic about the future. This tweet is in love, not fear.”
And also I'm all the way out the sunken place. And I'm not scared anymore. I'm not scared of the media. I'm not scared of the past and I'm optimistic about the future. This tweet is in love not fear.
— ye (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018
However, some of the rapper’s other tweets — including those about his support for Trump and Black Lives Matter critic Candace Owens — do little to prove that West’s mind hasn’t been taken over by a white mind, as the film “Get Out” explained of the sunken place.
Obama was in office for eight years and nothing in Chicago changed.
— ye (@kanyewest) April 25, 2018
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/989232654707912704
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/989228791976284160
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/989222392630202368
I love the way Candace Owens thinks
— ye (@kanyewest) April 21, 2018
in life, we are all trained actors. When we're born we're ourselves and then one of the first things we're thought is how to act. If you see a kid screaming at a restaurant because he feels something and can't express himself in a conventional manner
— ye (@kanyewest) April 18, 2018
In response, fans and celebrities have tweeted their two cents on the matter.
“Kanye actually admitted to being in the sunken place. Lol Kanye is not okay,” someone tweeted. “Y’all need to stop praising the stuff he does and says. He hasn’t been himself for a very long time. Let’s stop trying to pass off everything he does as genius.”
— 🍾 (@Zig2115) April 25, 2018
— Jay Zim (@jay_zimmer) April 25, 2018
Black Twitter yelling at Kanye West in the sunken place like pic.twitter.com/l9wq9bkNx5
— Wkly 90DayFiance Review🎙 (@TripleTeaaa) April 25, 2018
“I think you may still be in the sunken place, Kanye!” blogger Perez Hilton tweeted.
So, they’re streaming music in The Sunken Place?? That’s got Be where the audience @kanyewest is courting is gonna buy that new release!#shallwesavehim#hedon’twannabesaved
— Samuel L. Jackson (@SamuelLJackson) April 26, 2018
Advice to @kanyewest if you’re gonna be On SocMed follow more than one person and at least read into their everyday lives even if you ain’t gonna be on a bus again
— Chuck D (@MrChuckD) April 26, 2018
*Gets inspired
*Starts writing ‘Get Out 2’ https://t.co/zqOW6Xxx9v— Jordan Peele (@JordanPeele) April 25, 2018
Chance the Rapper tweeted a kind of defense of Ye saying the fellow Chicago native hasn’t changed, adding in a separate post, “Black people don’t have to be Democrats.”
Talked to him two days ago. He’s in a great space and not affected by folk tryna question his mental or physical health. Same Ye from the Vmas, same Ye from the telethon. https://t.co/2zY3KpllV2
— Chance The Rapper (@chancetherapper) April 25, 2018
“Kanye is in the sunken place,” tweeted “The View” co-host Sunny Hostin.
Former West collaborator, John Legend seemed to post an indirect response to Ye, writing, “I imagine there’s some comfort in imagining a future without racism and projecting that onto the present. Thinking if we just deny the truth, it doesn’t exist. If history is erased, we don’t have to deal with its consequences. However…Far too many people don’t have the luxury of closing their eyes and ears. They feel it in their lives and can’t act like what they see and know doesn’t exist.”
“Far too many people don’t have the luxury of closing their eyes and ears. They feel it in their lives and can’t act like what they see and know doesn’t exist,” he added.
They see the statistics about black applications for real estate or loans or employment being turned away because their name was Jamal and not James
— John Legend (@johnlegend) April 25, 2018
The defining trait of Trump's campaign and political profile was his embrace of white supremacy. He made it clear every time he spoke. Some serious cognitive dissonance to ignore that for the other x% you might find appealing. I guess I agree with >1% of anyone's thoughts though
— John Legend (@johnlegend) April 25, 2018
I love that great, brilliant artists have the power to imagine a better future. But artists can’t be blind to the truth.
— John Legend (@johnlegend) April 25, 2018
