John Legend has said “a lot of people are concerned” about Kanye West and admits he fears the rapper may have changed as he struggled to cope following the death of his mother Donda West in 2007. Here’s what he has to say.
The All of Me singer teamed up with 45-year-old West on tracks for the albums The College Dropout and Get Lifted but admits the pair have lost touch in recent years. Speaking on New York Magazine’s On with Kara Swisher podcast, 43-year-old Legend explained: “I do find him different than he was back then. I didn’t see hints of this kind of harmful behavior back then but, you know, I think life happens to people, and I think the death of his mother probably had something to do with this.”
John Legend Admits That A Lot Of People Are Concerned About Kanye West
He added: “I don’t want to play armchair psychologist, but he’s definitely changed, and a lot of us who have known him over the years are really concerned about it.”
When asked whether he has been in contact with Kanye recently, Legend said they haven’t chatted in some time. “Well, I know people in his life that are, but we have lost touch. We have not been friends for a while now, and so I’m not personally doing anything, but I do know people who are, and a lot of people are concerned about him,” he said.
Meanwhile, Kanye admitted he lost $2 billion in a single day as business partners rushed to dump the rapper in the wake of a series of anti-Semitic outbursts. The music and fashion mogul has seen lucrative commercial tie-ups shelved as companies, including Adidas and Gap, took fright at comments dubbed hate speech by activists. “I lost 2 billion dollars in one day. And I’m still alive. This is love speech,” Kanye, who is also known as Ye, wrote on Instagram in a post that had been liked over a million times.
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