"I had to fight for every day of my life when the whole world turned against me for saying out loud what everyone else felt."
Kanye West wants to have the last word.
Months after his controversial "Famous" lyrics regarding Taylor Swift released, Yeezus took a moment while performing the track for the first time ever at the Paradise International Music Festival in Manila over the weekend to speak on the matter.
"That night when I went onstage was the beginning of the end of my life," he said referring to the the time he interrupted Taylor at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards. "You know what night I’m talking about. When I just said what everybody else was thinking."
He also explained that he fought for "Famous" as the first single off The Life of Pablo.
"I had to fight for every day of my life when the whole world turned against me for saying out loud what everyone else felt," he said. But that's the job of an artist, of a true artist, not to be controlled by financiers, not to be controlled by perception but only to be controlled by their truth. What you see, what you feel and say what you fucking feel."
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