{"id":126688,"date":"2025-11-07T11:03:09","date_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/126688\/"},"modified":"2025-11-07T11:03:09","modified_gmt":"2025-11-07T11:03:09","slug":"yung-lean-reveals-why-he-had-to-cut-ties-with-kanye-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/126688\/","title":{"rendered":"Yung Lean Reveals Why He Had To Cut Ties With Kanye West"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\u201cKanye is mentally ill,\u201d he explained. \u201cI\u2019ve been there and I feel for him, and I think all this stuff that he says about Jewish people\u2014my grandfather was Jewish\u2026 I don\u2019t know, I can\u2019t defend him, but it\u2019s a mentally ill person who still did \u2018Flashing Lights.\u2019 [\u2026 ] I haven\u2019t seen him for a long time now, because it\u2019s too much, I can\u2019t really be around it.\u201d<\/a><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was alone with him like three years ago and we just had dinner, it was lovely,\u201d he continued. \u201cIt was fun. It was like two kids sharing ideas, and he has a big heart, and you can tell that it\u2019s all good. But then, the next time I saw him, I could feel that the vibe had gone darker, and then the tweets started coming. It was too much.”<\/p>\n

Yung Lean & Kanye West<\/p>\n

Yung Lean went on to clarify that his decision to distance himself from Ye stemmed from a need to protect his mental health, not his public image.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean, the public sh*t, I don\u2019t really care too much about, but I just felt like, \u2018Oh, I\u2019m being dragged into something that I\u2019ve been dragged into myself,\u2019\u201d he said. \u201cAnd the best thing I could do is not, you know, make a song with this man. It\u2019s more like, \u2018I\u2019ve been manic, too, I\u2019ve been psychotic. Lithium works, this works.\u2019 But he\u2019s not going to listen<\/a> to anyone. And that\u2019s his thing.\u201d<\/p>\n

Yung Lean later emphasized the fact that people can still be creative while treating their mental health issues with medication. \u201cI\u2019m not saying I have it figured out, but right now I feel very close,” he added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\u201cKanye is mentally ill,\u201d he explained. \u201cI\u2019ve been there and I feel for him, and I think all…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":126689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[93,504,61,60,26614,278,43,74598],"class_list":["post-126688","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-hip-hop-news","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-kanye-west","tag-music","tag-news","tag-yung-lean"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126688","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=126688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/126689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}