Kanye West continued his flurry of tweets on Saturday morning (December 15) and opened up about his mental illness. In the process, he chided pop star Ariana Grande for using his recent rant aimed at Drake for promo for one of her songs.
“All of this foolishness weighed on my mental health,” he wrote. “so @ArianaGrande you know I got love for you but until you’re ready to really make sure everyone’s ok don’t use me or this moment to promote a song.”
Like the rest of Twitter, Grande caught wind of Kanye’s tirade earlier this week and dropped a since-deleted tweet about it, while simultaneously promoting her new song “Imagine” and Miley Cyrus’ “Happy Xmas (War Is Over).”
“guys, i know there are grown men arguing online rn but miley and i dropping our beautiful, new songs tonight,” she wrote. “so if y’all could please jus behave for just like a few hours so the girls can shine that’d be so sick thank u.”
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Kanye did acknowledge Grande likely didn’t intend to throw salt on the wound.
“I know Ariana said this to be cool and didn’t mean no harm,” he tweeted.” but I don’t like even slightest level of slight commentary from someone I know loves and respects me.”
Elsewhere during ‘Ye’s Saturday morning Twitter session, he doubled down on Drake’s perceived disrespect when it comes to the topic of mental illness. He also brought up Drake’s subliminals on Travis Scott’s “Sicko Mode” again and Drizzy’s alleged tweets to Kris Jenner.
“Drake verbally attacked Cudi when he was in the hospital and went at me after TMZ because I decided to release albums in June,” he said. “It snowballed and he refused to meet with me but texted my mother in law and did sneak disses on peoples records that I consider family.”
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Par for the course, Kanye wrapped up this latest Twitter firestorm on a positive note while admitting he’s been off his medication for six months.
“I’m loving the new music I’ve been working on,” he said. “6 months off meds I can feel me again. Remember when dark fantasy came out I used to tweet a storm also. I cannot be on meds and make watch the throne level or dark fantasy level music. I love that we are destigmitizing mental health. Gucciman [Gucci Man] and Quavo have a song Bipolar this is so good for the culture.”
As for Grande, she made it perfectly clear how Kanye’s words have affected her.
“anyway I hate the internet so much,” she wrote on Saturday morning. “sending love. but like bye. last thing. stop weaponizing mental health. everyone.”
