Professor Jeffrey McCune, who teaches a course on rapper Kanye West at Washington University in St. Louis, will be using his third and final lecture on the controversial rapper to study West’s 2016 breakdown and hospitalization, as well as the response that followed.
In a class titled Name One Genius That Ain’t Crazy: Kanye West and the Politics of Self-Diagnosis, Professor McCune has said he will use Kanye as a case study on how society at large perceives mental illness. Hypebeast reports McCune as saying “ultimately what I’m getting at in this lecture is not just about Kanye, it’s also about the larger notion of crazy and how we utilize it.”
“I want to give people permission to be enraged,” he continues. “Give people permission to be upset, to be angry, to be frustrated. Give people permission to have moments where they break. Give people permission to have moments where they experience depression. I want to give them permission to have those moments without being characterized as being some type of deviant figure in the community.”
McCune further expressed his belief that incidents such as Kanye’s meltdown on stage in Sacramento should be “addressed with love, care, and generosity.”
Kanye’s collaborators have also discussed Yeezy’s mental health openly in the past. Rhymefest, who worked on songs like “Jesus Walks,” walked away from West in early 2016 saying that “his mind and spirit isn’t right” and “my brother needs help, in the form of counseling Spiritual & mental. He should step away from the public & yes-men & heal.”
The free lecture will be held on Wednesday, April 12 at 6 p.m. in the Emerson Auditorium at Washington University in St. Louis and is open to the public.
Who the fuck would pay for this. Like there isn’t a better patient to learn about than this guys speculation on what happened to him. Morons
We don’t even know what he even has :bi-polar ,schizophrenia,depression?
Its the equivalent of a clickbait web article,in a college course.
Pretty sure that’s exactly the point. Mental illness exists in a cloud of misinformation and speculation, not to mention silence. We struggle to define it, understand it, and we avoid talking about it. The professor is trying to bring it out in the open using a public figure the students have all observed and can relate to. You can just stay ignorant though if you want
He had psychotic episode (psychosis)
He needs to add in that lecture Kanye not handling the death of his mom very well also Kanye chasing possessed evil cursed Kardashian pussy then the mental illness.
they’ll teach any ol bullshit to dumbasses with money won’t they
To me tho, I think he sufferin from the emotional anxiety of being Kim’s husband or (the Kardashian curse).Am thinking he thinks Kim’s too good for him and he finna lose her.No one gets a good package like Kim and looses his mind.Trust me.
donald trump would be the perfect candidate!
Kanye only mental illness is his unnerving desire to be accepted by white people and their institutions (fashion, Grammies, kardashians, etc.) and his subsequent meltdowns after their rejections
Poor blind sheeps . .
THIS IS WHY THE EDUCATIONAL SYSTEM OF AMERICA IS SHIT!!!!
K through 12 is shit. College just depends on where you go and who’s the professor.
I live in St.Louis and I can confirm that St.louis is a shit-hole.
Kanye has officially become a walking punch line. Such a shame. What ever happened to the 2005-2006 Kanye?
Aren’t both those topics the same thing ?