“It’s just like, you can actually, physically do something yourself more than just praying,” he added.
“We are so in this mentality that’s all that needs to happen, but we ain’t praying our way out of prison. We ain’t praying our way out of the abortion clinics,” Ye continued. “We ain’t praying our way to get our land back that was always ours after gentrification after Harlem, Renaissance, and Black Wall Street was burned to the ground, them prayers ain’t working.”
“We have to apply actual, physical building partnerships, and it don’t start unless we can really be real with each other,” Ye said.
The controversial rapper has encountered many threats as a result of his antisemitic comments. He told Big Boy, “You know how many threats we’ve been dealt with, and I didn’t pray my way through them threats. I had to get up and do it myself.” Ye emphasized, “I had so much to do, I [didn’t have] time to pray.”
“That’s where my issue is, and look where I’m at today,” Ye added. “Show up. I understand that’s controversial, but I dropped the ‘con.’”
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Ye went on to describe how people lean on a lot of “delusional concepts” like “when you go into the whole Jesus, devout Paul-level, fell off a donkey level religious” life. “You got to say what you feel,” he said.
“You have thoughts in your mind, and you’re hiding them from yourself, and then you sitting there and the whole choir is f***king and stealing from me and from the church,” Ye said. “You can only see what’s immediately in front of you.”
While Ye was discussing the controlling mentality he believes industry record executives have, he said he’s “surprised” he’s still alive. Alluding to someone in the industry wanting to kill him, Big Boy asked Ye, “How did you not so-called disappear?”
Following a long, drawn-out pause, Ye answered, “Because I’m god. And anyone that disagrees I’m the god of me and you can’t tell me who I am. I could tell you all, but it’s you all job to listen.”
“I’m the god of me,” Ye repeated. “I don’t know if I’m in heaven or not—I got a number one [album]. For all you know, I might be in like a fourth dimension version of the lifestyle.”
