Kanye West shares clips of trip to Africa including nine-minute speech on mind control

Kanye West's forthcoming Yandhi album was pushed back to next month after he revealed earlier this month that he would be travelling to Africa to finish the record.

Over the weekend the Chicago rapper made his return to social media after deactivating his accounts last week, and has shared a number of video clips from his trip to Uganda, including performances and a nine-minute monologue, transcribed by Stereogum, on mind control.

He opened his lengthy speech with, "I just want to talk about mind control, you know, when people try to influence you through social media and try to tell you what to do, or if you post something that’s like positive on Instagram it gets taken down if it’s not a part of a bigger agenda. That’s like mind control. That’s the echo chamber. That’s trying to control you based off of incentivizing you and based off of you getting enough likes. That’s the poison that’s happening with social media."

The rapper then decided to bring his newly received IQ score into the mix, stating, "they were Mensa level. 133, 98th percentile, like straight up Sigmund Freud Tesla vibes." He added that people telling him what to do makes him "feel like they’re touching my brain."

In the nine-minute clip Kanye West also reveals he's been refused the ability to buy the rights to his publishing deal with Sony/ATV, stating "I’m really doing this because I went to go buy my publishing from Sony/ATV, and they said it’s eight million, nine million dollars. And when I went to buy it, they told me no, I couldn’t buy my publishing. They told me I had the money to buy my publishing, and they told me I couldn’t buy my publishing. It’s like the control. I can’t say what I want to say on SNL. I can’t say what I want to say … let me change that."

If that wasn't enough the rapper went on to place his success on a pedestal, "I’m in Africa recording. We just took them to the future with the dome. The music is the best on the planet. I am the best living recording artist. We, rather, because the spirits flow through me. The spirit of Fela, the spirit of Marley, the spirit of Pac flows through me. We know who the best. We know."

Mind control https://t.co/YDYXQ45bDL

— ye (@kanyewest) October 13, 2018

Kanye West also shared some clips of him working on his new album, including an 11-minute recording of him performing and showing the world the 'dome studios' he's working from.

Spaceship calling earth| 3 Domes Uganda https://t.co/8rlv7aTSav

— ye (@kanyewest) October 14, 2018