Joe Rogan hits back at people who call Kanye West \u201ccrazy\u201d YouTube: Joe RoganFollowing his highly anticipated interview with Kanye West last month on his self-titled podcast, Joe Rogan sat down with comedian Tom Green to discuss the implications of calling Kanye West \u201ccrazy.\u201d Addressing the controversial comments West made in the past, Rogan said to Green that there is \u201cgreat value in the way [Kanye] thinks.\u201d With his own interview with Kanye lasting over three hours, Rogan argued that a shorter interview would risk taking West out of context and lead to scrutiny, implying that some of his controversies in the past were a result in people capturing \u201csoundbites \u201d of West that lead to people \u201cmissing who he really is.\u201d Criticizing people who claimed that West needed mental health treatment, Rogan continued: \u201cWhen people try to medicate him, I think: if you have a choice between medicated, overweight Kanye who doesn\u2019t get anything done and manic crazy Kanye who says wild sh*t, you want manic crazy Kanye, because manic crazy Kanye is the one who makes amazing music.\u201d \u201cWhen you call it mental illness, that\u2019s the problem,\u201d Rogan continues. \u201cYou think: \u201cIf you call it mental illness then you\u2019ve got to give it medicine!\u201d Do you really? Because that \u2018mental illness\u2019 is making some pretty amazing sh*t.\u201d \u201cWhatever you call his \u201cillness\u2019 is just a particular style of thinking he has,\u201d Rogan claimed. \u201cIt\u2019s non-linear, wild, but also very focussed.\u201d With Rogan vehemently defending West, some called him out for making less-than-complimentary comments in the past. In a YouTube comment that got over 2.7k likes, one user said: \u201cJoe really out here pretending like he didn\u2019t call Kanye crazy.\u201d Similarly, in another YouTube comment that got 1.5k likes, a user said: \u201cWasn\u2019t Joe one of those people who called Kanye crazy?\u201d This isn\u2019t the first time Rogan has been called out for his changing opinion on West. Earlier in November, fans accused Rogan of being \u201ctwo-faced\u201d after YouTuber Crying Shark compiled a video of old clips from Rogan\u2019s own podcast to demonstrate his contrasting comments about West in the past. Why do people call Kanye West \u201ccrazy\u201d? Kanye West \u2013 who since 2018 has preferred to go by \u201cYe\u201d \u2013 has been under a lot of scrutiny this year after running a bizarre campaign for President during the 2020 elections. Among other things, he told Rogan in his podcast that he wanted to be \u201cleader of the free world\u201d and also discussed how he \u201calmost aborted\u201d his first child North West in a South Carolina rally in mid-July this year. Following this rally, he posted a series of Tweets accusing wife Kim Kardashian-West and mother-in-law Kris Jenner of trying to \u201clock [him] up\u201d, likening his situation to 2017 horror film Get Out. As he remained in his secluded ranch in Wyoming, Kardashian-West reminded fans of Kanye\u2019s bipolar disorder diagnosis. Implying that he was going through a manic episode, she urged fans and the media to be \u201ccompassionate and understanding.\u201d While Kardashian-West and Kanye seem to have gotten their marriage back on track as of late, West has amassed further criticism after gifting wife Kim with a hologram of deceased father Robert Kardashian for her birthday. The spoken hologram, which West wrote the script for, told Kardashian-West that her husband was a \u201cgenius\u201d, which in turn reignited debate about Kanye West\u2019s mental state.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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