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Kanye West has posted a special video message to fans titled “Thanksgiving Prayer 🕊.” The five-minute video features Ye speaking about his family life, his marriage to Kim Kardashian West, his public relationship with Christianity, his mental health, being on medication, the period of time where he was supporting Trump and wearing a MAGA hat, his presidential run, financial mistakes he’s made, and more.
“This Thanksgiving, I’m thankful for the family that my wife has given me, I’m thankful for the life God has given .me, and I’m thankful for your time, attention, and patience,” Ye said. “In Jesus’ name, amen”
Ye attended the Los Angeles Mission’s Thanksgiving event yesterday, where he spoke about his marriage to Kim Kardashian West, People reports. “I’ve made mistakes,” he said. “I’ve publicly done things that were not acceptable as a husband, but right now today, for whatever reason—I didn’t know I was going to be in front of this mic—but I’m here to change the narrative.”
In the “Thanksgiving Prayer” video, Ye expanded on his feelings about his family and Kardashian. “All I think about every day is how I get my family back together and how I heal the pain that I’ve caused,” he said. “I take accountability for my actions.” He also noted that Kardashian was not a fan of his MAGA hat era and opened up about how his presidential run impacted their marriage.
“Good lord, my wife did not like me wearing the red hat. Being a good wife, she just wanted to protect me and our family. I made me and our family a target by not aligning with Hollywood’s political stance and that was hard for our marriage. Then I ran for president without proper preparation and no allies on either side. I embarrassed my wife in the way that I presented information about our family during the one and—thank God—only press conference. All my dad had to say afterwards was, ‘Write your speech next time, son.’”
Kardashian West filed for divorce from Ye in February of this year. During Ye’s live Donda listening events prior to the album’s release, Kardashian West appeared and even showed up in a wedding dress at Chicago’s Soldier Field. She has recently made headlines for her apparent relationship with Pete Davidson.
His “Thanksgiving Prayer” video also included a section about his public relationship with Christianity, which became most evident with his album Jesus Is King, Biblical operas, and Sunday Service sessions. “When I got saved it did not immediately make me a better person. It made me a self-righteous Christian.” He continued:
“Mix that with being rich, famous, and very very very very very very attractive, and you got a molotov cocktail ready to be thrown through the window of anyone who ever disagreed with me. I was arrogant with my Jesus, like I had just got me some Jesus at the Gucci store with a stimulus check.”
After multiple delays, Donda finally arrived in late August. It subsequently debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200, marking the biggest week for any album released in 2021. He and Drake recently appeared to end their feud and are set to appear together at a Los Angeles event on December 9. Netflix recently teased a multi-part documentary on Kanye West’s life titled Jeen-Yuhs that has reportedly been in the making for 21 years. It’s slated for release in 2022.