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Ye then makes it personal, saying when “people try to tell me what to do, I feel like they’re touching my brain.” Throughout the video, he rubs his temples, looking at times as if he’s in pain or just plain exhausted (Kanye says he’s been struggling with sleep deprivation during the video.)

“These people, black people, people on social media, people trying to control us. ... They’re trying to control our mind,” Kanye says. “They’re trying to control my mind.”

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Kanye, who has drawn a lot of criticism on social media following his recent, bizarre trip to the White House (quite a few of it from peers like T.I. and Diddy), meandered throughout the rant, taking a page out of Donald Trump’s playbook and bragging about his high IQ (“straight up Sigmund Freud, Tesla vibes”), comparing needing to have “control over his mind” to women wanting control over their bodies and urging viewers to say and do what they feel (unless, apparently, it’s to voice disagreement with him. Then, it’s mind control).

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He also dispensed mantras and affirmations, repeating phrases and self-praise.

“Social media told you that nobody likes me, but everybody loves me,” Kanye said, later adding, “I am the best living recording artist.”

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Towards the end of the video, Kanye then focuses on another aspect of control—creative and financial control—that he’s had trouble achieving: not owning the publishing rights to his music. It’s a valid gripe—though it gets lost in the narcissistic, self-congratulatory sauce that now defines Kanye.

Kanye claimed that despite having the money to buy his publishing rights (he quotes $8 million), he’s been denied the ability to own his music.

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“I don’t need to say the S-word,” Kanye said, referring to the word “slave.” “I’m not Prince, I don’t need to write it on my face.”

It’s fair to be concerned about Kanye’s health. It’s also fair to be done with him, to chalk his latest outburst to a long, though increasingly erratic, history of Kanye being a jerk who manages to squander whatever public good will comes his way. What seems clear after watching this video, though, is that whatever’s in Kanye’s future, it will get worse before it gets better.