so what what have you been doing because the last year for you I know was a challenging year and and you just kind of you disappeared for a little while right yeah so after the well we'll just get right to it so after the Taylor Swift incident we'll call it that at the the VMAs you obviously didn't know that that was going to turn into what it turned into and and then you mos def came to you and said get out of the country is that what happened yeah it's like pretty it's a pretty bugged-out
story I like literally left America I stopped doing music altogether I just took some time I went to Japan just so I can get away from paparazzi all together and then in November I moved to Rome and just like live there and then when I came back to the States I moved to Hawaii and lived there there for like six months and just worked on music again I didn't know that part I knew the other part and and when you so when you went away did you pay attention to the the media storm that was
going on after that and or did you did you just try to like heal in some other way and figure out what you were doing I mean what was good about going away was it was the first time that I got to stop since my mom had passed cuz I never stopped and I never tried to even you know soak in what what all that happened right oh it's it's the first time I I stopped since I actually you know made it since I started and it was time to you know take a break and
just develop more as a person as a creative and focusing more on like my thoughts and my ideas and what I wanted to bring just what I wanted to bring to the world just just for your whole world to completely crash off of a moment of sincerity or alcohol whatever or whatever it is to lose usually the alcohol rules out the sincerity party but but it wasn't was it that you had been drinking is that why you think you I mean there's probably lots of reasons but do you think you just decided I'm just gonna
get up and say something right now and I feel like in some ways that I'm a soldier of culture and I realized that no one wants that to be my job and and and I'll never go on stage again I'll never sit in a award show again but well I feel convicted about things that really meant stuff to culture that constantly get denied for years and years and years and years I'm sorry I will I cannot I cannot lie about it in order to sell records I can that you know I hope you don't mean
that I hope you'll be in an audience again I hope you'll perform at all the shows and you're you're too important and all of it is important in culture you know it's just an entertainment show so don't ever say you're not gonna sit in that audience again we want to see you there we want to see you entertain [Applause]
