Kanye West discusses porn addiction, banned 'Jesus Is King' team from premarital sex
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Kanye West opened up about his porn addiction and why he banned his "Jesus Is King" crew from engaging in premarital sex.
“Playboy was my gateway into full-blown pornography addiction. My dad had a Playboy left out at age 5, and it’s affected almost every choice I made for the rest of my life,” West told Zane Lowe on Apple Music’s Beats 1 on Thursday. “From age 5, to now having to kick the habit. And it just presents itself in the open, like it’s OK. And I stand up and say, you know, it’s not OK.”
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{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}West also explained how his infamous 2009 MTV Video Music Awards incident with Taylor Swift was influenced by his addiction.
“That Playboy that I found when I was 5 years old was written all over the moment that I was at the MTV Awards with the Timberlands, the Balmain jeans -- before people were rocking Balmain jeans and the Hennessy bottle,” West said in reference to the incident.
“My mom had passed a year before, and I had said, ‘Some people drown themselves in drugs. And I drown myself in my addiction.’ Sex. That’s what fed the ego, too. Money, clothes, cars, accolades, social media, paparazzi photos, going to Paris fashion week, all of that.”
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West, who is set to release the gospel-rap album “Jesus Is King” on Friday, spoke about the power of God and how religion helped him overcome addiction.
“With God, I’ve been able to beat things that had a full control of me,” he said.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Upon freeing himself from addiction, West asked “Jesus Is King” collaborators for a big favor. “There’s times where I was asking people to not have premarital sex while they were working on the album,” West told Lowe.
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“Jesus Is King” was set to be released on Friday after several previous delays. However, West tweeted Thursday night that several mixes must be finalized before the album finally drops.
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