Kanye West — Thanksgiving Prayer

[Prayer] Boom boom boom Westside Kanye West, Conway West Side You never noticed that, did you? The, uh Hello my name is Ye And this is my super super super super super long Thanksgiving prayer On this Thanksgiving, I'm so thankful for family My blood family, my fans and our haters We love you too On Thanksgiving on Christmas morning Not the night before or the day, just the morning We're thankful for our current civilization of eight billion people Our ancestors and our children I'm writing this prayer on my way back from taking my mini me to his first football game Saint got to play catch with Tom Brady before the game This is a God's dream My mini me is a mix of two of my favorite things Me and my wife's face All I think about every day is how I get my family back together And how I heal the pain that I've caused I take accountability for my actions New word alert, misactions The one thing that all my successes and failures have in common is me Let's start with A alcohol I would drink to take the stress away and knock the edge off Drinking affected my health and the health of people around me, around me Because I already had a hair-trigger temper and this just heightened it B episodes, I went into a manic episode in 2016 and I was placed under heavy medication since then I went on and off the medication which left me susceptible to other episodes Which my wife and family and fans have had to endure Ego, my ego has a tendency to go past the threshold of being motivating and entertaining to just being overbearing There are ways to show confidence without arrogance Temper, now I know none of y'all would ever picture this but Sometimes I scream, ha And that screaming might have helped me tell off everyone who doubted me in music But that screaming did not help me keep my family together Religion, self-righteous Christian behavior When I got saved, it did not immediately make me a better person It made me a self-righteous Christian 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 just got me some Jesus at the Gucci store with a stimulus check Let's go with politics here 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 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" F is for finances I spent money like crazy I mean, it's the craziest thing I've done And I've done a lot of crazy things As the priest of my home I must watch my own money and secure our finances This is America, so people don't consider stealing to be stealing They just chalk it up to greed, consumerism and capitalism I've let people use me, I've had giant entourages People around me, just to make me feel good about myself I've had to learn that I had to take accountability We always judge and tell other people what they should do But we can only take accountability for ourselves and our children This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for the family that my wife has given me I'm thankful for the life that God has given me And I'm thankful for your time, attention and patience In Jesus name, Amen