Okay at first I thought everyone calling Kanye crazy was a little weird -- he's just a rapper who's not super educated and is trying to sound smart when he talks to our also not-so-smart President Donald Trump and he just really cares about Chicago and the inner-city and "his people" and he's blinded by MAGA and doesn't realize he's talking to the wrong guy about his concerns ...

But now I'm starting to wonder if Kanye West isn't heading south a little bit. No, not just south like to Africa -- Uganda, to be specific -- but like mentally. He took to Twitter's Periscope yesterday from his luxury rental in the central African nation where he brought alone wife Kim Kardashian to work on finishing his new album. So in this ten-minute long video -- people call it a "rant," I think that's akin to calling left-wing protesters an "angry mob" -- Kanye talks about "mind control" and how Twitter removing some of his posts is like The Man trying to control your thoughts.

Ye says he talked to Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey about removing "likes" from Tweets; he said, "When people try to influence you on social media and try to tell you what to do. Or when you post something positive on Instagram and it gets taken down because it's not part of a bigger agenda, that's like mind control. That's the echo chamber. That's trying to control you based on trying to incentivize you based on you getting enough likes and that's the poison that's happening with social media." He went on to tell viewers he has a 133 IQ, which he claims is "Mensa-level." He says when people try to tell him what to do, it's like people trying to "control his brain" and compares it to a woman having control over her own body, if someone tries to physically touch her, she decides what's allowed and what's not. He says: "We got people holding other people down; they want you all to be like mind control ... like Ayn Rand mind control."

He goes on to complain about Sony not selling back to him the rights to his music for $8 or 9 million. He said, "I got the money. I’m not gonna say the S word. I’m not Prince; I don’t need to write it on my face."

Some more gems ...
    "I will positive energy into the universe -- We will say what we feel, not what we're programmed to think. We will say what we feel; we will do what we feel. We will do what we feel. We will do what we feel. We will say what we feel. We will say. I did that as a mantra."

    "You all already saw [social media] is a lie. Social media told you Hillary's going to win and she didn't win. Social media told you that people didn't like me, but everybody loves me. Everybody loves Ye."

    "Un-program your minds, open up your heart, let the spirit guide you, let you conscious be free. We free; we free, bro." "The music is the best on the planet; I am the best living recording artist -- we, rather -- the spirit of Fela [Kuti], the spirit of [Bob] Marley, the spirit of [Tu]Pac [Shakur] flows through me."

    "We work from our heart and our spirit, we're not corny." "I got rid of my laptop. I have references there that I love, but I don't need those references -- the spirit will give me new references."

    "If I let human beings tell me what to do, then I can't be a vessel to you."

Dude is distraught. He and Bieber should get together for some therapy. Perhaps Kanye's bipolar and perhaps he's medicated (he is) ... but his doctors could probably do a better job of getting him evened out. Poor Kim's got a piece of work on her hands.