Posted on Wed May 2nd, 2018 11:37am PDT By
X17 Staff
This is shocking.
Kanye admitted on TMZ Live that he got addicted to powerful painkillers after he secretly underwent a liposuction procedure, and that ultimately contributed to his 2016 mental breakdown.
"I was drugged the f**k out, bro! I was on opioids... I was addicted to opioids. I had plastic surgery because I was trying to look good for y'all. I got liposuction because I didn't want y'all to call me fat just like y'all did to Rob at the wedding and made him fly home before me and Kim got married. I didn't want y'all to call me fat so I got liposuction and they gave me opioids," he confessed.
When the Louis Vuitton Don tried to get off the pills when his dealer told him they "kill genius," he landed in the hospital and was eventually prescribed even more medication!
"I went for taking two pills to taking seven. The reason I dropped those tweets and everything, cause I was drugged the f*** out bro. Y'all have me scared, of myself, my vision so I took some pills so I wouldn't go to hospital and prove everyone right. We are drugged out. We are following other people's opinion. We are controlled by the media. And today it all changes," he added.
What is it about being one of the Kardashian men that turns them all into drug addicts?!
Posted on Wed May 2nd, 2018 11:15am PDT By
X17 Staff
Sorry not sorry!
Miley Cyrus made an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live! last night, and confessed that she wishes she had never apologized for that infamous nude Vanity Fair photoshoot in 2008, which she posed for when she was still underage.
"It was ten years ago and I think a lot of things have changed, and the conversation has changed. Sure some people thought I did something in their eyes, but I think it was really wrong to put this on top of someone, that this is my shame and that I should be ashamed of myself. That's not a nice thing to tell someone that they should be ashamed of themselves," she explained.
"I'm sure I did [apologize] but I'm sure someone told me to. You know what? That's why I don't do what people tell me anymore, because that idea sucked. I think at that time I just wanted it to go away, and I was trying to balance and understand what being a role model is. And to me being a role model has been my free-spiritness and my unapologetic attitude for decisions I feel comfortable with," she continued.
"When this photo was taken, my little sister was on-set and she was sitting with Annie Lebowitz taking photos too, and there wasn't anything sexualized about this on-set. It was everyone else's poisonous thoughts and minds that ended up turning this into something it wasn't meant to be. I shouldn't be ashamed, they should be," she concluded.
Posted on Wed May 2nd, 2018 9:39am PDT By
X17 Staff
She's getting so big!
Kylie Jenner shared this adorable pic of daughter Stormi to mark her three month birthday on Instagram, and the little one is already living the high life on vacation in Turks & Caicos with her parents. The little family is in the tropical locale to celebrate Travis Scott's birthday, and her beauty mogul mama has been posting up a storm - pun intended!
The LipKit queen recently opened up about how the couple chose the baby girl's unique moniker during an interview with sister Kim for ES mag.
"I really don’t know how we thought of Storm. Her dad [Travis Scott] insisted it was him, but I feel like it was me. And that kind of just stuck with us. And then I didn’t really like just Storm — I didn’t feel like that was her name. So then it became Stormi. And it just stuck. I feel like there were a lot of other names that I might have even liked better, to be honest, but I feel like Stormi picked her own name, like it was just her name," she explained.
The 20-year-old has been enjoying every moment of motherhood, even though she admitted to suffering from a bit of postpartum low moods.
"I feel like it’s just been so amazing, and so much fun. I’m learning so much more about myself and life, and it’s been such a great experience. Of course, there’s hard times and stuff … even in the beginning, just not sleeping, the nights, like, baby blues … and all the ups and downs," she gushed.
Posted on Wed May 2nd, 2018 8:10am PDT By
X17 Staff
What was he thinking?!
Kanye West went on TMZ Live yesterday and created total chaos when he made the bold declaration that 400 years of slavery for the black people was a "choice," and now people are up in arms about his comments and lashing out on social media.
"I am in hip-hop, but I’m not just in hip-hop. I’m a black person in the black community, but I’m not just that. I feel like one thing is that people try to minimize me to artist, hip-hop, black community. I’m always going to represent that, but I also represent the world. You hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years? That sounds like a choice,†'Ye told the stunned newsroom.
"Like, that was there for 400 years and it’s all of y’all? It’s like, we’re mentally in prison. I like the word ‘prison’ because slavery is too direct to the idea of blacks. Like Holocaust is Jews, slavery is blacks. So prison is something that unites us as one race, whites and blacks being one race. The human race," he added.
Then he turned it into a conversation with the employees, asking if they thought he was "being free and thinking free." That's when he got an unexpected response from an outraged black staffer that took extreme offense to his bold statement.
"I actually don’t feel think you’re thinking anything. I think what you’re doing right now is actually the absence of thought. The reason that I feel that is because Kanye, you’re entitled to you’re opinion. You’re entitled to believe whatever you want, but there is fact and real world real life consequence behind everything that you just said,†Van Lathan said.
"While you are making music and being an artist and living the life that you earned by being a genius, the rest of us in society have to deal with these threats to our lives. We have to deal with the marginalization that’s come from the 400 years of slavery that you said for our people, was a choice. Frankly, I’m disappointed, I’m appalled and brother, I’m unbelievably hurt by the fact that you have morphed into something, to me, that’s not real," he added.
After Yeezus left the office and checked the feedback on Twitter, he decided to try and clarify his point, but it didn't do any good.
"To make myself clear. Of course I know that slaves did not get shackled and put on a boat by free will. My point is for us to have stayed in that position even though the numbers were on our side means that we were mentally enslaved," he tweeted.
"They cut out our tongues so we couldn’t communicate to each other. I will not allow my tongue to be cut. Kanye vs the media is modern day Willie Linch theory … They hung the most powerful in order to force fear into the others," he added.
After this, we don't think it will be too much longer before the Kardashian clan throws him in the mental hospital!
Posted on Tue May 1st, 2018 1:28pm PDT By
X17 Staff
We're getting the low down straight from 'Ye!
Kanye West recently sat down with Charlamagne the God for a wide ranging interview that touched on his mental breakdown and subsequent hospitalization, as well as his feud with Taylor Swift and much more.
"I think I’m in a stronger place than I ever was [now] after the breakdown, or as I like to say, the breakthrough," he explained.
So what caused it in the first place?
"Fear, stress, control… being controlled, manipulation, like being a pawn in the chess piece of life. Stressing things that create, like, validation that I didn’t need to worry about as much," he admitted.
The rapper says it was also exacerbated by his album Life of Pablo not getting its deserved airtime on the radio due to his feud with T-Swizz. "Ever since the Taylor Swift moment, it had never been the same… the connection with radio,†he lamented.
As for people that are calling him crazy, well... he doesn't take that as an insult!
"I don’t want to say crazy because I want to change the stigma of crazy. I want to change the stigma of mental health period. I am going to take the stigma off the word crazy. People will take something enlightened and put it in a different context and then call it crazy to try and diminish the impact and value of what I am actually saying," he confessed.
The Louis Vuitton Don also expanded on his beef with Barack Obama, and seemed genuinely hurt by the former POTUS' disses of him.
"You know, he never called me to apologize. The same person that sat down with me and my mom, I think should’ve communicated to me directly and been like, ‘Yo, Ye, you, you know what it is. I’m in the room and it was just a joke.’ I just think that we were in a period where he had so much stuff to deal with, he couldn’t deal with a wild card like me. I think that’s too unpredictable. Someone that wasn’t being controlled by strategy and thoughts, but someone who’s acting on feelings," he revealed.
"I’m your favorite artist. You play “Touch the Sky†at your inauguration, and now, all a sudden, Kendrick and JAY and all the people you invite to the White House, like, now these your favorite rappers. I ain’t got no problem with these rappers, but you know I’m your favorite but I’m not safe. But that’s why you love me! So just tell me you love me. And tell the world you love me! Don’t tell the world I’m a jackass. I’m fightin’ hard enough. Something about me going on stage was similar to what you was doing. ’Cause I’m fighting to break the simulation, break the setup. That didn’t make no sense," he added.
What about Jay Z's claims that he gave Yeezus $20 million?
"That concept that you gave me, that he gave me the money, that’s what frustrated me because, actually, the money was, he got from Live Nation. He, Roc Nation was managing me at the time. That’s something normal that someone gives someone a touring deal. It was a touring deal! But the fact that it was worded that it came from him, I’m a very loyal, emotional, like, artist person. You know, that made me feel like I owed more than just the money itself, the fact that it came from him. You know, it just put me under a bit more of a kind of controlled situation. It’s like—and I don’t—I’m only acting out of love. I don’t need to be controlled. I just need to be inspired and informed. And I can be the best Ye in that way," he said.
The whole interview is over two hours, but if you've got some time, you've gotta watch it in its entirety!
Kylie Jenner must have been feeling the love for her baby daddy Travis Scott, because she just posted this adorable pic of them embracing on the beach in Turks and Caicos, where they are staying on his extended birthday celebration.
Their relationship has only gotten stronger since welcoming daughter Stormi in early February, and unlike Khloe's boyfriend Tristan Thompson, the rapper has embraced his new role as a father and dedicated himself to his new little family.
"Kylie and Travis are doing well. They are a great family. Kylie is very in love with Travis. He is an amazing dad and loves spending time with their daughter. He has very much stepped up," a source dished to People.
"He hasn’t been working much and is instead focused on spending time with Kylie and Stormi. Kylie’s family is very happy with him. He is young, but acts much more mature. After all the Tristan drama, they are especially happy that they don’t have [similar problems] about Kylie. She loves being a mom and she is very happy with Travis," the source added.
Posted on Tue May 1st, 2018 11:55am PDT By
X17 Staff
It's real, guys!
Controversial YouTube star Jake Paul and new girlfriend Erika Costell held hands as they arrived at LAX to catch a flight out of town, and we've gotta say it's pretty weird to see the outlandish Internet personality being so normal.
During the Miami Heat v Philadelphia 76ers basketball game earlier this week, the 21-year-old troublemaker asked the brunette beauty to make their relationship official, and made a whole video about it!
"I like her, she likes me…she’s just like a homie. She makes me laugh and I can be myself around her. She’s really attractive too," he said in a recent interview. This comes after their fake "marriage" last year.
Posted on Tue May 1st, 2018 9:55am PDT By
X17 Staff
This is so sad.
World famous DJ Avicii committed suicide on April 20 by cutting himself with a broken wine bottle, TMZ reports.
Sources differ on their exact accounts of what happened. Some say he sliced his wrists with the shards of glass and bled out, while another says he inflicted the wounds on his neck.
The hit maker had battled anxiety and alcohol problems for years before his death, and his family alluded to his struggles in a statement they release shortly after his passing.
"Our beloved Tim was a seeker, a fragile artistic soul searching for answers to existential questions. An over-achieving perfectionist who travelled and worked hard at a pace that led to extreme stress. When he stopped touring, he wanted to find a balance in life to be happy and be able to do what he loved most – music. He really struggled with thoughts about Meaning, Life, Happiness," they wrote.
"He could not go on any longer. He wanted to find peace. Tim was not made for the business machine he found himself in; he was a sensitive guy who loved his fans but shunned the spotlight. Tim, you will forever be loved and sadly missed. The person you were and your music will keep your memory alive," they added.
According to Swedish website Stoppa Pressarna, he made a troubling call to a family member shortly before he took his own life, and they immediately hopped a plane to where he was vacationing in Muskat, Oman, but arrived too late.
"The family was aware that Tim was mentally unwell. It went up and down, but when he was in Oman it got worse. When they spoke to Tim on the phone, they got worried. The family understood that it was bad and that they had to act. The plane landed two hours after Tim had passed away," a source revealed.