John Legend says that it is “sad, sometimes shocking” to look at his former collaborator Kanye West, who played an instrumental role in the musical breakthrough of Legend 20 years ago.
The pair worked together on Legend’s revolutionary album Be raisedWith West managing executive production as well as the co -production of the album alongside Dave Tozer, Will.i.am and Devo Springsteen. Legend was signed with West’s Good Music label, and the latter also appeared on the album, which then sold three million copies, winning three Grammy Awards and making the name of the legend as a artist.
West was already a star himself with his successful album The dropout of the college. 20 years later, Legend described West during this fertile creative period like “passionate, gifted and had great dreams for himself and the people around him”.
The legend said The Times of London: “He had so much optimism, so much creativity. It seems sad, sometimes shocking, to see where he is now.”
West has encountered a widespread controversy in recent years, from the sale of t-shirts decorated with swollen cross logos to a black Klu Klan hood in public. It has already been prohibited from the X platform for some of its offensive statements.
The legend said Time: “I have not seen what we see now, his obsessions with anti-Semitism, anti-lawyer, and it is sad to see his devolution.”
The legend suggested that the death of West’s mother in 2007 played a decisive role in her change of concentration: “I do not think that we are qualified for the psychoanalyser, but after the death of his mother in 2007, there was a difference. His descent started at that time and seems to have accelerated recently. ”
Be raisedWhat legend comes on tour to mark his 20th The birthday contained songs on infidelity and returned to Motown classics.
“I was 25 when the album was made and I felt life as a young man, a young single … I had cheated and I felt guilty about it, but I dramatized real events to make them more romantic or exciting. She doesn’t have to know is a soap opera. I don’t think my life has ever been so interesting.
