Kanye West's latest album Ye was released amongst a storm of controversy (nothing new there) about the rapper's behaviour, and as you'd expect, many people are looking at the music with the context of everything surrounding it.
It turns out that Kanye himself looked at the album through the lens of that interview with TMZ and decided to change the whole thing up.
In an interview with media personality Big Boy, the father of three was asked why the released version sounded so different to what he had heard a few months before.
"I completely re-did the album after TMZ. We just sat there and really honed in on the words because now it's all headlines.
"It's like every bar can be used… you know, there's even bars we had about that… I took a bar off the album," he explained.
When asked why he took that out of the album, Kanye replied: "It was just too sensitive. It was about that topic. And I just let go. 'I'm gonna just chill right now, let's just keep making some music.'"
The star's controversial TMZ interview saw him re-state his praise for Donald Trump.
"When you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years?! That sounds like a choice," he controversially said.
"You 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' goes too direct to the idea of blacks. Slavery is to blacks as the Holocaust is to Jews.
"Prison is something that unites as one race, blacks and whites, that we're the human race," Kim Kardashian's husband said.
He later clarified his comments by saying that he knows black people did not become slaves through free will.
The rapper was heavily criticised by plenty of famous faces, but was defended by mother-in-law Kris Jenner.
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