- I feel like you avoided this album title. 

- Oh, yeah. No. 

- I mean what it says right here on the title. 

JIMMY KIMMEL: "I hate being bipolar. It's awesome." I have a theory about you. So tell me if you think this is correct. I feel like you feel like being bipolar is part of what makes you brilliant, part of what makes you you, and you embrace it. 

- Yeah. I think that's another one of those things where people are, like, how are you going to talk about it? The funny thing is-- this is something that was, like, on the internet before-- it was kind of funny. But it's not an opposite. 

It's not, "I hate being bipolar. It's awesome." It's actually, it drives more of how you really feel. It doesn't do an opposite thing. So I think it's important for us to have open conversations about mental health, especially with me being Black, because we never had therapists in the Black community. We never approached, like, taking medication. 

And I think it's good that when I had my first complete blackout at age 5, my mom didn't fully medicate me, because I might have never been Ye. And there's times where at least I'm happy that I know. Like, even for this interview, I knew I wanted to stay in a calm state, because by the time I got to TMZ, I was ramped up. 

So what was awesome is that the world got to really experience someone in a ramped-up state. And that's when you get these comments that just shoot out. Like, almost, like, Tourette's, because-- 

Opioids-- two days after I got off of opioids-- and I was addicted to opioids. Two days I got off of opioids, I'm-- 

[IMITATES TIRES SCREECHING] 

I'm in the hospital, right? I'm taking two-- hey. Everyone, listen to this, please. Two days before I was in the hospital, 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, like y'all called Rob at the wedding and made him fly home before me and Kim got married. 

- So much for giving me a chance to win a VMA award. I-- 

[CROWD SHOUTING AND CHEERING] 

- Yo, Taylor. I'm really happy for you. I'ma let you finish. But Beyonce had one of the best videos of all time! 

[CROWD CHEERING] 

One the best videos of all time! I'll just tell you what I'm feeling at the time. And I feel a heightened connection with the universe when I'm ramping up. So I was sitting up in Paris, and I had my leather pants on. 

[LAUGHTER] 

You already know. If you got leather pants on, you already know who this person must think they are. By turning to faith, we will be the kind of nation, the kind of people, God intends us to be. I am Kanye West, and I approve this message. 

- Highs and lows. And when you have a high, you're on a roll. When you have a low, you're not. 

- Well, there's some cases of bipolar where people go low. I'm one that goes high. Like Michelle Obama said. 

- So you don't have extreme periods of depression? 

- Oh, no. No. 

JIMMY KIMMEL: Oh. 

- No. Because I just say it. I'll say on real TV. Like, oh, I thought about killing myself. And then the thought is gone, you know? 

- Wow. So all people need to do is get on TV. That's really the solution. 

[LAUGHTER] 

- Well, they need to be able to express themselves without fear of judgment. What I love telling people is, like, who do you know-- and let's go especially Black men-- but you know, I'm 41 years old, and I don't know anyone that [BLEEP] up as much as I have that's still as successful. So I want to prove that you can get fat, you can say the wrong things, you can piss a whole [BLEEP] off-- 

JIMMY KIMMEL: And you can be President of the United States. 

- Well, yeah. Yeah. 

[CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 

- There's one person. Kanye West, everybody. This is his album. It's called Ye.