{"id":264408,"date":"2018-12-31T07:26:57","date_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1000303"},"modified":"2018-12-31T07:26:57","modified_gmt":"2018-12-31T14:26:57","slug":"kanye-west-is-drug-free-and-so-thankful-for-2019-blessings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/music-news\/kanye-west-is-drug-free-and-so-thankful-for-2019-blessings\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Is &#8220;Drug Free&#8221; and &#8220;So Thankful&#8221; for 2019 Blessings"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/201887\/rs_600x600-180907042035-600-Kanye-West-J-Kimmel-LA-LT-090718.jpg?fit=around|600:467&amp;crop=600:467;center,top&amp;output-quality=90\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"\/><\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"42.864864864865\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"29.204633204633\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kanye_west\">Kanye West<\/a><\/strong> wants to enter 2019 on a positive note.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper took to Twitter on Sunday to reflect on how he&#8217;s closing out the year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We&#8217;re super happy. 2018 was so beautiful,&#8221; Ye wrote in a series of tweets. &#8220;I got to be myself and nobody had to &#8216;let me.&#8217; I&#8217;m drug free and my spirit is connected.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>West, who has been open about having <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/941084\/kanye-west-on-being-diagnosed-with-a-mental-condition-at-39-it-s-not-a-disability-it-s-a-superpower\" target=\"_blank\">bipolar disorder<\/a>, recently revealed he&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/974635\/pete-davidson-issues-mental-health-plea-to-kanye-west-on-snl\" target=\"_blank\">&#8220;off of medication.&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No weapon formed against us shall prosper,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We feel soooo much love. So much good energy. So much good will.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>West went on to claim he&#8217;s &#8220;stronger than ever&#8221; and that &#8220;we are stronger than ever,&#8221; possibly referencing his relationship with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/kim_kardashian\">Kim Kardashian<\/a><\/strong>. He also looked back on all of his projects.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;New designs new music new ideas renewed spirit,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We changing everything [every day] the vision is crystal. Refresh.&#8221;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It looks like he&#8217;s optimistic about 2019, too\u2014noting how &#8220;we&#8217;re already so thankful for the blessings in order.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Everything happens for a reason,&#8221; he continued. &#8220;We feel the love.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"58.5\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"7\">\n<p>He also took a moment to acknowledge his followers and fans who stuck by him throughout the this past year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We appreciate all the real ones who made it through 2018 with us,&#8221; he wrote. &#8220;Thank goodness for all of our fans and supporters. Even the haters haters are fans too.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"socialcontent-twitter-3\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-type=\"async\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"48.260162601626\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"4.3089430894309\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">I\u2019m drug free and my spirit is connected. No weapon formed against us shall prosper<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ye (@kanyewest) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kanyewest\/status\/1079582777584930816?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">December 31, 2018<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"55.170731707317\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"16.975609756098\">\n<p>It certainly has been an eventful year for West. There were many high points, including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/862794\/kim-kardashian-and-kanye-west-welcome-baby-no-3-via-surrogate\" target=\"_blank\">welcoming his third child<\/a>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/chicago_west\">Chicago West<\/a><\/strong>, with his wife via surrogate and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/940878\/khloe-kardashian-praises-kanye-west-s-new-album-that-contains-tristan-thompson-lyric\" target=\"_blank\">releasing new music<\/a>. However, there were low points, too, including receiving backlash for his <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/982121\/kanye-west-renounces-politics-amid-controversial-stances-i-ve-been-used\" target=\"_blank\">political\u00a0rants<\/a>\u00a0and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/964115\/kanye-west-apologizes-for-controversial-slavery-comment\" target=\"_blank\">comment about slavery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In the end, it seemed like a fan&#8217;s tweet summed it up best.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Being a kanye fan this year has been a rollercoaster,&#8221; one follower wrote in a\u00a0post retweeted by West, &#8220;but I wouldn&#8217;t trade it for anything! I&#8217;ve made so many friends and interacted with so many great people. thank you to Ye for bringing us together.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1000303\/kanye-west-is-drug-free-and-so-thankful-for-2019-blessings?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kanye West wants to enter 2019 on a positive note. The rapper took to Twitter on Sunday to reflect on how he&#8217;s closing out the year.\u00a0 &#8220;We&#8217;re super happy. 2018 was so beautiful,&#8221; Ye wrote in a series of tweets. &#8220;I got to be myself and nobody had to &#8216;let me.&#8217; I&#8217;m drug free and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[55],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-264408","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-13 05:39:32","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIDN - The Lift FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264408","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=264408"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264408\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264408"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264408"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kidn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264408"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}