Thanksgiving Prayer

[Prayer]

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Kanye West, Conway West Side

You never noticed that, did you?

The, uh

Hello my name is Ye

And this is my super super super super super long Thanksgiving prayer

On this Thanksgiving, I'm so thankful for family

My blood family, my fans and our haters

We love you too

On Thanksgiving on Christmas morning

Not the night before or the day, just the morning

We're thankful for our current civilization of eight billion people

Our ancestors and our children

I'm writing this prayer on my way back from taking my mini me to his first football game

Saint got to play catch with Tom Brady before the game

This is a God's dream

My mini me is a mix of two of my favorite things

Me and my wife's face

All I think about every day is how I get my family back together

And how I heal the pain that I've caused

I take accountability for my actions

New word alert, misactions

The one thing that all my successes and failures have in common is me

Let's start with A alcohol

I would drink to take the stress away and knock the edge off

Drinking affected my health and the health of people around me, around me

Because I already had a hair-trigger temper and this just heightened it

B episodes, I went into a manic episode in 2016 and I was placed under heavy medication

since then I went on and off the medication which left me susceptible to other episodes

Which my wife and family and fans have had to endure

Ego, my ego has a tendency to go past the threshold of being motivating and entertaining to just being overbearing

There are ways to show confidence without arrogance

Temper, now I know none of y'all would ever picture this but

Sometimes I scream, ha

And that screaming might have helped me tell off everyone who doubted me in music

But that screaming did not help me keep my family together

Religion, self-righteous Christian behavior

When I got saved, it did not immediately make me a better person

It made me a self-righteous Christian

Mix that with being rich, famous and very very very very very very attractive

And you got a Molotov cocktail ready to be thrown through the window of anyone who ever disagreed with me

I was arrogant with my Jesus

Like I just got me some Jesus at the Gucci store with a stimulus check

Let's go with politics here

Good Lord, my wife did not like me wearing the red hat

Being a good wife, she just wanted to protect me and our family

I made me and our family a target by not aligning with Hollywood's political stance

And that was hard for our marriage

Then I ran for president without proper preparation

and no allies on either side

I embarrassed my wife in the way I presented information about our family during the one and thank God only press conference

All my dad had to say afterwards was

"Write your speech next time son"

F is for finances

I spent money like crazy

I mean, it's the craziest thing I've done

And I've done a lot of crazy things

As the priest of my home I must watch my own money and secure our finances

This is America, so people don't consider stealing to be stealing

They just chalk it up to greed, consumerism and capitalism

I've let people use me, I've had giant entourages

People around me, just to make me feel good about myself

I've had to learn that I had to take accountability

We always judge and tell other people what they should do

But we can only take accountability for ourselves and our children

This Thanksgiving, I'm thankful for the family that my wife has given me

I'm thankful for the life that God has given me

And I'm thankful for your time, attention and patience

In Jesus name, Amen