What was he thinking?!

Kanye West went on TMZ Live yesterday and created total chaos when he made the bold declaration that 400 years of slavery for the black people was a "choice," and now people are up in arms about his comments and lashing out on social media.

"I am in hip-hop, but I’m not just in hip-hop. I’m a black person in the black community, but I’m not just that. I feel like one thing is that people try to minimize me to artist, hip-hop, black community. I’m always going to represent that, but I also represent the world. You hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years? That sounds like a choice,” 'Ye told the stunned newsroom.

"Like, that 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 is too direct to the idea of blacks. Like Holocaust is Jews, slavery is blacks. So prison is something that unites us as one race, whites and blacks being one race. The human race," he added.

Then he turned it into a conversation with the employees, asking if they thought he was "being free and thinking free." That's when he got an unexpected response from an outraged black staffer that took extreme offense to his bold statement.

"I actually don’t feel think you’re thinking anything. I think what you’re doing right now is actually the absence of thought. The reason that I feel that is because Kanye, you’re entitled to you’re opinion. You’re entitled to believe whatever you want, but there is fact and real world real life consequence behind everything that you just said,” Van Lathan said.

"While you are making music and being an artist and living the life that you earned by being a genius, the rest of us in society have to deal with these threats to our lives. We have to deal with the marginalization that’s come from the 400 years of slavery that you said for our people, was a choice. Frankly, I’m disappointed, I’m appalled and brother, I’m unbelievably hurt by the fact that you have morphed into something, to me, that’s not real," he added.

After Yeezus left the office and checked the feedback on Twitter, he decided to try and clarify his point, but it didn't do any good.

"To make myself clear. Of course I know that slaves did not get shackled and put on a boat by free will. My point is for us to have stayed in that position even though the numbers were on our side means that we were mentally enslaved," he tweeted.

"They cut out our tongues so we couldn’t communicate to each other. I will not allow my tongue to be cut. Kanye vs the media is modern day Willie Linch theory … They hung the most powerful in order to force fear into the others," he added.

After this, we don't think it will be too much longer before the Kardashian clan throws him in the mental hospital!