We're getting the low down straight from 'Ye!

Kanye West recently sat down with Charlamagne the God for a wide ranging interview that touched on his mental breakdown and subsequent hospitalization, as well as his feud with Taylor Swift and much more.

"I think I’m in a stronger place than I ever was [now] after the breakdown, or as I like to say, the breakthrough," he explained.

So what caused it in the first place?

"Fear, stress, control… being controlled, manipulation, like being a pawn in the chess piece of life. Stressing things that create, like, validation that I didn’t need to worry about as much," he admitted.

The rapper says it was also exacerbated by his album Life of Pablo not getting its deserved airtime on the radio due to his feud with T-Swizz. "Ever since the Taylor Swift moment, it had never been the same… the connection with radio,” he lamented.

As for people that are calling him crazy, well... he doesn't take that as an insult!

"I don’t want to say crazy because I want to change the stigma of crazy. I want to change the stigma of mental health period. I am going to take the stigma off the word crazy. People will take something enlightened and put it in a different context and then call it crazy to try and diminish the impact and value of what I am actually saying," he confessed.

The Louis Vuitton Don also expanded on his beef with Barack Obama, and seemed genuinely hurt by the former POTUS' disses of him.

"You know, he never called me to apologize. The same person that sat down with me and my mom, I think should’ve communicated to me directly and been like, ‘Yo, Ye, you, you know what it is. I’m in the room and it was just a joke.’ I just think that we were in a period where he had so much stuff to deal with, he couldn’t deal with a wild card like me. I think that’s too unpredictable. Someone that wasn’t being controlled by strategy and thoughts, but someone who’s acting on feelings," he revealed.

"I’m your favorite artist. You play “Touch the Sky” at your inauguration, and now, all a sudden, Kendrick and JAY and all the people you invite to the White House, like, now these your favorite rappers. I ain’t got no problem with these rappers, but you know I’m your favorite but I’m not safe. But that’s why you love me! So just tell me you love me. And tell the world you love me! Don’t tell the world I’m a jackass. I’m fightin’ hard enough. Something about me going on stage was similar to what you was doing. ’Cause I’m fighting to break the simulation, break the setup. That didn’t make no sense," he added.

What about Jay Z's claims that he gave Yeezus $20 million?

"That concept that you gave me, that he gave me the money, that’s what frustrated me because, actually, the money was, he got from Live Nation. He, Roc Nation was managing me at the time. That’s something normal that someone gives someone a touring deal. It was a touring deal! But the fact that it was worded that it came from him, I’m a very loyal, emotional, like, artist person. You know, that made me feel like I owed more than just the money itself, the fact that it came from him. You know, it just put me under a bit more of a kind of controlled situation. It’s like—and I don’t—I’m only acting out of love. I don’t need to be controlled. I just need to be inspired and informed. And I can be the best Ye in that way," he said.

The whole interview is over two hours, but if you've got some time, you've gotta watch it in its entirety!