What it sounds like is he didn’t want “cheap Yeezys the kids could afford”, he wanted “cheap nike Yeezys kids could afford”.

yeah, I do believe this is what he was talking about

I don’t believe he’s had a consistent message since his first meltdown. Originally he was all about getting married, focusing more on family than money, and telling people to go to church. Then he got obsessed with sex, had a period of self hate and then decided he was going to be president. Then he was the second coming of Jesus and traveled around preaching the word of god with mobile church choirs that he later just abandoned and didn’t pay before becoming straight up antiemetic, selling merch with swastikas’ and then changing his mind and apologizing for all the harm he caused. Then he went back to being a hardcore Christian and got on TV and said he loved Hitler because Jesus tells you to love everyone. He was going to record an album in Uganda until he wasn’t and then didn’t. And through it all he was known for just straight up strange behavior. Claiming he was a genius, being mad about not getting credit for leather jogging pants, frequently stopping concerts to go on nonsensical rants about whatever was on his mind at the time, he walked around in a full face mask covered in diamonds, etc…

Most people track it back to about the time his mom died. I think his long-term girlfriend left him around then too. I don’t know if that’s accurate but it seems we went from Graduation to 808s and Heartbreak and then after that it was all, “I’m a piece of shit who’s addicted to sex” and he never recovered