Vernon appeared on a handful of tracks on Kanye’s MBDTF and I liked a few of his responses regarding Mr. West from this NyMag article:

“He likes being a star and he’s good at it, but I think he doesn’t enjoy that people try to make him more accountable for something just because he is a star. Everybody is a contradiction of themselves and not only is that not a problem, it’s a beautiful thing. People should be contradictions. If you’re not, it means you’re not evolving or becoming a better person. We talked about, as people, just about trying and becoming a better person. It comes through in the music. It’s just unapologetic: Don’t apologize for being whoever you are, whoever you are.”

“I know for a fact the reason why the Today show had Kanye is to see if he would do something like that. Prodding a person in the limelight is what they do. So, like he said, why go anymore? Man, I could go on a whole rant about fame in general and how people project themselves onto the famous so they don’t have to deal with their own shit … I wish people could forget the tabloids and paparazzi and just be into music for music’s sake”