Kanye West on the cover of XXL for October.

Kanye talks about his mothers death, and The whole Taylor Swift incident:

His mom: " When I moved to LA, she moved to LA/ And she wound up in a place that would eat her alive. Even if I stayed in New York, it wouldn’t have been like that. If I had lived in New York, she’d still be here.”

On Taylor Swift: “In a way, I had thrown a Molotov cocktail at my own career, and it gave me an opportunity, for the first time, to go away and find out who I was,” he wrote. “Because I felt very alone.

“I stress that the incident wasn’t about Taylor personally, And it definitely wasn’t about race. Where I messed up is , at the end of the day, it’s your show, Taylor. It’s your show, MTV.”