In mid-October, Kanye West raised a few eye-brows when he unveiled a bizarre haircut that looked a bit like someone took a weed whacker to his scalp.
The choppy, uneven 'do was apparently paying homage to Britney Spears' infamous shaved head, which the pop princess shorn herself during a mental break down in 2007.
On Thursday night, West was a guest on the Revolt TV podcast Drink Champs, and he revealed in the two-hour conversation that he called the unexpected style 'the Britney.'
Backstory: Kanye West's choppy, uneven new haircut is paying homage to Britney Spears' infamous shaved head, which the pop princess shorn herself during a mental break down in 2007, he revealed on a podcast Thursday
'The phobia of mental health, that's why I did this haircut,' the 44-year-old rapper said. 'The declaration of insanity is a form of control… At first, I called it the Britney. Now they can call it the Ye.'
He continued, in a somewhat unhinged manner: 'The fact that my haircut and my [new] name came at the same time was something. This was harder than wearing the Trump hat because my image [is important]. I'm fly and you know as a black man, your haircut means so much.'
Ye explained that he started the chop himself but ended up turning the clippers over to a barber, accounting for the extreme unevenness.
'The phobia of mental health, that's why I did this haircut,' the 44-year-old rapper said. 'The declaration of insanity is a form of control… At first, I called it the Britney. Now they can call it the Ye.'
'I'm a process artist so when you see the hair it's a representation of my thoughts developing,' he added during the podcast.
In 2007, Britney infamously shaved her head at a hair salon in Tarzana, a suburb of Los Angeles, one day after she left a rehab facility in Antigua. Britney later re-entered treatment.
During Ye's wide ranging podcast interview, the father-of-four took
