"It does feel sad, sometimes shocking, to see where he is now," singer tells the Times UK of his former friend and collaborator's "descent"

I didn’t see a hint of what we’re seeing now, his obsessions with antisemitism, anti-Blackness,” the Grammy winner said of his former relationship with the rapper.

As we write this, Kanye West has successfully mined the latest deposit of the life-giving attention that appears to be the only thing that sustains him at this point, having released a song this week called “Heil Hitler.