By Griffin Okuchukwu
The ‘m.A.A.d City’ hitmaker has admitted he struggles with being separated from his friends and family whilst touring because it is ‘out of my control’.
He said: ‘When I was on that tour bus and things are happening back home in my city or in my family that I can’t do anything about, it’s out of my control, (and to) put it in God’s hands, I couldn’t understand that.
‘That can draw a thin line between you having your sanity and you losing it. This is how artists deteriorate if you don’t catch yourself.’
The 27-year-old star recalls a particular tragic incident where he was away from home when three of his close friends were murdered.
He added to MTV: ‘It’s real, man. Three of my homeboys (one) summertime were murdered, close ones too, not just somebody that I hear about. These (are) people I grew up with.
‘It all, psychologically, it messes your brain up. You live in this life, you know what I’m saying, but you still have to face realities of this. I gotta get back off that tour bus and go to these funerals … Talk to my mom and talk to their aunties – the kids that lost their lives.’
