Kanye West’s disclosure about autism and past misdiagnosis—what does it mean for the music industry?

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00:00Stephanie what I find really interesting is as you say Kanye West has gone

00:05through a lot of ups and downs controversies but this is actually quite

00:10brave of him to come out and speak about having autism and about being

00:16misdiagnosed in the past. What does this mean for the rap world, for the music

00:21industry as a whole? It's very refreshing Leanne because you know we

00:26know when it comes to hip-hop and rap traditionally they like to keep up this

00:31hard man image and I think for Kanye West he has been quite vulnerable he's

00:36very vulnerable in his music and I think I think this is very refreshing for

00:40someone in Hollywood and someone in the music industry like hip-hop to be quite

00:44open about this I think you know even if we take it down to race within the black

00:48community autism is not something that's really discussed so sometimes you do need

00:53someone like a figurehead like Kanye West to kind of change the narrative and

00:57say actually autism doesn't look one way it can look in a variety of ways though

01:02I think when someone like this strikes a match it lights the way for others to

01:07also communicate about their battles