CIA Spy: Is Kanye Mentally Ill or a Narcissist? This is What His Behavior REALLY Reveals... PT 2
Women of Impact
Impact Theory
4.8 • 700 Ratings
🗓️ 12 May 2026
⏱️ 39 minutes
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Summary
If you’ve ever blamed yourself for someone else’s chaos, or worried that “genius” gives people a hall pass for bad behavior, Part 2 is your game-changer.
In the second half, ex CIA spy Andrew Bustamante and I dive even deeper into the psychological maze of Kanye West. From his infamous Sway interview to his viral Piers Morgan clashes, we dissect the moments that had everyone screaming “Narcissist!”, and reveal why the truth is far more complicated, painful, and urgent for every woman dealing with emotional instability in her world. We dig into the impact of brain injury, bipolar disorder, and why some people never develop the filters that keep their emotions (and outbursts) in check. Most importantly, we talk about what to do when love collides with someone’s untreated (or undiagnosed) mental health struggles, and how to protect yourself when patterns are clear but solutions aren’t.
Here’s how you spot the difference between manipulation and genuine developmental challenge, and why YOU are always your own hero.
SHOWNOTES
“I am the most impactful artist of our generation”—how to decode self-aggrandizement
The Sway interview: repetition, rage, and spectrum behaviors
No eye contact, mic awareness—signs of autistic spectrum
Creative talent meets developmental challenge: Where the myths fall apart
Emotional escalation and de-escalation: The validation pattern
Body language: manufactured confidence, defensive posture, and what’s different (Piers Morgan)
Answering like a child: What the “look at my view” moment really tells us
Cognitive struggle, stalling, and stunted adaptation
Male competition, showmanship, and abrasive deflection
Shifted tone, no aggression, and dissociative energy—possible signs of medication
The letter: Car accident, frontal lobe injury, and newly diagnosed bipolar I
Excuses vs. explanations: What medical trauma DOES and DOESN’T excuse
Shared responsibility: How to protect yourself, love wisely, and make the safest next decision
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| 0:00.0 | Alright, my homies, welcome back to part 2 of the Truth Bomb Breakdown of Kanye West, like you've never fricking seen before. We are not here to throw labels and just name things, we are here to actually identify the difference between what we can call maybe the Manchold Syndrome with the Outbursts and the Breakdowns and the difference between that and narcissism by polar and autism. what it actually means when people act out |
| 0:27.6 | instead of communicating like adults. So if that hit home or made you see some things that you can't unsee, then buckle up because now the stakes go up. Whether it's a guy in your life, whether it's a relationship or a friend or a partner or a parent, you need to make sure that you know the science and all the differences and how to navigate it. So in this half, Andrew boosts the mind to an idig even deeper into. The moment you can finally tell, is this trauma, a personality disorder, or just immaturity? We also go into what walking on exercise is actually doing to your confidence and how you can finally take that power back just by looking at how you shouldn't act and when you can't act as the example. And then we talk about the steps of what to do when you find yourself dealing with someone that is irritable, dismissive, disrespectful or toxic and how to respond without betraying yourself and guys with the lovingly hate him, Piers Morgan does a great job of manipulating the manipulators so you gotta stay tuned for that. Now if you've ever wondered how much is just too much or when is time to actually walk away because you feel so bad that they seem wounded and you want to help the traumatized person. Well listen up, let's get real, let's get practical, let's see the blueprint and then let's remind ourselves that you have the tools to do and make whatever moves you finally want to get back on track. So let's just jump in right here right now on women of impact. fact. All right, actually, we'd like to go to another clip, which you're okay with that. So I actually have, from the same interview with Pears, another clip where his asks Kanye about his relationship with Kim, his next wife at the point at this point. Are you sad that you're no longer together, that you're divorced? We'll always be together. She dresses exactly like me, but you mean like my kids are me. All, stop. There was almost something that happened that seemed like a flip. It was like, what do you mean? She dresses like me. So if we can just rewind that. Are you sad that you're no longer together, that you're divorced? Like see that smile just completely drop and then his eyes look up for a second. Like right there, Do you see him under the hat? So, pause. I think that you're picking up on the right non-verbal cues. There's pain that we're seeing and there's shame. That's why he's looking down. He's blocking, like with eyelids, remember if you recall, we've seen other people protect themselves by closing their eyes when they talk about something painful. He's blocking access to his eyes with his lid of his hat. And then he that smile goes away and it turns into perps lips as he holds himself down and protects himself for a second. And then he wants to vent. He wants to release the feelings. And that's when he makes the joke about clothes. |
| 3:26.1 | He says this thing in between though, |
| 3:28.0 | will always be together. |
| 3:30.5 | In stalker land, that's a creepy-ass thing to say. |
| 3:33.3 | We'll always be together. |
| 3:34.6 | Or on a childish level, |
| 3:37.9 | he believes somebody else planted that thought in him. |
| 3:40.7 | He was like, you don't have to be with her |
| 3:42.4 | for her to be with you. |
| 3:43.7 | Should can be in your heart forever. And he's parroting what he learns somewhere else. He's venting off the emotional strain of feeling the question that peers just asked. A feeling based question is a very good question to ask when you're looking for signs of deception. We're not seeing signs of deception. We're seeing signs of developmental challenge. Oh, my God. She dresses exactly like me. What do you mean? Like my kids are me. You know, there's no person that you ever get with that will influence her more than God and then her priest on earth, which was me. You know, whether it's the The Schem's clothing line, designers, the architects, all those people pause. What I'm seeing is, is this not a dissociation like psychopathy, not a victimization like narcissism, but something else, something that is inappropriate, developmentally for the way that healthy relationships work. Again, I interpreted it to be rather narcissistic, right? Like, her priest on earth, which is me. Obviously, now you've broken it down, I really understand, but that's where I think it's so important for us to go through this and for you to help us really navigate, because I took that again, that one piece of information, labeled him a narcissist, and then moved on with my life. Okay, so now we've got another clip of Kanye on Sué's radio station, and we'll just look again at different dynamics, so live on TV, on radio, with a guy that knows him very well, so they actually know each other, so just to give the context and play the tip. I'm standing up and I'm telling you I am Warhol. I am the number one most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh Walt Disney, Nike, Google. Now who's gonna be the Medici family and stand up and let me create more? Or do you want to marginalize me till I'm out of my moment? All right. Well, is there for a second before we go any further? That 22nd diet ride built like the most grandiose narcissist I've ever seen. Your impulse, observation, assessment isn't wrong. It is extremely grandiose statements. The content itself is grandiose. The behavior is the raising of his voice. All of that is very large and seemingly narcissistic. It's an interesting clip because we see none of the lead up. We know nothing about the question that was just asked. We know nothing about where the conversation has been. We know nothing about what brought him to this point, whether he's been in that studio for two minutes or 25 minutes or two hours. We know nothing about the context of that statement. So it's hard to assess what breadcrumb trail led to that explosive opening of the clip. We don't know. But what else is interesting to me is while he is saying he is the greatest, he is also acknowledging that somebody else needs to enable him to create. That is not what a narcissist thinks. Narcissist doesn't need anybody. Narcist is the greatest thing, period. You're not gonna help me, I'll do it alone. That's not what he's saying. He's like, who's gonna bring me in? Who's gonna be the one that unlocks me? |
| 7:05.6 | Now who's gonna be the Medici family and stand up and let me create more? Essentially, to go back to one of our other eclipse, who's the next person that's gonna enslave me? So does he speak highly of his own creative talents? Yes. We don't know if over the course of his whole career, he has been told he is as good as those Kanye, you're the next Disney. |
| 7:26.0 | Kanye, you're the next Gucci. |
| 7:27.7 | Kanye, you're the next Disney. Kanye, you're the next Gucci. Kanye, you're the greatest creator of our generation. Somebody could have fed all of that managers, agents, studio labels. It could have just told them that and told them that. Just keep them in the fucking studio. Keep them producing, keep them creating, keep them happy. He's a child, tell them whatever he needs to hear. And year after year and decade after decade of being told that you're the greatest. Eventually, you're gonna defend yourself and be like, I am the greatest, Muhammad Ali. I am the greatest. He was objectively the greatest fighter of his time. Kanye West, objectively, one of the greatest musicians at this time, I am curious what comes next |
| 8:05.6 | from the person who's speaking next to him. |
| 8:07.1 | That's why I stopped it very quickly. All right, and hit it. Or why don't you empower yourself and don't need them and do it yourself. Ha, Tweet. Take a few steps back to go on the board. You ain't got the answers, man. You ain't got the answers. You ain't got the answers. You ain't got the answer, Swet! |
| 8:24.4 | Tanya. |
| 8:25.4 | Swet asked the logical question, if you're so great, why don't you just do it yourself? |
| 8:29.3 | That is a... You ain't got the answers, you ain't got the answers, Swae. I think you're gonna get it. |
| 8:25.4 | Swae asked the logical question, if you're so great, why don't you just do it yourself? That is a totally fair question that we have all told all of our friends who have ever said anything about wanting to start a restaurant or write a book, why don't you do it? He said it's a perfectly rational question. And he explodes, but what does he explode with? the same statement repeated over and over again. |
| 8:46.6 | Just repeating and screaming, repeating and screaming. That is spectrum, that is spectrum behavior. And I want to acknowledge that they are sitting next to each other, but he's not making any eye contact. He is a trained musical artist. So he knows to value the microphone, which is very interesting as you can see his behavioral practice of, of stay with the microphone. He's also not fully wearing the headpiece. Yeah, he's not actually, actually, over his ear's a tool, it's on his forehead. Yeah, so that is to me an artistic tell of his profession. So out of curiosity then, if he was acting like a child, like if you're in the spectrum, is it possible to do that and still be cognitively aware that as an artist, they can't hear my voice if I'm not speaking to the mic? And those two things exist? Absolutely, because what's happening is that's the difference between a learned behavioral pattern versus a behavioral pattern that's organic. So he's learned that when you are speaking in a studio, you must speak into the microphone. So you can see Sué's maneuvering the microphone literally with his hand so that he can look and talk, but that's not what Kanye is doing. So Kanye's reaction is very authentic, natural, organic. And yet he's still able to have some form of control of his surroundings being the microphone. More like a sense of awareness, body awareness. Like, he knows where he is. I don't think he's out of control. I think what's happening here is he's having an outburst, which is not the same thing as being out of control. It's a vent. It's kind of like when you scream or when you cry or when you vomit or what like you're you're bursting You're still cognitively aware of what's happening. You just have no way of dampening the release of what you're feeling. Don't you feel like that you're out of control when you have an outburst? He's been in control the whole time if you really think about it. He may stop. He may scream he may slam, but then he walks away and he leaves the room and he stops to listen. He can't filter enough like you and I can, like you and I can like pick up the mug, throw it across the room, knock over the table, slap somebody, push somebody else, break your shit and then come back remorseful 15 minutes later. We don't see any of the 15 minutes later with this guy. So we don't know if he comes back remorseful at all, right? If that is part of the equation too, that is just like the final straw that this is a developmental issue. Don't move because coming up, we're watching In Real Time, how validation from a friend can actually defuse |
| 11:25.4 | even the most heated confrontation. |
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