In the first interview since his conviction Mr. Marcus claims he didn’t intentionally infect anyone because thought it was only a skin rash.

Mr. Marcus tells Baller Alert

“I did not go out there and try to f***ing intentionally get anybody infected. From my heart man, up to God, I thought it was something that was just a skin rash. I went out and bought some damn Carmex lotion (it’s an everyday hydrating lotion), I put it on [my penis] and I thought it made it look better. That coupled with things going on with my hands, little brown spots or whatever, I looked things up on the internet and I’m telling you, only thing that came up was a vitamin deficiency and that I need more vitamins. I went out and bought vitamins and Carmex.”

“Syphilis is called the great imitator it supposedly looks like other diseases, problems, symptoms and it’s never related to just a std. 20 years in this business and only STD’s I was aware of is gonorrhea and chlamydia.”

“You gotta understand that when I worked with that girl I had a FRESH test. NOTHING came back saying, hey you need to go to the doctor, get a checkup, a shot, not a single damn thing. I used the lotion and it made it look better.”

Kanye West gave a rare
interview to the New York Times in which he talks about a variety of
topics to promote his new album “Yeezus,” due June 18.

In
the article, titled “Behind Kanye’s Mask,” he opens up on parenthood (he would
“do anything to protect my child or my child’s mother),” he disses the Grammys,
and he defines himself as “a black new wave artist.”

He
also says he has no regrets – not even for the Taylor Swift “interruption” at
the MTV Video Music Awards; though he does admit he has “faltered.” There’s an
acknowledgement, “I have, as a human being, fallen to peer pressure.”

Early
on in the article, West recalls his youthful hoops days. And how his failure to
make a team spurred him on to bigger stages. He used a basketball metaphor
later in the article. “You know,” he says, “if Michael Jordan can scream at the
refs, me as Kanye West, as the Michael Jordan of music, can go and say, ‘This
is wrong’.”

Daft
Punk are tipped to appear on “Yeezus,” alongside Chief Keef and Bon Iver’s
Justin Vernon. The album’s first public spin happened Monday night at New
York’s Milk Studios.

In
the NY Times feature, West gives his own verdict on his sixth album. “There’s
no opera sounds on this new album, you know what I mean? It’s just like, super
low-bit. I’m still, like, slightly a snob, but I completely removed my snob
heaven songs; I just removed them altogether.”

 “I will
be the leader of a company that ends up being worth billions of dollars,
because I got the answers. I understand culture. I am the nucleus.”

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