Kanye West is looking for a fresh start in Tokyo, despite refusing to put down real roots in Japan's capital city ... music journalist Touré claims.
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00:00So give us the lowdown because it is a conundrum to figure out, does he have a home?
00:08Is he just a vagabond now?
00:10What's going on?
00:11It is a little tricky to understand where actually he is, but friends tell me he lives
00:17in Tokyo now.
00:18He's been there for maybe a year, maybe a year and a half.
00:23Nobody's actually clear on how long it has been, but he lives in Tokyo.
00:28He's able to have a sort of peace of mind and a peaceful day there.
00:33He doesn't have the paparazzi chasing him like in other places.
00:36For the most part, when he's in Tokyo, people leave him alone.
00:40They tend not to come up to him on the street like they would do in New York, in LA and
00:45other places.
00:46And he is living in a hotel.
00:47He's sort of high class homeless nowadays where he just lives in hotels for months at
00:53a time.
00:54There was time in the Chateau Marmont in Beverly Hills.
00:57There was a Florence, Italy period.
00:59There was a Dubai period.
01:00We're talking about two, three months, but now he's living in a Tokyo hotel and working
01:06on his next album in the hotel room itself.
01:10Who's hanging with him over there, Ture?
01:14Bianca was there for a while, but then she was back in Australia for about three weeks.
01:20We most recently have seen her there, but is there anyone else there with him and anyone
01:24working with him on the album?
01:27There's an engineer working with him, but it's not the normal.
01:30Normally there's a team.
01:32Normally there's a group of producers who are helping with ideas and there's some writers
01:36who are helping with some lyrics.
01:38Not this time.
01:40I'm also told that the rumors of their divorce may be premature.
01:46You never know with any relationship, certainly with any sort of Kanye relationship the way
01:50he can be.
01:52But from what I'm told, no, they're doing fine.
01:55They're still together.
01:56Their body language is still very positive, so I would expect, from what I know, to hear
02:01that they are going to continue to be together for the foreseeable future.