Music mogul Russell Simmons wants to see Kanye West receive some serious hip-hop support. The Def Jam co-founder has issued a few statements on Yeezy’s well-being.

On Wednesday, Simmons jumped on Instagram to address Ye’s state of mind and blamed mental illness for compromising his publicized controversial remarks.

• unclerushTime for intervention. No more memes. He has made your hits and stood with us in the trenches. I personally occupied Wall Street with him, and worked on countless Hip Hop summits as well had the opportunity to march with him. Ye, call your brother back. Let’s discuss the 50 relevant issues confronting the human family like the unraveling of race relations, poverty, Israel, Iran, the prison system, police brutality, ,gun control… Honestly there’s not enough space here. Call your brother. I refuse to believe a black man who supports black empowerment, but now says “Slavery was a choice”, is operating with a healthy state of mind.