The New York Times has canceled a discussion on mental health that featured Kanye West and radio host Charlamagne tha God , who wrote on Instagram Monday that the event would have been a total distraction.

The Times Talk had been slated to take place Oct. 17 in New York, but Charlamagne wrote that the he felt the conversation he really wanted to have with West would not be productive right now.

West has been so vocal about his own mental health struggles, Charlamagne wrote. Unfortunately I think to have that conversation with him right now would not be productive and a total distraction from the point of the convo which is to eradicate the stigma of mental health especially in the black community.