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The Caucasian Kanye: Tucker Carlson Has Gone Full White Nationalist
If you’ve ever wondered what Kanye West would be like if he were raised by a frozen-food heiress and the U.S. ambassador to Seychelles, look no further than Tucker Carlson. Although I cannot vouch for Tucker’s beat-making ability or his emcee skills, Carlson is the poster boy for what happens when a narcissist is put…
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Kenan Thompson Says Kanye West Held Saturday Night Live ‘Hostage’ During His Pro-Trump Rant
Kenan Thompson celebrated the beginning of his 16th season with Saturday Night Live this past weekend, an event that was marked by what he described as Kanye West holding “people hostage” as he gave his pro-Trump rant at the end of his guest appearance on the same night. Thompson was chopping it up with former…
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Kanye West Is the Male Lauryn Hill
One day last week Kanye West was supposed to drop new music. Instead, he dropped more support for his president Donald J. Trump. One day last week, Lauryn Hill was supposed to do a show (or wasn’t supposed to do a show. At this point both are believable) and she canceled and said that the…
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Kanye Is Just Being Kanye. That's It, and That's All
I want to say from the outset that this is not a post meant to excuse anything Kanye West is saying or doing—because a lot of what he is saying and doing is very damaging for black folks, and I cannot get behind that no matter the cause. Yesterday, I wrote about Kanye’s visit to…
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Kanye West Is Obviously Still Stuck Deep Down in the Sunken Place. His Visit to The Fader Proves It
If you were holding out hope that the Kanye West who infamously told us that George W. Bush “doesn’t care about black people” was going to make a return anytime soon, don’t hold your breath—you might die. Ye’s recent visit to the offices of The Fader proves that “our nigga gone” for real. He showed…
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Kanye's Homecoming Tour Continues—With a Very Poignant Stop in Chicago
As a native Chicagoan (of Kanye’s generation), I’ve admittedly been skeptical about his reunion with his home city—despite my own, within the last two years. Why? Likely because the parts of my life filled with Donald Trump, MAGA, Kardashians, and Kalifornia generally end around 6 p.m. each workday, and often require sage after the fact…
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Kanye West Tells Drake, Nick Cannon and Tyson Beckford to Keep His Wife’s Name Out Their Mouth
In the beginning, Donda created the man-child from Chicagoland with the Polo sweaters and backpacks. And he was G.O.O.D. Later, that would give way to Rosewood Kanye, with the mullet and heart pendant. Then there was the no-smiling phase. Then the Jack Handy’s “Deep Thoughts” Kanye on Twitter. Then Yeezus. Then MAGA-Ye and “slavery was…
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Fabulous at 50: Iman, Oprah, Kanye, Chance & More Celebrate a Half-Century of Ralph Lauren
While our heads were turned by the melee at the Harper’s Bazaar party on Friday night, there was another star-studded New York Fashion Week event that went off without a hitch, honoring a fashion legend in timelessly elegant style. Seventeen years before Tommy Hilfiger would bring his own very American aesthetic to the runway, Bronx,…
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Kanye West’s Explanation Tour Makes a Stop to Apologize to Drake
Kanye West wants Drake to know that he harbors no hard feelings against him. The two rappers have had an ongoing beef for some time now, and during an appearance on Chicago’s WGCI radio station, West attributed the beef to a misunderstanding over a beat. In the early hours of Wednesday morning, West sent off…
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Are They Big Enough? Kanye Confronts 'Slidegate'
If you think Kanye West has been trolling us all along, you may be right in at least one respect: when it comes to those too-small Yeezy slides he wore with socks and a suit to 2 Chainz’ recent wedding, he’s got jokes. Big jokes, as it turns out; after initially defending the fashion choice…