kanye west
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New Music From ‘MAGA’ Kanye Asks Black People to Pull Themselves Up by Their Yeezy Bootstraps
On Friday the artist formerly known as Kanye West dropped two new tracks that prove he is still a musical prodigy, while cementing the widespread opinion that he has gone full “MAGA.” After turning his website into a one-song musical player, Kanye Trump dug into his crate of soul anthems to sample the 1973 song…
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The Sunken Place Has Good Wi-Fi, so Now We Have (Not So) Deep Tweets by Kanye West
What is there left to say about Kanye West that hasn’t been said? If you’ve been living under a rock, or care enough about yourself to take social media sabbaticals, then you may not be aware that Kanye is out here tweeting everything he can think of. From theories on love to support of Donald…
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Judge of Characters: Kanye West Doesn’t Care About Racism
This has been a very hard week to swallow, namely because of rapper and former black man Kanye West. Kim Kardashian’s doting husband has been known for his sporadic rants, but this time (like many times before) he took to Twitter to share whatever thoughts were running through his brain. Clearly, the sunken place has…
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Once More for the People in the Back: Anyone Who Supports Donald Trump Is a Racist
Whenever I am asked why I believe everyone who supports Donald Trump is a racist, I explain it by using the legal doctrine of “the hand of one is the hand of all” and the story of Ryan Holle. When he was 20 years old, Ryan Holle was hung over and lying on his couch…
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It’s an Explanation, Not an Excuse
“He needs someone to treat him like the teacher treated Helen Keller in The Miracle Worker,” I said. The “he” I was referring to was Kanye West and his latest “Make America great again”-fueled, “deep thoughts” tweets that scream mania, but he insists he’s fine. (That is so something a manic person would say. When…
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Chance the Rapper Loves Kanye, Not Trump
For the better part of a week, we have all been caught up in Kanye West’s whirlwind of tweets. In fact, Kanye’s tweet storm might’ve been more Trumpian than his pride in his autographed “Make America Great Again” hat. For days, West has been at the center of a hot-take extravaganza with writers trying to…
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Life Comes at You Fast and Your Faves Are Probably All Trash
When I woke up this morning, I planned on writing about (actually, I did write about) what was probably going through Nas’ mind as Kanye continued to go on his alienate-the-black-community Twitter spree. With albums set to release in June by Nas, Cudi, Pusha T and Teyana Taylor, I figured that none of them could…
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Kanye Is ‘Free Thought’-ing Again, Posts Text Messages From John Legend
The inconceivably long train wreck that is Kanye West’s Twitter account just hit a new level of messiness Thursday afternoon, when Yeezy shared a screenshot of an exchange between himself and longtime friend and collaborator John Legend. In the screenshot of the text exchange, Legend sent a check-in text to Kanye at about 9:16 a.m.…
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How the West Was Lost
Five years ago I wrote to a friend about Kanye West’s well-reviewed but (in my opinion) emperor-has-no-clothes, comically awful album Yeezus: “I’m not sure what Kanye even does musically anymore except be Kanye, similar to Donald Trump’s name being used by foreign firms being used to market products because it’s recognizable,” I noted. Those shocked…
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Did Kanye West Lose Millions of Twitter Followers After His ‘MAGA’-Trump Lovefest?
If you looked at the numbers Wednesday, it appeared that millions of Kanye West’s Twitter followers felt that they had been putting up with Kanye’s shit just way too long—hitting that unfollow button after the rapper and producer declared his “love” for Donald Trump. Tweets from Yeezy’s account Wednesday afternoon showed the rapper sporting a…