Kanye West

https://pitchfork.com/news/kanye-shares-new-song-xtcy-listen/

really gross

well I guess he (braggingly) wrote it on ecstacy, but the rhymes show it, v poor writing: "U GOT A SMART PHONE BUT A DUMB ASS (OMG) I THOUGHTA ALL DIS ON XTCY"

just bad taste, hardly controversial to find your sister(s) in-law attractive

stop paying attention to this bozo

thats not nice, bozo brings joy to people

... is he now called Ye ?

the being formally known as Kanye West

I am YE

— ye (@kanyewest) September 29, 2018

Ye suck

Ye? Nay!

Why does it always have to be about Ye? Why can't it be about Me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6EoRBvdVPQ

^interesting new direction

I'd also like to read your hypotheses regarding this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rJfSHnOZeY

https://people.com/music/kanye-west-trump-speech-saturday-night-live/

After the show ended, Kanye continued with a song and speech onstage:

Wearing a Make America Great Again hat, he then delivered an unexpected speech in front of SNL performers like Colin Jost and host Adam Driver as some audience members booed. “Actually, blacks weren’t always Democrats,” he started. “It’s like a plan they did to take the fathers out the homes and promote welfare. Does anybody know about that? That’s the Democratic plan.”

After receiving sparse claps, West continued, “And what this shows is we can’t be controlled by monolithic thought. You can’t always have when you have a black subject matter like Cosby that you have to have a black comedian talk about it.”...

Motioning to SNL funnyman Michael Che, West said, “You know what I mean?”

West, who replaced Ariana Grande as the musical guest after she had to drop out, said, “It’s so many times that I talk to a white person about this, and they say, ‘How could you support Trump? He’s racist.’ Well if I was concerned about racism, I would have moved out of America a long time ago. We don’t just make our decisions off of racism. I’ma break it down to you right now: If someone inspires me and I connect with them, I don’t have to believe in all they policies.”

He also grumbled about people saying he was in the sunken place.

Still no new Yandhi album yet too...

There’s no fun in saying “told you so” about this guy, is there?

I hope all the idiots who still cared about him after 2014 keep buying his important music I guess. The man’s got to eat

i like the bottle costumes, but that song is complete garbage and I'm shocked that any of this shit is getting airtime.

my feelings exactly ^

the life of pablo was a fun, compelling mess. everything since has been embarrassing. five years after Yeezus and he's here. Sucks

ghost town is an amazing track

there were moments on ye and the other few albums he produced recently have been good too. i don't think his output has been embarrassing.

re. the trump stuff: it doesn't seem like he understands what he is talking about. he uses his trump support to signal that he's not "controlled" by the pop culture consensus that surrounds him. he doesn't say that he wants to stop immigration or anything like that. not that what he is doing is harmless, just that i have no idea how to interpret it.

i will say that he doesn't seem very happy and his kind of frantic grasping at platitudes -- "choose love," "escape the sunken place" -- are kind of heartbreaking. i doubt many people have embraced trump bc of kanye.

If anything it just enforces the idea that people supporting Trump are morons.

just that i have no idea how to interpret it.

it doesn't really require much interpretation, you can take him at his word

his words are all over the place

sometimes he hits on conservative talking points, but then he goes to generalities about how needs to choose love and escape monolithic thought, and then he talks about the sunken place

he's at the very least an idiosyncratic conservative

stop

Let's leave the um-ing and er-ing to the click baiters. Digesting the twaddle he's offered since 2010 isn't worth separating from the grotesque political statements, i.e. there is no formalist divide between the fascist apologizer and the third-rate producer.

It’s been said a million times, but I don’t think dissecting guy’s behavior will lead to anything worthwhile. Seems apparent at this point that he’s dealing with some sort of mental illness.

if you follow the gleam to the bottom of the sunken place you just find a red hat

i feel bad for him. he made music that was meaningful to me when i was young. he is clearly struggling with something and he never struck me as a bad person but then again i don't know him so who knows.

he just said he wants to abolish the 13th amendment.

idek what to make of the fact that that song is probably going to be his biggest hit in the greater part of the past decade (not counting the weird rihanna/paul mccartney collab). like, it's sticking. i would say there's something ~interesting~ going on with the adele givens clip and how she is presented in its video + i guess the performance but otherwise the song is ass from top to bottom.

i like the video

with the 13th amendment i think he clarified and said it was the exclusion clause he wanted to get rid of. he doesn't think prisoners should be used as forced labor.

noted constitutional expert Kanye West

You and he should realize that when Scalia, Bork, Alito, and the rest of the Roberts Five and their fellow travelers espouse "original intent" they mean "a Constitution without the Reconstruction amendments." Take this bit of advice to Facebook and wherever our gargoyle relatives chew on their spite: when they say "states rights" respond, "The Fourteenth Amendment and the Civil War made states right the cry of separatists and traitors."

every SCOTUS since Hughes has incorporated the Bill of Rights through the Due Process Clause. Conservatives want to return us to the Taney era.

i'm obviously no friend to constitutional originalism

i was just saying that kanye wasn't advocating we bring slavery back

yet when he endorses Trump that's what he's doing

fair enough

with the 13th amendment i think he clarified and said it was the exclusion clause he wanted to get rid of. he doesn't think prisoners should be used as forced labor.

Did he say more (in addition to the original comment where he explicitly called for the abolition of the amendment) than this?:

the 13th Amendment is slavery in disguise meaning it never ended We are the solution that heals

not abolish but. let’s amend the 13th amendment We apply everyone’s opinions to our platform

i felt like it was implied in the first tweet when he said "We will provide jobs for all who are free from prisons as we abolish the 13th amendment. Message sent with love.” He unites the idea of abolishing the 13th amendment with something to do with freeing prisoners and giving them jobs. and then said that the way the 13th amendment is, it is "slavery in disguise," which made me think that he was talking about how the 13th amendment currently doesn't cover prisoners, who are often made to work for way under minimum wage.

admittedly, i'm filling in some gaps here, but i think that's what he was saying.

that is what he's saying, but he's also taken by a grifter who flatters his own grandiose sensibilities and makes time for him in a way that obama did not.

oh for sure

i mean it's a dumb comparison but if u remember the movie hook, kanye is peter's son, obama is peter pan, and hook is trump.

like fuck you dad, evil man believes in my baseball dreams and all you wanna do is work/not let me in your cool magic group.

he was incredible during the yeezus tour. didn't stop for over two hours.

pfft, stevie wonder plays three hours straight and he's in his 60s.

yeah but kanye kept jumping up and down on this mountain. and then he stopped for a half hour and lectured us about how he designed the mountain. "this shit is, like, well thought out."

Yeah, two hours? Um. Macca does 3, and he's 100.

yeah but kanye kept jumping up and down on this mountain. and then he stopped for a half hour and lectured us about how he designed the mountain. "this shit is, like, well thought out."

― Trϵϵship, Sunday, September 30, 2018 10:04 PM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

so kanye does really disorganized ted talks