kanye west

"Got my designers in Paris and they don't have a VAT"

"I don't know what that means!"

"Noone knows what it means, but it's provocative, it gets the people going!"

http://i.imgur.com/Ycadx.png

http://www.etsy.com/listing/83599070/your-favorite-kanye-west-tweet-hand

http://img1.etsystatic.com/il_570xN.277563621.jpg

want / don't want / lol

want

It's been kind of amazing to me to see just how much people *hate* this guy these days. It's not hard to tell why he's disliked, I mean constant foot-in-mouth moments, the Swift/Beck incidents, his egotism; he knows what he's doing, it's all calculated.

But I recall the reactions being more "God, what a jackass" back during the Swift incident (which I also said), but now he's generating Nickleback levels of hate. What with the recent petition to remove him from the Glastonbury lineup that got 90,000 sigs (not going to happen), people are acting like he's the Antichrist. I don't even think he got this level of vitriol during his legendary "Bush doesn't care about white people" quote (his best moment IMO).

you play the heel long enough...

i find myself liking him more and more

That was his best moment. It's been downhill ever since.

Xxp

in the sense that he released his best album a few days before that, yeah it has

i think he absorbed some residual kardashian hate, another example of people being hated on disproportionately.

disproportionately to their "behavior" or whatever i mean

his legendary "Bush doesn't care about white people" quote

you might want to read that again (although the quote would be even better)

Lol oops

It's been kind of amazing to me to see just how much people *hate* this guy these days.

this is both jarring to see, and jarring when it's pointed out within the context of twitter spheres that are blindly devotional to kanye. people on all sides love to project stuff on to kanye and i don't think he lives up to any of it

Ha i assumed that misquote was intentional

Xp

http://kotaku.com/for-two-years-the-kanye-west-rpg-has-been-hiding-a-dis-1704673459

for your consideration.

Kanye's getting into bed with Ben Carson is the only time I've ever really thought damn maybe this guy is as big of an idiot as all the facebook friend i have from HS think he is.

Caramanica re 808s & Heartbreak done live at the Hollywood Bowl

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/28/arts/music/review-kanye-west-shines-light-on-his-darkest-hour.html?_r=0

On stage here, he played “808s” as a sort of Greek tragedy. Outfitted in druid chic, drapey garments in shades of white and off-white, Mr. West largely kept his energy centered and mellow. Backed by a small band and a medium-sized orchestra, he cast these songs as meditations, especially on tracks from the first half of the album like “Welcome to Heartbreak” and “Heartless.”

xp i think he's just being diplomatic...political... but where's the record?

"His politics—including his support of Donald Trump—fit under the “I don’t read shit” umbrella. He’s conflating contrarianism with bravery and intellectualism. To nonreading-ass niggas, people like Trump or Candace Owens are free thinkers—mavericks unafraid to challenge the status quo. But if he’d actually pick up a book (and not just any 48 Laws of Power-ass book, but the right books), he’d be aware of the danger of that type of contrarianism and aware that for people like Trump and Owens, their words aren’t about free thinking. They’re specifically and intentionally tethered to white resentment, which is also often tied to anti-intellectualism. They’re actually the antithesis of free thought. They don’t think. They incite.

Do you need to read a book to know all of this? No. Not at all. But not reading is particularly dangerous for someone like Kanye, who obviously possesses an extremely high musical intelligence and seems to be, at the very least, curious about politics. Because while there’s not much difference between his politics and the politics of the fake-smart niggas we personally know who get all of their information from YouTube, if we don’t want to listen to those cats, we can just lock the doors to their grandparents’ basements."

https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/kanyes-politics-are-what-happens-when-you-dont-read-boo-1825475113

ok the MAGA beats... are fire

like...reichstag fire?

Like should die in a fire?

“I’m full of shit ideas and here’s another one”

Kanye West

I could never have a Virgil in my circle and hold him back 'cause he makes me nervous
I wanna see my brothers flourish to their higher purpose

Why is this guy so amazing other than he’s a phenomenally obnoxious lapsed-frat-boy-who-can-read prick?

https://www.babble.com/celebrity/the-unusual-names-of-marissa-ribisi-and-beck-hansons-kids/

quacks like a duck etc

i was referring to the pusha t album..

it's great

hope it starts a trend of super-tight sub-25 minute rap albums

Isn't that trend already here? https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/considering-the-rise-of-the-super-short-rap-song/

those are songs not albums 👍

Read the whole thing.

you're right, my bad. Although a 21-minute album with only 7 tracks is still something of an anomaly

Yeah, sure. And if it's inspired by the youngsters, that honestly only makes me like the album more, it has just the slightest sense of 'get-off-my-lawn'-ness otherwise.

For what it's worth, I'm enjoying the Ski Mask album that came out a couple weeks ago as much as Daytona. It's 10 tracks, 21 minutes lol

I’m sick of this fucking clown

I know LDR gets flack for a lot of things but when she said that his conservative turn was "a loss for the culture", that was exactly right

Does anyone even have the energy to react to this at this point

just several thousand twitter eggs saying “ well, he’s better than either of the other guys running ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”

is there a kanye-epstein connection

Already seeing heavy bot push. They've been planning this!

he will be thwarted when thousands write him in as "kayne"

That's ok, he's got plastic with that on

Already seeing heavy bot push. They've been planning this!

― Dan I., Saturday, July 4, 2020 10:50 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

not planning enough to apparently get on the ballot in a bunch of states whose filing deadlines have past.

this is some fundraising grift, right?

isn't the Democratic party a fundraising grift? Sounds smart to come in after he can't get on the ballot in some states. You don't want to fuck around and accidentally win!

What a way for the series to go out. Couldnt have scripted it better.

20 seasons!

Hopefully a Kim spin off series awaits. I wouldnt want it to end before all the divorce drama takes place.

#KanyeWest's 'Jesus Is King' wins for Best Contemporary Christian Music Album At The 63rd GRAMMY Awards.
📸 Kevin Winter pic.twitter.com/04Xn9s1YNc

— Power 106 (@Power106LA) March 14, 2021

Trust me ... I WONT STOP pic.twitter.com/RmVkqrSa4F

— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020

obv don't know the category but there had to be better praise albums than that hot mess

its the typical grammys thing where for a more obscure category like that kanye is by far the most famous guy nominated so he gets it by default

This from a guy who stopped his Grammy performance to complain about not winning the year before.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZDWq6xE6X4

(to be fair he actually integrated it into the performance)

love when the broke guys dance-shove all the women offstage. a charming outing by one of our great Christian artists.

He later advised a Jewish Adidas manager to kiss a picture of Hitler every day, and he told a member of the company’s executive board that he had paid a seven-figure settlement to one of his own senior employees who accused him of repeatedly praising the architect of the Holocaust.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/27/business/kanye-west-adidas-yeezy.html

The Adidas team was huddled with Kanye West, pitching ideas for the first shoe they would create together. It was 2013, and the rapper and the sportswear brand had just agreed to become partners. The Adidas employees, thrilled to get started, had arrayed sneakers and fabric swatches on a long table near a mood board pinned with images.

But nothing they showed that day at the company’s German headquarters captured the vision Mr. West had shared. To convey how offensive he considered the designs, he grabbed a sketch of a shoe and took a marker to the toe, according to two participants. Then he drew a swastika.

This fucking guy

I had to read this a couple times before it sunk in to me that he was using the swastika in a disapproving manner.