Kanye West's new 2018 album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmZjaYdS3fA

At one point, Kimmel asked Kanye about the situation where families were separated at the border. “Whether we like his personality or not, his actions are really what matter. You so famously and so powerfully said ‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people.’ It makes me wonder, what makes you think that Donald Trump does?” Kanye then went silent for a few seconds, and the show went to commercial.

https://pitchfork.com/news/kanye-talks-ye-lyrics-trump-support-on-kimmel-watch/

lol

Imagining Ye doing this

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=novZXnYS5n8&feature=youtu.be

Why, God?

So there's supposed to be another one coming out this weekend.

It's amazing how quickly I've gone from salivating over a Kanye release to being ambivalent about one. Regardless of the personal drama, the quality of his stuff has dive-bombed this year. He probably just needs to slow down and stop releasing music for a while. High chance that this record won't be any good.

the I Love It single sure is underwhelming

if he'd announced a yeezus sequel at the start of the year i would have been very excited but now it's very hard to care

shocking that he's actually following through on releasing multiple albums in one year which he promised a bunch of times before but never delivered on

I tend to be a bit of a Kanye apologist when it comes to his music and I really love the Kids See Ghosts album — but even I think this is gonna suck

cautiously optimistic. how could this be worse than ye?

Hope it's called kan.

how could this be worse than ye?

Jesus not now https://t.co/EyTIDtnc9o

— luke oneil 🚽 (@lukeoneil47) September 27, 2018

He also described Donald Trump and InfoWars’ Alex Jones as “matrix-breakers,” and he falsely stated that there were only about 800 slaves in the United States in the 1800s. (In fact, it was almost 4 million.) And he said he wants to build a flying car factory in Chicago with Tesla alums and announced that “a woman’s pussy count goes back to zero” after undergoing any plastic surgery.

Anyway, if you’re still interested in hearing new Kanye music after all that,

this fucker needs to go away forever

^^

and announced that “a woman’s pussy count goes back to zero” after undergoing any plastic surgery.

seriously what the fuck dude.

Honestly waiting on the collaboration album between him and Billy Corgan at this point.

don't give him any ideas

Did he have a look at his bank account or something

My eyes are now wide open and now realize I’ve been used to spread messages I don’t believe in. I am distancing myself from politics and completely focusing on being creative !!!

— ye (@kanyewest) October 30, 2018

lmao

Kanye's trust in any fucking thing = easy come, easy go
Fans trust in Kanye = easy go, not so easy come back

thank god

I thought it was amusing that @Jack took ye's advice and plans to get rid of the like button (stupid).

Truly the most Kanye moment ever:

He donned the MAGA hat, met Trump at the WH, had other rappers insulting him online, and forced John Legend and Chance the Rapper into iPhone press releases

Nothing.

They put his name on some ill-designed sweaters and he disavowed within days

— Astead (@AsteadWesley) October 30, 2018

Trump put ye's name on sweaters?

yeah what prompted this

Tweet right before it:

I introduced Candace to the person who made the logo and they didn’t want their name on it so she used mine. I never wanted any association with Blexit. I have nothing to do with it.

— ye (@kanyewest) October 30, 2018

amazing, everyone loses

i think it also had something to do with the right wing violence this weekend because the tweet before that affirmed his support for asylum seekers.

what actually happened was he stabilized mentally. he wasn't himself in the oval office--his thoughts were shockingly disorganized.

...

Kanye being himself = acting like a fucking idiot

because that's who he is

cool

he's not the most articulate guy in the world but there's a difference between how he usually is and how he was that day

articulate eh

is "Imma let you finish" how he usually is or nah

yeah

he has trouble expressing himself in the moment and he sometimes makes self-deprecating jokes about it. it's not a crime. and it's also not the same thing as being in the throes of some kind of episode where you make wild connections no one can follow in front of news cameras

maybe he was just inspired by/following the example of our current rectal polyp of a president

i mean, there ins't a parallel there, i'm sorry. kanye's embrace of trump was always super idiosyncratic. he wasn't cynically leveraging racial animus in order to gain political power. he wasn't even attacking others.

he has a lot in common with Trump

obsessed with wealth and status, not particularly bright, overhyped, insecure, out of his depth etc

Trunp is one of the worst human beings on earth, he isn’t “an insecure,” “not too bright” guy who is “out of his depth” and suffers from bipolar disorder.

Kanye has the same flaws many of us do. Trump ix a monster.

what actually happened was he stabilized mentally.

treeship stop

the former is a value judgment, the latter is a set of characteristics - they are not mutually exclusive

xps

I left out that they're also both raging misogynists

he can't wind the clock back. before he could always be "george bush doesn't care about black people" kanye, whatever stupid shit he did, now he's eternally going to be "slavery was a choice" kanye, and no tweet is going to fix that

fwiw I'm not saying they're morally equivalent, just that there's a LOT of commonality there - plenty of subjects where both of them could look at the other and go "hey, that guy's just like ME!"

xp

Kanye is at least self-reflective at times and appears to have a sense of decency, compassion

that's true

Oi mates what is Blexit?