He's running
Kanye West certainly knows how to cause a stir. On Monday, the 45-year-old rapper presented his YZY SZN 9 collection in Paris wearing a black shirt with the slogan "White Lives Matter." The front of the shirt featured the Pope's face.
Several models in the presentation wore various versions of the same design, according to videos posted on social media. Conservative pundit Candace Owens attended the surprise show and wore the same shirt, but in white.
George Bush doesn't care about Black people
kanye 2006
and neither do I
kanye 2022
I mean being rich does measurably and reliably change your brain. He's been rich for a long time now.
You're in a bad place when Kim Kardashian is the one delivering the Reality Checks
The dude is mocking victims of racially motivated police brutality just to stay relevant in pop culture. How pathetic and sad.
It wasn't a huge leap. Honestly, this has been happening for years.
I'm actually listening to "Power" right now and there's some yikes shit in those lyrics too. IIRC that album was WELL before Trump.
HE'S 45? I thought the guy was in his 30's. It would somewhat excuse the behavior. Maybe social media has made it more obvious, but so many of these celebrities never grew out of their edgy teenage phase and it's embarrassing to watch. This is like if my 52 year old uncle started doing TikTok dances and calling people "sus" at a barbecue.
HE’S 45? I thought the guy was in his 30’s. It would somewhat excuse the behavior.
would it tho
A lot of people in their 30's still hold on to their early 20's so it wouldn't be that surprising.
Kanye has been a famous hip hop artist for almost 20 years now, it wouldn't make sense for him to be in his 30s. His most critically acclaimed album was released 12 years ago.
Most of the 90s and 00s artists are in their 40s or 50s now but still performing. Hip hop isn't just a music genre for young people.
I am once again asking treat defenders to stop defending this particular narcissistic asshole and making excuses for him, no matter how much you like his music.
For real
He had his run and he's proven that he doesn't want to get help or try to do better
We're never going to get a Kanye West that is a decent dude, so he can go and fuck the fuck right off
we’re never going to get a Kanye west that releases bangers again, there is literally zero reason to defend him
It was kind of funny, in an early YouTube sort of way.
She showed up to the same event wearing her own white lives matter shirt
(this is not a joke, here is the photo)
spoiler
https://twitter.com/PopCrave/status/1577007044514951169
I'm purely upset that he posed next to Candace Owens. Otherwise, yet another ez troll by the clown prince of the music industry
i question the intelligence of anyone who likes him still. songs are shit, person is shit. maybe Kim ruined him, but he was probably always like this because a persons base personality doesnt really change much., most people are just changing the habits around their personality.
songs and albums are fucking garbage. Life of pablo, kids see ghosts…what the absolute fuck is that shit? Garbage, just garbage. Songs that don’t pop, don’t bang, aren’t catchy, or profound.
Yeezus Kanye and this guy are two entirely different artists, the later obviously being a fucking fraud.
no way you said kids see ghost is shit :tux: :tux: :tux:
you gotta be trolling ksg literally solos 99% of music released in the 2010s
name a good song off that album that isn’t kid cudi just crying into a microphone
Feel the Love (Ft. Pusha T)
Fire
4th Dimension (Ft. Louis Prima)
Freeee (Ghost Town, Pt. 2) (Ft. Ty Dolla $ign)
Reborn
Kids See Ghosts (Ft. Yasiin Bey)
Cudi Montage
Yeezus Kanye and this guy are two entirely different artists,
kanye flirted with confederate iconography w/yeezus, so, braindead point.
this is who he was the entire time. he's a bad guy, he always has been. the idea that, say, pablo, is an artist departure from yeezus (in quality), is entirely revisionist, and completely informed by irrelevant political considerations.
Its possible to like both.
Also possible to like music and not like the musician. Bush, Morrisey, Aerosmith, the Charlie Daniels Band - they are all good at making sounds.
Lol Life of Pablo is his last classic. Leftists love to express their shit taste in media
I only know Power (because of Saints' Row the Third) and I like it, so I assume that's his one good song.
I'll be straight up - that LP is the only thing by him that I've ever listened to and goddamn that is a good LP
the old kanye was an opportunistic bourgeois narcissist too. Songs slapped though
I'm so glad I had listened to Daft Punk so I never really saw the appeal of his music. Most of it seems to be pretty gimmicky from what I have heard of it.
He has a lot of good music, a little overrated, and everything about him outside of his music should be ignored.
The problem with good art is that everyone apes it until the original sounds cliche.
using autotune 'wrong' for artistic purposes:
Cher > T-Pain > Snoop Dogg > Kanye
No one is calling him a c*ck, no one is calling him a soyboy, no one is calling him a race-traitor...
Interesting.
I am once again very happy with my decision to basically not like any artist that non-ironically flogs their t-shirts.
I don't think Kanye was ever really "all there," but it seems like he's been decidedly off the meds since his mother died. He's likely going to be doing erratic shit like this indefinitely, and I seriously doubt he wore this shirt with the intention of defending or perpetuating white supremacy.
If you want to know his actual political beliefs, there's that interview he gave to Forbes in 2020
here's an excerpt:
“A lot of times just like political parties they feel all Blacks have to be Democrat. This man, Joe Biden, said if you don’t vote for me, then you are not Black. Well, act like we didn’t hear that? We act like we didn’t hear that man say that? That man said that. It’s a rap. We gonna walk, all the people. Jay-Z said it best. For the other candidates, I just gracefully suggest y’all bow out—Trump and Biden, gracefully bow out. It’s God’s country, we are doing everything in service to God, nobody but God no more. I am in service of our Lord and savior, Jesus Christ, and I put everything I get on the line to serve God.”
And of course, the paragraph entitled "On the Wakanda management model,":
“A lot of Africans do not like the movie [Black Panther] and representation of themselves in…Wakanda. But I’m gonna use the framework of Wakanda right now because it’s the best explanation of what our design group is going to feel like in the White House…That is a positive idea: you got Kanye West, one of the most powerful humans—I’m not saying the most because you got a lot of alien-level superpowers and it’s only collectively that we can set it free. Let’s get back to Wakanda . . . like in the movie in Wakanda when the king went to visit that lead scientist to have the shoes wrap around her shoes. Just the amount of innovation that can happen, the amount of innovation in medicine—like big pharma—we are going to work, innovate, together. This is not going to be some Nipsey Hussle being murdered, they’re doing a documentary, we have so many soldiers that die for our freedom, our freedom of information, that there is a cure for AIDS out there, there is going to be a mix of big pharma and holistic.”
A lot of Africans do not like the movie [Black Panther] and representation of themselves in…Wakanda. But I’m gonna use the framework of Wakanda right now because it’s the best explanation of what our design group is going to feel like in the White House…That is a positive idea: you got Kanye West, one of the most powerful humans—I’m not saying the most because you got a lot of alien-level superpowers and it’s only collectively that we can set it free. Let’s get back to Wakanda . . . like in the movie in Wakanda when the king went to visit that lead scientist to have the shoes wrap around her shoes. Just the amount of innovation that can happen, the amount of innovation in medicine—like big pharma—we are going to work, innovate, together. This is not going to be some Nipsey Hussle being murdered, they’re doing a documentary, we have so many soldiers that die for our freedom, our freedom of information, that there is a cure for AIDS out there, there is going to be a mix of big pharma and holistic.”
:jesse-wtf:
I don't know the full context. But at best I think he's saying there's some kind of magical technology secrets the US government is hiding and a mass movement should seize those and create a new society based on learning that hidden information
it sounds like he's trying to rephrase certain things I've heard in the black conservative sphere, like the emphasis on information and secret medical innovations.
like he’s been decidedly off the meds since his mother died.
I'm not an expert on Kanye but I thought this was common knowledge since like 2012?
I think so too, but people keep on talking about Kanye West as if he's not unmedicated and having manic and erratic episodes, so I'm going to keep bringing it up. This entire comment section is people talking about how he's got garbage ideas and politics because he wore this shirt, which is besides the point when he's not conforming to standards which most would generalize as "sane". I'm not saying that in a preoperative or judgmental sense, just to state that it's a bit unfair to judge him for his actions or statements when he arguably is impaired by a mental condition.
Politics is insane and Kanye is insane.
But to say his politics are good, you really need to ignore the people he surrounds himself with
