kanye west and trump
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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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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…
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OK, Seriously: What Is Going on With Kanye and These Weirdo Tweets?
Kanye West is still on Twitter acting a damn fool, and we really need to have an honest discussion about it. What exactly is going on over there in the “pristine” white sunken place he has built for himself and his big-booty queen? On Wednesday, West took to Twitter to deliver his opinions on everything…
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Kanye West Doesn’t Care About Black People
Last year Panama Jackson, a man who, in the 14 years that we’ve known each other, has become one of my best friends, published a piece about his mother’s support of Donald Trump, and revealed how that ruined his relationship with her. Deciding to write this was very difficult for him; we had countless email,…