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Kanye West

“Wake Up Mr. West!” – The Culture of Kanye

I’ll be brief. There are, possibly, two larger ways in which to understand and make sense of entertainer, part-time genius and iconoclast, Kanye West. The first and most popular way to see him is as a troubled individual who suffered a mental breakdown following the death of his mother. This resulted in him being a […]

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Kanye West, Hip-Hop’s Confederate Coon

Kanye West has slid down a slope of ingratiating insanity that I’ve pinpointed has been since his mother died.  The Kayne that I grew to love that produced the higher learning albums of “College Dropout,” “Late Registration,” and “Graduation” had morphed into this abstract aesthetic by the time “808s & Heartbreak” that left many of us […]

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