Tag: Kanye West
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Kanye West is not very smart
A slightly amended victory lap post from 2014. I’ve never understood the media’s default acceptance of Cosby defender Kanye West’s self-proclaimed genius. The evidence says otherwise. 1.) He married a Kardashian. 2.) He says things like this (while defending his 45-minute toast to himself): And what I talked about in it was the idea of…
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Ye shall overcome
Kanye West continues to insist celebrities are as oppressed today as blacks were in the 1960s — an absurd premise likely to be rationalized by media lickspittles. Kanye says there’s a parallel between blacks fighting for civil rights in the ’60s and celebs fighting for theirs today: “I mean in the ’60s people used to…
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The Malcontent’s Most Annoying People, Places & Things of 2013: Kanye’s enablers
Kanye West and his media enablers insist that he’s a genius, but the evidence indicates otherwise. While paying tribute to Michael Jordan during a Chicago concert, West called the former NBA legend one of “the most important people in our civilization” before launching into a diatribe about how the Bulls shortchanged Jordan by not giving…
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Someone give Russell Simmons a box of Kleenex
Russell Simmons, who in 2011 scolded us for “dragging (Chris Brown) away from his art,” just wrote the year’s most embarrassing mash note: The Genius That Is Kanye West by Russell Simmons I recently sat down with Ye in New York and got the chance to hear about his hopes and ambitions, his frustrations and contradictions,…
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The era of the a-hole
Black or white, liberal or conservative, rapper or politician — it doesn’t matter. If you want to make a name for yourself, be an asshole. Humility is so last century.
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