There was the sense, however, that West was working toward something, and then on April 19 there it was. It was weird, but Kanye West fans handle weird just fine, so long as it’s just weird. He posted lots of his fashion concepts, including photos of shoes that appear to take their inspiration from lawnchairs and spaceships, or lawnchair spaceships. He was going to write a book-except his tweets were the book, and he wasn’t really writing one. After reopening his Twitter account earlier this month following a long period of deactivation, it first appeared that Kanye had become a purveyor of scattershot, if banal, self-help maxims and weird stream-of-consciousness thoughts. West opened up his freshest round of controversy on Twitter this week, after a series of tweets proclaiming what appears to be a rejection of much of the black-activist thought that has been associated with his work, and an embrace of Trump. That’s why his newfound-and loudly tweeted about-admiration of fellow star Donald Trump shouldn’t be all that surprising. The rapper and producer has become a pulsar of nihilism, an object to be followed closely only if one wants to have their faith in humans tested. It’s worth wondering if, some untold number of years in the future, contemporaries will reflect on West and struggle to remember past the questionable comments and erratic behavior to even recognize his brilliant artistic contributions. Each new controversy- each paparazzi fight, each “ BILL COSBY INNOCENT,” each repackaging of ratty apocalypse couture as expensive fashion, each “multiracial women only” casting call-instead of burying him, only builds up higher and higher until it somehow becomes the very thing that grounds him. The scandals are like sediment in the delta of Kanye West.
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