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Kanye West been playing with folks’ emotions over the past few days.
It’s a testament to his level of influence that he can take protracted social media breaks, return like he was never gone and have his nearly 15 million Twitter followers hang on to his every word like it’s gospel.
And boy, has that gospel smelled like asswater of late. Over the past week or so, West has been tweeting a lot of New-Age-y, faux-intellectual goofball sh*t that reads like he scanned the Cliffs Notes from a few of Oprah’s Book Club selections and then decided to disseminate the seeds of “wisdom” upon the masses.
Just take a look at these gems:
The more people contribute to real time global consciousness the faster we evolve
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 21, 2018
There’s love stories. Pain happiness. It’s 3 dementional. There’s taste touch sound. It’s the most entertaining for of entertainment. Just being. We believe time is a man made construct. Actually time and money are both man made currency. Because you can spend them both.
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 18, 2018
truth is my goal. Controversy is my gym. I’ll do a hundred reps of controversy for a 6 pack of truth
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 19, 2018
in life, we are all trained actors. When we’re born we’re ourselves and then one of the first things we’re thought is how to act. If you see a kid screaming at a restaurant because he feels something and can’t express himself in a conventional manner
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 18, 2018
Good stuff, ‘Ye. Glad to know you’re mulling over the state of sensory “dementions” and the suppressed desires of screaming babies so us plebs don’t have to. And, because Kanye stans lack the gift of discernment when it comes to his every move, they’re eating up everything he’s tweeting like they’re in an entry-level Scientology course.
It was all innocent enough until he reminded us how far he’s fallen since “George Bush doesn’t care about Black people.”
I love the way Candace Owens thinks
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 21, 2018
For the uninitiated, Candace Owens is a magna cum laude graduate of the “Stacey Dash School of Fine But Confused Black Women.” She espouses rugged conservatism, loves her some Donald Trump and routinely shits on Black Lives Matter.
Ol’ girl has seriously copped a time share in the Sunken Place.
Black Lives Matter protesters showed up to my @UCLA event to protest. Here is a video clip of me smacking them down with the truth; they’re a bunch of whiny toddlers, pretending to be oppressed for attention. pic.twitter.com/riBA0A3J1I
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 20, 2018
Are there any black people left that can’t see that @Beyonce and Jay-Z work full time for @TheDemocrats?
They are living proof that no matter how much money you have, you can still be a slave. pic.twitter.com/bZL3Z7HTfM
— Candace Owens (@RealCandaceO) April 6, 2018
Of course, West’s tweets will give Owens the profile she doesn’t deserve, and now all the poop-butt, rebel flag-waving, Fox News-loving ass-clowns (we see you Lara Ingraham, Roseanne Barr and Mark Dice) are embracing him like that one token Black dude that Kenny from The Cosby Show kept playing when he got older.
Kanye West Dismantles the Narrative by Praising Trump-Supporter Candace Owens: ‘Only Free Thinkers’ https://t.co/iY03K6vauK
— Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) April 23, 2018
bingo.
— Roseanne Barr (@therealroseanne) April 21, 2018
This is the tweet that’s going to make @RealCandaceO a star. Liberals and blacks living on the Democrat Plantation are already having a meltdown. ?
— Mark Dice (@MarkDice) April 21, 2018
This isn’t West’s first foray into MAGA-dom. He’s been an open homie of your white husband’s aunt’s president’s since he hit the White House, just like his mother-in-law. To his credit, though, West doubles down on his beliefs instead of turning bitch and deleting tweets when the dragging starts.
Just when I’d dismissed West on some “thiiiiis n—- right here” sh*t, he fires off a series of tweets that actually matter to me for real.
I’m hand producing all the albums I tweeted about. Been chopping samples from the sunken place ?Pusha May 25th My album June 1st me and Cudi June 8th and Teyana June 22nd and oh yeah…
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 22, 2018
Nas June 15th
— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) April 22, 2018
Are you kidding? A Kanye West-produced Nas album?!? We all know Nas’ beat selection is generally trashbag, but there’s no way West would give one of his original idols a whole album full of duds, right? And a new Pusha T album in a month? That news made me wanna throw my face on a pile of cocaine like Tony at the end of Scarface.
As he’s a constant bastion of controversy and member of the gonorrhea-strain-hosting Kardashian Klan, it’s easy sometimes to forget that West is actually a musical genius. The current zeitgeist demands that we not separate artists from their real-life beliefs and actions, but West being a Trump supporter, walking around looking like an Eminem superfan circa-2000 is not, like R. Kelly-bad. At least, it’s not enough to not get me excited about his new music.
All of this could be a genius marketing ploy—social media ridiculousness to bring attention to the fact that his music is about to own the summer of 2018. His vanity clearly won’t allow him to care about the fact that your broke, student loan-having, working-class ass thinks he’s in the Sunken Place.
My advice is to dismiss the fake-woke tweets, find a better role model and enjoy the music when it comes through. I, too, am aggravated that he gave props to Owens, but then, I don’t really care about his politics. Unless, he gives us another Yeezus…then I’ll jump on the drag Kanye bandwagon.
Dustin J. Seibert is a native Detroiter living in Chicago. Miraculously, people have paid him to be aggressively light-skinned via a computer keyboard for nearly two decades. He loves his own mama slightly more than he loves music and exercises every day only so his French fry intake doesn’t catch up to him. Find him at his own site, wafflecolored.com.
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