Kanye has recently become a SI unit for Twitter Rants. The latest being him ranting to promote his new album ‘Life of Pablo’ which he changed its name for seven seventy-seven times before releasing it. Ok, am kidding, right?
He took the rant on a higher notch of declaring publicly that he is on $53 million debt and even begged Facebook CEO, Mark Zuckerberg, to help him – not yet clear if he wanted Zuckerberg to help him by rescuing him from the Kardashians or he simply wanted help to settle the $53million debt or he simply wanted a free PR to help promote his new album.
Kanye’s recent behavior on Twitter—maddening and maniacal; scattered and just barely sane; frustrating and littered with occasional specks of feckless lucidity—synopsizes his pattern of perplexing behavior over the last half-decade.
His music, once the soundtrack for post-bougie black life, has become progressively esoteric and inaccessible. His obsession with fashion and mainstream validation vacillates from merely annoying to downright destructive. He has been messy, unapologetically narcissistic, occasionally mean, consistently misogynistic, and, now, kin of the Kardashians
Kanye could be on a serious drugs overdose. Not long ago, his former co-writer, Rhymefest, quitted working with Kanye citing that the rapper could be in Mental Illness and that he urgently needed counseling. We all know that mental illness is not caused by a running nose.
As I write this, he’s clinging on to Kardashians. His dignity and reputation are already dead. It would be inhuman not to feel a massive jolt of sympathy for a one-time respected Rapper as he faces his greatest challenge
Mental Illness can be cured. Many have survived similarly catastrophic blows and emerged stronger and better from the emotional wreckage. They, though, didn’t marry a Kardashian.
Note that it’s not like I hate Kardashians. I admire their work ethic and business acumen. Whilst also acknowledging that their billion-dollar global family brand, despite the fact that they have built it on an entirely false edifice of transitory talentless fame.
I don’t blame them for this; I blame society for making them look bigger than they actually are. The Kardashians have survived and thrived longer than their peers because they’ve shown greater drive, determination, smarts and creativity.
But those sucked into their crazy world need to be very careful it doesn’t also suck them down in the process.
Kanye started dating Kim in 2010 after he broke up with Amber Rose. He had an incredible musical career then. He was focused, intense, combative, and brilliant. Then he fell in love with a Kardashian and his private life became public property.
When your private life becomes public property there’s no ability to control the beast. Your human qualities and frailties are exposed to millions. Everywhere you go, everyone knows everything about you.
It takes a very advanced degree of narcissism and the hide of a thousand rhinos to deal with that kind of scrutiny. Kanye, unlike the family, he married into, was too sensitive, too vulnerable. The only refuge he could turn to was drugs.
On recently concluded Grammys awards, South African Comedian, Trevor Noah, Twitted, “Kendrick is what Kanye would have been if the Kardashians didn’t get him”
It couldn’t be truer this is a natural (and clever) approximation of their respective trajectories—creatively, culturally, and even racially. Kanye’s first three LPs spoke to and spoke for black people the same way Kendrick has done to “To Pimp a Butterfly” album.
The young Kendrick scooped 5 wards out the eleven categories he’d been nominated for. Kanye once, optimistically, looked destined to Kendrick Lamar’s recent achievements
He lost the direction when he involved himself with the Kardashians. The sad, tragic truth about him is that he couldn’t keep up with the Kardashians. And he should never have tried it in the first place
