{"id":13899,"date":"2018-05-18T21:07:22","date_gmt":"2018-05-19T01:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/?p=13899"},"modified":"2020-08-25T15:15:16","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T19:15:16","slug":"abomination-obamas-nation-need-talk-kanye-west","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mdcthereporter.com\/staging\/8357\/abomination-obamas-nation-need-talk-kanye-west\/","title":{"rendered":"The Abomination of Obama\u2019s Nation: Why We Need to Talk About Kanye"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Hip-hop has always been an art of trailblazers. Artists have been pushing the envelope on what could be done musically for years, finding ways to not only push their respective genres but the medium of music as a whole. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Within the past 20-something years, albums such as Outkast\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ATLiens, <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Jay-Z\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Blueprint<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or even Danny Brown\u2019s <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Atrocity Exhibition <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">have found ways to break hip-hop out of a niche corner that many thought the genre to be in. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Even with the popularity rap has enjoyed, one artist has managed to embrace commercial influence while attaining his creative freedom. That artist being Chicago-based rapper Kanye West. <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Labeling Mr. West a genius is an understatement. The man has found countless ways to innovate and provoke discussion in the community, whether it\u2019s the use of samples, manipulating vocal tracks as if they were instruments or even just reinventing himself with concurrent releases for the past 14 years. His artistry can\u2019t be denied. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately, it\u2019s not his musical talent that\u2019s in the spotlight these days. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It all started on April 13, 2018. Kanye West is back on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Twitter<\/span><\/a> after a break and he is back to his usual antics right<\/span> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">before a new album. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It wasn\u2019t too bad. Yes, there was his usual pseudo-philosophical stuff but nothing that reaches \u201cBill Cosby is innocent\u201d levels of cringe-worthiness. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">If anything, Kanye\u2019s Twitter was a blessing. In the span of a couple of days, Mr. West not only announced his latest album, he also announced a collaboration between him and rapper Kid Cudi. Days later, he announced that he was producing new albums by Pusha T and Nas. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a fan, I was happy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately, that happiness came at a price. He began tweeting some erratic things, most notably an endorsement for President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mdcthereporter.com\/search\/?q=%22Donald%20J.%20Trump%22&amp;_siq_page=1&amp;_siq_sort=relevance\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Donald J. Trump<\/span><\/a>. That was not a big of a surprise considering he had supported him before, although he retracted that support shortly after. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It still is a concerning sight for sure. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kanye West is not only a big figure in the music world, he is an international celebrity. His influence can be seen everywhere, including in these recent outbursts on Twitter. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Here, Kanye\u2019s ignorance shines through by saying how he likes the way Trump thinks, describing the two as brothers and both having \u201cdragon energy.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Out of character? No. Kanye is natural-born contrarian. He thrives on drama and loves the attention, doing anything he can to get his name out there. Now that his album is coming out, he feels the need to promote it any way he can. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Unfortunately, this promotion is just proving to us how morally bankrupt a person can get just to sell an album. It\u2019s disgusting to see the man who proclaimed \u201cGeorge Bush doesn\u2019t care about black people\u201d on a Hurricane Katrina PSA drag himself like this. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yes, he\u2019s not outright aligning himself with a political party, as he\u2019s said on Twitter. He\u2019s merely attracted to the kind of person Trump is. Trump, like Kanye, is a cocky and power-hungry person who loves attention. The two of them are outspoken, have opinions on everything and need to deactivate their Twitter. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">What&#8217;s concerning is that Kanye is already messing with a divisive administration, something veterans of Nixon\u2019s era can attest to. As a celebrity and, most importantly, a black man who\u2019s had his fair share of issues with race in America, Kanye is in no position to say what he\u2019s saying. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At the time of writing this, Kanye has made more controversial statements, including a TMZ interview where he spoke on his opioid addiction and his view that slavery was a choice. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Look. Kanye West is a musical genius and nothing will change that. However, it is time we held our heroes to a much higher standard. Coming from someone who considers <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Devil in a New Dress<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> the best rap song of the decade, memorized every lyric to every song on <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yeezus<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and called <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Life of Pablo <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">the greatest album of 2016, that is a lot. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">At some point, Kanye either has to do some serious damage control to his promotional cycle or raise a white flag to the hip-hop genre as a whole.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Frankly, the latter is a possibility I would like to avoid.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hip-hop has always been an art of trailblazers. 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