I’m still working and thinking and writing my own way about the relationships people like me – terminally online, 40-ish and once Kanye West’s stans – have with Kanye West today. Sure, Kanye (who has legally changed his name to “Ye”, but will remain “Kanye” here for the sake of continuity) says and does things that are dumb, ignorant, ill-formed, wrong, unhealthy, disjointed, immoral. He’s thirsty for someone, someone, to validate his current gust, and they’re thirsty for Black mouthpieces to validate their hatred. Though I’m not clear on one thing — so completely unambiguous — on one thing: Kanye is a bore. Kanye used to be my favorite artist and actually still can be because his old music is my favorite piece of music.
