Kanye West Is Culture (a re-post, for perspective, from August 2010)

“No one man should have all that power”

While thoroughly shocking, what Kanye West has accomplished in a string of tweets praising United States President Donald Trump actually pales by comparison to what he did to pop culture when he first signed up for Twitter in 2010. Most impressively, what he accomplished in his first three weeks on Twitter eight years ago, he’s done in roughly half of the time during his previously mentioned 2018 reactivation. Thus, I have unearthed what then was a “must read” blog post I wrote in 2010 about Kanye for sake of perspective. It reads eerily accurate in retrospect. Enjoy.

Like all great black men, Kanye West has a God complex. As the most innovative man in hip-hop since Afrika Bambaataa, Kanye West as a producer transcended the genre. As an artist, his persistence in resolving the multitude of issues with his own life and with understanding the nature of how unfairly the universe operates in sound and rhyme transcended music. And in boldly declaring that Taylor Swift didn’t deserve to win a 2009 MTV Video Music Award, he transcended justice. Now, in the prelude to his forthcoming release Dark Twisted Fantasy, Mr. West is on a mission to not just transcend hip-hop, all of the music industry, and the nature of justice, but he is instead on a…