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21st century was a person it would be
kanye west egotistical narcissistic
materialistic miserable and politically
and spiritually atomized are just some
of the parallels but no one can take
away from kanye his genius talent he has
thrust hip-hop into becoming the
lifeblood of millennials and zoomers
through a mix of impeccable beats and
auto-tuned hims kanye has elevated a
generation soul and it's through this
music and his clothing lines that kanye
has amassed over 2 billion
allowing kanye to form connections with
some of the world's most influential
people all of this while being imbued by
religious faith the expectations
following a life of international praise
billions of dollars and an array of
powerful connections might have been one
of fulfillment meaning and happiness
however the reality for kanye has been a
completely different picture
kanye has been labelled mentally
deranged his family is broken in front
of the world he's lost access to his
children shunned by the legacy media and
humiliated by the hollywood elite on the
surface he has it all but kanye has very
little left in the inside and ironically
the very attributes that made him
successful were instrumental in his
downfall but to understand how kanye
became such a tragic paradox of the
society that made him we need to look at
the whole picture from the start kanye
wasn't destined to be a rapper in fact
kanye began his adult life as a painter
studying at chicago state university
however he soon enough realized that his
true passion was in music he'd always
dipped his toes into the musical world
but he didn't have anything to show for
it so at the age of 20 kanye dropped out
of college to fully devote himself to
his dream spending all day at his
telemarketing job and working until 4am
pursuing his dream of working in the rap
world and eventually all this hard work
paid off and within a year kanye has
secured one of his first big contracts
selling a beat to chicago rapper gravity
for eight thousand dollars soon enough
kanye was making a name for himself as a
producer working with artists like nasa
nemanja and then four years later in
2000 kanye was signed as a producer by
rockefeller records this brought him
into direct contact with jay-z who he'd
become to partner with over the coming
years but at rockefeller kanye was also
working on hit songs for alyssa keys and
ludicrous among others but this wasn't
fulfilling enough kanye couldn't express
his true thoughts kanye's true
aspirations was to also become a rapper
however this was a risky move it would
mean sacrificing his cushy be making job
and potentially some of the partnerships
he'd gained from it and then just before
releasing the album kanye was hit by a
traumatic car crash
although instead of letting this set him
back kanye channeled this frustration
into inspiration for his album writing
his song through the wire after his jaw
was wide shot after the accident and
eventually after all the strife kanye
released his fast album to massive
critical acclaim earning two grammy
nominations for his first album it was
at this point that kanye's breakthrough
was assured later releasing his second
album to even greater success critics
would praise kanye's meaningful lyrics
and crisp production since then kanye
has with few exceptions found success in
nearly all of his endeavors as an artist
he's enjoyed the adoration of millions
with his unique style and as a
businessman kanye has become one of the
richest musicians on the planet only
much of his success to his keen sense of
the fashion world and while kanye's
egotistical and outspoken personality
often landed him in hot water his
aggressive creativity has been a much
stronger catalyst for his fame and
fortune his small and ego confidence and
artistic talent makes his music stand
out from the rest because unlike most
mainstream rap kanye's music serves to
elevate one's energy while on the other
hand most mainstream rap serves as the
background music behind gang violence
and stabbings casting kids adrift in the
hopeless malays for fried chicken shops
and stained alleyways but with kanye's
music it feels like you're drinking an
espresso motivating you to follow your
destiny i'm just the espresso
i'm just a shot in the morning to get
you going and for most of kanye's career
it's this mix of his huge ego
unrelenting narcissism and uplifting
music that rose him to the top but while
his popularity was hitting an all-time
high for kanye it would be around the
same time that his popularity would go
from a blessing to a curse
in this time kanye's outlandish behavior
rocketed his fame and granted kanye
access into the upper echelons of the
celebrity hierarchy and what better
reward for his exorbitant wealth grand
ego and relentless narcissism than a
wife called kim kardashian one of the
world's most vacuous plastic empty
figurines a woman who represents nothing
but a gaping vacuum of feckless fucuity
so from 2011 onwards kim and kanye fell
in love and in 2013 their first child
north west was born everything was
perfect or so it seemed because behind
this golden facade were cracks that
couldn't be ignored the heavy weight of
such a fake and holy lifestyle was
taking a toll on kanye now this isn't
unusual there actually seems to be a
consistent pattern of celebrities
breaking away from the celebrity bubble
russell brand joe rogan morrissey and
jim carrey but none received so much
vicious pushback from the establishment
as kanye west this all started when
kanye would begin voicing his political
and social concerns in multiple
interviews kanye would describe his
frustrations with the victim mentality
being instilled in black americans
claiming that this victimhood mentality
is what keeps black people docile and
easily controlled by groups like black
lives matter racism is a dated concept
it's not an actual
thing that even means anything you know
it's something that was used to hold
people back in the past but now there's
been so many leaps and breaking of the
rules that it's like it's played out
like you know
like a style from the you know
1800s or something the controversy
around these statements would only
continue to budget especially when kanye
posted a selfie wearing a make america
great again hat saying quote my maga hat
is signed he would then go on to say
things like how obama was in office for
eight years and yet chicago never
changed continually attacking the
establishment democrats so of course the
washington post declared kanye an
alt-right darling with buzzfeed claiming
that kanye was becoming radicalized and
cnn adding that kanye needed to be
cancelled it was clear that kanye was
now the next big target for the mob
these sorts of ridiculous things that
are usually promoted by white
nationalists by fringe groups by fringe
individuals mostly on the internet uh
that promote racist ideas but what
scared the establishment the most was
that kanye wasn't alone with other
rappers like chance the rapper defending
kanye claiming black people don't have
to be democrats but even more
importantly with this huge influence
over the hearts and minds of millions
kanye's rhetoric was breaking down the
narratives perpetuated by the government
and media his counter narratives the
dominant cultural institutions on the
topics of abortion black on black
violence and the support of trump
brought kanye heated pushback eventually
culminating in kanye getting suspended
from twitter and ridiculed by the media
hollywood the entertainment industry and
the music industry
radio lying to you
that can't play when they want to play
because
soon enough the cultural institutions
and celebrities that praised kanye's ego
and success were now his biggest enemies
and after kanye released a statement to
tmz claiming the slavery is a choice
kanye's life would begin to take a very
dark turn it was after the statement
that kanye was forcibly taken into a
mental hospital in 2016 where he would
be stuffed with pills
and they medicated me
for saying that for having that opinion
and saying it out loud after making too
many statements that didn't fit into the
cultural narrative they would use
kanye's forced hospitalization to make
him look crazy to make sure that no one
took him seriously i just tell the truth
and telling the truth is crazy and a
world full of lies so kanye was now
drugged up hillary by the media and
stuck in a vicious lifestyle of showbiz
and entertainment by being confined and
boxed into this lifestyle of medication
vacuous celebritism narcissism and
mockery for his christian political
views kanye's genius was now decimated
the medication [ __ ] with your
creativity
it [ __ ] with all kinds of things or it
blocked my ability to channel what god
wanted me to do
the pills the hospitalization the toxic
celebrity lifestyle made kanye a shell
of who he really was the ingredients to
his initial success had been turned
against him by the high society he'd
been so desperate to enter this grade
kanye's personality tranquilizing and
sedating him into a passive numbness but
luckily for kanye these actions would
only serve to catalyze his impassioned
beliefs becoming even more involved in
the political sphere with nothing to
lose he would go out of his way to meet
and discuss social issues with trump and
the white house all to the outrage of
blue check marks and giant media
companies like cnn what i saw was a
minstrel show today him in front of all
of these white people mostly white
people
embarrassing himself
and embarrassing
americans but mostly african-americans
and now all of a sudden he is the person
who represents the african-american
community he doesn't this was an
embarrassment kanye's mother is rolling
over in her grave kanye was now risking
everything his family his career his
connections and influence but still he
would put down all his chips for his
most ambitious project yet becoming the
president of the united states quote we
must now realize the promise of america
by trusting god unifying our vision and
building our future i am running for
president of the united states hashtag
2020 vision kanye would then later claim
that his true calling in life was to be
the leader of the free world i believe
that my calling is to be
the leader of the free world while
public figures like elon musk rushed to
a support his presidential campaign was
only seen as a meme at best and a
delusional ego trip by most with his
presidential campaign being met with
suspicion for just being a marketing
ploy for his upcoming donder album and
there was some credence to this i mean
his whole campaign contained very little
substance with no organizing or
concentrated promotion in fact kanye's
campaign even missed the filing deadline
to appear on the ballot as an
independent candidate in the last six
states with these political plans and
presidential objectives being widely
mocked being an incoherent wishy-washy
dream i mean you will be the
commander-in-chief of the greatest army
the world has ever known if you're in
that position and we have to deal with
some sort of a
military action with china what if china
takes over taiwan what if they invade
taiwan
what if
something happens with syria what if
something happens with iran what if
something happens with russia
and you
have to make decisions about military
action have you thought about this
it was clear that this was far from a
serious presidential run evidenced by
his lack of clarity disorganization and
chaotic rallies i mean his very first
presidential rally resulted in him
breaking down in tears about the
potential abortion of his child
with all this disorganization model
political objectives and chaotic
presidential rallies kanye's chances of
winning were slim to say the least the
only thing that could save his campaign
was support from the socialites
surrounding him but most like gopro and
his wife would be quick to tell him to
stop his political campaign and those on
the left who initially supported kanye's
announcement of george bush in 2005
would now be using the same arguments
against him george bush doesn't care
about black people kanye's big gamble
was now turning into a disaster
with his swollen ego being surrounded by
yes men and holly reality stars kanye
seemed to genuinely believe he would
impact politics and while his views
might seem universally popular he had no
alliance from the right or left his
connections to trump and mega church
preachers like joel osteen alienated him
from the left and his racial politics
and vocal supports of men like malcolm x
alienated kanye from the right all of
which resulting in an embarrassing 60
000 votes out of 160 million votes or in
other words not point north 375 of the
vote most of which were entirely joke
votes this embarrassing outcome was one
of the first major blows to kanye's ego
but it would only get worse from that
because in the same time as kanye's
failing presidential campaign was his
failing marriage the first sign of this
was during kanye's unsuccessful
presidential campaign when kanye would
release personal information about kim
and their family west then tweeted and
deleted a series of statements about how
kim was trying to quote lock him up and
how she wants a divorce and then by 2021
it was revealed that kim had began
filing for divorce and this wasn't just
any old divorce this was a whole beast
of its own trapping kanye into an
isolating box that would drive anyone
else insane now as i already mentioned
kanye had become increasingly more
religious and political as he grew into
fatherhood and it was this breakaway
from the holy fake entertainment
industry that inevitably caused a
breakaway from his family a family known
to be one of the most plastic vacuous
families in the upper echelons of high
society but unfortunately for kanye who
was only once he had his children did he
realize how trapped he really was
resulting in kanye often taken to social
media to discuss how he feels that the
kardashians actively trying to brainwash
him with medication conforming to turn
down his black heritage for marketing
purposes with kim's mum threatening to
cut him out of the family entirely if he
did not silence his often controversial
views so it should be no surprise that
once the divorce was initiated kanye
felt the full wrath of the media his
family and the entertainment bubble
against him kanye was now spiritually
politically and socially atomized he was
now piloted as a crazy radical
right-wing stalker kanye's often said in
recent interviews that this is an
intentional smear campaign by the family
with him even naming kim's publicist is
leaking specific quotes to the press to
fan the flames kanye would then see his
wife go on snl to laugh at the divorce
and kanye's behavior finishing off the
show by kissing pete davidson and that
is when kanye's life would turn
completely upside down
you see kanye had everything he had all
the fame and fortune he could have
dreamed of the only things he now didn't
have was his wife and children in the
following months kanye would be barred
from visiting his children's birthday
parties having to go through a screen of
kim's security before even saying hi to
his children and while kanye was stopped
from seeing his children by kim's
security pete davidson would now be
playing with his own kids and then to
make things worse kanye's child north
would create a tiktok account and go
live on the app to millions kanye
immediately requested his children stay
off social media but this request was
never taken seriously in fact kim
actually made north a tiktok account and
helped her post on it every day in
response kanye would come out with
multiple angry social media posts
claiming that quote world what do i do
i've asked her as a father a million
times to keep north of social media she
agrees and then helps her do it the
media says i'm the bad guy please help
me and then in response to this ongoing
feud p davidson would text kanye about
being in bed with his wife and calling
kanye a little internet [ __ ] boy and
ever since kanye has been on a downward
spiral propelled not only by his
opinions fame family and ego but also by
the establishment he was so desperate to
enter the media that catalysed his fame
now relishes his demise kanye's gotten
his life to a position where he could
succeed at anything a billionaire world
famous rapper with an elite clothing
line and an array of powerful
connections he'd achieved nearly
everything he wanted but it was through
gaining these achievements he started to
realize how toxic the celebrity
lifestyle truly was he understood how
isolating the me first ethos of the
elite is and by understanding how
poisonous the ideologies and belief
systems propagated by the dominant
culture were kanye was trapped into a
corner he could either sell his
creativity in seoul bloating himself
with pills and letting his children and
mind rot under the light of a warped
celebrity culture or he could turn his
back on the system that made him famous
and successful and by bravely choosing
the latter kanye is now single detached
from his children and shunned by those
around him currently residing in a mega
mansion all to himself in his own words
i lost my spouse i'm the only
billionaire sleeping on the couch if any
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by our postmodern society it would be
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