People need to stop using words like “genius” and “auteur” for every asshole who puts out a decent piece of work. Also, being a “genius” in one field doesn’t prevent you from being a dumb fuck in every other field.

I was a huge Kanye fan. I used to read his complex style guide monthly back in HS. Loved his music and was even arrogant enough to defend it as “art”. I even fucked with “mentally depressed, tortured genius” Ye. Had his back to the end, but when a nigga starts repping Donald Trump, for whatever reason, I’m done with…

That is correct. And if anyone feels like he’s trying to take the “power back”, you see any Chinese Buddhists trying reclaim the Nazi symbol?

I don’t know when he stopped caring about Black men, but he hasn’t been here for Black women in a long time (along with 99% of modern male hip hop artists). I’ve always hated the song “Gold Digger” because it’s clearly only about Black women. Two Black men, Kanye and Jamie Foxx, who only had access to Black women…

You literally didn’t watch the video then. Like...whet?

I’ve been kind of critical of cancellations for first offenses, but how many chances have we given Kanye? Like, how mmany more times is he gonna have to show us he doesn’t want another chance?

That’s not even close to what he said. Rewatch the whole thing. He said the haves are morally responsible for the have nots.

I would pay at least a hundred dollars to watch Kanye watch Get Out.

Maybe you’ve got it backwards. It takes a special kind of crazy to think a Kardashian is a good idea.

Is it though? I’m bipolar and I can say bar none that I’ve fucked up my life in my manic phases, because they involved the police more than once. It fucking sucks. It might be his bipolar, but I have not once started to adopt alt right ideology when having a manic episode.

This is bipolar disorder. His family needs to get him help. He’s not too special or gifted to be affected by mental illness. It’s scary to believe your talented wonderful friend/family member might be sick. We romanticize the tortured genius bullshit too much.

Tupac on Donald Trump in 1992

It’s not like there weren’t any signs...

do this look like the sunken place

Every man who’s gotten involved with a Kardashian woman has gone off the deep end.

Kanye is a genius because he predicted his fall from grace. There are so many other Black people to uplift, nobody needs to waste their breath or energy on him any longer.

Kanye West cares about black people the same way Megyn Kelly cares about women, only when it effects them personally.

Let me guess, you’re the kinda guy who always calls his waitress by name in the most patronizing way imaginable.

“Live from this White Guy’s GoPro, we’ve found a cop in his natural habitat. It appears he has found his prey: a successful black man going about his day. Behold the change in the officer’s stance, the posturing, the preening, the-oh shit, SHOTS FIRED!”

No, that’s a very acceptable answer. The panel would also have accepted “Don’t be a dick.”