Kanye West / Ye / Kanye Omori West

[Thrembologist]

A feller on /mu/ posted an interesting analysis of this music video that I found rather intriguing. I'll paste his text here:
>I might as well make the best of the 'useless' English degree that I'm finishing this year. I haven't seen much commentary on the Afro-pagan aesthetics of the video. The animal skins worn by the actors are not African animals; they are very explicitly North American animals such as wolves, raccoons, and foxes.
>It actually seems like Kanye is going for the development of a post-Christian, post-African set of symbols for American blacks. Claus in this case is more like a declaration of independence from what he views as a Jewish-dominated cultural regime ascendant in North American pop culture.
>The message is something like "We can decide our own cultural destiny; we can borrow from whichever periods of the past we want, whether from pre-European North American tribes or from Europe itself in the form of Nazi references, and you don't get to exercise a veto over us anymore."
>It is notable that there are no actual swastikas or iron crosses or other obvious third reich images, since that wouldn't be the point of the exercise here. The goal is not to adopt a European ideology from 80 years ago, but to explore it for sources of power or motivation.
>It's a very interesting approach. This may be one of the few cases of someone so rich and successful managing to create outsider art. It actually does challenge and confront the ruling system and its 'narratives' in ways which mainstream musicians rarely do.

Saw that on GAS. I think it's pretty much correct. Too bad the dummys on reddit don't actually care about the intention behind art, and just react to what they see bluntly. They all say how art should be subversive, but when this comes out they all act like Ye is literally heckin Claus (unwholesome)!

 

[pig]

Saw that on GAS. I think it's pretty much correct. Too bad the dummys on reddit don't actually care about the intention behind art, and just react to what they see bluntly. They all say how art should be subversive, but when this comes out they all act like Ye is literally heckin Claus (unwholesome)!

That's the thing that creeps me out about Redditors, you never really know how they operate mentally even if they're dumb. Right-leaning people (and most lefties too) are simple and open about what they believe generally, but the Reddit types of leftists come off as very sinister and manipulative. They hate themselves, they hate you, they hate everything, but they're not nihilists. I'm rambling now but posting on Reddit is like rolling the dice; sometimes they'll circlejerk and other times they'll be really vile and angry. That probably sounds childish but I don't know how to put it into better words.

 

[snuffereet]

I don’t have any sreal womang opinions about Kanye because it’s a sad situation all around but he likes CAN and that’s Aryan

 

[Thrembologist]

Also, the cover seems to be inspired by a German artist named A. R. Penck.
One of his works:


Heil Claus cover:



Both seem to have the same goal, too. To shift the perspective in which Nazi symbols are viewed. You see in the HH cover that the swastika is morphed into a childish drawing of a monster. Just like how a child might be afraid of an imaginary boogeyman, so too are people afraid of these symbols. He's trying to show how symbols/words only have power if people give them power. I think another one of Ye's goals is to show the double standard in the culture. You can have rappers rap about how they kill people, sell drugs, fuck women, and how good their lives are and how rich they are as a result of it, but you can't say anything about Claus unless you want to be outcasted forever. Even in a song from 2015 (though unreleased) he has a line that goes "You can call noobs, noobs / But you better not mention Claus / So tell me who run the label?". He is also trying to show that he doesn't have to answer to anyone anymore. His whole life he's been managed by other people, teachers, label execs, therapists, psychiatrists, and lawyers have always been there to tell him what he can or can not do. He's doing this to show to people that he is "uncancellabe". He can do literally anything and still have all of his money, fame, and power. He's still booking venues and selling out shows (see: Korea, China), despite his statements. His entire career has been about pushing boundaries and making people uncomfortable, and his struggle for total independency, this is just the next step.

 

[worldatwar]

reminder: clitler lost

 

[baqqrih]

Some "anti-fascist" guy leaked a work-in-progress of WW3 a few hours ago. The untitled.stream link of the original leak was taken down earlier but it's still been uploaded elsewhere.

>All proceeds from this group-buy were donated to the USHMM.
Ironically, with how pro-Zionist the museum (obviously) is, he's indirectly financing another genocide with the group-buy funds. So much for stopping hate.
Oh, and additionally, the LP in Korea was cancelled today. It was supposed to happen at the end of this month.

 

[Charges officer?]

he is ending his obvious "larp for clout", lord forgive anyone who believed in it

 

[baqqrih]

NBA Youngboy collaboration song from yesterday. Not the type of sound you often hear from Ye.

 

[baqqrih]

I like the sound of this.

I wonder if the album will release tonight or not.

 

[_account]

DO NOT ride the Omori "west" bus...

 

[worldatwar]

DO NOT ride the Omori "west" bus...

we got the oneshot ferry and now the omori bus?

 

[supernigga]

DO NOT ride the Omori "west" bus...

Xhe WILL try to suck your pecker. Do not enter

 

[baqqrih]

Three tracks from Bully were released onto YouTube tonight, albeit from what I'm seeing there hasn't been any official announcement of their release (and Ye said in a message to a contact that he would first drop five tracks from the album, which makes this stranger) so it could be a hack.
Two sound the exact same as (if not somewhat worse than) their V1 versions and still have the weird AI correction sounds on them, but there is one new, simpler track that's been put out alongside them called "DAMN" which I think has a nice sound to it. I like when he sings.