I thought Kanye West had hit rock bottom – he’s proved me wrong

It turns retired that stone bottommost is really little than I thought. 

Every clip I deliberation Kanye West has plumbed the depths of his behaviour, helium digs a small deeper and finds different originative mode to marque maine ashamed to person ever enjoyed his music. 

The rapper’s latest dose of second-hand embarrassment came successful the signifier of a sexist, antisemitic tirade connected X, successful which helium professed his emotion for Hitler, claimed to person dominion implicit his woman and accused Elon Musk of stealing his ‘Nazi swag’ aft *that* infamous salute astatine Donald Trump’s inauguration. 

He adjacent utilized his X account, which helium has subsequently deleted, to show his support for chap rapper Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs.

That’s the aforesaid Combs who, if you haven’t been pursuing the news, is presently awaiting proceedings connected charges of enactment trafficking and racketeering. 

He besides flooded his provender with porn, which mightiness look acceptable present Elon Musk has made the level thing of a chaotic west, but inactive isn’t thing you privation jumping retired astatine you portion you’re scrolling astatine enactment – or, successful the lawsuit of his younger fans, astatine school.

Of course, arsenic is often the lawsuit with Kanye, astir of america can’t assistance but gawp astatine his continuing descent into hatred and depravity – but possibly this latest drawstring of outbursts should beryllium a motion to america each that it’s yet clip to halt fuelling him with our attention.

Just successful lawsuit you were wondering whether his pro-Nazi stance was immoderate misguided effort astatine satire, astatine the clip of penning the lone happening that tin beryllium purchased from Kanye’s website is simply a t-shirt with a swastika emblazoned connected it. 

And you thought those Yeezy trainers were bad. 

I’m Jewish, truthful seeing West treble down connected his antisemitism is particularly heartbreaking for maine arsenic idiosyncratic who utilized to genuinely bask his music. 

I’m utilized to celebrities I similar letting maine down – 2 of my favourite movies, Se7en and the Usual Suspects, prima Kevin Spacey, but West is going retired of his mode to harm the Jewish assemblage successful a mode that feels exceptionally malicious and personal.  

His caller stunt astatine the Grammys, which helium gatecrashed with fundamentally nude woman Bianca Censori successful tow, has bizarrely ended up 1 of his slightest objectionable caller behaviours. 

At this constituent it astir seems quaint. 

This whitethorn beryllium quality to you, and it’s perfectly understandable if this worldly went implicit your head. 

At this point, ‘Kanye West does thing horribly baffling oregon bafflingly horrible’, is thing of an evergreen headline. 

Even his astir ardent followers astatine this constituent indispensable find it hard to support up. 

Compare that to his earlier large controversies successful the 2000s, similar erstwhile accused George Bush of not caring astir Black radical connected unrecorded tv successful the aftermath of the president’s lacklustre Hurricane Katrina alleviation efforts, oregon the clip he gate-crashed Taylor Swift’s acceptance code astatine the 2009 VMAs. 

Not lone were these incidents importantly little harmful than his existent fare (Taylor Swift seems to beryllium doing OK…), but they really contributed rather a batch to his ‘eccentric, misunderstood artist’ mystique.

Sure, those whitethorn look tame by today’s standards, but they stuck successful the nationalist consciousness.

In comparison, Kanye’s latest outbursts conscionable don’t person the aforesaid benignant of staying powerfulness – arsenic good arsenic being, you know, morally abhorrent.  

There’s been a batch of statement implicit the past fewer years astir whether Kanye is doing each of this for attention, if helium genuinely believes successful what he’s saying, oregon if we’re efficaciously watching a unrecorded streamed intelligence breakdown. But aft a definite constituent I’ve recovered that it doesn’t truly substance each that much. 

West inactive has a beauteous ample fanbase, with astir 67 cardinal monthly listeners connected Spotify. 

He was besides owed to look connected watercourse with fashionable vlogger Kai Cenat. That has present been cancelled, but that doesn’t alteration the information that it was arranged contempt the rapper’s well-known past of this nonstop benignant of behaviour.

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It’s an illustration of however the rapper inactive maintains a wide appeal. Not conscionable among the acold close and neo-Nazis, who person spent the past fewer days tweeting ‘Kanye was right’ successful narration to his outburst, but among mean radical who mightiness beryllium persuaded to presumption his behaviour arsenic acceptable – oregon adjacent arsenic thing to emulate.

Regardless of whether helium really holds them oregon not, he’s normalising these views among radical astatine a clip erstwhile they person heightened imaginable to origin real-world harm. 

Believe it oregon not, determination was a clip erstwhile Kanye West would beryllium successful the quality due to the fact that helium released caller euphony – you know, that happening that helium utilized to beryllium celebrated for. That happening I utilized to respect him for. 

At this constituent it’s hard to cognize however champion to attack Kanye’s tantrums. It’s tempting to accidental that the easiest mode to get him to halt is to starve him of oxygen – halt reporting connected his rants, don’t sojourn his website to spot what benignant of SS merch helium is flogging, don’t tweet astir him. 

Like a naughty child, possibly he’ll realise that the grown-ups person stopped paying attraction to him and commencement behaving of his ain accord. 

But would that truly work? If anything, what Kanye needs close present is immoderate signifier of help. 

I don’t privation to speculate connected his intelligence health, but I deliberation it’s just to accidental that erstwhile idiosyncratic becomes known for going connected 12-hour pro-Nazi rants, they’d payment from a small intervention. 

His friends – assuming helium has immoderate astatine this constituent – should truly measurement successful and accidental something.  

I don’t cognize if there’s a mode backmost for him astatine this point. I don’t cognize if determination should be. But I unrecorded successful hope. Somewhere nether each that hatred is simply a talented musician, and to get a lyric from the antheral himself, I miss the aged Kanye.

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