>The music seems extremely secondary to the spectacle. An
>album was an excuse for this mess.
>
>I mean, yeah every artists changes things up to the last
>minute but this dude changed the title what? twice in two
>weeks?
>
>I wonder what happened to him. He's always been off, but how
>does a guy go from
>
>"George Bush doesn't care about black people"...to "Bill Cosby
>is innocent!!" and beefing with Wiz over Twitter?
>
>?
>
>from Family Business to Roses to Big Brother to...White
>Dress?
>
>I mean, the Kardashians? Really Ye? That's "Malcom West's"
>family? huh
>
>Rather than growing, it is almost like he is devolving in
>front of our eyes. Some strange Benjamin Button type thing
>because dude is getting less mature and making worse music as
>time goes on.
>
>While he clearly believes he is making important and great
>music, I don't think the music is what is important to him
>anymore.
>
>He wants to make a splash, a spectacle, and it seems to me his
>ultimate goal is to become an icon/brand that is embraced by
>the white establishment.

"The only rapper compared to Michael" ("I Am A God")

when you say "Michael", I think "Jackson" first.

and while Kanye BY NO MEANS is an artistic heir to Michael, this spectacle and the (negative) attention it brings reminds me a LOT of him.

and some of those things you wrote were things of which Michael was accused especially in the years following BAD. Some might even say THRILLER.

so Kanye doesn't completely outrageous with lines like this.