This week we're sharing a special episode from the podcast Making from W be easy.

In this episode you'll hear the first half of a two-part feature on one of the most controversial figures in pop culture history,

Kagnay West.

We hope you enjoy it, and after you hear about his rise,

hear how it all falls apart

with the second part of this story

by finding Making from W be easy.

Hey what's up guys I want to have a chat with you before we get into it.

What we try to do here on making is deliver you the story of an icon's rise to fame for all

they're good and bad but this figure is particularly tricky.

Kagnay West or Y, as he goes by now, means so many different things to different people.

To some, he's a hip-hop hero.

To others, he's a divisive symbol of hate.

To a lot, he's both.

About a year ago, we decided to produce a show on Yay.

Then just a few months later, his extremism turned into violent hate speech and we shelved it.

We went back and forth on whether to put it out there.

On one hand we don't want to give a platform to Yashe, and on the other hand, the more we researched,

the more his story became about a lot of deeper destructive parts of our culture.

And for what it's worth, I think those are parts that we need to talk about.

So if anything, hopefully these two episodes can do that.

Hopefully they can provide guide rails to digest Yea and learn from his downfall. Well anyway that's a peak

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