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What Next: What Happened to Kanye West?

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News, News Commentary, Politics

4.66K Ratings

🗓️ 20 October 2022

⏱️ 27 minutes

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Summary

You can divide the career of the artist formerly known as Kanye West into chapters using off-script televised moments—announcing “George W. Bush doesn’t care about Black people” during a Hurricane Katrina telethon; interrupting Taylor Swift on stage at the VMAs; calling 400 years of slavery a choice in the TMZ offices. Now his Tucker Carlson appearance and subsequent bans from social media for antisemitic posts have Ye entering the “buying Parler phase” of his career. Fans of the “old Kanye” are missing more than just his choice samples. Guest: Nitish Pahwa, staff writer and web editor at Slate. If you enjoy this show, please consider signing up for Slate Plus. Slate Plus members get benefits like zero ads on any Slate podcast, bonus episodes of shows like Slow Burn and Dear Prudence—and you’ll be supporting the work we do here on What Next. Sign up now at https://slate.com/whatnextplus to help support our work. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Hey there, what next listeners?

0:02.8

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0:26.8

Beach.

0:36.4

Before he was wearing that white lives matter t-shirt, before he sent those anti-semitic

0:40.7

tweets, something wasn't quite right, with yay, as in Kanye, Kanye West.

0:48.0

At least, that's what Slates Nitish-Pawas started thinking, about a month back.

0:52.8

For Nitish, it was yay blowing up a lucrative contract with the Gap that made him sit up and

1:03.0

pay attention.

1:04.0

They were supposed to have a collab with his easy brand, and then he was just like, nope,

1:10.1

I'm out just last month, and it was weird, definitely.

1:14.1

I mean, it was another sort of like impulsive Kanye move, so there was kind of that to it,

1:19.4

but there was a fact that this was like a very serious and big contract with, you know,

1:24.2

in a field, Kanye loves fashion brand he likes, and then he just completely like, oh,

1:30.4

it.

1:31.4

And then from there, you kind of had just this whole mess.

1:39.4

From the outside, Yez mess has looked like this.

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