What Next - What Happened to Kanye West?
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🗓️ 20 October 2022
⏱️ 25 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.
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| 0:00.0 | There's something so romantic about winter and I don't know whether that's just because |
| 0:05.4 | I'm a bit of a homebody and I love a 5th but I think it's just the holiday period. |
| 0:09.9 | It's just for me it's the most romantic period and I think anyone who's listened to my |
| 0:15.5 | records will know that I'm quite a big fan of romance. |
| 0:18.8 | Join in every sip with red cups now back at Starbucks. |
| 0:32.3 | Before he was wearing that white lives matter t-shirt, before he sent those anti-semitic |
| 0:36.7 | tweets, something wasn't quite right with yay, as in Kanye, Kanye West. |
| 0:44.0 | At least that's what Slate's Nettish-Pawest started thinking about a month back. |
| 0:54.4 | For Nettish, it was yay blowing up a lucrative contract with the gap that made him sit |
| 0:58.7 | up and pay attention. |
| 1:00.0 | They were supposed to have a collab with his easy brand and then he was just like, nope, |
| 1:06.1 | I'm out just last month and it was weird definitely. |
| 1:10.2 | I mean it was another sort of like impulsive Kanye move so there's kind of that to it |
| 1:15.0 | but there was a fact that this was like a very serious and big contract with, you know, |
| 1:20.2 | in a field Kanye loves fashion brand he likes and then he just completely like of it. |
| 1:27.2 | And then from there you kind of had just this whole mess. |
| 1:35.4 | From the outside, Yez mess has looked like this. |
| 1:39.7 | Next to that trollish picture of himself, with conservative activist Candace Owens in |
| 1:44.5 | those white lives matter t-shirts. |
| 1:47.2 | What was the t-shirt about? |
| 1:49.4 | No one seemed to think to ask him much less to listen to what he had to say. |
| 1:53.6 | That stunt turned into an interview with Tucker Carlson. |
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