Did Kanye West Change ‘Everything’?
BuzzFeed and Complex Promote a Bizarre Love-Fest Issue Celebrating Everything Kanye
Complex Networks is owned by multi-hundred-million-dollar NYC-based media conglomerate BuzzFeed, and its splashy online tentacle Complex touts itself as the top-shelf tastemaker of all things pop culture.
To celebrate its 20 years of plumping for outlandish consumerism, social conservative hip-hop performers, sneakers, and jewelry manufactures, Complex has created an entire “issue” called “How Ye Changed Everything,” which is slick-looking and glamorizes the wealthy white kid snot, who became West’s champion-lover early in the performer’s career.
What Complex’s love-fest overlooks is that Ye is Kanye West, the fundamentalist Christian pusher, Republican Party tool, and an outlandish hater of abortion care. Kanye West came to fame as a ground-breaking hip-hop producer, and then later a filthy advocate of the Kardashians, the billionaire whores the U.S. doesn’t need.
It is, however, a bit sad because there are writers for Complex who are enjoyable to read and follow — the folks covering Florida for example are a daily must. Goodness gracious give thanks to these writers for covering the right-wing, fruitcake state of Florida with great glee and seriousness. The Root and Complex are watching Florida for us and reporting to the nation its mendacity and treacherousness.
So why the Kanye West love-fest — West changed everything? Really?
Did Kanye West change the political landscape on abortion rights or was Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas more instrumental or for the matter Donald Trump who gave SCOTUS the right-wing nuttery Justices Neil Gorsuch, Brett Kavanaugh, and Amy Coney Barrett (and a shitload of lower federal court judges from coast to coast).
When Kanye ran his campaign for president, it was cover for Trump’s effort to keep the White House, which The Daily Beast, Independent UK, The New York Times, and a ton of other media outlets covered. Somehow that shit flew right over the tops of the Complex staff.
So as a reminder, former President Donald Trump is a white supremacist, who sleeps with Proud Boys and Oath Keepers. Trump sought to keep authoritarian power in 2020 and Kanye West, who now pumps out evangelical Christian gospel-rap, launched a “independent” presidential campaign, which provided the nation with an obnoxious anti-abortion rant and worked with Republicans to help Trump stay in power.
From The Daily Beast’s Dec. 17, 2021, reporting:
At the heart of Kanye’s political operation was Holtzman Vogel, one of the most powerful and well-connected law firms serving major Republican political and nonprofit organizations today. And weaved throughout his campaign, whether the multi-platinum rapper realized it or not, were Republican operatives who may have been less interested in seeing a President West than in re-electing President Donald Trump.
And
Federal disclosures also show the campaign enlisted legal services from an array of firms with links to Trump and the Republican Party — including leading voter fraud conspiracy theorists and more than a half-dozen legal practices which went on to push baseless election fraud lawsuits on behalf of Trump or the GOP.
England’s Independent in its reporting of Kanye West’s mendacity kindly noted that:
Mr West famously met with Mr Trump at the White House for a bizarre conversation in 2018 in which he trashed Hillary Clinton’s ‘I’m With Her’ slogan as uninspiring to male voters and claimed that wearing the president’s signature ‘Make America Great Again’ hats gave him ‘power’.
As noted above, West took to a public stage during his shit-run for president to provide an unctuous, Christian-lunatic-fringe rant against abortion. West was for that moment a younger, more obnoxious Clarence Thomas.
So a capitalist and commerce addled BuzzFeed and company give cover to a pop culture Clarence Thomas. At least they are not muzzling their intent or covering their faces. They are proud boys at Complex.
