Are we back at the point again where we all sit quietly and wait for Dead C to come say some shit that y'all can't so you can hit "like" on it and continue focusing on the "crazy" rapper that put words on a shirt that we're all supposed to show how extremely outraged we are about?
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Kanye fans gonna Kanye. You mentioned me, so here's the tl;dr "unprovoked" response that you illicit.
My reaction isn't to Kanye and never is, it's to the stupid as fuck reactions to him. I ignore that dude, because everything about him is boring and, if it wasn't, then he wouldn't need to try and provoke reactions and go out of his way for publicity stunts. So much more interesting stuff going on in hip-hop. Mach Hommy is a million times more interesting than Kanye. You really believe dude is being cheeky with this shirt bullshit, just like you think that posting smiley images in your posts represent that you aren't phased; just a chill guy that can't believe everyone is so up in arms. I see it as a generational thing of the internet age. "Calm down dude, I'm only trying to stoke a fire so that I can sit back and dodge accountability, acting like I don't know where it came from." Poke some shit and then act surprised by the repercussions. Not surprising that the reaction to the stunt is the same as the stunt itself. The problem is that almost everything presented here contradicts itself, so it crumbles immediately.
You're out here claiming that Kanye thinks people shouldn't give attention or weight to what public figures do or say? What foundation are you basing that on? The fact that he's constantly demanding focus and an audience? The fact that he's claimed that, whenever he doesn't get it, it's because he's being oppressed or blacklisted? If your response is that he's preached that message in interviews, if he has, then that only reinforces that this is the exact point of this dude. He's a contradiction and doesn't really stand for shit. The only people feeding a deeper meaning into him are you guys. If his actions are empty actions being filled with our own perception, think about that. This is a chicken or the egg situation and you seem to have a different opinion of which came first. Are those claiming he's promoting white supremacy just because he's wearing a white supremacist slogan next to Candace owens for a photo op the ones reading into it and projecting into his actions, or are the ones that have this elaborate theory about how it's a brilliant social experiment? Either way, to suggest that he doesn't believe the public should react by trying to elicit reactions doesn't hold water, at least not from this dude. As someone who decided to drop my name, while intentionally not tagging me, you should understand the difference between making an actual statement and desiring a reaction from one.
I was never the one that posted about Kanye or his shirt. My problem is that people like yourself believe he's some genius and are elevating him over some lazy cornball shit. I'm responding to your reactions and what you are projecting into it, not the other way around. You think he put on a shirt and a bunch of people lost their minds about hypotheticals, but you don't seem to have a real grasp on the situation. What happened was, this dude put on a shirt and people rushed out en masse to congratulate him on wearing it, specifically BECAUSE they see it as promoting white supremacy. The hypotheticals have already occurred and there's a reaction to THAT. Was my comment the first one about Kanye in here, or was I responding to someone for praising him about how people are "too woke" and that race doesn't matter and we should be focusing on shit like class solidarity? The point here is that Kanye IS FOCUSING ON CLASS SOLIDARITY and any one of you that think he's speaking to you in that regard need to go watch some George Carlin, because that class he's so solid with... you ain't in it. I'll admit that there was a time when Kanye shook shit up and spoke the truth. When he said, "George Bush doesn't care about black people" that shit was real. Y'all want to believe he's a man of the people now, even though he's done nothing but focus on himself and view personal elevation as being a symbol of something greater. "Anyone who has ever had to struggle, be doubted, or face racial oppression can prove the world wrong!!!" What he's really saying is, "Fuck y'all! Nobody can tell me how I can and can't get mine!" Conway is out there serving turkeys and shoes to his community. Kanye is out here making idiots fight each other over melted UGGs, because the hype beasts buy their style in a can with a SUPREME sticker pasted on the side. His antics aren't career suicide, because he's targeting other demographics at the expense of a different fanbase that runs cover for him.
I don't give a fuck about celebrities. I don't respect Jay Z for admitting in a song that he's made millions selling trash verses rather than caring about the art. Jay coming out claiming that "capitalism" is a swear word now, telling people not to use it, and criticizing Kaepernick, while teaming with the NFL is more fucked up than this t-shirt situation, but it's really easy to see it for what it is, a rich guy making moves of self-interest, directly at the sacrifice of the people he claims to represent. But who is gonna buy more Jay Z records if he finds himself offending one particular side? White people that like what he's selling. How can Kanye pull this garbage and know it won't affect his bottom line? Because he has a largely white fanbase and the very institutions that he claims are holding him back and limiting him are the ones that he's pandering to and will keep him afloat. This isn't a bold attack at a system, it's WWE shit. The truth is that people have a huge list of excuses for Jay, too. They may not get as elaborate and twisted as the Kanye apologists, but it's the same shit.
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