With Kanye West constantly making incidents, being arrogant, and increasingly making political messages, should we separate these things from how we view his music? Kanye West‘s style of Hip-hop has always been incredibly personal. He plays off the fact that you are familiar with his life, to give his lyrics context. Kanye often uses an under dog narrative, but the high levels of arrogance he has been displaying really hurts that message in his songs. When you take a moment and compare his song lyrics, to the facts of what we know happened in all these events, it can change the way you view his music. I understand and can empathize with Kanye West‘s original story. Kanye came into rap as an underdog and worked his way to the top. From everything we can tell, Kanye didn’t have too many resources and this made it easy to get behind him and root for him. The problem is now that Kanye is rich he is still acting like an underdog. His outbursts about being underestimated don’t seem to make sense.He is reaching into areas like fashion which it doesn’t appear that he has put as much work into. Its clear Read More...