Kanye West

[SGR]

Not that I particularly care, but isn't this going to alienate all his black fans? I know Jackson did something similar and kept his, but he never out and out said he was white. Surely this is a betrayal of everything he (hah) stands for, and how can he now claim ownership of and sincerity for lyrics that - presumably - talk about the plight of the black man and woman in America? Also, is he going to get a big tin of white paint and empty it over him? What about his wife/kids (has he any?) and his family: are they all white now too?

The most blatant and completely ridiculous reinvention of, and twisting of the truth in America today, and that's saying something.

This "explanation" of being black from the movie The Committments - while tongue in cheek - makes more sense!

Well, at the very least, he's going to need to rename, and rewrite "Black Skinhead":

For my theme song (White)
My leather White jeans on (White)
My by-any-means on
Pardon, I'm getting my scream on (White)
Enter the kingdom (White)
But watch who you bring home
They see a White man with a white woman
At the top floor they gone come to kill King Kong
Middle America packed in (White)
Came to see me in my White skin (White)
Number one question they're askin'
Fuck every question you askin' (White)
If I don't get ran out by Catholics (White)
Here come some conservative Baptists
Claiming I'm overreactin'
Like them black kids in Chiraq, bitch

[jimmy jazz]

Joe Biden doesn't care about white people.

[jimmy jazz]

Let's get lost tonight
You could be my white Diana Ross tonight

[Trollheart]

Thanks, I'm flattered but I'm washing my hair tonight. 

[SGR]

[Jwb]

Ngl this song goes kinda hard. 

[jimmy jazz]

Song is now out with music video.

https://x.com/kanyewest/status/1920387087049572704

He's actually sampled Adolf Hitler.

[SGR]

Song is now out with music video.

https://x.com/kanyewest/status/1920387087049572704

He's actually sampled Adolf Hitler.

How'd Kanye manage to find 30 black dudes willing to appear in a music video singing "Heil Hitler!"?

10 years from now...

"So, it says here on your resume that in 2025 you actually appeared in a rap music video! That sounds interesting! Care to tell us a little more about that?"

These dudes:

[jimmy jazz]

How'd Kanye manage to find 30 black dudes willing to appear in a music video singing "Heil Hitler!"?

If they were the sort who are involved with the Nation of Islam or sympathetic to them then I don't think they would take much convincing.

They love a bit of antisemitism. Regarding their leader, Louis Farrakhan:

He has repeatedly described Adolf Hitler as a "great man" and claimed Jewish involvement in the Atlantic slave trade, Jim Crow laws and black oppression in general.

At a later meeting of the Nation of Islam at Madison Square Garden in 1985, Farrakhan said of the Jews: "And don't you forget, when it's God who puts you in the ovens, it's forever!" He has also claimed that German Jews financed the Holocaust in a speech at the Mosque Maryam, Chicago in March 1995: "German Jews financed Hitler right here in America...International bankers financed Hitler and poor Jews died while big Jews were at the root of what you call the Holocaust". Almost three years later at a Saviors' Day gathering in the same city, he said: "The Jews have been so bad at politics they lost half their population in the Holocaust. They thought they could trust in Hitler, and they helped him get the Third Reich on the road."

Farrakhan made antisemitic comments during his May 16–17, 2013 visit to Detroit in which he accused President Obama of having "surrounded himself with Satan...members of the Jewish community". Jews, according to Farrakhan, "have mastered the civilization now, but they've mastered it in evil".

Louis Farrakhan said in a 2014 speech that "the satanic Jews that control everything, and mostly everybody, if they are your enemy, you must, must be somebody." In an October 2018 speech, Farrakhan referred to Jews as termites: "So when they talk about Farrakhan, call me a hater, you know what they do, call me an anti-Semite. Stop it, I'm anti-Termite."

Point being, these people exist.

[SGR]

If they were the sort who are involved with the Nation of Islam or sympathetic to them then I don't think they would take much convincing.

They love a bit of antisemitism. Regarding their leader, Louis Farrakhan:

Point being, these people exist.

I suppose that's true, but beyond being generally antisemitic, I don't think Kanye's "message" (insofar as one can even derive any kind of coherent message from him) and "views" align very closely with the stated beliefs/tenets of the NOI. In fact, some of his "views" and certainly his lifestyle are contradictory to the NOI. Probably more likely they were more attracted by the prospect of appearing in a Kanye music video than by any possible ideological alignment they might share. I'm also guessing some candidates for the video showed up, found out what lyrics they'd need to lip sync to, and bailed - the ones in the video are the ones that stayed. Just a hunch though. The song, music video, and general situation is just absurd to the point it's difficult to make any sense of.

[SGR]

I see the twitter link JJ posted got axed/deleted, so for those who care to see the video, here it is (for however long it stays up before it certainly gets axed for violating the Youtube TOS):

[jimmy jazz]

I suppose that's true, but beyond being generally antisemitic, I don't think Kanye's "message" (insofar as one can even derive any kind of coherent message from him) and "views" align very closely with the stated beliefs/tenets of the NOI. In fact, some of his "views" and certainly his lifestyle are contradictory to the NOI. Probably more likely they were more attracted by the prospect of appearing in a Kanye music video than by any possible ideological alignment they might share. I'm also guessing some candidates for the video showed up, found out what lyrics they'd need to lip sync to, and bailed - the ones in the video are the ones that stayed. Just a hunch though. The song, music video, and general situation is just absurd to the point it's difficult to make any sense of.

I don't think it'd make much difference tbh (though it probably is cos they're getting paid, although would you be in this video for money? I wouldn't, unless it was 7 figures plus, which it isn't going to be). People contradict themselves all the time. Just saying I don't think it'd be difficult to find 30 black men to be in that video just off of antisemitism as they do exist.

[SGR]

I don't think it'd make much difference tbh (though it probably is cos they're getting paid, although would you be in this video for money? I wouldn't, unless it was 7 figures plus, which it isn't going to be). People contradict themselves all the time. Just saying I don't think it'd be difficult to find 30 black men to be in that video just off of antisemitism as they do exist.

Maybe you're right. My original post was mostly just a setup for a joke/Doug Heffernan meme. 

[DJChameleon]

Song is now out with music video.

https://x.com/kanyewest/status/1920387087049572704

He's actually sampled Adolf Hitler.

You know what's funny about this? I saw a video last week where this girl interviewed a neighbor next to this warehouse where they filmed this and he thought Kanye was in a secret cult because he would hear the chanting but in reality they were filming this video lol.

[SGR]

You know what's funny about this? I saw a video last week where this girl interviewed a neighbor next to this warehouse where they filmed this and he thought Kanye was in a secret cult because he would hear the chanting but in reality they were filming this video lol.

Also, at this point, if there's anything Kanye keeps secret, I'm not sure I wanna know about it.