Kanye West: "I know Obama was heaven-sent. But ever since Trump won, it proved I could be president"

[Miles Archer]

Kanye West unveiled his new single "Ye Vs. The People," a response to his controversial week on social media, on Los Angeles' Power 106 Friday night.

The track pits West versus the people, with T.I. serving as the voice of the millions who questioned West's Trump-loving, #MAGA hat-wearing tweets of the past week. "I know Obama was heaven-sent / But ever since Trump won, it proved I could be president," the rapper declares in his opening.

"I feel an obligation to show people new ideas / And if you wanna hear them, there go two right here," West says on the Four Tops-sampling track. "Make America Great Again had a negative reception / I took it, wore it, rocked it, gave it a new direction / Added empathy, care, love and affection / And y'all simply questioning my methods."

T.I. fires back, "What you willing to lose for the point to be proved? This shit is stubborn, selfish, bullheaded, even for you / You wore a dusty ass hat to represent the same views as white supremacy / Man, we expect better from you." T.I. later notes of West's Twitter feed, "Starting to make it seem like Donnie cut you a check" and wonders whether West is in "the sunken place."

West retorts, "Y'all be leading with hate, see I just approach it different / Like a gang truce / Like the first Blood to shake the Crip's hand."

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/news/kanye-west-debates-ti-on-new-song-ye-vs-the-people-w519659

[misanthrope]

1. Instead of a playoff or face-off, Kanye and Roseanne can have a Crazy-Off

Winner? If they both go away, we all win.

[BigmanPigman]

2. PR stunt to get more $$$$$.

The rich never are satisfied with how much money they already have...they always want more, more, more. This week's tweet storm was both a PR stunt to get more sales and also a typical move by another greedy, crazy bastard. He and the fucking moron have a ton in common.

[tanyev]

3. It might prove that just about anyone could be president, Kanye.

But it’s also proving that not just anyone should.

[IluvPitties]

5. It proved there is an excess of stupidity and racism in America.

[obnoxiousdrunk]

4. I know he just

Dropped his new single ...

[JI7]

6. "LOOK AT ME ".

[rocktivity]

7. SOP for Kanye -- serving up a controversy-sells salad with meltdown dressing

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And just in time for the release of new album, of course!

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One minute he's a pioneering advocate of independent thought, the next minute he's a henpecked husband. He's in a sunken place, all right -- a mental and marital prison.


rocktivity

[Bluepinky]

10. He says he's not a Democrat or Republican. But he is an idiot.

I hope the only people who buy his music are Trump supporters.
By going full guns for Trump, he practically guaranteed that half the population will now not even consider paying for his songs.

[rocktivity]

11. If the only people who buy his music are Trump supporters

even at the risk of alienating the black hiphop market, Kanye will profit like -- well, a Kardashian!


rockivity

[Bluepinky]

13. A lot of Trump supporters are older white people who probably wouldn't buy Kanye's music anyway

Hopefully he loses out big time.

[Blue Owl]

8. Yawn

[kentuck]

9. Kanye Kardashian is a dumbass.

AND he is very similar to Trump in some ways.

[kskiska]

12. Older people

have no idea who he is.