I don’t think Kanye was going exceptionally crazy. He lives the life of a schizophrenic person but if all their paranoid delusions were real - constantly being tracked, pursued, extorted, used, shamed, watched, smeared. Extortion or fear of extortion can only have power over you if you have something to hide, and you get your life back by basically “destroying yourself” before anyone else can. Luckily for Kanye this just meant saying words you’re not supposed to say and being transparent about his porn addictions and other unflattering issues in the public square. All of this while also going through the biggest celebrity divorce of our generation.
Kanye has always stood up to power in many forms - one could say his entire body of work is about defeating false idols of power in the name of surrendering himself back to the ultimate power of God - and in the last few years, the power that had to be defeated was a culture and media landscape that was addicted to extortion, bullying, and destruction, on both local and distant scales , even of those who did nothing but reveal basic human traits , who have done nothing but their jobs as entertainers, who have given so much to culture and art and communities. Everywhere you turn in recent years has been miserable discourse from unknown agents, a cacophony of people selling eachother shadows and demands with no backing, constantly pocket-checking, surveilling, obsessing, stalking, and feeling so righteous in it. We all got to see that ugly first hand.
I don’t think Kanye is or was exceptionally crazy. I think he had to stare in the face of a very real entity trying to kill him every day and tell it to leave him alone. A bully.
The word ‘stan’ comes from the Eminem song "Stan" which is about one of his obsessed fans.
What if Eminem named the fan ‘Dennis’?
We could be saying, “I dennis Beyonce.”
NEW: Photo shows hole through which inmates escaped at New Orleans jail.
"To easy lol," says one of the messages left on the wall. 10 inmates are still at large.
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