Kanye West has the number one album in the world despite being blacklisted and not having a record label.
After a year in which he found himself on the third rail of controversy with costly antics that included anti-Semitic comments and lucrative business deals, Kanye West has released a new album. I proved that I was invincible. Vulture 1.
The album, the first in a trilogy co-produced with Ty Dolla $ign, “reached number one on Apple and iTunes charts in at least 100 countries.” report Unhardened.Kanye achieved this ‘despite the fact’ [the album] is independently produced and was not initially available on Spotify or YouTube. “
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The implication here is that West achieved a level of success and fandom that cannot be erased or reversed. Kanye is, so to speak, irrevocable. He still has tens of millions of listeners on Spotify alone, who stream daily. That was before his latest album.
vulture 1 The original album artwork has already proven controversial, with it being accused of having Nazi connotations. Lyrically, Kanye references artists who have been convicted or accused of sexual abuse, respectively, by saying, “I’m a yeah Kelly bitch…now I’m Puff Daddy’s rich (ha) , it’s ‘#MeToo me’ rich (),” he raps. mother). And in a nod to accusations of anti-Semitism, another of West’s lyrics reads: “I’m not an anti-Semite, I just had sex with a Jewish bitch.”
In January, West apologized for his bias, but I doubt that apology had anything to do with his current success.
Listen, I’m not a fan of Kanye, and I’m sure he’ll be spewing indefensible garbage again soon. That guy has some serious issues. But that doesn’t mean it’s okay to blacklist him. Sorry, but this is America. In America, you have the right to be a bigot without losing your livelihood and access to the public sphere of social media. And remember, for all the hateful and indefensible garbage spewing from Yeh’s mouth, he never called for violence against Jews.different from leftists and academics take it out on the town On behalf of Hamas, he does not advocate the genocide of Jews.
Don’t get me wrong, I’m not defending West’s actions. My point is, if the left can remain employed after openly supporting Hamas and its cause of Jewish extermination, why can’t the West do the same?
Another reason I want West’s free speech rights protected is purely selfish. The further the line of free speech moves from me, the safer I become.
All in all, here’s another story that reminds us of our gratitude for the internet. If multinational corporations still controlled distribution, we would never hear from Kanye again. So does comedian Louis CK. He’s a sick pig, but he’s a sick pig who served time in prison for #MeToo and then several more.
No matter how free speech is, there is nothing more harmful than restricting speech.
Think about it this way…if Kanye West wasn’t allowed to speak his mind, we’d never know what an asshole he is.
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