Yes, there were some consequences — he lost his Adidas deal, he was dropped by management agency CAA and he was temporarily suspended from socials — but he’s still knocking about, and still wealthy and influential enough to buy adverts at the Super Bowl (where the going rate for 30 seconds of air time was $7 million or £5.8 million, with 123.4 million average viewers).
And, speaking of mental patients, he’s also changed his mental health diagnosis: while Ye used to say that he suffered from bipolar, he is now asserting that he has autism (much like Musk), making it harder to dismiss Ye’s comments as “insanity” or the result of a manic episode.
How Kanye became uncancellable: A self-professed Nazi with 32m followers If there’s one thing that makes me mourn for the Kanye West we lost, it’s the ninth song on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, Runaway.
He was always controversial — the infamous VMAs incident with Taylor Swift happened almost exactly one year beforehand — but based on his writing and old footage of the fledgling rap star, it’s fair to say he was smart, capable of critical thought and general self-reflection.
Arguably one of West’s greatest tracks of all time, it contains a toast to the awful men in the world, himself included: “Let's have a toast for the a**holes, let's have a toast for the scumbags.
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