![]() Fridays project is an act of generosity and a risk - giving away music months before your album’s release requires its own kind of mania. ![]() ![]() At times I've wanted to leave him behind in other moments I've felt like the only way to truly appreciate the effort he's put into his persona, his music and his relationship with fans and the media would be to make him a thesis topic, to devote myself completely to following and footnoting every collaboration or reference he drops. Friday tracks and endless tweets - I've found myself teetering on a wire between debilitating Kanye fatigue and ecstatic awe at the quality of his work. But a lot of it has succumbed to the temptation to drag Taylor Swift into the discussion.įor me, at moments in the past few months - between free G.O.O.D. West, and many who have entered his world have done so by riffing on the compellingly off-balance combination of the rapper's egomania and public awkwardness with his creativity. ![]() Here at the end of 2010, writing about Kanye West has become something of a genre unto itself, one with rules and requirements but few restrictions beyond the writer's imagination. Ken Winter/Getty Images, Ben Hider/Getty Images, Jamie McCarthy/Getty Images, Fabien Montique, Michael Loccisano/Getty Images Kanye West (from left) on stage at the MTV Video Music Award at a rehearsal for the Macy's Thanksgiving parade in New York on the red carpet the ACE awards in a tuxedo at the premiere of his film Runaway in October.
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