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galen  ·  2833 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: Reviewing Yeezus in 2016

What I love about Kanye is that he embraces contradiction like almost no other artist I know.

Who but Yeezy could (or, perhaps more importantly, would) follow a track Ultralight Beam with "If I fuck this model / and she just bleached her asshole / and I get bleach on my t shirt / I'ma feel like an asshole"? Who else would have the audacity to release an album called fucking Yeezus, featuring the track "I Am A God," while remaining totally steadfast in his Christian faith?

But I think people identify with that. We aren't coherent pieces of humanity. Each individual is a collection of multifaceted fragments, somehow figuring out a way to peacefully (or not-so-peacefully) coexist. lil OftenBen