Cole repeating “All we wanna do is break the chains off/ All we wanna do is be free” and rapping that “That there ain’t no gun they make that can kill my soul,” sat in our chests, a reminder not only of his rapping prowess, but also of his ability to translate our immovable pain and lingering trauma into song.
We felt him in 2014 when he released “ Be Free,” a single with artwork that featured a photo of Lesley McSpadden, Mike Brown, Jr.’s mother, looking grief-stricken and distraught after her son’s death at the hands of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Cole’s also a genius rapper who has the prescient ability to use his talent on the mic to speak to the moment, especially when said moment involves rampant police brutality and broader racial discrimination, and he does so in a way that we can feel. That’s one of the only conclusions that can be drawn from his decision to slickly address Noname on “ Snow on tha Bluff,” a surprise track he released on June 17.
Cole (Photo credit: The Come Up Show/Flickr/Creative Commons) Some people don’t see the use in becoming politically active if presidential candidates will never address systemic issues that affect their day-to-day.J. Whatever their reasoning, it says less about Kanye and more about them-and a Democratic party too cowardly to nominate a candidate that can galvanize wayward, apathetic youth. Or maybe it’s because they like his music’s pro-Black themes, or “ George Bush doesn’t care about Black people” sentiment. Despite Kanye having zero qualifications to be an alderman, let alone president, some people have seriously said they would vote for him.
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The idea that Kanye self-sabotaged his career and aligned with Trump as an elaborate ruse sounds like an evil movie plot, but it reflects the reaches his supporters will concoct to make sense of his actions. In hindsight, it’s worth wondering how well he was in the heat of his “free thought” era, as he’s apologized for his “slavery was a choice” comment and attributed it to his bipolar disorder. Wearing the incendiary cap wasn’t an act of self-sacrifice it was an act of a childish contrarian. At the same time, Trump asked Meek Mill to join a criminal justice reform panel at the White House, and the Philly rapper didn’t need a MAGA hat for access. In June, news of Kanye’s 2015 donation to Hillary Clinton resurfaced on social media, which seemingly supported GLC’s claims. In 2019, his close musical peer GLC said that Kanye wore MAGA hats to ingratiate himself to the Trump administration and help his wife, Kim Kardashian-West, get clemency for numerous people.
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