The arc of Kanye West’s career runs from a childhood steeped in Chicago’s Black intellectual life to his becoming a superstar artist. He is now fully invested as a paranoid conspiracy trafficker, willing to burn down his life’s work to prove an ugly point.
In late November, Kanye West, the 45-year-old rapper now known as Ye, dined at Mar-a-Lago with former President Trump and a neofascist.
“Kanye is as big an influencer as there is in culture,” said Omar Wasow, a political science assistant professor at UC Berkeley who studies race and politics. “To now be embedded with this rogues’ gallery of white supremacist and Christian nationalists and insurrectionists legitimizes these hateful movements.”
His career as a fashion mogul arguably transcended even his music. With good-humored humility as an intern for Fendi, he developed an eye for cult-ish drapes, muted tones and sci-fi silhouettes. His collaborations with Nike and Adidas sold billions worth of sneakers and streetwear, earning him credibility on elite European runways.
Outside the classroom, Baker saw West fight hard to protect his friends. At times, his defensive spirit went too far. “A single mom with a single child, they had each other’s backs no matter what,” Baker said. “That’s a little bit of where that fierce protectiveness comes from. When I found out that Donda died, my first reaction was, will he be OK?”
“I love the way Candace Owens thinks,” he said, praising the Black right-wing media firebrand, and added in a TMZ interview that “When you hear about slavery for 400 years … That sounds like a choice. You were there for 400 years and it’s all of y’all. It’s like we’re mentally imprisoned.” Many figures in that subculture are open racists, but Wasow has seen an “uncoupling of classic white supremacy ideas, that who is on top or subordinate was clearly defined by race. Now it’s more amorphous, where Enrique Tarrio, a brown Cuban American, can be the head of the Proud Boys. The coalition that’s forming here is decreasingly defined by race and more by a set of ideas like an aggressively patriarchal, chauvinist and Christian nationalist vision of the world.
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