Thanks for this. I'd want to think a bit to figure out how where I'd want to start from in unpacking the point about Kendrick. Happy to though, just give me a b

Thanks for this. I'd want to think a bit to figure out how where I'd want to start from in unpacking the point about Kendrick. Happy to though, just give me a bit. As for Kanye's ambition, in 2016 he asked Zuck for Medici-level support. (https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/15/10995374/kanye-west-mark-zuckerberg-debt-twitter https://www.theverge.com/2016/2/15/10995374/kanye-west-mark-...) What happened next? We don't know yet, and I'm anxiously awaiting some serious reporting that should come out in the next few years. By 2019, he's deeply involved in coordinating with some nefarious GOP donors, such that his fingerprints are all over the famous phone call between the former president and the Ukranian ambassador that was central to impeachment. (https://time.com/5734601/asap-rocky-impeachment/ https://time.com/5734601/asap-rocky-impeachment/) So it's 2019, we're reading about Sondland name checking the Kardashians in the transcript, and it's at that point that we simply are no longer talking about Kanye' ambitions in terms of art: he's now a political player who is lending his fame to a partisan project and putting on a public show of supporting Trump, which was expressly designed by the President's son-in-law to give the reelection campaign a bump: (https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-men-drifted-democrats-toward-trump-record-numbers-polls-show-n1246447 https://www.nbcnews.com/news/nbcblk/black-men-drifted-democr...). If the scales hadn't yet fallen from the consuming public's eyes about whether Kanye has any artistic integrity left, 2019 was when we had documented confirmation that he's a pure opportunist. During that stretch, Kanye becomes a billionaire: https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2020/04/24/kanye-west-is-now-officially-a-billionaireand-he-really-wants-the-world-to-know/ https://www.forbes.com/sites/zackomalleygreenburg/2020/04/24... If there's any historical legacy, I'd expect it to be more the way we talk about Wagner.