Is Kanye the Ezra Pound of rap? For both, politics can exist at odds with the output.

The Morning News https://ift.tt/2rf3en9

To the extent West’s music continues to give expression to feelings of black pride and self-empowerment, it will do so in defiance of Kanye’s newfound Trumpism, just as Pound’s poetry often went against the grain of his fascism.

↩︎ The New Republic

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