As we write this, Kanye West managed to extract the last deposit from invigorating attention that seems to be the only thing that supports him at this stage, after having released a song this week entitled “Heil Hitler”. Does the song, in which West Rap on what looks like the fairly miserable state of his life, sampled an Adolf Hitler speech? Of course, this is the case. Has it been removed from most of the main video and streaming platforms? Obviously. Is Twitter / X an exception? ‘Frady so!
The embrace of West of Nazi anti -Semitism and rhetoric, which seriously started in 2022, represented a fairly hard break between him and many musicians he aroused. (At the risk of psychoanalysis, it is easy to build a case that division is in fact one of the reasons for change, in addition to all other bad pulses in the head of West: in 2025, you must be or be Really Ready to bind you to the brand of Kanye West, or to have nothing to do with him.) This includes artists whom he has personally worked to raise in his younger and less troubled days, including guys like John Legend, who burst into renown for the general public as a fairly direct consequence of his time as a keyboardist of West and singer at the time The dropout of the college In the early 2000s.
Legend is currently embarking on a 20th anniversary tour celebrating his first outing, Be raisedAn album impossible to extract from the inheritance of West. (West not only released the album through its Good Music label, but its voice and production are everywhere.) Consequently, probably why legend cannot move away at least briefly from its former collaborator in a new interview with Timein which he expresses his sadness to the whole ugly situation. “At the time, Kanye was very passionate, very gifted, and he had great dreams not only for himself but also for everyone around him,” said Legend in the interview. “He had so much optimism, so much creativity. It seems sad, sometimes shocking, to see where he is now. ”
In the interview, Legend tells how the studios have become much more receptive to his music after The dropout of the college Exploded, and everything that is even tangentially connected to the west was suddenly made of gold. “All these people who refused me suddenly decided that my music sounded much better than the first time,” he notes. From West, at the time, “I have not seen what we see now, his obsessions with anti-Semitism, the anti-black and it is sad to see its devolution.” Although he hesitates to analyze his former friend, Legend attracts attention to the death of West’s mother in 2007, saying: “There was certainly a difference. His descent started at that time and seems to have accelerated recently. ” West, whose ON / OFF relationship with X is currently fairly firmly in an “ON” phase, has not yet responded to Legend’s comments, but, you know, wait 20 minutes.
