Kanye West has been on a bizarre tear lately, actively and loudly rejecting anyone and anything who tries to tell him what he can and cannot (or at least should not) do. This has resulted in him repeatedly declaring that Donald Trump is pretty cool, sharing a bizarre new song, and suggesting on TMZ that slavery was a…

If there’s one throughline to Kanye West’s current interactions with the world—which are running the gamut this week, from a thoughtful, 105-minute sitdown with interviewer Charlamagne Tha God, to a volatile conversation with TMZ that ended in West confronting a staffer over his assertion that 400 years of slavery in…

On Saturday, in the middle of his ongoing heel turn toward Trumperism, Kanye West dropped the surprise announcement that a photo of plastic surgeon Jan Adams—the man who performed the surgery on West’s mother, Donda West, that ultimately led to her death in 2008—would appear on the cover of his next album. Rather than…

We’ve been through a number of KanyeStorms—the brief but exhaustingly energetic bouts of attention-seeking behaviors, new music, outright trolling, and occasional pure marketing savvy that rapper Kanye West shifts into whenever he’s got something big coming up to promote—at this point, enough to know they each have…

As part of his current (and exhaustively ongoing) marketing campaign/sudden rightward shift/one-man attempt to personally destroy Twitter, Kanye West released a new song today, titled “Lift Yourself.” West dedicated the track to DJ Ebro Darden, who, among other major black figures in the musical world, has recently…

We’ve been keeping just as much of an eye as everyone else on this week’s drama involving Kanye West being a little too logged on here at The A.V. Club, but frankly the whole thing has been too exhausting to thoughtfully chronicle every twist and turn, especially after the signed MAGA hats and Trump RTs got involved.

Kanye West is going to keep on tweeting crazy shit, much of which will be ridiculous and disturbing and all of which will be ripe for people to make fun of on Twitter. This is, of course, part of why he will keep on doing it. Twitter is set up to turn this into something of a competition for the best joke, and, while…

I wrote up two news posts this Monday about Kanye West. The first detailed his five albums in five weeks release strategy, which he announced in a string of tweets that also proclaimed his support of the right-wing pundit Candace Owens. On the second news post, written a few hours later, I threw my hands up, because…

The news moves quickly in 2018. You spend all morning contextualizing Kanye’s massively exciting upcoming release schedule (new Nas album!) with his troubling support for anti-Black Lives Matter pundit Candace Owens. You check Kanye’s Twitter, which seems to have settled into a new subject of interest—Teslas,…

Now is the Yeezy season of our discontent. Following up last week’s announcement of not one but two new albums, one a full-length collaboration with long-time right-hand-man Kid Cudi, Kanye West has now announced three more releases. In a series of tweets last night, he laid out an exceedingly ambitious release…

This week, Kanye West announced that a recent string of galaxy brain tweets he posted were actually a philosophy book that he’s writing “in real time,” but it turns out that he actually has some more traditional creative outputs in the works as well. Today, in another series of tweets, West revealed that he’s putting…

Over the last week, Kanye West has come roaring back into the public eye, first with an announcement that he’s writing a philosophy book called Break The Simulation that partly involves the weird artificiality of taking photographs and then with some proper brain-blowing tweets about how “some people have to work…

Nearly a full year after deactivating his Twitter and Instagram accounts with no explanation, Kanye West has logged back on. In true Kanye fashion, his first tweet after the extended absence from social media was a shot across the bow of Nike, claiming their upcoming M2K Tekno sneakers have “Yeezy 700 Vibes.” That…

If there’s one thing that unifies most of the “great” philosophers of history, it’s that most of them couldn’t rap for shit. Socrates, Kierkegaard, Kant; they all had weak flow, and next-to-no grasp of production or meter. (Or, to put it another way, there was nothing sick about The Sickness Unto Death.)

Welcome back to AVQ&A, where we throw out a question for discussion among the staff and readers. Consider this a prompt to compare notes on your interface with pop culture, to reveal your embarrassing tastes and experiences, and to ponder how our diverse lives all led us to convene here together. Got a question you’d…

Straight out of Scranton, the employees of the Dunder Mifflin Paper Company are here to offer up an emotional primer on the musical accomplishments of Kanye West, the needy, frequently brilliant Michael Scott of the modern rapping world. Said guidance comes courtesy of a video—originally posted to YouTube earlier this…

Falling in love is hard, but one of the great conveniences of modern life is the plethora of hyper-specific dating apps that are available across the internet and mobile devices. There’s that one for Trump-supporting assholes that proudly displayed a photo of a man convicted of having sex with a 15-year-old girl when…

We don’t normally rush to break hot “game show guest star casting” news here at The A.V. Club, but sometimes there’s a tidbit that’s just too good to pass up. Like, say, the fact that Kanye West—the mercurial, brilliant, frequently impulsive rap superstar known for more-or-less always saying the first thing that pops…

In 2016, Kanye West suddenly canceled his Saint Pablo Tour after a series of bizarre performances, followed by West checking himself into the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Hospital Center and suing the tour insurers for refusing to pay out his claim. The insurer, Lloyd’s Of London, then countersued on the grounds that West’s…