through the wire.

a moment of clarity.

words.

"Sure, West has always been given to using imagery and comparisons that many others would balk at. (In this respect, at least, last night was no different, in that he compared his desire to work in fashion as well as music to Michelangelo’s desire to sculpt as well as paint.) But this is the sort of thing we generally tolerate in our artists, because it’s what we expect from them: passion, creativity, volatility. We’re only too happy to indulge them being awful people if they make great art. Sometimes, we give them entire magazine cover stories to bitch and moan about how hard it is to be them.

But not, it seems, if they’re Kanye West. Or Drake. Or Danny Brown. Or… are we sensing a theme here? Flavorwire has been arguing since last year that the whole “Kanye West rants!!!” narrative is indicative of deeper prejudices in the way that the media covers black artists. The same speeches that would be called “talking passionately” or “speaking out” if other artists gave them, or just dismissed as lovable eccentricity, get called “rants,” with the implication that whoever’s doing the talking is dangerous and/or unstable..."

FLAVORWIRE: Kanye West Is Not Crazy! A Nation Reels in Shock