Kanye West defends pro Trump remarks in new song ‘Ye vs  the People’
Channel: Hot News 24/7
Date: 2018-04-29

Kanye West defends pro-Trump remarks in new song ‘Ye vs. the People’
It’s been at least several hours since we’ve written about Kanye West in this 17th week of the Year of Our Lord 2018, which means there is another development in the Yeezus-turned-#MAGA hat-loving-Trump-supporter saga to dissect.
This time, the rapper-mogul-cultural provocateur dropped “Ye vs. the People,” his second song to be released since he began tweeting enthusiastically in support of President Trump last week, sending his longtime fans and detractors into a frenzy.
The track was played for the first time Friday night on Power 106, a Los Angeles hip-hop radio station, and features Kanye and the rapper T.I. engaged in a back-and-forth political debate. Presumably, T.I. represents “the People” as he answers “Ye,” who puts to verse more or less what he had been tweeting about for the last several days. (It’s unclear what the Power 106 DJs, who periodically shout and blow air horns over the track, are supposed to represent.)
Kanye opens with a nod to his onetime support of President Barack Obama and a reference to his own rumored presidential ambitions:
I know Obama was Heaven-sent/ But ever since Trump won, it proved that I could be president
T.I. responds:
Yeah you can, at what cost, though? Don’t that go against the teachings that Ye taught for?
The two battle it out, couplet by couplet, touching on everything from police brutality to Kanye’s recent flaunting of his signature red “Make America Great Again” cap, autographed by Trump. Throughout, there are enough open-ended questions (“Is it better if I rap about crack? Huh? ’Cause it’s cultural?”) to make Socrates proud.
“You just readin’ the headlines, you don’t see the fine print/ You on some choosin’-side s—, I’m on some unified s—,” Kanye raps.
T.I. responds: “It’s bigger than your selfish agenda/ If your election ain’t gon’ stop police from murderin’ n—-s.”
Kanye: “Bruh, I never ever stopped fightin’ for the people/ Actually wearin’ the hat’ll show people that we equal.”
The lyrics eventually move on from couplets to longer verses in which each rapper makes his case. Much as he had done in a text debate with John Legend, Kanye once again defended himself by saying he was simply engaging in “free thought” and encouraging “new ideas,” while T.I. encouraged him to reconsider, given his influence.
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