Kanye is trying to release a new record, Vultures, with Ty Dolla $ign, and his enemies are refusing to get its samples cleared, leaving the record unreleased. Kanye, of course, isn't staying quiet about what's happening behind the scenes, and treated the world to a 15 minute rant against his many enemies, ranging from LVMH CEO Bernard Arnaut, the Rothschilds, Jay-Z, and Drake among them, as well as the abandonment of the family that has left him adrift. It's powerful stuff, and of course he isn't exactly taking it easy on Zionists either.


The controversy and aura around a Kanye release is what makes him the most important artist alive. He is perhaps the only living CONTEMPORARY artist, one who channels the multitudes and contradictions and informational channels crossing over of digital culture. He is the richest and most powerful artist of our lifetimes, one who has made billions not just for himself but for others, but he still manages to embody the rebel spirit of industrial music culture or dada. He's Artaud, Bowie, Michael Jackson, and William Benett at once.


With all of us excited about Vultures coming out, we brought out another Kanye head — the photographer Matthew Denicola — to discuss the man.


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SOUNDTRACK:
Kanye West "The Blame Game"
Kanye "Love Lockdown" 
Kanye "I'm in It" 
Aphex Twin "Avril 14"
Kanye "Famous"
Sombre Chemin "Hiems"
Children of the Corn "Call You Bitch"
Kanye West and Ty Dolla Sign "Vultures"


LINKS:
Kanye West Rant
Kanye West Twitter
Matthew Denicola at Twitter
Matthew Denicola Website
Lou Reed Worshops Yeezus