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On Ye, Kanye West is still a tangle of contradictions

Hip-hop provocateur: West recently made news tweeting on Trump and on slavery

KANYE WEST’S PROJECTS SINCE HE teamed up with his now wife Kim Kardashian West in 2012—including the abrasive Yeezus, the sprawling The Life of Pablo and the series of personal appearances punctuated by top-of-the-head singles—have had varying stylistic contours. The one thing they’ve consistently focused on is contrast: light and dark, ugly and beautiful, self-aggrandizing and self-loathing.

West might be uniquely qualified to grapple

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