In some ways, this iteration of West’s persona continues to haunt his work (and is, of course, partially the creation of the white music publications who covered him at the time) and has altered the way he chooses to engage with current events through his music, this discomfort with questions of image control already apparent by Graduation. West had become a beloved figure in 2000s pop rap thanks to his debut The College Dropout, which sold him as a hipper version of that era’s conscious rappers, adept at narrative songwriting that embraced discussions of race and class without sacrificing pop appeal. That latter moment would establish the more dramatically antagonistic relationship between West and the media that carries on to this day, but in September of 2007 this tension had yet to boil over, and Graduation is reflective of this particular instance of uneasy agreement between West and the pop industry of the moment.
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Bush on live TV in ‘05 and his also powerful condemnation of T.
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Though many cherish the memory of the old Kanye and all they projected onto him, tumult and confrontation have always informed his process, with 2007’s Graduation coming at an uneasy resting place between his powerful condemnation of W. Exemplified once more by the recent Donda rollout, Kanye’s productivity subsists off embattled energy, his “ Soon as they like you make ’em unlike you” ethos perhaps the primary driving force of his continued success and betterment as an artist.