The legendary crash-out of the artist formerly known as Kanye West has been one of the biggest stories in hip-hop in 2025. While Ye has bugged out in epic proportions in the last few months in what appears to be a demented game of social media limbo, seemingly going lower and lower with each tweet and social media post, it looks like people may be finally growing tired of his manic antics.
To many fans, Ye has been off his rocker for years. He’s provided countless moments that have resulted in people losing their faith in Yeezus. The tail-end of 2022 was a watershed moment for the rapper, whose White Lives Matter T-shirts, raging anti-Semitism, Hitler praise and nonsensical interviews got him in hot water. Many fans tapped out. But Ye didn’t seem to care.
It was clear that Ye was willing to say any-damn-thing to get a rise out of people. Just when people thought the worst was over, Ye went Super Saiyan with the tomfoolery.
Since February, Ye has seemingly been on a mission to offend everyone whom he feels did him wrong while sharing all of his dark, twisted fantasies in a perpetual stream of consciousness rant on Twitter. Let’s recap.
He called Kim Kardashian a sex trafficker, boasted about wearing and wore a Ku Klux Klan outfit, commissioned an iced-out swastika, dissed dead designer Virgil Abloh, boasted about not taking pictures with Make-a-Wish kids, made salacious claims about Taylor Swift, called Jay-Z’s twins ret**ded, gloated about his love for Nazis and distrust of Jewish people, named himself Yedolph Yitler and more.
The moments have garnered headline after headline and only sent Ye further into the throes of narcissism. Ye has made it a point to become the anti-hero in order to stay the center of attention. The question is, do people even care anymore?
As Ye goes harder, apathy has appeared to set in. On Monday (April 21), he reached new heights (or lows, depending on your perspective) when he made the startling revelation on the song “Cousins” that he performed oral sex on his male cousin for years as a kid. But why? Was it a cry for help? A moment of complete honesty and closure? Album promotion? With Ye’s recent wildin’ ways, it’s hard to tell. Many people simply don’t care anymore.
On Thursday (April 24), former collaborator Cam’ron weighed in on Ye’s recent antics, specifically the “Cousins” track.
“Ni**as be conveniently gay,” Killa surmised. “Sh*t ain’t working. Everything he got going on ain’t seem to been working. He had swastikas. He was Hitler last month, wasn’t he? Then he was KKK ni**a ’bout three weeks ago. Now he molested his cousin and he gon’ do a song about it. It’s just too convenient.”
In addition to his rabid porn addiction, which plays out daily on social media, Ye has become someone who is simply hard to root for or take seriously at this point. People used to wish for the old Kanye. After the consistent controversy of the past few years, all most former supporters can do is Kanye shrug.
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