Through his art, interviews, and outbursts, West helped bushwhack a tolerance to push these kinds of conversations out into the open, to make them the focus of the art itself even, rather than resenting erasure behind masks of acceptance at deserved accolades lost. The cutesy high school drama of the “You Belong with Me” video doesn’t hold a candle to “Single Ladies (Put a Ring on It).” Drunk and outrageous as West’s long history of award show gaffes has often been, the underlying ideal-that black art and artists need better recognition and representation-is shared by creatives across every medium. He shouldn’t have initiated the cognac-assisted Taylor Swift MTV Video Music Awards acceptance speech interruption that turned America against him in 2009. Kanye West shouldn’t have had the year that prompted him to summon a team of modern musical Avengers to help create it. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy shouldn’t exist. For the month of November, Noisey will be remembering the buildup to Kanye West's My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy with a weekly series of G.O.O.D.
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