Tag: Kanye West

Suddenly WTF has new meaning

So this picture that got released recently was… something:

That’s Kanye West (remember him?) with hip-hop producer JPEGMAFIA… and a Burzum T-shirt. If we had any questions about whether or not Kanye’s common sense had come back after the Hitlerfest that was his late 2022, this may answer them (similar questions have been levelled at JPEGMAFIA, too, who posted this on his own Instagram, and who I gather has a song of his own negatively referencing Burzum).

The image was confusing enough, but now, just to complicate things, he’s been endorsed by Varg Vikernes.

“Wat”, as the kids say.

Or has he, though? Someone in the comments of that article is claiming that’s not actually little Kristian, and I found another article claiming that, when his attention was drawn to Kanye’s sartorial choice, Varg’s response was apparently along the lines of “meh”. Unfortunately that article doesn’t actually directly cite where he said that, and I must say that if that’s not Varg running that Twitter, it’s someone doing an unfeasibly accurate impersonation to the point where, yeah, OBVIOUSLY it’s actually him and that clown in the MetalSucks comments needs hit over the head with sticks. Fuckwit.

Look, I like Burzum myself, insofar as I like the music. But I’m not blind to M. Cachet’s vast personal failings, and I have no particular use for him as an individual nor his obnoxious beliefs, and I’m kind of satisfied to not have any Burzum merch beyond the CDs. I really don’t need a Burzum t-shirt to flaunt how edgy I am in public (that Darkthrone shirt I do have is probably questionable enough in some eyes) or even just around the house.

Incidentally, this is supposedly the cover art from Kanye’s next album, which is finally due out next month:

Feels somehow like the Burzum infatuation’s going beyond just the t-shirt.

This did not age well

So, in the comments section of that post I just wrote about, one of the participants also linked to a series of articles published on a site called Grantland, a popular culture blog operated by ESPN until they got bored with it, all written by Steven Hyden about “the winners of rock ‘n’ roll”. Curious to see what else he had on the site, I spotted a piece that looked interesting…

…oh. And, well, much as Kanye looms over everyone in the picture, he comes out at number one on the list. In fairness to Hyden, it’s really only hindsight that makes this look as bad as it does now; when he wrote this in 2015, Kanye’s fascination with Hitler (which may go back a lot further than we thought at first, depending on how much credence you give to unnamed sources) was something the rest of us didn’t know about in the way we do now. Still, there’s something terrifically ironic about that picture and the article. I wonder what Hyden would make of this now, though he certainly appears to have cooled on Kanye not too long after writing that piece…

Yedolf!

Aamon’s got a new video out, and, well, I’ve seen him use the word “eldritch” himself in the title of a couple of his other videos and I can’t think of a better word for this one either. What we have here is Alex Jones’ encounter with Kanye West late last year during the latter’s Nazi meltdown, and in which Jones was comprehensively outmonstered by him… I’ve seen a couple of commenters observe that Alex’s hideous form here becomes more human as he starts talking about his grandfather, and that’s interesting to observe; if it weren’t Alex Jones, I’d almost feel sorry for him being in that position.