Kanye West releases first single since his latest big meltdown last year
West released "Vultures" last night, his first track since blowing up his career (for the latest time) with a series of antisemitic comments last year
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It’s been nearly a year and a half since Kanye West released a new song—a period that’s seen the artist and producer devolve ever-further into antisemitic rhetoric and general career-wrecking scandal. Now, he’s released a new single for the first time since the latest in what’s really been just a series of big public meltdowns, and…yeah, it’s probably going to be more of the same here, huh?
Per Variety, West debuted the track, “Vultures,” on Chicago’s Power 92 radio station on Friday night. The song features Ty Dolla Sign and Lil Durk, who take the first few verses, but let’s be honest: Everybody was scanning forward to West’s verse to see how bad it was going to get.
Per the typical, it’s a mixture of bragging, defensiveness, and random swings at people: The most eye-catching line (West is careful to drop out the music so you can hear it very clearly) is when he asks “How I’m antisemitic? I just fucked a Jewish bitch,” so, yeah, there’s the level of discourse we’re operating at. (He follows that with an attack on former manager Scooter Braun, suggesting he also had sex with Braun’s ex-wise, so it’s real “Sean Connery telling Alex Trebek he had sex with his mother on SNL’s ‘Celebrity Jeopardy!’” level-wit on display.)
In fact, almost the entire content of West’s verse on “Vultures” is about all the sex he’s having, a famous topic of conversation among people who are having sex regularly. (“I don’t know who I fucked last night, I got Alzheimer’s,” he asserts at one point, certainly not sounding like the planet’s Most Divorced Man in the process.) So, yeah, in case you were wondering: This is probably not going to be the first entry in a hypothetical “Career rehabilitation” segment of West’s personal Wikipedia page.
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Verily the geniusist wordsmith of our time.
He used to produce some pretty great, if groan-worthy, one-liners back in the day:- Too many Urkels on your team, that’s why your win’s low- What’s a black Beatle anyway, a fucking roach?- She couldn’t afford a car so she named her daughter AlexisBut yeah, his new stuff is not only bigoted but also shit on a wordsmith level.
– How I’m antisemetic? I just fucked a Jewish bitch.Actual lyric fron Vultures
I did miss the “evolution” of what we have today. How did he end up here from where he was, upset with George Bush and Hurricane Katrina?
Yeahhh, sigh. How can you go from “Bush doesn’t care about black people” to “slavery was a choice”?
“Ye: The jagged, jumping spiral to insanity, Vol. 57.”
Those are all terrible fucking bars.
Can’t we just have an article on Chris Brown instead?
/Sarcasm, sortof, becauseImnotsurewhatisrealityandsatireanymore
If I’m such a bad guy, why do people still have sex with me?
Blew up his career, yet he’s still getting coverage on this ad-choked hellscape. Remember when this site had actual entertainment news every once in a while?
Ah yes, the fabled musical genius at work. Reinventing the my-black-friend defense in vain attempt to salvage his completely eviscerated reputation. Da Vinci in profile right there.
Oh, gee, I wonder who the vultures are a proxy for?
I’m surprised it wasn’t titled (((Vultures))).
At this point, Kanye West feels more like a parody of himself than his South Park character.
his last girlfriend said they never had sex. Any bragging from Mr Limp about all the sex he’s having is probably untrue.
I don’t think fucking yourself is having sex, but you do you, you one eyed pathetic, ugly shoe designing, shitty album making, Dollar Store Jay Z.
Kanye has reverted to a hip-hop George Costanza
He doesn’t remember who he’s fucking but that she’s Jewish. What he is really betting on is that the world has Alzheimer’s about why he was cancelled in the first place. And considering this wack ass track still merits an article on the AV Club, I guess we know who the real vultures are.
He’s MEAN!
He’s BAD!
He should be CANCELLED!
Oooh, I can’t wait to hear his new joint!!!
And reporting on it gives a huge, unrepentant antisemite more attention and re-legitimizes him to lots of people.Good job, Wish.com AV Club
What an absolute fucking man-child. He and Trump belong together in the looney bin.
Is his wayside school still a thing?