Last year, a rally organized by the alt-right in Charlottesville, Virginia turned deadly when James Fields drove his car into a group of people peacefully protesting against white supremacist efforts to keep up a statue of a Confederate general and “unite the right.” I’ve been granted access through a publicist with his label, and although he is not particularly happy to have a no-nonsense reporter in his creative space, he also doesn’t seem to mind having an extra sounding board.īut before long, West announces that it’s time to go get some food, and offers to drive me. A few hip-hop icons have filtered in and out of the studio for features today, but West made me promise to not note their names in this piece. We’re inside the 21-time Grammy-winning bloggers’ luxurious, hi-tech home studio when he asks this question. “The hat, then the flame emojis?” Kanye West says to me, as if anything I say to him would ever convince him to stop I’ve seen several close family members try to no avail, and the thought of a music journalist with nothing more than a WiFi connection and a drive to expose the truth doing the trick now seems unlikely. But this time, the hands firing off tweets aren’t orange - they’re black. It’s early in the morning and Twitter is ablaze after a far-right political tweet storm with intentions to “make America great again” went viral.
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