i can be a communist and enjoy my favorite rapper flexing on me.

They looking at me way too crazy got me feeling communist

when we eat the rich we’re saving Kanye for desert

And we start the first of august with constant rain

Yeah man

travis scot, the neoliberald

What is communism anyway

Yeah here too, f*** going on man

stateless classeless money-less society

Being broke and wanting ppl to starve

global warming!

Trash summer

Factoid

the worst summer of my LIFE

state capitalism

2020 out now

So yeezy ranch in Wyoming

2021 worse

yes

What i was saying earlier

S*** crazy

pierre bourne couch

Kanye communist and im diabetic

Part 1: The Beginning
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was released in 2010 and is regarded by many as Kanye West’s magnum opus. It is my favourite album of all time, but for years people, myself included, have overlooked the true meaning of the album. It is not the meditation on fame that many believe it to be, instead it is the story of one man’s enlightenment, his abandonment of neoliberal economics, and his baptism into socialism.

Track #1 — Dark Fantasy
The album opens in a way most unusual for rap albums, with Nicki Minaj performing a dark nursery rhyme. She tells us that we’ve been told a lie, and that while we believe we have ‘peeped the scene’ this is in fact a watered down version and we will be shown the real, darker reality. This is referring to how Kanye originally believed that he knew about capitalism having lived in a neoliberal society, however over the course of the album he comes to learn how dark the truth of neoliberalism really is.
The very first thing Kanye says on the album is, ‘I fantasised about this back in Chicago’, while the less enlightened amongst you might assume this to be a reference to Kanye’s home city, it is actually a reference to the Chicago school of economics which was famously the home of neoliberal thinkers such as Milton Friedman (Wolford, 2011).

Kanye then explains the nature of this fantasy, saying ‘mercy mercy me, that murcielago’. In this retrospective of his life Kanye reflects on how the luxury car he coveted pushed him into sin and evil, hence why he is asking for mercy.
Kanye then asks how you say broke in Spanish, and then says he doesn’t speak Spanish. While this may seem like an offhand joke, Kanye is a master of subtle points. The choice of Spanish is no coincidence, it is an allusion to neoliberal economists claiming to care for poor South American countries but then revealing that they actually aim to exploit their wealth (Harvey, 2001).

Kanye then explains the world view he had at the time of the story, he says ‘too many Urkel’s on your team, that’s why your wins low.’ While this may seem like a reference to Family Matters lead family, Kanye is actually referring to the fact that Jaleel White portrayed both Urkel and Sonic the Hedgehog (a famously anti-capitalist hero). Kanye explains that he believed students of the revolution like Sonic the Hedgehog were ineffective and didn’t win.