Get your tinfoil hats and red string, I’ve got a conspiracy theory:
@kanyewest
is in the middle of a performance art piece and the clues are right in front of us. A thread:
11. Anyone that’s even a little familiar with Andy Kaufman knows that he was a performance artist who would put himself in uncomfortable situations in wide view of the public eye, and rarely, if ever, break character. Check out Man on The Moon or Jim and Andy on Netflix.
22. Or I could be completely wrong and looking way too much into this. But I don’t think I am. Is it such a stretch to think one of the greatest artists of our time (imo) who has had a hand in music, shoes, real estate, fashion, etc, would try his hand in performance art?
21. So my theory is this: Kanye (most likely with help from Tremaine and/or others) is in the middle of a performance art piece. What is the overall goal of it? Idk. Maybe holding a mirror up to the world and forcing us to talk about some things. Maybe the album will explain.
8. I believe Kanye is doing a modern take on Beuys piece with the coyote. He’s embraced what might be considered the coyote of today. Gotten close to it. Trump, Candace Owens, Alt Right. Maybe he sees this as a better chance to “tame” the coyote than more traditional methods.
It’s ok to like Kanye
It’s ok to like Taylor
It’s ok to like Pusha
It’s ok to like Drake
It’s ok to not like any of them at all. This whole ‘cancel culture’ is the dumbest shit ever. Not everything has to be turned into my side vs your side. It’s ok to disagree & still be civil.
9. But would Kanye get called out for doing something that’s already been done or taking someone else’s idea(s)? Maybe not if he explained himself first...
Maybe most importantly he said “I know I disappointed the black community when I wore the hat, but like I just told J Cole on the phone ITS A BIGGER PLAN and I’m just doing what the universe told me.” As I said, Kanye is doing a modern take on I Like America and America Likes Me
24. One more thing- this isn’t something we’ve never seen before. A lot of people thought Joaquin Phoenix had lost his mind when he quit acting and started rapping. Remember that Letterman interview? Turns out it was all performance art for I’m Still Here.
20. Also, Kanye is no stranger to taking a perceived racist symbol and attempting to flip it like Hammons. In 2013 he sported a confederate flag and commented on its meaning.
17. Going with the theory that 🤹🏾♂️ represents pulling a trick, that could give some context to “The prestige.” Possibly a direct reference to the movie in which the prestige is the final act of a magic trick.
I’ve come across another large clue to support my theory. Tremaine tweeted “let’s play twister, let’s play risk, yeah yeah yeah” which is a lyrics from REM’s Man on The Moon which is about Andy Kaufman and believing everything you see.
7. The purpose of this performance with a coyote, “a wild spirit - often thought of as America’s untamed spirit” was to hopefully make the coyote “tolerant and accepting through Beuys’ desire to heal.”
16. Maybe I’m reaching here, but I think ♠️ represents the MAGA hat, a symbol of perceived racism. 🤹🏾♂️ could represent Kanye pulling a trick, or maybe juggling a lot of things. 🤠 represents taming the coyote, and 🤼♂️ represents Kaufman.
15. The other most important clue in all of this was Tremaine’s response to this Kanye tweet. Tremaine quote tweeted it with the caption “The prestige ♠️🤹🏾♂️🤠🤼♂️.”
10. To me, there are two clues that are most important. The first one is this tweet from Kanye. This picture, posted six days after the others, again shows Beuys, Hammons, and now introduces what appears to be a drawing of Andy Kaufman.
14. an artist who took a racist symbol (♠️) and flipped it to give it new meaning, and a performance artist who wrestled women, and generally acted insane in the public eye, and rarely broke character.
19. In the movie (idk if it’s true or not) the prestige is the reveal to the illusion. You take an ordinary thing (Kanye’s usual stance) make it something extraordinary (supporting trump) and then the prestige turns it back into something ordinary. Is the album his prestige?
Today is my last day at
@965TheBuzz
. I’m so appreciative of all the friends I’ve made and amazing times I’ve had over the past 5 years. I’m incredibly thankful to all of my coworkers at The Buzz for letting me say dumb shit on the radio and thankful to
#BuzzFamily
for listening.
6. As for the other two images of Joseph Beuys- the image Kanye tweeted was from an art installation Beuys did in 1974 called I Like America and America Likes Me, where he locked himself into a room with a coyote for 3 days.
This man has airliners and private jets all over the country picking up journalists, DJ’s, rappers, friends, etc, flying them to Wyoming, and has an army of range rovers driving them to a secret location in the mountains to listen to 7 songs on an album we know nothing about. 🐐
12. So why is this important? 1, it shows that Beuys and Hammons are still on Kanye’s mind. 2, Kanye refers to it as his mood board. 3. Maybe most importantly, he had to purposefully add Andy Kaufman into the picture, but in a somewhat subtle way.
5. So let’s start with the first two images involving David Hammons. After Kanye tweeted these images, Tremaine quote tweeted them with this emoji: ♠️. I believe this is referring to Hammons work which aimed to “turn racist cliches (spade) on its head.”
Following the definition he said “if we keep on saying I hate, I hate you, fuck you, fuck you, fuck you, how are we going to get a different result with hate? Why don’t we just try love?”
13. Maybe having a picture or a book on Andy would be too obvious. A rough drawing with only his first name is obviously more subtle. So in this picture you have a performance artist who tamed a wild creature by showing it love and compassion,
Watching
@070shake
go nuts to her feature on Ghost Town gave me chills. You just know exactly what this means to her. I don’t think I’ve ever felt more proud and happy for a complete stranger.
1. First we need to establish who
@DenimTears
is. Forgive me if this is well known info, I’m not great at keeping up with every celebrity. His name is Tremaine Emory. He’s a collaborator and friend of Kanye.
2) last night Kanye tweeted this picture. This appears to be Tremaine at the table. We also know from a previous tweet from Tremaine that he’s in Calabasas, where Kanye lives.
4. A week or so after rejoining twitter, Kanye tweeted these images on 4/22. The first two images involve David Hammons and the third and fourth involve Joseph Beuys.
18. Another quick note on “The Prestige”- this is something Tremaine has tweeted a few times. He tweeted it 45 minutes after the infamous picture of Kanye in the MAGA hat.
3) Kanye also mentioned in his interview with
@cthagod
“my boy Tremaine tweeted...” so we can assume that he’s both friends with Tremaine and looks at his Twitter account. I promise this info will be important coming up.
.
@ericskelton
pointed out Kanye is a known fan of performance artist Marina Abramovic and once said “I’m like Marina Abramovic. This is, like, performance art. The thing is, I don’t got a problem with looking stupid.”
At the end of his installment, Beuys hugged the coyote. At TMZ, Kanye hugged
@VanLathan
and said “I think we have to get next to everyone.” He also noted the definition of insanity as “doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result”
Me during S1: I can’t wait until they kill Jaime.
Me during S8: If you so much as harm a single hair on his beautiful head, I swear to god I’ll burn down the seven kingdoms myself
#GameofThrones
For everyone that’s asked about my thoughts on the theory and how it played out, I talked with Rolling Stone this weekend and gave my thoughts if you’re interested 🤷🏻♂️
What is it about a QuikTrip parking lot that makes people completely forget how to drive? I’m starting to think QuikTrip has an invisible force field that messes with your equilibrium and spatial awareness.
After making up songs about my cat and singing them to her for 20 minutes, I realized that living alone teaches you about how much of a weirdo you actually are.
The new stickers from
#IMadeThatSticker
are in and I’m taking requests. Please use the format I’ve included. No need for please, thank you, or specifying it’s for stickers.
For those asking: no, my sociopathic ex is not the mother of my child and I’m incredibly thankful for that. This concludes the trashiest tweet of all time.