Name One Genius That Ain’t Crazy

I’d like to begin this with Kanye West. There are many words to describe him. He’s a lunatic, an anti-Semite, whose attention-grabbing persona has no limits. He’s also a visionary and a genius—at least there was a time people thought he qualified as one. West has repeatedly released albums that have shaped the landscape of pop and hip-hop music, and his fashion design is immensely popular with the public. The rapper recently launched a regrettable ode to Adolf Hitler, yet some of his defenders interpreted it as a sign that he’s breaking establishment norms of what can be acceptable. For someone who is a fan of his music, how do you reconcile his positive contributions to pop culture with his intellectually indefensible positions and conclude that he’s a genius?

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