It’s been a crazy year for Kanye West. First he spent months commenting on contentious issues like the 13th Amendment and expressing support for President Trump. Then he ended October 2018 with a near-total reversal, renouncing politics as well as certain unnamed persons he said “used” him.
But that’s just par for the course for the rapper, who has a long history of stirring things up, politically speaking. Let’s review 13 times Kanye West fanned the flames of political strife.
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NBCHurricane Katrina – Sept. 2005
During a televised NBC benefit concert for the victims of Hurricane Katrina, West seemingly went off-script when he angrily called out then-U.S.