Kanye West

Some might say that Kanye is a follower – a poor soul that was “brainwashed” and misled into the cult. Forget the fact that he’s a grown man that can make his own decisions. Kanye’s supposedly the innocent bystander in all this garbage, but we don’t buy it.

It’s safe to say that after his mother passed Kanye’s antics were on full display. Whether he was b*tch*ng about not winning awards, or taking over other winners’ acceptance speeches-Taylor Swift ring any bells – Kanye’s always had an ego, and he’s never apologized for it, but that doesn’t mean that he’s in some secret society.

If a person takes a look at Kanye’s behavior over the years, he only started flying off the deep end, after his mother died. Everyone needs a reasonable amount of time to grieve, but unlike a normal person, who can crawl into their bed and grieve in private, Kanye is a celebrity, and wasn’t allowed time or privacy to do so. Consequently, his grief was on full display in front of the world.

Kanye’s career catapulted when he signed to RocAFella Records and released his groundbreaking album, “The College Dropout”. After he released the cult classic, “Jesus Walks,” people praised Kanye for putting Christ in his music, saying that, “he went against the grain to talk about God,” but once the novelty wore off, people began to ridicule him. Proving that no matter how successful you are, people will always try and knock you down.

Producing has always been Kanye’s “bread-and-butter”, but while “holy rollers” are accusing Jay and Rihanna of promoting the cult in their music, no one says anything about Kanye.

The truth is yet to be told, but everything that has been regarding Kanye being in a cult, is mere speculation. One thing that remains true is, Kanye produced and wrote the hook for Jay-Z‘s infamous song “Lucifer.” The song, which has nothing to do with the devil, is actually about humanity and the way the world has become.

According to Udub News Hip Hop journalist, Rhett “PR” Butler, “The machine itself [hip hop], in which it is no secret what the motivation is: money. The society of the commercialized interest is what is at play and when Hip Hop saw the bucks, it said goodbye to its original secret society of the creative ghetto youth against pop culture. Hip Hop is pop culture and has joined the biggest secret society of those seeking to become the next rich and powerful. Religious allegories and potential freemason affiliations aside, the new black is money and it’s no secret that Hip Hop is its biggest propagator.”

Regardless of Hip Hop’s social affiliations, or the affiliations of the rich and powerful, we need to tune out the commercialized culture, and tune into where Hip Hop started-as a means to address the needs of the people. Like Butler says, “the fact that we as a culture have swept that under the rug is the real secret of our unique society.”