He built it in his mind first: a skyscraper made of black chrome and broken mirrors. No windows. No lobby. No stairs for anyone else.
“Strip it,” Kanye said. “Take the soul out. Take the bass. Take the melody. Leave only the wound.” Kanye West - Yeezus -2013-
Critics called it misogynistic, narcissistic, unlistenable, genius. Fans either worshipped it or threw it out their car windows. But in the years that followed, you heard Yeezus everywhere—in the industrial beats of underground rap, in the distorted vocals of hyperpop, in the way every artist after 2013 understood that you could burn your own house down and call it architecture. He built it in his mind first: a