By
James
Hirsen
It
seems that Kanye West is ready and willing to express aloud whatever he is
thinking at any given moment.
While
appearing on a Left Coast radio station, Kanye seemed to take aim at the
current occupant of the White House. In an interview on Los Angeles' Power106
FM, he said of President Barack Obama: "You can't effect change from
inside the White House like that ... You gotta have the money." Reporters
interpreted his words as having knocked Obama for his presidential track
record, the implication being that in Kanye's apparent belief, change cannot
generally be achieved directly from the Oval Office.
Moments
after making the first statement, Kanye shifted gears and focused on a
different form of currency that he thought was needed in addition to cash in
order to prompt change. "Good ideas usually aren't connected to money as
much.... Creativity and extreme genius are extremely cheap," he said. He
seemed to be suggesting that bona fide change could not be achieved without
first having an infusion of cash as well as a cachet of inspired intellect. [more...]
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