Kanye West’s new song, launched on May 17, compared consumerism to slavery. “What you want, a Bentley? Fur coat? A diamond chain?” he rapped. “New slaves.”
In his nearly two minute long song [1], West ranted about corporations and consumerism. “F*** you and your corporations,” he rapped. “I know that we the new slaves.”
This song is rather hypocritical coming from a rapper who is worth $100 million, according to Celebritynetworth.com [2], and is currently engaged [3] to Kim Kardashian. Kardashian is co-founder of DASH boutique [4], and she and her sisters have an entire fashion line – the Kardashian Kollection [5] -- available at Sears.
This is the same Kanye West who was outspokenly supportive of the Occupy Wall Street protests and showed up wearing gold chains and a grill [6]. He was also No. 22 on Forbes’ 25 highest paid musicians of 2012 [7].