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Can a Jew Still Love Kanye?
Kanye West and Bianca Censori. (Photo by Swan Gallet/WWD via Getty Images)
Eli Lake reviews ‘Vultures 1’ and toasts to ‘the asshole,’ Kat Rosenfield on books as status symbols, Beyoncé goes country, and more Free Press Lonely Hearts.
By Suzy Weiss
02.24.24 — Culture and Ideas
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Kanye West’s new album, Vultures 1, isn’t exactly a triumph. But a B-minus Kanye is most artists’ A-plus, according to Eli Lake, who reviews the rapper turned antisemite’s latest offering in The Free Press today.  

Eli was an early fan of Kanye—“He defied hip-hop’s division of labor and proved that with enough chutzpah, the producer could become the star…

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Suzy Weiss
Suzy Weiss is a co-founder and reporter for The Free Press and host of Second Thought. Before that, she worked as a features reporter at the New York Post. There, she covered the internet, culture, dating, dieting, technology, and Gen Z. Her work has also appeared in Tablet, the New York Daily News, The Wall Street Journal, and McSweeney's Internet Tendency, among others.
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