Amidst the Trump sympathizing, public rants, and shady political scandals, Kanye West’s saving grace has been his art — and it‘s looking more and more like that’s no longer the case. West’s mini-tantrum on Fivio Foreign’s latest track “City of Gods” may be another sign of his life ruining his music.
Released at midnight on February 11, the song finds Fivio Foreign, Alicia Keys, and West waxing poetic about their love for New York City. Fivio Foreign gives fallen Brooklyn king Pop Smoke his flowers, and Keys delivers her most impassioned ode to her hometown since she sang about the “concrete jungle where dreams are made of” on Jay-Z’s “Empire State of Mind” from 2009. Even West started out terrific, flexing about bringing a “Sunday Service in Brooklyn” and aspiring to buy the Chicago Bulls. Then, West’s toxic side reared its ugly head.
