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Amber Rose Is Taking The Kanye Route To Getting The Bag..
Should we love or loathe her for it?
Kanye West is a man of many parts.
Over the course of the last few decades in the public eye, the late Donda West’s only child has been a conscious rapper, producer, serial entrepreneur, agent provocateur and political animal.
His ability to reinvent himself has ensured that our man has never been on the scrapheap of the game of life, which is incredibly addicted to valorizing the new and young.
The multi platinum artist was perhaps the first to state in very clear terms that the intrinsic value of a light-skinned woman was by far superior to that of a dark-skinned woman — something which was quite jarring to many folks in the Black community.
And it didn’t come as a huge surprise to most that he went for women who looked nothing like his mother.
With Kim Kardashian and Kanye, you had the distinct impression that both parties fetishized the other, with the former obsessed with dark skin men and their penis, while the latter was all about wanting to have children with a high status whiteish woman.
With Amber Rose, there was never the sense that they were going to end up as a couple, but you always thought that she had no problems indulging Kanye’s wildest…