Marketing Case Study: Kanye West
Kanye West has been stirring up quite a bit of controversy lately. This has gone past his rant at the MTV Music Awards in 2009. Ye dropped a song called “Lift Yourself” that confused many listeners with the lyrics “Poopity Scoop”. Then he started publicly supporting Donald Trump on Twitter while wearing a “M.A.G.A” hat. Yeezy went on TMZ and said, “400 years of slavery sounded like a choice”. He was recently on SNL and did an interesting rendition of his song “I Love It”, then went into a rant about supporting Trump. The rapper just deleted his Twitter and Instagram on Saturday. Kanye West is a famous rapper. He was respected on earlier in his career for his production work on “The Blueprint” by Jay-Z. Eventually he got enough of a following to drop an album called “The College Dropout”. His material shifted over the years from a raw and hungry rapper, to a more experimental approach. A few years into his career, Kanye started acting out and having multiple controve