Kanye West vs. Adolf Hitler

A ByronCrawford.com Special Report
Now, with this post I don't mean to compare Kanye West to Adolf Hitler just because I don't like him and so I'm trying to draw parallels between him and Adolf Hitler where none actually exist, just to make him look bad. Because that would just be silly. But it occurred to me recently that perhaps no other artist in the history of music has more in common with the Fuhrer.

Striking similarities between the two:

Failing in education. Kanye West was famously too dumb to get an English degree from an HBCU where his mom was a department head and will thus spend the rest of his life bitter and jealous of actual college graduates. Adolf Hitler was pressured from a young age to pursue a career in the Austrian customs department by his father, who was himself a customs official. This caused him to become bitter, resent his schoolwork and ultimately drop out of school.

Mediocre painting. Kanye West began painting at a young age and, after he failed to graduate from college, pursued a similarly fruitless career as an art student. After Adolf Hitler dropped out of school, he moved to Vienna where he became a mediocre painter and was twice rejected entry into the Academy of Art in Vienna.

Hating Jews. Kanye West's lead single from Late Registration is highly critical of the mostly Jew-run diamond industry. Subsequently and not coincidentally, he was presented with a special award by the notorious anti-Semite Louis Farrakhan. His comments at Live 8 about the creation of AIDS are basically identical to comments made by Public Enemy's Professor Griff in an infamous Washington Times interview 15 years prior. Hitler himself had an incident with the Jews in the 1940s with which you might be familiar.

Through the Wire = The Reichstag fire. Kanye West's 2003 car accident, as recounted in the hit song "Through the Wire" (based on Chaka Khan's "Through the Fire"), was the event that kick-started his career as a recording artist. Adolf Hitler was similarly able to use the Reichstag fire as the main event that set in motion the establishment of Nazi Germany.

The Cover of TIME magazine. As Kanye West's reign of terror reached new levels of ridonkulousness with the release of Late Registration, he was featured on the cover of TIME magazine as "the smartest man in pop music." It's a little known fact that at the height of World War II, Adolf Hitler himself was chosen as TIME magazine's Man of the Year.

And that's where our story ends for the time being. Of course Adolf Hitler eventually caught syphilis and shot himself. Will Kanye West's self-loathing due to his sheer lack of intelligence lead him to a similar fate? Because he's a down-low homosexual, I suppose he's more likely to catch some sort of VD.