The Recent Life of Kanye West

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"They said I was the abomination of Obama's nation," West raps in his song "Power." "Well, that's a pretty bad way to start the conversation." The song's expertly conceived video, directed by visual artist Marco Brambilla, frames the rapper in a neoclassical painting with a sword hanging Damocles-like over his head.

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