He baptizes North in Jerusalem
At an Armenian Orthodox Church.
He writes a song called "Black Skinhead"
With the Roman Numerals for 300.
Put these together, you have a man.

I say I do understand him...
It's why you cannot hate him.
In all this is a simple riddle
Wrapped up in a mystique
Wrapped up in behavior
That to most of us is a show;
As Kanye's brand is Christianity.
He does anything, it is a brand.
He suicides his brand---
He'll be rich again one day,
Build a new brand...
At least, we'll think realpolitik
Is just an arc in Kanye West's story;
His character arc,
In the Kanye West show.

I do understand him.
I'm probably the only one that does.

Only for him, my worst fears are a reality;
While for me, it is only an illusion like my Thirteen Kings.

I understand it
Perfectly; even the blue
Bits. Yet, the pears are
Not as this observer wills.
Every mind constructs its archetypes.

It is probably the most dangerous IQ
Because the wielder has all the intelligence
In the world for understanding ninety-eight
Percent of the population,
But has not the command of metaphor
Or understanding of synthesis
To ever rise above it.

In the worst of my writing,
Is the best of the Qu'ran's.
Feel that opiate?
See how false it was?
See the religious tinge?
Feel the cultishness?
Feel the religious tinge?
That is why the Qu'ran censures poetry
Because any approach at true literature
The Qu'ran cannot compare.
The Bible, however, excels
In the most gorgeous poetry the world had ever known.

In the simplest way,
I believe all things are what they are.
I believe we understand things based on that.
And I go no further with my philosophy.