Memes / Kanye West

Describe Kanye West's memes he—

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• Meme name: description of meme and how it's used.
  • Source of meme and fandom it relates to.
  • Famous instances (such as the Rickroll during the Thanksgiving parade).
  • Further mutations and successor memes, if any.

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• Interrupting Kanye: Used to interrupt something, typically another meme, in the form "Yo, [X], I'm really happy for you and I'mma let you finish, but [Y] had one of the best [Z] of all time!"
  • Original source was West's interruption of Taylor Swift's speech at the 2009 MTV Video Music Awards; she had just won "Best Female Video" for "You Belong with Me", and West claimed that Beyoncé had one of the best music videos of all time. Overnight, this was all over the internet, thanks to Twitter. Beyoncé went on to win Best Video, and allowed Swift to return to the stage and finish her speech.
  • Most famous instance: The original (Kanye enters at 0:26). The meme is literally his entire interruption.
  • Jay-Z finally admitted that the entire interruption/rescue by his wife Beyonce was a setup for publicity.
    • The verse "where the fuck is Kanye when you need him?" was used in the Eminem song "No Love" along with "bitch, imma let you finish".
• "George Bush doesn't care about black people" - "George Bush" and "black" are often replaced by different things.
  • Original source was a celebrity telethon to raise money for victims of Hurricane Katrina. West stood next to Mike Myers and provided ex tempore counterpoint to Myers' scripted words.
  • George W. Bush himself described it as being the worst moment in his presidency. No, seriously!
• Kanye's tweets have been a great outlet for memes, one being matching his tweets with New Yorker cartoons.
  • Original source: His twitter account. A dramatic reading of some of his tweets can be found here.
  • If you preface his tweets with "Liz Lemon," Kanye turns into Tracy Jordan.
  "Liz Lemon, I'm reaaaally sorry that I messed up your Twitter stream. Just so excited about Runaway! And beautiful people! I am better now."
• http://iskanyewestadouchebag.com
  • Source: The site is similar to http://isitchristmas.com, with the addition of an Interrupting Kanye meme (see above).
• Kanye complaining in all caps: Several quotes from his blog in which he ranted in all caps, including "AT THAT POINT WE’RE RACING AGAINST THE SUN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!" and "WHY WON'T YOU LET ME BE GREAT!"
  • Source: After his massively delayed performance at the Bonnaroo Arts & Music Festival, Kanye wrote an angry blog post (which has since been taken down, but excerpts can be found here. The fallout made it to fandom wank.
• With the release of his album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, a whole miniature subculture of memes have grown based around the 35 minute movie Runaway, interchangeable album covers, and lyrics.
  • PUT THE PUSSY IN A SARCOPHAGUS
  • LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVVVVEEEEEEE
  • FUKKIN' REEDIKULOUS
  • NO ONE MAN SHOULD HAVE ALL DAT POWAH
    • NO ONE MAN SHOULD HAVE ALL DAT FLOUR!!!
  • YEEZY TAUGHT ME
    • MY DICK THANKS YOU
  • YOU AIN'T GOT NO YEEZY NIGGA??!!
  • TOO MANY URKELS ON YOUR TEAM, THAT'S WHY YOU'RE WINSLOW!!
    • 10/10 lyrics AOTYAY
  • CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER?^ExplanationA line from "Dark Fantasy" (interpolated from Mike Oldfield's "In High Places") that became the subject of a TikTok trend in 2022 where it plays over slideshows of various characters, preceded by a clip from One Piece where Whitebeard proclaims that the titular MacGuffin exists. The meme then spread over to Twitter as the subject of a call-and-response meme, where "CAN WE GET MUCH HIGHER?" is paired with "SO HIGH" and "THE ONE PIECE IS REAL" (usually written in all caps).
• Kanye's elementary school picture has become the latest meme and has been coupled to make childish takes on some of his lyrics
• His lyrics have also been paired with screencaps from Saved by the Bell.
• Kanye Memes entered a new age with Watch the Throne, especially "Niggas in Paris". DAT SHIT CRAY.
  • WHAT SHE ORDER? FISH FILET?!
  • ...get married at the MAAAAAAAAAALL...
  • Going back to "Flour", a new era of lyric changes were made to be about "SNACKS ON SNACKS ON SNACKS".
  • Human beings in a mob. What's a mob to a king? What's a king to a god? What's a god to a non-believer?
  • Invoking Kanye's N-word Privileges by posing the question "Who's in Paris?"
• "Niggas in Paris" has the amusing verse: "Don't let me into my zone, don't let me into my zone, don't let me into my zone, I'm definitely in my zone..." This led to a creation of a web game, where the player must keep Kanye from getting into his zone.
• Further lyrical memes have sprouted from the album Yeezus. Kanye wrote half of the album's lyrics in two hours before getting on a plane to Milan two days before the album was due to the label. It definitely shows.
  • IN A FRENCH-ASS RESTAURANT / HURRY UP WITH MY DAMN CROISSANTS!
  • B-B-B-B-BOUNDDDDDDDDDDDDDDD TO FALL IIIIN LOOOOOOOOOVE / UH HUH HONEY
  • JEROME'S IN THE HOUSE. WATCH YA MOUTH.
    • HAVE YOU EVER ASKED YOUR CHICK FOR MORE CHICKENS^*From the live performance of Bound 2 on Jimmy Fallon. Also features Charlie Wilson frequently yelling SHABADABA TWEET-TWEET-TWEET
  • PUT MY FIST IN HER LIKE A CIVIL RIGHTS SIGN
  • EATIN' ASIAN PUSSY ALL I NEED IS SWEET N SOUR SAUCE
  • YEEZY SEASON APPROACHING
  • KEEP IT THREE HUNDRED / LIKE THE ROMANS
  • MY MAMA WAS RAISED IN A ERA WHEN
• Since the release of Yeezus, Kanye became much more active in interviews and the media, for better or for worse.
  • EVERYTHING IS PUSHA T. EVERYTHING IS PUSHA T
  • YOU AIN'T GOT THE ANSWERS SWAY. YOU AIN'T GOT THE ANSWERS
  • The music video for "Bound 2" became completely ripe for parodying, most notably from Seth Rogen and James Franco.
• Dancing Kanye. When footage surfaced of him robotically dancing at his Paris fashion show, the Dancing Kanye account and similar parodies immediately popped up, dubbing over the music with whatever music it can come up with, including the Rugrats theme.
• The album art of his album The Life of Pablo has spread memes all over.
  • Even more so is that someone did a mash-up with a certain known album and called it The Life of Pablo Honey.
• "#FingersInTheBootyAssBitch ^note From a tweet to Kanye from Amber Rose (after Kanye dissed her during a Twitter beef with Wiz Khalifa) that revealed that Amber and Kanye apparently did stuff involving Amber's fingers and Kanye's butt.
  • ASSGORE (Fingerfückung)^note In response to a copyright strike from Kanye, YouTuber BotanicSage made a parody track featuring himself singing variations of the phrase "Kanye West likes fingers in his ass" over the Undertale track "ASGORE". The remix gained a lot popularity online thanks to its inherent absurdity and became a part of many shitpost videos, most prominently a video of Sans and Nagito Komaeda dancing in the Last Corridor in Undertale, traditionally reposted every Sunday on Tumblr.
• Now if I fuck this model, and she just bleached her asshole, if I get bleach on my T-shirt, imma feel like an asshole. ^note A cringeworthy set of lines from "Father Stretch My Hands, Part 1".
• If Young Metro don't trust you, I'm gon— ^note From "Father Stretch My Hands, Pt 1" right before the chorus. (The full phrase, from Future, is "If Young Metro [referring to producer Metro Boomin] don't trust you, I'm gon' shoot you", taken from "Jumpman".) Became a famous Vine meme.
• YEEZY YEEZY WHAT'S GOOD? IT'S YO BOY MAX B WHAT'S GOIN ON? ^note The apparent randomness of "Silver Surfer Intermission" inspired people to paste its dialogue everywhere.
  • Silver Surfer Intermission" is a message from imprisoned rapper Max B, giving his support to Kanye using the term "wavy" ("The Life of Pablo" was called "Waves" at the time). It's rambly and random (especially if you weren't aware that Kanye was under attack for using "wavy").
• I GOT BROADS IN ATLANTA /Panda Panda Panda / Desiigner or Future? ^note Anything relating to Desiigner's song "Panda," which Kanye gave the Colbert Bump to by remixing for "Pt. 2." The remix (and the general catchiness of the original song) started a perfect storm of memes that took "Panda" from a generic Future rip-off to the top of the charts.
• I miss the old Kanye, straight from the 'Go Kanye... ^note The opening lines to "I Love Kanye", which imitates those who criticize Kanye for eschewing his early persona in favor of his more grandiose, braggadocio one seen in MBDTF.
• Kanye for President ^note At the 2015 MTV VMAs, Kanye jokingly announced plans to run for president in 2020 in response to a certain other celebrity announcing running, which resulted in #KanyeForPresident trending on both Twitter and Instagram.
• I hate when I'm on a flight and I wake up with a water bottle next to me like oh great now I gotta be responsible for this ^note This was an actual tweet from Kanye's Twitter.
• POOPITY SCOOP, SCOOPTITY WOOP, WHOOPTY SCOOPTY POOP ^note From "Lift Yourself." This is Kanye's only verse on that track, and he hypes it up right before it hits like he's about to blow everyone's mind with his rhymes.
• #IfSlaveryWasAChoice ^note During a TMZ newsroom interview, he said that "When you hear about slavery for 400 years. For 400 years?! That sounds like a choice." The poor choice of words and Unfortunate Implications of the quote ensured that people immediately mocked the idea with jokes about what it would be like if that had been or was the case.
• "Mama, I just killed a song." ^note After his infamously-awful cover of "Bohemian Rhapsody", which includes the line "Mama, I just killed a man.", many Queen fans have taken to mocking Kanye's butchery of the song using this quote.
• once again I am being attacked for presenting new ideas ^note Kanye tweeted this after his latest TMZ newsroom interview after being berated for many of the things he said, especially his comments about slavery.
• I PUT MY HAND ON THE STOOOVE ^note Part of the outro to "Ghost Town."
• "i hate being bi-polar it's awesome" ^note The cover of ye features a mountain ridge with that phrase scribbled on it. It ended up becoming a meme due to how awkward it is, to the point where Kanye acknowledged it and released a generator of it.
• ye ^note Near the end of 2018, Kanye announced that he would no longer carry the name "Kanye West" and switched to the stage name "Ye". Everyone thought he was joking. This escalated in 2021, in the midst of his divorce with Kim Kardashian, to the point where West officially changed his name to "Ye".
• Jesus is King ^note The album as a whole became a rampant joke prior to its eventual release by Kanye fans due to its Development Hell being on the level of The Life of Pablo, if not worse. Doesn't help that Kanye kept switching the release late and the album still wasn't released after fans heard it at a listening party.
  • "KANYE CHRISTIAN MUSIC!" ^note Due to the revelation that Kanye had abandoned swearing following this album, with fans believing he has now dedicated himself to Christian music. As it turns out (for this album, at least), this was an accurate assessment.
• "Closed on Sunday / You my Chick-Fil-A" ^note An recurring line throughout "Closed on Sunday", and one of the most quotable on Jesus Is King.
• Who was in Paris?^note A rhetorical question used to parody the Intentionally Awkward Title of "Niggas in Paris" and the lack of N-Word Privileges among white Kanye listeners.
• "Skit #4" at 0:13.^note The fourth Late Registration skit contains the line "I've called this private meeting today because we have an impostor among us"; as a game called Among Us revolving around impostors and utilizing private meetings blew up in 2020, the wider meme of people relating anything and everything they can to the game made the skit blowing up inevitable.
• The first second/synth note of the intro to "On Sight" is quite popular for transformation memes, such as "I am going to be Switzerland" meme.
  • Also from "On Sight", the 1:59 to 2:07 section of the song is usually humorously summarized as "Obi-Wan Kenobi listening to whatever the fuck R2-D2 is explaining to him".
• The house of Kanye West Presents: The Donda Album Experience^note For the final listening party for Donda, a replica of Kanye's childhood home in Chicago was used. It's made even funnier when it was revealed Kanye intended to use the actual home but it would have been a difficult process to do so.
• "'Life of the Party' is the best song Drake ever released."^note Kanye and Drake's feud reignited and became rather tumultuous around the dueling releases of Kanye's Donda and Drake's Certified Lover Boy, but one of Drake's attempts at a clapback involved leaking "Life of the Party", an outtake from Donda featuring Andre 3000, presumably as some kind of diss. This was widely considered a bad move on Drake's part since "Life of the Party" was just as well-received as most of Donda, with many claiming it to be better than the entirety of Certified Lover Boy.
• "AND I'M KANYE WEST!"^note  A very out of left field moment from the music video for Lil Dicky's "Earth", where Kanye (voiced by Kevin Hart) shows up for a split second just to announce his presence and nothing else. Spawned several edits in which the clip was put at the end of videos where a list of names is said.
• Kanye West holding notepad ^note Kanye West posted an image to Instagram of him holding a notepad up saying how his account is not hacked after previously posting negative posts about Pete Davidson. This quickly became an exploitable image with people replacing the text on the notepad with other funny texts and images.
• "Let’s all show up to the concert with matching Ye masks. Once we all go in, let’s yell “INCOMMINGGG” 😂. Kanye will look at us point and say “Those boys know good music”. We will look back and say “Ayeee”. Once the show starts one us needs to walk up and say “Sorry Kanye, imma let you finish but Yandhi is the greatest unreleased album of all time!” Kanye will smile and say “I love those WSE boys” while he turns on Future Sounds, Alien, BWIS!!! WestMomentEver😂😂😂"^note  A VERY infamous and corny copypasta from dedicated Kanye subreddit r/WestSubEver that has been spammed many times in livestream chats and Kanye fan circles.
• "This copy is for Hype Williams." ^note The phrase originates from the locked copy of the original version of MBDTF, with the phrase being peppered throughout the album to confirm it was a copy to art director Hype Williams.
• Kanye West staring ^note An image of Kanye from a video where he is staring at a camera thinking he was getting a picture taken became popular as an ironic meme in 2021-22.
• HE MADE GRADUATION HE MADE GRADUATION HE MADE GRADUATION ^note  A Madness Mantra attributed to devoted Kanye fans trying to defend and cope with his various controversial actions. Most notably a 2022 controversy surrounding his antisemitic statements

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