Why I Can’t Give Up On But Won’t Give In To Kanye

Joshua Adams
6 min readAug 30, 2021

The hardest thing to do as a Christian is to forgive. There’s a kind of ironic determinism to it — we are adamant that forgiveness is too precious to come without cost, yet God calls those of faith to forgive freely.

I’ve never felt as ambivalent about any artist as much as I do Kanye West. As a writer and beatmaker from the south side of Chicago, I won’t stunt and understate…

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Joshua Adams

Joshua Adams is a writer from Chicago. UVA & USC. Assistant Professor at Columbia College Chicago. Twitter: @ProfJoshuaA