Topic: yeezus

Kanye West performs during the 2013 MTV Video Music Awards at the Barclays Center on August 25, 2013 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Jeff Kravitz/FilmMagic for MTV/Getty Images)

Kanye's "Yeezus" was the turning point

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Bret Easton Ellis, Kanye West (© Lisa Jane Persky/AP/Julio Cortez)

Keeping it real in rap and lit

Julianne Escobedo Shepherd

Kaidence Donda West's name

Daniel D'Addario

Kanye West arrives at the Metropolitan Museum of Art Costume Institute gala benefit, in New York, May 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, File) (Charles Sykes)

Kanye's sex problem

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