Twitter and Instagram have deleted Kanye West’s accounts. Longtime friends accuse him of anti-Semitism. Now he denies the death of George Floyd at the hands of a police officer. The superstar is in freefall into insignificance. Who is this completely lost person who was once the greatest rap musician of our time?
Exactly 20 years ago. It’s three o’clock in the morning when the black Lexus pulls out of the lane of the Los Angeles Highway. A 25-year-old hip-hop producer is at the wheel. He’s on his way home from a studio where he produced late-night beats for US rap greats Jay-Z and Ludacris. His dream of becoming a rapper began the moment he fell asleep at the wheel on October 23, 2002, his car swerved and collided head-on with an oncoming car.