“I miss the old Kanye,” Kanye West once said. With a 44-second track released almost exactly a decade ago, the hip-hop artist now known as Ye made it clear he was in on the joke. In “I Love Kanye,” he parroted his own critics, rapping: “I hate the new Kanye, the bad mood Kanye … I miss the sweet Kanye, chop up the beats Kanye.” The song was an indictment of you, the listener, for holding onto the era of pink polo shirts and chipmunk soul samples, refusing to let your favorite artist evolve. But since 2016, the song has...
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