When Lil’ Wayne calls himself the best rapper alive or T.I. Part of the answer lies, it seems, in one of West’s most human-scale traits: the way he’ll undercut his arrogance with evidence of the self-doubts gnawing beneath. Complaining about a rapper’s outsized ego is a bit like complaining about a professional bicyclist’s outsized calves or a clown’s outsized pants: They’re part of the job description. Even West’s fans, on message boards and in comments sections, often separate his work, which they adore, from his self-regard, which they tolerate with varying degrees of amusement and irritation. What is it about Kanye West’s self-love that annoys people so deeply? No other rapper is taken to task as frequently and as fervently for crimes of the ego.
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