In March of this year, Ye, the artist formerly known as Kanye West, announced an “open casting call” to his thirty-three million followers on X. Anyone thinking of showing up for the casting call had plenty of reasons to be wary. Previous Kanye West music videos had included one in which he and the rapper Lil Pump wear ridiculous boxy costumes and impish grins while sexually harassing a gigantic Adele Givens; one in which Teyana Taylor performs a sweaty, semi-pornographic dance routine before turning into a catlike mythical beast; and one that depicts West sleeping next to nearly a dozen celebrity bedfellows, nude and snoring, including Taylor Swift, Anna Wintour, Bill Cosby, and George W. Bush —still the world’s wildest polycule a near-decade later.

But anyone who was still following W

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