Kanye West showed out at the TIME 100 Gala in New York City last night after topping the magazine’s list of the most influential people in the world last week. (Technically Time doesn’t rank their list, but c’mon, ‘Ye was clearly at the top.) Yeezy’s performance at Lincoln Center was billed as a surprise by Time, and he meshed his music with […]

“Kanye’s been playing the long game all along, and we’re only just beginning to see why,” writes Elon Musk in TIME’s annual “The 100 Most Influential People“ feature. Musk himself figuratively topped the list last year, and his write-up about Ye is the first thing you’ll see on this year’s list, a hint at the scope of West’s current cultural […]