Charlie Parker, Walt Whitman, Ralph Ellison, John Cage, Edward Hopper, Irving Berlin, Jacob Lawrence, Maya Angelou, Aaron Copland, Georgia O'Keefe, Langston Hughes, Gladys Knight. These are great American artists. If any intellectually honest critic of modern art considers the name Kanye West for inclusion amongst the greatest and most culturally relevant artists of our generation, then western civilization has already devolved to a point beyond which our heritage and integrity are no longer salvageable. Kanye West is not an artist. He is a fop.
Kanye West weighs approximately 70 Kg. The cost of shipping to the Middle East is approximately $20 per Kg. This comes to roughly $1400, or $0.000004 per american citizen. This is a very small price to pay to preserve our humanity.