Taylor Swift Is Not ‘More Influential’ Than Kanye West
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A recent Nielsen study claims that the ex-country music star exudes more cultural influence than the hip-hop icon. But history tells a different story.
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The careers of Kanye West, hip-hop’s Fresh Prince of Provocation, and Taylor Swift, the “underdog” turned long-legged-clique commander, are by now inexorably linked. And in the years since that fateful
