{"id":14709,"date":"2016-01-31T19:17:37","date_gmt":"2016-02-01T04:17:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/handwritinguniversity.com\/members\/?p=14709"},"modified":"2016-01-31T21:24:36","modified_gmt":"2016-02-01T06:24:36","slug":"kanye-west-handwriting-analyzed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/handwritinguniversity.com\/members\/weekly-newsletters\/kanye-west-handwriting-analyzed\/","title":{"rendered":"Kanye West Handwriting Analyzed"},"content":{"rendered":"

This article was written by Leslie Horn.<\/p>\n

It originally appeared on this website:
\nhttp:\/\/www.vocativ.com\/news\/275809\/bad-penmanship-an-expert-analysis-of-kanye-wests-handwriting.<\/p>\n

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On Monday, Kanye West posted<\/a> a handwritten tracklist for his upcoming album, Swish<\/i>, calling it \u201cthe best album of all time.\u201d That\u2019s an unsurprisingly bold statement from the \u201cI Am A God\u201d<\/a> singer, but did the list reveal anything about his seventh studio album? For starters, Kanye fans\u00a0will finally get the CD-quality version<\/a> of \u201cWolves\u201d they\u2019ve been hoping for,\u00a0but there is\u00a0a hell of a lot more to be drawn by simply looking at Kanye\u2019s handwriting. Vocativ talked to some handwriting experts to find out what.<\/p>\n

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\nDr. Marc Seifer<\/a> is the author of\u00a0The Definitive Book Of Handwriting Analysis<\/a>,\u00a0<\/em>and he said the very first thing he noticed is the way \u201cSwish\u201d is over-written. \u201cIn other words, he wrote the letters out and then went back over much of the title to add more color and thickness to the writing,\u201d Seifer told Vocativ. \u201cAll of this suggests a bit of an obsessive streak. The tendency to \u2018overdo\u2019 the letters suggests that when it comes to his art, Kayne has no qualms about going over the top, pressing every id button he can.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Although Master of Graphology Sheila Kurtz of Graphology Consulting Group<\/a>\u00a0told Vocativ that the tracing of the letters\u00a0\u201cis probably just a quick and dirty way to add jazz up the word.\u201d Realistically, there\u2019s\u00a0probably some truth in both. Kurtz said more broadly speaking that, the list reveals a \u201ccomplicated personality,\u201d and in fact, there\u2019s more in his handwriting that reflects\u00a0that idea.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A complicated personality may come with conflicting aspects, best exemplified\u00a0in the messy, almost illegible script that\u00a0manages to stay within the lines.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we look down the pages, as Adam Brand mentions<\/a> in his graphological analysis, Kayne has indeed written all his words within the lines,\u201d Seifer said. \u201c<\/span>Considering that there is something unbridled about the primordial power of the heavy handed design of the letters, this tendency to \u201ctoe the line\u201d is a counterbalance. This is a clear contradictory aspect to his nature. One part of him is \u00a0truly \u2018wild and free\u2019 and yet another part of him knows very well how to maintain discipline and curb his impulses in order to succeed.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

But finding this one short list to be \u201cfairly banal,\u201d\u00a0Kurtz compared it to Kanye\u2019s\u00a0handwritten lyrics for \u201cOnly One,\u201d a song he dedicated to his young daughter.<\/p>\n

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