Kanye is not the first to expose them.
Check out this one from Chappelle.

A few already paid with their 'lives':
-Prince
-Michael Jackson
-Chester Bennington
-Chris Cornell

I read about Bennington and Cornell a few years ago and have often thought of the terrible way they died, betrayed by their bodyguards and found hanging from a door knob. Even though there were obvious signs of a struggle and they had physical signs of being choked, their deaths were quickly ruled suicides with no investigation. The corruption runs very deep.