I have to Admit, Kanye West is the Total Package

[zerozero]

whose pursuit of the mother of his child was inspired by her online sextape.

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

Oh I'm sorry. Let me bow down to the greatness of Walt's post. FOH

The psychoanalytic breakdown into the mind of Kanye West is an exercise in futility breh. We've known this since his mom died. But if the music is good, I'm going to play it. And more often than not with Kanye, he'll put out something that's pretty nice.

 

[Pr0x1mo]

So he's basically the total package minus the package.

 

[Trajan]

Intellectual Ether

Kanye...Is it Louis Vuitton Don or Malcolm X?

Attention whoring fashionista faggit.


This nikka Walt

 

[The 2020 New Member]

good post. it's not like he's brand new with this. in fact, kanye's been like this since before college dropout.

 

[How Sway?]

I didn't think one man could do it, but he has managed to embody the absolute worst aspects of Jay-Z, Nas, Pac, Ice Cube, and Common while distilling any of their valuable qualities from the mix.

He's a diva and a demagogue, a bratty fashionista, a shameless opportunist, a convenient social critic, a man who will cum on the blouses of hampton spouses while simultaneously wifing up a beverly hills socialite who embodies whoredom in nearly all possible aspects of the word. He's the ultimate black limousine liberal, the college nikka talking in coded academic language about inequity, black self-love, black owned business, leading pointless "black out" days in front of the campus library, then joining a Fortune 500 company as soon as he graduates and marrying a white chick first chance he gets.

The leader of the meaningless new world in which complexity has been reduced to Che Guevara wearing bling, where 40's the new 30 and nonsense is the new complexity, where inchoate juvenile temper tantrums are the new grist for the mills of revolution.

A man who's mother's death is tied to the ultimate act of vanity and insecurity, who gets riled up after bumping his head on "wrong way" signs like a weak, spoiled, confused child, whose pursuit of the mother of his child was inspired by her online sextape.

He who shall speak truth to power, our great provocative, populist artist, thugging it out with the Gwyneth Paltrows of the world referring to him as her "nikka." Ghostproducers, ghostwriters, shallow lyrics that tap into the emptiness and disconnectedness of the black middle and upper middle class, cliche takes on interracial dating, consumerism, sex, and blackness that would shame the most tired slam poet. The type of black person who doesn't feel a sense of authenticity in the white or black world and feels the urge to align himself with whichever one fits his mood for the day, as he tries on philosophies, indignation, and societal outrage like one of his funky leather outfits or a pair of designer shades - what will look best this season, and to whom? As even activism and justice become just another name brand or champagne, something so bathed in capitalist ethos that it rates and resonates as a buzzword or a quip.

Our great prophet of megalomania, the attention whore who resents the trappings of attention, Mr. anti-Hamptons with his Beverly Hills family, the man who hates to be a celebrity so much that he impregnated a woman who is a celebrity for the sole sake and reason of being a celebrity. You gonna just snap my photo while I'm on my way to a shi shi lunch? Well then I'm gonna expose the prison-for-profit system! The master of substituting empty, over the top rhetoric for insightful or meaningful thoughts, buffoonish gestures for truly defiant acts. Kanye ain't a celebrity, he for the people - which is why his malformed chipmunk face was the main image he chose to project on a bunch of big ass buildings across the country, and why he's calling his album Yeezus.

And he's crack for a lot of black people, the same way Ayn Rand is for a certain lot of whites, because both appeal to a warped sense of persecution while confirming their most basic, shallow notions of how the world is and how it should be, a world in which contradictions empower rather than hinder a person's character or message.

I never thought I could find anyone in hiphop more vile and reprehensible than Puffy, but Kanye has surpassed him at this point for the simple fact that a lie disguised as the truth is always worst than an outright lie.

this nigguh just wrote a theoretical Thesis

Spoiler

And had some valid points I still fux with ye though.

 

[Pr0x1mo]

I wonder if kanye knows that he's trash but doesn't care because what he does sells or if he truly believes he's a lyricist.

 

[Mike Otherz]

this is the type of post we should be seeing from our music and cultural critics. expect to not see it and in fact see more kanye nut hugging.


quick mini poll, how many think Toure will offer up this critique?

 

[Soymuscle Mike]

 

[Listen]

Damn.. @Walt, hold me up bruh.....

 

[Pr0x1mo]

LMFAOOOOO

 

[OnlyInCalifornia]

this is the singular most profound critique of kanye I've ever seen articulated...put it on the front page of the coli...exemplary work sir

It really is.

But ill still play his music

 

[SunZoo]

Kanye helped kill his mom by encouraging her vanity and insecurity.

 

[boskey]

Well said, I agree....


Add on the fact that he doesn't have half of the elocutionary talent of the 5 emcees that you mentioned...

He's a walking stereotype of everything that is flawed in the modern American limousine liberal negro...Arrogant, effeminate, disingenuous, irresponsible, self serving and fueled by Euro-envy.... Fighting his own petty personal battles while attempting to cloke them in Black nationalism..

Imagine if Toure was a rapper and you have Kanye West...

Bu bu bu Toure and Yeezus make cacs mad. Are you in favor of cacs being happy??? You obviously don't understand what black excellence is all about...

 

[Techniec]

@Walt this needs to be a viral sensation

Im spreading this muafukka all over my face book

such ether cant be contained