I have to Admit, Kanye West is the Total Package

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this shyt read like one long run-on sentence.

the points, if they're to be called that, miss the actual point: kanye west is the reflection of the successful black man in post-jim crow america, a man who has mastered the skill of navigating between the worlds of black and white, whose music reflects the agony of having to adapt to the embrace of white america while still feeling kinship with the people he's leaving behind.

the man is a conflicted mishmash of views and emotions, whose identity is at once militant and bourgeois, academic and ignorant, charitable and patronizing. that is who kanye west is, and that's who many successful black men ( myself included) become. it's not due to a desire for conflict. rather, it's the constant pressure by white and black america to arrive at this ideal that will finally dispel the stereotypes given life by slavery's remnants. kanye west is a very complex, but thoroughly intelligent and creatively masterful, artist whose music embodies the tug of war that's waged within the souls of so many black men.

this screed misses the point. it reflects the usual commonplace criticisms voiced by armchair critics (read: kanye haters) who refuse to recognize the man's art because they can't handle the truth.

i should add that i didn't like watch the throne. i'm not a huge kanye fan. but i LIKE new slaves and black skinhead. that kind of music needs to be said, NOW. i'm someone that recognizes how black america, a lot of it due to the response obama's presidency has generated, is viewed by much -- the majority? -- of white america. we're under attack. and, i don't care about kanye's excesses. i appreciate them. the dichotomy he represents is natural, and it certainly isn't something i'm going to hold against him.

it's obvious that what kanye is saying makes some blacks and a hell of a lot of whites very uncomfortable. eric holder said we are a cowardly people when it comes to matters of race. we package discussions of it in niceties, with dialogue that doesn't offend. if kanye is offending people, GOOD. if he's being bold with what he's saying, EXCELLENT. the intellectual dishonesty of his critics is insulting. there's no substance to their critiques. they're just regurgitating what we've always heard about kanye:

ahh, why does he talk that conscious stuff when he's so materialistic.

blah blah blah.

why is kanye singled out for this. isn't that a criticism that can apply to even people like michael moore? noam chomsky, the proletariat's champion, lives in a big ass house in one of the wealthiest towns on the east coast. so, why target kanye for similar contradictions of message and lifestyle? it's because he's a BLACK man. it's because most white people and some of you house ******s think black men "shouldn't be talking like that." kanye should be happy with what he has and just make music to dance to. fukk a message.

"damn, kanye - who told you to run your mouth? don't you know you're black?"

that's how the OP comes across, and that's how many of these whites crying about new slaves come across. a black man speaks up about some REAL shyt, and the only thing they can talk about is his margielas and the white girl he impregnated.

as if that discounts what he's saying.

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Another thinkpiece dedicated to the GAWD :salute:

It aint Yeezy season without all the unnecessary thinkpiece's :blessed:
 

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Is Toure back in the public eye or something? Why is his name being brought up so frequently in here? I remember that twat from the source.
 

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Why is this nikka crying and whining bout sht that dont have anything to dow ith the music

I could easily say this whole essay dnt mean sht cuz u aint ever say this about other hypocrites and frauds like Biggie, Pac, Nas etc.

But hey..mask the idiocy of ur post with its needless length

Smartdumb nikka :pachaha:
 
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Why did you make a thread comparing Kanye to artists he has nothing in common with? lol Ice Cube? Pac?
 

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

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I'm practically on the verge of giving up on c00nye.

His rapping has become forced

He's leaked out more cases of #strugglerhymes

He's a hypocrite

Hardly ever makes his own beats now

Imagine if Toure was a rapper and you have Kanye West...
:wow:this might be the most spot on comparison that's ever been used to describe a rapper.
 

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Ima keep bringing it up :troll:

SO what about other frauds and hypocrites like Pac, nas, etc..

U know..those hypocrites u celebrate and seem to ignore when it comes to that accusation :mjpls:

Address it smartdumb nikka :troll:
 
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