Kanye West, Yeezus, 6/18/13 (TBC because who knows anymore)

i'm not saying people can't be excited about awards they DO win, they totally should be. caring too much about the ones you don't win, though, smh.

"Mental pictures of Drake looking ridiculous"

The happy rapper.

kanye's response to the first question here seems pertinent to this discussion http://books.google.com/books?id=fyLttHWpa9EC&lpg=PP1&pg=PA60#v=onepage&q&f=false

it's a totally fair thing to say. he had a good year. but that was around the time he threw a fit because Gretchen Wilson won an AMA over him. that's the other thing, he doesn't just care too much about the Grammys, he's wilding out about VMAs and Kids Choice Awards and shit.

like i honestly think it's bad for hip hop that its most acclaimed artist, its bastion of cerebral non-gangsta music, is a such an idiot in some ways.

I think his ott emotionsl investment in awards nobody else cares about is an interesting, even endearing quirk. I like solipsistic Kanye though, poet of the psychological corrosiveness of celebrity. mbdtf is my favorite album by him.

that old Spin interview, wow.

Kanye To Radio: Drop Dead

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ppzAzjjH0ng

his attitude towards radio right now is so weird. like, he did that Rihanna remix being all "on the radio, man, I miss myself" after 6 months of "Mercy" and "Clique" blanketing the airwaves.

why does anybody still care about this guy idgi

he's a conundrum wrapped in a weirdo.

he's still trying to prove his coach wrong. every day he has to make the team. forever. i dunno, i don't actually listen to his music, i just read about him. kinda like eminem. or 50 cent. or yoko ono.

haha yeah me too. I don't think I've heard anything of his since "Otis"

he's a star/icon and a punchline and people take him seriously. critical types. kinda like puffy. theoretically, two people i wouldn't want to be stuck next to on an airplane.

i mean people take him seriously AND they kinda laugh at him at times. so, eminem and puffy. three people i wouldn't want to be next to on an airplane. and yoko. four people.

The trickster deity breaks the rules of the gods or nature, sometimes maliciously (for example, Loki) but usually with ultimately positive effects (though the trickster's initial intentions may have been either positive or negative). Often, the bending/breaking of rules takes the form of tricks (e.g. Eris) or thievery. Tricksters can be cunning or foolish or both; they are often funny even when considered sacred or performing important cultural tasks. An example of this is the sacred Iktomi, whose role is to play tricks and games and by doing so raises awareness and acts as an equalizer.

nobody ever took puff seriously, including puff. would love to be on puff's jet.

nobody ever took puff seriously

? idk if we're all working off the same definition of "seriously" here

Best Song on Diddy - Dirty Money's "Last Train to Paris"

this seems like a pretty serious thread to me

yeah there was talk of actually changing the name of the board to I Love Diddy around that time.

I miss his all-caps blog posts. All-caps tweets don't have the same oomph.

pretty sure the gap between the ilx perception of last train to paris and its public perception is larger than most things in the world, kanye's ego included

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgMFdX4VfrQ

http://twitter.com/iamdiddy/status/324958109468598274

lol

pretty sure the gap between the ilx perception of last train to paris and its public perception is larger than most things in the world

and it makes me sadder than most things in the world ;_;

then you lead a charmed life!

idk it comes across as pretty obvious why a guy so clearly concerned with achieving legendary status and working in a genre that hasn't always been recognized adequately by The Grammys would want to win THE big award they offer instead of yet another untelevised award in the particular niche they've thrown him into, even if The Grammys itself is nowhere near as relevant as it used to be.

Wanting, sure. It remaining a primary talking point even on his "this album is about not giving a fuck and not bowing to corporations" campaign is pretty sad, though.

he's a dumdum wrapped in the smallest fiddle rolled up in an enigma.

some dude otm w/ kanye and the grammys and awards show in general (only however much drake and whoever care about the grammys is how much kanye cares about the nick kids choice awards so you can imagine how much he cares about the grammys). this sketch predates the taylor swift incident by almost two years - http://www.hulu.com/watch/10349.

When were The Grammys relevant?

back when Milli Vanilli were big iirc

michael jackson won a lot of grammys & pop stars want to be michael jackson

which is kinda sad considering how un-awesome michael jackson's life was

i think the super bowl ring/gold medal analogy is apt. huge world audience. top of the world, ma.

its still a way to gauge hugeness/godliness. you can't do it with record sales anymore. or very few people can. hard to hit DMX numbers let alone vanilla ice numbers.

http://www.complex.com/music/2013/05/the-50-best-selling-rap-albums/

I thought the super bowl ring for musicians was uh playing the super bowl

since that is now the musical event with the largest audience

yeah that too.

I think that’s a responsibility that I have, to push possibilities, to show people: “This is the level that things could be at.” So when you get something that has the name Kanye West on it, it’s supposed to be pushing the furthest possibilities.

nice

sorry if this was posted already, but I think I'm changing my mind about this guy. He might really be a genius.
he might well be the andy kaufman of our time.

"I think what Kanye West is going to mean is something similar to what Steve Jobs means,
I am undoubtedly, you know, Steve of Internet, downtown, fashion, culture. Period. By a long jump.
I honestly feel that because Steve has passed, you know, it’s like when Biggie passed and Jay-Z was allowed to become Jay-Z."

- Kanye West

I wish Kanye would invent some cool new Apple devices

initial research indicates limited market for phone that interrupts all your calls with a message from Kanye

lol

My point was that the Super Bowl is actually universally acknowledged as important in football and actually means a winner is the champion team of pro football. Music has nothing that central that even remotely the majority of music fans can agree on, but the Grammys have enough symbolic weight to attract lames who think they can actually be 'champion of all music.'

" But the thing is, I don’t care about the Grammys; I just would like for the statistics to be more accurate. "

that was my favorite quote

Grammyball