kanye west

Kanye's getting into bed with Ben Carson is the only time I've ever really thought damn maybe this guy is as big of an idiot as all the facebook friend i have from HS think he is.

Caramanica re 808s & Heartbreak done live at the Hollywood Bowl

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/09/28/arts/music/review-kanye-west-shines-light-on-his-darkest-hour.html?_r=0

On stage here, he played “808s” as a sort of Greek tragedy. Outfitted in druid chic, drapey garments in shades of white and off-white, Mr. West largely kept his energy centered and mellow. Backed by a small band and a medium-sized orchestra, he cast these songs as meditations, especially on tracks from the first half of the album like “Welcome to Heartbreak” and “Heartless.”

xp i think he's just being diplomatic...political... but where's the record?

"His politics—including his support of Donald Trump—fit under the “I don’t read shit” umbrella. He’s conflating contrarianism with bravery and intellectualism. To nonreading-ass niggas, people like Trump or Candace Owens are free thinkers—mavericks unafraid to challenge the status quo. But if he’d actually pick up a book (and not just any 48 Laws of Power-ass book, but the right books), he’d be aware of the danger of that type of contrarianism and aware that for people like Trump and Owens, their words aren’t about free thinking. They’re specifically and intentionally tethered to white resentment, which is also often tied to anti-intellectualism. They’re actually the antithesis of free thought. They don’t think. They incite.

Do you need to read a book to know all of this? No. Not at all. But not reading is particularly dangerous for someone like Kanye, who obviously possesses an extremely high musical intelligence and seems to be, at the very least, curious about politics. Because while there’s not much difference between his politics and the politics of the fake-smart niggas we personally know who get all of their information from YouTube, if we don’t want to listen to those cats, we can just lock the doors to their grandparents’ basements."

https://verysmartbrothas.theroot.com/kanyes-politics-are-what-happens-when-you-dont-read-boo-1825475113

ok the MAGA beats... are fire

like...reichstag fire?

Like should die in a fire?

“I’m full of shit ideas and here’s another one”

Kanye West

I could never have a Virgil in my circle and hold him back 'cause he makes me nervous
I wanna see my brothers flourish to their higher purpose

Why is this guy so amazing other than he’s a phenomenally obnoxious lapsed-frat-boy-who-can-read prick?

https://www.babble.com/celebrity/the-unusual-names-of-marissa-ribisi-and-beck-hansons-kids/

quacks like a duck etc

i was referring to the pusha t album..

it's great

hope it starts a trend of super-tight sub-25 minute rap albums

Isn't that trend already here? https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/considering-the-rise-of-the-super-short-rap-song/

those are songs not albums 👍

Read the whole thing.

you're right, my bad. Although a 21-minute album with only 7 tracks is still something of an anomaly

Yeah, sure. And if it's inspired by the youngsters, that honestly only makes me like the album more, it has just the slightest sense of 'get-off-my-lawn'-ness otherwise.

For what it's worth, I'm enjoying the Ski Mask album that came out a couple weeks ago as much as Daytona. It's 10 tracks, 21 minutes lol

I’m sick of this fucking clown

I know LDR gets flack for a lot of things but when she said that his conservative turn was "a loss for the culture", that was exactly right

Does anyone even have the energy to react to this at this point

just several thousand twitter eggs saying “ well, he’s better than either of the other guys running ¯\_(ツ)_/¯”

is there a kanye-epstein connection

Already seeing heavy bot push. They've been planning this!

he will be thwarted when thousands write him in as "kayne"

That's ok, he's got plastic with that on

Already seeing heavy bot push. They've been planning this!

― Dan I., Saturday, July 4, 2020 10:50 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

not planning enough to apparently get on the ballot in a bunch of states whose filing deadlines have past.

this is some fundraising grift, right?

isn't the Democratic party a fundraising grift? Sounds smart to come in after he can't get on the ballot in some states. You don't want to fuck around and accidentally win!

Possibly West thinks this will help Trump - more likely to pick up write-in votes from the swingers who were captivated by the prospect of "a legendary businessman!" in the White House who otherwise would've leaned Dem over another strikingly weak GOP field. He may also think nothing is actually any worse for black Americans now than ten years ago and would rather have their vote increase for Republicans (via born again Christianity) than Dems for reasons including that normalisation of America entails black people there being as split politically as whites and that deregulation and lower taxes for billionaire philanthropists will help both the richest and poorest more likelier and sooner than the opposite of that.

the number of normally astute people I see freaking out over this right now is disheartening. "missing the deadline for several state ballots" aside, they actually think he'd steal votes from Biden, as if the guy would be endorsed by SERIOUS voters who were seriously freaked the fuck out about getting Trump out of office.

looks like I have another phrase to add to FB Purity.

the other thing I hate about the left rn, aside from Kanye, is the contradictory thought-process some have where if you express any sort of optimism, however-guarded, towards an upcoming election, that you're being complacent and that you shouldn't speak of things of which you have no certainty as it might cause people to stay home.

but if you take a similar tack with their disaster-cosplaying, they say you're being disrespectful to something that is a very real possibility, even though it only became one because they thought about it and started writing a first draft of it in their head two hours previous.

There's no way this guy doesn't end up dead broke someday

which makes me incredibly sad, actually

I really got mad at how many wanted to make the dude a punchline after he was the one dude who had the balls to call on Dubya on live tv for not caring about Black people.

he's gotten to a point where I can't even defend anymore (even if I know much of it seems beyond his control), but he was treated as a punchline before he deserved to be

Every time I see this thread I think it's about Key West.

no one who can cash in on their celebrity/notoriety is ever truly broke

not planning enough to apparently get on the ballot in a bunch of states whose filing deadlines have past.

Wrong. Why do people keep repeating this bullshit without actually confirming that it's true? The filing deadline has only passed in 5 or 6 states, and only one of them (NC) is a battleground state (though some may argue that TX is now as well). He only needs to get on the ballot in a few battleground states to have a chance at helping Trump steal the election, and some of them (PA, WI) look like they're very easy to get on to, signature-wise.

https://ballotpedia.org/Ballot_access_for_presidential_candidates#Requirements_for_independents

so, 5 or 6 states isn't a "bunch" to you?

lol at the idea that a) this is going to happen and that b) he's going to help Trump steal anything if it does.

No 10% is not a "bunch", obviously.

where exactly is this myth that he's going to siphon away Biden votes going to come from? Outside of troll votes, which probably come from people who either weren't going to vote or weren't going to vote Biden anyway, what Biden voter is going to somehow turn around and think Kanye is a better choice for their interests as President, and a more stable option....in numbers enough to swing an election?

then that's your stupid arbitrary definition of "bunch" then

so not sure why you thought anything that m bison said was wrong other than enjoying a moment to smugly burst into the thread with a "well actually"

like, idk why I'm bothering to break this down further, but if 10% of the people who ate the shrimp at a banquet got massive diarrhea, you would really argue that 10% of the people getting sick from the food didn't constitute a "bunch of people getting sick"?

ONE battleground state's deadline has passed. You sound hysterical, just admit you were wrong.

and, also, Florida's deadline (most certainly a swing state) is 7/15, and to qualify, he would have to gather 132,000+ signatures in 10 days, because there's no "buy-in" option.

Michigan's is in 11 days (7/16), and while it's easier, he'd need 30,000 signatures to get on their ballot, with at least 100 signatures from each of at least half of the state's congressional districts.

He'd need 10,000 signatures in South Carolina in the same timeframe. He'd need 35,000+ signatures OR have to pay $35,000 for Oklahoma by 7/15

he's going to do all of this in all of these states when he just announced candidacy yesterday?

you're a fucking dumbshit dude. I'm not even the dude who said "bunch", that was m bison, who wasn't wrong.

Can’t we all at least agree there are eight days in a week?

iirc i have never been wrong on ilxor dot com