I’ll admit I don’t really know who Kanye is other than a performer. I’ve heard some of his music and read some of the comments he has made and just assumed he is not very well educated which from what I have read not many rap stars are. I don’t even know if rap is correct or is it hip-hop. What I do know is that I have found the vast majority of the genre to be bad poetry pandering to the lowest denominator of drugs, rape, treating women as “Ho’s” and booty worship. And, I will say I thought it was social justice or maybe Karma when I read that Tupac had been raped in prison when so much of his art centered around rape and drugs, etc. I would never had wished for his death, however. But then I heard a song by Coolio called “Gangsta Paradise” that blew me away. I felt it was the most powerful cry for social justice I had ever heard, filled with so much angst it pained me to finish listening. It was pure genius. He set the bar high for the genre and I have yet to hear anything like it since. I may not as I am getting pretty old now but I am glad I heard him. In case your wondering my genre includes Coltrane, Miles Davis, Muddy Waters, sometimes a little Nat King Cole and when The blood is up I crank up The Stones, War, CCR and maybe a little Paranoid with Ozzie and Co. For an ancient Mescalero Apache with a fistful of Irish thrown in I feel I’m pretty diverse in my selections.
Yontrop over 6 years ago
… to name just one.
Night-Gaunt49[Bozo is Boffo] over 6 years ago
Kanye West is a turncoat. He did a 180° heel-face turn. Can’t trust anything he says now or in the past.
Herb L 1954 over 6 years ago
Betsy DeVos ;(
safecracker45 over 6 years ago
and donald trump
a swino over 6 years ago
miss the old Kanye, chop up the soul Kanye…https://amerigo.bandcamp.com/album/kanye-west-i-miss-the-old-kanye-amerigo-gazaway-remix
NRHAWK Premium Member over 6 years ago
I’ll admit I don’t really know who Kanye is other than a performer. I’ve heard some of his music and read some of the comments he has made and just assumed he is not very well educated which from what I have read not many rap stars are. I don’t even know if rap is correct or is it hip-hop. What I do know is that I have found the vast majority of the genre to be bad poetry pandering to the lowest denominator of drugs, rape, treating women as “Ho’s” and booty worship. And, I will say I thought it was social justice or maybe Karma when I read that Tupac had been raped in prison when so much of his art centered around rape and drugs, etc. I would never had wished for his death, however. But then I heard a song by Coolio called “Gangsta Paradise” that blew me away. I felt it was the most powerful cry for social justice I had ever heard, filled with so much angst it pained me to finish listening. It was pure genius. He set the bar high for the genre and I have yet to hear anything like it since. I may not as I am getting pretty old now but I am glad I heard him. In case your wondering my genre includes Coltrane, Miles Davis, Muddy Waters, sometimes a little Nat King Cole and when The blood is up I crank up The Stones, War, CCR and maybe a little Paranoid with Ozzie and Co. For an ancient Mescalero Apache with a fistful of Irish thrown in I feel I’m pretty diverse in my selections.