"George Bush doesn't care about Black people"
Thats the Kanye I'll rememberHuh, yeah, in hindsight he got made fun of for that even tho it's totally true.
he tried being real, learned it doesn't work, and later full-on embraced the grift, losing himself in the process.
I'm convinced Kanye is one of those musicians Americans have been praising as joke on the rest of the world.
Generally there's this phenomenon that some musicians that are huge in America are not even a blip here in Russia, while other are everywhere on radio. Charitable reading would that those are the performers for whom understanding lyrics is important for understanding their art. Uncharitable would be that their popularity has more to do with image they've made to themselves and marketing than quality.
Like I've heard Adele and Rihanna all the time on the radio while on the bus here in Russia. Never heard Beyonce.
He was pretty big at some point. Eminem was freaking huge, which might have had a racial component, I guess.
Lmao, no. We pretty much share the same top artists as America with sometimes local artist sprinkled in.
Supposedly there's a bunch of country musicians in US top charts no one outside US ever heard about.
I think this phenomenon is mirrored on a micro level in terms of The Tragically Hip, who for like 30 years were the best selling Canadian band in the country and were regularly able to fill stadiums (stadia?) and concert halls up until Gord Downie's death, but you go 5 km over the border into the US and they're like "Who the fuck is Gord Downie? What's a Tragically Hip, is that a TV Show?"
The Hip is basically a part of the culture where i live. Take em or leave em, they were one of the only bands to trek up here yearly, and their shows were always packed.
I swear to god, my father is the only fan of the Hip in the US since my parents moved there. They have a massive fanbase here as well, but you go to the US and it's just like 12 dudes in the entire country that know they exist and they're all Canadian expats.
And 8 of those 12 only know "New Orleans is Sinking".
Edit: but one of those guys are also going to be the hip version of a deadhead, and knows their favourite songs live performance by heart, including the adlibs.
Yeah, I don't get it. His shit is mediocre at best, and we're supposed to hail him as some sort of genius because the USA tells us so? Nah. Not gonna happen.
Yeah I’m a leftist
Edit: I actually think Kanye is a brilliant producer and has actually pioneered a lot of what hip hop sounds like today. As for his rapping, not a huge fan especially after MBDTF but he also influenced a lot in that regard too. He was the defining shift from the gangsta rap era (which was still great don’t get me wrong) into what we have now
I voted for Ye for president and I'll never fucking regret it
Still waiting on that redemption tbh. I haven't liked anything he's put out since Yeezus, tbh.
MBDTF still the GOAT album tho
Kanye is fine. I don't really listen to his songs but they're not bad. Where does that put me
Man, here I am thinking that he's just a really good, plausible villain in the pop culture pantheon, and that you should like his music the same way you like Breaking Bad or whatever.
Is this being a sigma kanye fan?
