This piece should get you thinking about how "real" you may claim to be...
“Things fall apart, the center cannot hold.” - The Second Coming, William Butler Yeats
On Saturday evening, VH1 aired Kanye West’s “Storytellers” episode, and in doing so, confirmed the “Louis Vuitton Don’s” place as the most emotionally accessible and soul baring artist in modern music, and, upon further review, likely of the modern era. From statements being accepting of homosexuality, to the absurdity of proclaiming OJ Simpson as “amazing,” to proclaiming with great hubris that he is shamed by his inability to watch himself perform, Kanye really outdid himself, and, in the world of hip hop seems to have created the most divisive line yet in the sand as to whether the Chicago native is idiot savant, just a plain idiot, or pure unadulterated genius. At the end of my furious spell of typing I hope to at least have you, the reader, aware of the man, the artist as none of the above, but rather an important bellwether of our change in social climate, our change in culture, and a harbinger of things to come." Continue reading HERE
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