Rant: Kanye West

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http://www.digitalunrestcomic.com/index.php

[Maclowery]

See, now I kind of feel good for being one of the people that never liked Kanye from the start. I was dissed and argued with so many times, while I said he was a douche for his anti-college garbage from his first two albums. Then he had to go and release an album which I really liked musically (808s and Heartbreaks) that was basically written around a nasty breakup, which happened to very-closely reflect a lot of my negative emotions about my own breakup last winter. So I pretty much hate the bastard for A. Being a Prick and B. Making me Emo when hearing all his new singles.

[PujolJunkie]

I still like Kanye West. I think what he did was supremely dicktactular but I still enjoy most of his music.

[Cronos]

http://www.digitalunrestcomic.com/index.php

LMFAO

[TheoSqua]

I'm starting to think the man is a genius, making himself the next internet meme:

http://twitpic.com/i372o

[Cheddar Tom]

See, now I kind of feel good for being one of the people that never liked Kanye from the start. I was dissed and argued with so many times, while I said he was a douche for his anti-college garbage from his first two albums.

hmm...i think 'college dropout' and 'late registration' were two very good albums. the hipsters seem to think so as well.

[Radbird]

Reaction to Kanye was Swift — and overblown

The part of the article that got my attention is on page 2. I think it has more to do with him being an [expletive] than anything racial - what do you think?

Veteran rock critic and bestselling author Dave Marsh says via e-mail that the public’s reaction to West “has everything to do with race and almost nothing to do with music, let alone decorum.” Marsh notes that during the Parents Music Resource Center’s hearings in the 1980s on the censorship of rock music, Twisted Sister frontman Dee Snider verbally assailed then-Senator Al Gore with far less fanfare.

“Kanye became a national issue because it’s a black man and a white woman. Remind you of anyone’s nipples?” Marsh notes.

Former Rolling Stone writer and PopKrazy culture blogger Robert A. Hull thinks West’s rudeness to Swift touched a nerve because it played into the country’s history of anxiety about African-American men insulting the “honor” of Southern women.

“Because I’m a Southern man from Memphis, I saw it that way,” Hull explains. “She’s somewhat of a county singer and she won legitimately. Out comes this black guy and it’s an offensive act and not appropriate. She’s a white country chick and he’s a strong, forceful black male. Deep down, every American citizen has a response to those kinds of images.”

Roker says he observed people pulling back their criticism when “a feeling emerged from certain quarters that this was just another excuse for hating rap or hating the black guy.

“The race stuff starts coming out, which is an unfortunate trend in everything that seems to be going on,” Roker says. “And on the heels of the Serena incident and Joe Wilson, it plays to a lot of Red State/Blue State stuff.”

[TheoSqua]

couple things wrong with that

1.) twisted sister guy's rant was probably categorized political, not as much feedback on political ranting

2.) that was before the internets. If this had happened and the internet doesn't exist, then it wouldn't have overblown.

3.) Kanye was a total jackass, and has a history of being a jackass.

4.) what he said was easily turned into an internet meme.

[Spider John]

It seems that whenever there is any conflict and it involves a black person, then by default any criticism of the black person must be racially motivated.

Dave Marsh should stick to writing about Springsteen.

[PujolJunkie]

It seems that whenever there is any conflict and it involves a black person, then by default any criticism of the black person must be racially motivated.

Dave Marsh should stick to writing about Springsteen.

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