[Severian]

Originally Posted by guest

the extent of respect people afford kanye west would be far greater were he born without a mouth. he's very much a symptom of rap's proclivity for total hypocrisy, trying to split the difference between generalised hallmark 'emotional heft' bullshit (which, were it presented on a commercial for a bank would be derided for cynicism but strangely enough when heard atop undoctored samples of soul records is somehow illustrative of the presence of an auteur) and inarguably sickening, misogynistic hyper-masculine gloat bullshit, but is particularly offensive in that he purports to be far more than everyone else; his ego isn't some minor element in his whole fucking circus, it's the foundational tenet, and as a result of that you have to bring west the individual into it as demonstrated via west the artist, and he's a nigh on illiterate hackjob moral absolutist fuckwit whose unadulterated idiocy is passed off as the ramblings of a genius, a mind so deeply burdened by designs for shoes made by children in shanghai sweatshops that his being a cunt is somehow excusable.

also find it ironic that for a man who essentially spent an entire record railing against a notional white culture and his peoples' subsumption into it, considering that he made a fucking synthpop record, that is, the greatest sadsack whiteboy style of music ever created.

his production on stay the night is fun though

No offense, but this is comically over-the-top and totally unfair. I'm guessing you're aware of this, and are just havin' a bit of a rant for entertainment's sake, which is fine.

But if this isn't at least 50% snark, then I would be remiss if I failed to address the rhetorical corner-cutting, and the faulty reasoning hidden in this jungle of superfluous verbiage.

For instance: that implication that by making music that some have subjectively categorized as "synth-pop" (a genre that you subjectively characterize as "sad sack whiteboy music") Kanye forfeit his right to be pissed off about racism?
That is, of course, totally absurd, yes? Not just absurd or illogical but, like, five different kinds of dumb as well. And you're not dumb, so knock it off.