Kanye "Give It A Rest" West
Mood:
lyrical
Let me clear up exactly how I feel about Kanye. As a rapper and producer and all that musical stuff, I'm a fan. Now where he and I part ways is with his tendency to go overboard. Now that might be the same thing that makes him create hits, so therefore I can't knock it if that's the case. If you accept a person you gotta accept them as a whole. Just like Mike Tyson. People loved him as a fighter, but then when you see that the man really does have serious problems, bammas turn their back on him and say, "he's wasting potential." You gotta take the good with the bad. Back to KW. At the heart of it, he's usually right about most of the issues he takes a stance on. But I repeat he goes too far with it. And the danger is, when you go too far with something, you risk losing whatever point it was you were trying to make. Example: he didn't win the award for best new artist and he threw a little rant afterwards. I understand this. He felt he was cheated. If you were cheated, would you be mad? Would you instead show class? That's not the right action 2 take in my opinion, because that just lets the cheaters continue 2 cheat, next time. You are then an enabler. So he was right to be mad and show his anger. But then he said "Don't put my name on the marquee so people can watch if I'm not going to be respected with an award. (I agree partly). The man should have won best new artist, the international a-hole, who complained about what he is owed. Then he went off on a tangent. "I'm the biggest thing in hip-hop. I deserved the award. Nobody has done it like this for hip-hop in years until now. I earned a spot at your little awards show so I could speak." That's what he said. See? He lost his message. Another time he said, "we sell the magazines. They put us on the cover and people buy because we are on there" (I agree). I stupidly just paid 4 bucks for a mag just because Keshia Cole (my other future wife...that's the last one, I promise) was on the cover. But he kept on. "I had one of the best cd's ever. Any magazine that doesn't give me a perfect rating (five mics) is bringing down their creditability." You just lost your point. Now people are going to dismiss you as an arrogant celebrity. Just like when he was with Austin Powers and he said "they gave them permission to go down and shoot us (Blacks)." And I'm not 100% sure if that was over the top or not, or that some of them bammas didn't deserved to be shot, out there raping and all that. But Kanye was saying that the masses and mainly the Bush administration, doesn't do what they should to aid the Black community. Bush was hiding and Kanye put a light on it and told everybody. But then he went too far and said GB doesn't care about Black people. See, that's too much; too extreme. Now since he threw that in there, all the people who want to support Bush and defend him can say "What? He does care about Blacks!" And they will then dismiss everything else he said. All the rest of it was the truth, but once you go overboard with it, people have an excuse to tune you out.
Posted by qoolout
at 10:39 PM EST
Updated: Tuesday, 9 January 2007 10:44 PM EST