Kanye West Swings For The Fences
You probably haven’t stunned the nation by not letting a beloved pop princess finish recently, but you can probably relate. You witness an egregious injustice, in front of millions no less. Isn’t anyone going to say something? Your penchant for grandiose public displays and lack of any sort of social filter cause you to demonstrate your chagrin in a less than savory way. The backlash is surprisingly intense. Talking heads crucify you online, on television and in print. You’re forced to concede.Your greatest challenge is simply to keep quiet.
How could everyone forget your sonic triumphs on The Blueprint? Your academic, scathing and sincere approaches to politics (Diamonds From Sierra Leon), religion (Jesus Walks) and cash-grabbing vultures (Gold Digger)? You made more people aware of Daft Punk than LCD Soundsystem. Or even Daft Punk for that matter. You came out of your sales war with rap titan and flavored water kingpin 50 Cent with nary a scratch, needing just a second to readjust your bow-tie and stunner shades. You made a whole new generation of young people copulate to Luther Vandross music and not even realize it. You’re like the black Marshall meets Jay. What do you do now? You’ve gone on hiatus, you throw your vocoder into the trash, next to the aforementioned fashion accessories, and you remind them all that you are, after all, Kanye West.
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