https://twitter.com/tejucole/status/383617157868707840
"Nina Simone, James Baldwin, Miles Davis, Kanye West: no point explaining uppity negritude to those who would never get it."
Child, please! Outside of the leather jogging pants comment, the content in that Kanye interview was great, and he came off very smart and lucid. Ya'll can name the handful of white entertainers for being ridiculed all you want, but there have been way too many great black men and women that have been torn down by society for speaking that real and believing in themselves. Kanye didn't say anything outlandish in that video, yet Kimmel was quick to cast him as a clown. Kanye out here doing interviews in foreign countries, and is getting skits on late night tv devoted to them. He has every right to call himself a rock star.
You'd have a point if that was all Kimmel addressed was his leather jogging pants. Kimmel saw a black artist not showing humility and he jumped at the opportunity to paint Kanye as a savage or a child , yet the interview seemed incredibly smart and lucid. Lame to erase the racial context out of a discussion just because you feel uncomfortable.
Factory Floor, Balance And Composure, Ariana Grande, and Arctic Monkeys albums have been in heavy rotation. Heard bits and pieces of Janelle Monae's, but that 77 minute runtime is keeping me from fully digesting it right away.
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