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BE Warned!! Dude is clearly a Kanye Stan and went wild with most of this one......... but there's a section starting at about 9:30 of this video where he makes a valid point that relates not just to Kanye but A lot of the artist who put so much thought and ideas into their music/show/videos.
He basically says that racism & classism play a big role as to why Kanye isn't viewed in a sense of a true artist, it's a big reason why we've seen such backlash at every other move after music. Kanye himself has hinted towards it in interviews, but he summed it up well by creating the alternative "Weston Kenley"
He essentially read off Kanye's biography and makes very slight tweaks to it, highlighting that if he were white or a black artist who went through the typical white institutions he would be renowned in the art world (specifically performance art). And honestly this isn't specific to racism because the hiphop community does it all the time. It's always somebody saying your trying to be to "artsy" or if someone tries to conceive that something goes beyond surface level it's always "Your reaching" as if hiphop artist have a ceiling, as if their thought process isn't intricate enough.
Like i said i think this can be said for a lot of artist BTW Kendrick, Lupe, WestSide Gunn, Tyler, A$AP t seems like the art is always this is good for a rapper.
other cultures allow for there artist to be viewed in Museums & honored for hundreds of years, while sometimes it feels like we make art that comes from hiphop disposable.
This is black artist in general. A couple year ago I was listening to this record by a white woman who completely ripped off Tinashe, and publications were calling it "pop", but they marginalize Tinashe's **** by naming her **** r&b. They did the same w/ Frank Ocean when he dropped Endless/Blond, ain't nothing r&b about Blond. If that record didn't have a face it would be psychedelic art pop ****.In what world is this **** r&b?
There's so many more examples, but I'm not tryna get tight rn. They pigeon hold the perception of black artist to a select handful of things to stunt our societal growth & dudes play right into.
at this point I’ve accepted we may never get another album from the man again.
