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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
Severian you take Kanye way to seriously bruh. Does Kim know about all this?
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I know, it's weird. I'm not usually like this. Growing up a sonic youth fan basically means you have to develop a thick skin about the music you listen to. I could listen to people trash Sonic Youth all day and it wouldn't bother me, but when I see people post memes about killing Kanye, or hear people talking about him as though he's nothing but an insane dude who says dumb shit, it makes me unreasonably and irrationally pissed. Mostly because people almost never talk about his music actually being bad. They just say "Kanye West sucks," whether they know fuckall about his music or not.
It's kind of emblematic of a bigger cultural problem, where people don't see hip-hop as a legitimate musical art form. They think that if people can say words really fast, then they're "good" hip-hop artists, and if they can't/don't, they're "not good" hip-hop artists.
By that logic, Emiem is the greatest ever and J Dilla is a talentless hack.
I don't know man. I'm not proud of my Kanyd worship, but I do love Kanye and his music means a great deal to me. I don't like it when folks write him off because they like the "fishdicks" South Park episode. Or because they want to be part of the intelligencia, and have some rule about liking things that are within 6 degrees of separation from something dumb and mainstream (like Kim Kardashian). That kind of thinking is self-defeating and ultimately just incredibly phony.
If someone said they didn't like Kanye for reasons that had anything at all to do with his music, and were well thought out and sincere and original, I wouldn't get so pissed. But usually it's just bandwagon hopping, and it's annoying as hell.