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The (Kanye) Western Mind
may have created the most amazingly hideous empires in the history of the world, but Kanye West, esquire, can’t be troubled to stop and do one thing for too often. Ye gets bored. Money was supposed to be the cure. And it is. For some. Even for ye. Most of the time. But holocausts only become more and more necessary as the suburbs run out of land to ruin. Don't think too much. Let it wash over you. Ye’s journal and shit His personal thoughts feelings Musings is like fit to be read while on the morning subway commute -- or while sitting on the toilet -- or before falling asleep. Saturation of Hollywood turning into pop culture overload Cross-references ad infinitum Flowers are fast disappearing & Kanye don’t know what it just said. The following is not entirely something Kanye West thought. That is to say, Ye cant take complete credit for it. Basically I'm copping to stealin everythin That's what art is dough It is a compilation, a condensation & distillation (& augmentation) of those precious nuggets sometimes found in longer, more tiresome & tedious tomes concerning spirituality, things like truth, beauty, the important things, &c. If Ram Dass is upset with Ye, for example, for using his/her words & in some instances & not properly citing that the particular arrangement of the words was originally his, so be it. Ram Dass is a terrible example, what with him being so incandescent a human spirit & all & this hypothetical being so far-fetched. I have laboriously collected these entries out of divers writers, & that sine injuria, I have wronged no niggaZ but given every nigga and negress dey own); sumpsi, non surripui I can say of myself, Nihil dictum quod non dictum prius, methodus sola artificem ostendit, we can say nothing but what hath been said. I know dissa confuse my critics… Sum times I think Dey like bein confused It is an unclassifiable book in that it seems to invite a number of classifications only to play them off - inconclusively - against each other. Is it Naturalist or Decadent or Symbolist? Need it be any of deez? Is it perhaps a book in which Naturalist writing practice (document and description, analysis of symptoms) converges on 'Symbolist' subjects (solitude, refinement, fantasy) with a guiding thread of Decadent philosophy (pessimism, perversion, cultural elitism)? Decadence (n): The period of description, where verbal ingenuity replaced moral vision, ornament replaced substance & false complexity replaced clarity of thought & language. x - Kanye West Bali, Summer 2020
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Some white dude name Thoreau --
-- said “ain’t the poet bound to write his own biography? We dont wish to know how his imaginary hero lived, but how HE -- -- the actual hero -- lived from day to day.” Pre-preface By Kanye West The 21st century be full of niggas who are fulla demselv. A half-hour’s trawl through the online ocean of blogs, tweets, tubes, spaces, faces, pages, an pods brings up thousands of individuals fascinated by their own personalities an shouting for attention. I should know. They go on about demselves; they diarize, and chat, and upload photographs of erryfing dey do. Uninhibitedly extrovert, dey also look inward as never before. Even as bloggers and networkers delve into their private experience, Dey communicate with dey fellow humans in a shared festival of da self. Love us or leave us, as 21st century sheeple, the pathless way is the only one now before us, Though feeble. Maybe yo life be hard? Life can seem super hard, broseph but when you think about my life The great and powerful life of Kanye West, or any other member of the top 1% → it’s a whole different story → come with me, it’s like we’ll be taking off on a long, blissful, well-deserved vacation→ that’s what life is like for us in the 1%, hahaha → I’ll be easing you into your coach class seat → psych. Step into the shoes of Yeezus, It’s comfy as Ibiza up in here Up in first class wit da Armenians Dis padded cell wit da porcelain walls Dat I’m writing dis on, researching my nexx album, collectin beats, riffing raffs, you laughin cats The thing of it really is that you can only hope to contain Yeezy at this point. You can’t stop him, you can only hope to limit his destruction, his expansiveness, his manifest destiny. His lebensraum, Hotep niggas. |
AuthorKanye West, an American rapper, record producer, and fashion designer. Born in Atlanta and raised in Chicago, West released his debut album The College Dropout in 2004 to critical and commercial success. He experimented with a variety of musical genres on subsequent acclaimed studio albums, including Late Registration (2005), Graduation (2007), and 808s & Heartbreak (2008). ArchivesCategories |
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