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  1. WPG
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    WPG sxn80 Rory Gilmore

    Oct 4, 2018
    https://noisey.vice.com/en_us/article/evwmmk/kanye-west-yandhi-ye-snl-2018-essay

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  2. Lil Squeed
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    Lil Squeed French Montana Stan

    Oct 4, 2018
    "Two days later, Kenan Thompson, who has been on SNL since 1955, went on Late Night With Seth Meyers and likened the experience to being held hostage."

    Nice read but idk if Kenan is THAT old lol
     
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  3. JFK
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    JFK Bleach on my t-shirt

    Oct 5, 2018
    Saw this posted on Reddit. Started reading and halfway through I thought "this sounds like Paul", scrolled up, and sure enough there's @WPG
     
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  4. DKC
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    DKC shortygonletmecrush

    Oct 4, 2018
    "In many ways, commercial art has moved into a sort of barren, hyper-capitalist wasteland. Clicks are agnostic and the machine keeps moving. What makes it confusing for us, and probably emboldening for Kanye, is that he’s so often been pilloried for being right. I’m thinking of things as charged as “George Bush doesn’t care about black people” and as seemingly innocuous as him insisting, years before she was given serious attention by critics, that Rihanna was one of the central artists in music. He’s been vindicated over and over. Which is why, when people observe that Kanye has “always been like this,” they’re being glib and not exactly correct. Yes, he’s always been outlandish and self-aggrandizing and not particularly in touch with the granular details on any issue. But his public performances used to be driven by ideas, or at least songs, that were daring and inspiring. Right now there’s a cold, Trumpian vacuum at the center of everything."

    Good s--- man.
     
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  5. Brubbels
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    Brubbels

    Oct 10, 2018
    "But his public performances used to be driven by ideas, or at least songs, that were daring and inspiring. Right now there’s a cold, Trumpian vacuum at the center of everything"

    Yeah I'm not too sure about this. The Bush and Taylor Swift incidents were just as unfounded as his contemporary comments on slavery. Sure, you could frame it as sticking up for artistry and deprived people in need, but you could also argue he was just being an uninformed a------ about it. You are applying the latter frame to his current actions, but if you read between the lines his public appearances are, aside from going against the grain, him sticking up for self-empowerment, and defying public norms and expectations, and seeking constructive collaboration with Trump to get things done. It's just a matter of which perspective you want to take.
     
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