Can we talk about Kanye?

[user2]

Damn!!!!!

Late Registration is such a frickin amazing incredible gorgeous record I can't believe it!!

Gold Digger sticks in my ears for about 3 weeks right now!

Heard 'Em Say is soo great but cute! And the collabo with Maroon 5's Adam Levine is so melodic and amazing!!

And then there's Touch The Sky! Jeez that melody with the trumpets is so fantastic and makes me shake my head all night long!!!

What do you think of it?

 

[Gloriamgo]

Ummm...It's Kanye, of course I love it!! I love Hey Mama too, it's soo good

 

[gis08]

Love Gold Digger! Even more after i saw his performance at the VMA's on the telly!

 

[user2]

And I think his style is the hottest out there at the moment!!!

 

[Shoe Crazy]

His new album is pure genius. He can do no wrong in my book!

I love Diamonds too the version with Jay Z is HOT!!!

I love Gold Digger and I love Jamie Fox even more I can't wait for his album to drop in November

 

[Juneplum]

i must agree! the DH and i frickin LUUURRVVE this album! his music is just genius! love is style too..

 

[Professor Fate]

george bush doesn't care about black people.

 

[Juneplum]

^ lol

 

[kimmy]

kanye is so rad. i didn't really used to like him but i mean damn, that fool grows on you, you know?

me and buddy rock out to kanye in the parking lot before shows :]

 

[Jude]

Kanye is my latest obsession...haha. Great album, great style and amazing dancer. He doesnt showboat like... say... DIDDY... but he certainly knows how to move.

 

[starlight502]

it's hard...i love the music but the guy has such an ego it is hard not to laugh at him. I mean what is was the fit he through when he didn't win the at the American Music awards. I have seen him interviewed so many times and YES he speaks what is on his mind but OUCH... sometimes that isn't always best.

He just left Rockafella records, i mean they are the ones that took the leap to finally sign him after columbia fell through. He was always talking about how Rockafella is his home and how amazing Dash was and how they were family. Oops... Jay z is out so I guess Kanye has to skip on Rockafella and run with Jay over to Def Jam. There is family for ya.

I know it is industry and all... and business. I love his tunes but that guy needs to put a filter on his mouth sometime during his interviews. i know your hot now and i love honestly but brutal honesty isn't always a turn on. but wait... still hasn't stopped me from buying his cds

 

[Chelsea]

I aint sayin she a gold digger.. but she aint messin with no broke niggers

 

[lovemichelle]

Quote:

Originally Posted by Chelsea I aint sayin she a gold digger.. but she aint messin with no broke niggers

niggaz*

 

[MACreation]

Quote:

Originally Posted by starlight502 it's hard...i love the music but the guy has such an ego it is hard not to laugh at him. I mean what is was the fit he through when he didn't win the at the American Music awards. I have seen him interviewed so many times and YES he speaks what is on his mind but OUCH... sometimes that isn't always best.

I AGREE!!

 

[iiifugaziii]

Quote:

Originally Posted by lovemichelle niggaz*

haha, I was just about to write that too. niggas/z. kanye is an amazing musician. too bad he's ignorant on every other issue. haha. pretty hilarious though

 

[mspixieears]

That 'Gold Digger' song is ok but man I hate it when it gets stuck in my head. It just doesn't f-ing leave!

I found it funny that he says 'broke' (as in 'broke niggers') - doesn't sound like a very US thing to say, even though I know US people use it. Sounds more UK hood for some reason. Then again maybe not; if he said 'skint' perhaps so...

Don't hate me for it, but his attitude sort of sucks. If I loved myself even just a quarter of the amount that HE loves HIMSELF, I'd probably not even need mood stabilising medication. Maybe I'm just jealous *shrug*. Can't remember his exact words on how he was God's gift to the rap community or something...

 

[AlliSwan]

I have to agree I hate his attitude, but he's got a catchy sound. Gotta love sampling the old stuff the way he does.

He's performing next week in my town, and I have a feeling there's going to be some serious protesting, not about him exactly, but, well, ok:

About a month ago, our university newspaper (though they're independent from UF) ran a cartoon that showed Kanye West holding a Joker card that had "Race Card" emblazoned on it, and a cartooned Connie Rice saying "Nigga, please!" Now, no matter what your political views, you have to see that it was an amazingly perfect cartoon. Yeah, sure, because Connie Rice, one of the whitest black people out there (who would never use the n-word), is on Bush's team, he DOES care about black people? Riiiiight.

Well, the paper got tremendous flack for printing such a cartoon. Of course there was the cry from a black fraternity member, who said it was degrading to see such a word used (he belongs to a myspace or lj group called "niggas that pledge"). There was the political outcry that said it was demeaning of CR because she'd never say such a bad word. Um, that's the POINT. And then there was the letter from the UF president (who noone likes--mormon from Utah trying to impose his values on a campus that couldn't be further from them) which demanded the paper publish an apology for the cartoon.

I commend the writers and their "apology." They said as soon as UF stopped being hypocritical by hosting people such as Wayne Brady and Kanye West (people whose comedic acts and music, respectively, make use of such a term), they would formally retract their cartoon. But wait, that would cause UF to lose MONEY. Anyway, sorry to babbly on about something that is VAGUELY related to KW, but it has been a constant barrage of KW in this town lately, and I hope he's welcomed rather than protested about, because I don't even want to hear the backlash if he's booed.

On another note, I saw an 80-ish black man wearing a shirt yesterday that said in HUGE letters "George Bush don't care about black people." TOOOO funny.