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KANYE

Let me give you every reason that Kanye West is nothing but an undeserved scapegoat, who had provided nothing but top-tier music since his debut. Let me school you with some straight facts: Kanye, despite his publicity stunts, is regarded by many as a kind, compassionate individual. He often talks to his fans, and from all accounts is genuinely interested in what they have to say, what their life is like, and what their goals are. This is somebody who for the past nine years has been public enemy number one. It would be easy for him to go into absolute seclusion, and bitterly resent everybody, but he doesn't. He has a passion behind what he does, and it reflects in his music. Rick Rubin regards Kanye as the most influential and groundbreaking artist in hip-hop at the moment. Paul McCartney regards Kanye as a genius. He invited Seth Rogen and James Franco to perform their "Bound 3" parody at his wedding. He has won the love and respect of anybody who genuinely takes an interest in his music (Which has won 21 grammy awards, might I add). Despite the VMA incident, Kanye and Taylor Swift are good friends, and Swift herself has a deep respect for Kanye as an artist. Not to mention, the dude has not had it easy. He slaved for years as a producer before finally making his big break on the production for Jay-Z's Blueprint, with beats for Ain't No Love (Heart of the City) and I.Z.Z.O (Takeover). Despite his success as a producer, everybody told him he couldn't rap, and would never make it. He eventually dropped College Dropout in 2004, reinventing the game with an album full of incredible soul-beats at a time where everybody was still trying to copy the G-Funk West Coast vibe Dr. Dre's 2001 had left. The album had smash hits like Through the Wire, where he rapped about his near-death experience in a car crash while STILL WEARING his reconstructive mouthgear; or his club-hit about Jesus in Jesus Walks, at a time where you weren't going to get anything religious on the radio unless you're on country/gospel station in the South. Late Registration debuted 2005, with a completely fresh Soul sound, and featuring the talents of Adam Levine (Maroon 5), Nas, Jay-Z, and of course Jamie Foxx in his smash hit "Gold Digger". I don't care who you are, this song had everybody dancing and was played and still is played in every club from New York to Tokyo to Berlin. His other single "Diamonds From Sierra Lione" touched on the issues of Blood Diamonds and the exploitation of Africans by Africans "Over here, its the drug trade - we die from drugs/ Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs". This album also has one of his most heart-felt songs Kanye has produced to date: "Hey Mama", his tribute to his mother Donda West, who raised him as single black mother in Chicago, with all the trials and tribulations that brought. The song is a beautiful display of a man who has a deepfound respect for the one who gave him everything. "I was three years old when you and I moved to the Chi/ Late december, harsh winter gave me a cold/ You fixed me up something that was good for my soul/ Famous homemade chicken soup, can I have another bowl?/ You worked late nights just to keep on the lights/ Momma got the training wheels so I could keep on my bike/ ... and it don't gotta be mother's day/ or your birthday for me to just call and say: 'Mama!' I wanna scream so loud for you/ cause i'm so proud of you." 2007 Kanye released Graduation. This was a completely new sound to his previous Soulful works. This had a heavy techno/EDM inspiration, from artists such as Daft Punk and Deadmau5. His hit song "Stronger", sampling the also famous Daft Punk song "Harder, Better, Faster" was played once again world-wide in every club from L.A. to London to Sydney. It was groundbreaking, as Kanye melded genres that nobody had been able to meld. He gave popularity to the Robotic Voice trope that many artists copy to this day, and re-purposed auto-tune. It was no longer for untalented hacks who couldn't sing: It was for artists who wanted to give a specific feel to their music. Then by 2008, things really started going south for Kanye. His mother passed away due to complications with a cosmetic surgical operation, his relationship with his girlfriend was deteriorating, and he had a hatred of himself. It was in this despair and desperation that he produced his darkest work, "808s and Heartbreaks", which is essentially his thesis on pop music, providing us with an incredible set of pop beats, all of which were phenomenal, and embracing the cold, detached Robot Voice that he had popularized as a way of reflecting the depression and lack of joy and humanity he possessed. The album provided him an avenue to channel the dark times he was going through. The track "Coldest Winter" is directly about the passing of his mother, Donda "It's 4am and I can't sleep/ Her love is all that I can see/ Memories made in the coldest winte goodbye my friend, will I ever love again/ If spring can take the snow away, can it wash away all our mistakes?/ Memories made in the coldest winte Goodbye my friend, I won't ever love again" Then, in 2010 Kanye releases his Magnum Opus, "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy". Critically acclaimed and regarded by many as the greatest rap album of all time, this album blew everybody out of the water, with not a single bad track. It received the near impossible 10/10 rating by Pitchfork, putting it in the same league as "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "Abbey Road" by the Beatles, "London Calling" by The Clash, and "Animals" by Pink Floyd. It was deeply self-reflexive, and in most senses a powerful declaration that he was not defeated, that he is in fact at the top of his game and that nothing can stop Yeezy season approaching. His song "Power" is nothing short of an inspiring, uplifting, empowering composition which firmly asserts that Kanye is back, and he does not give a flying fuck. "Screams from the haters got a nice ring to it/ I guess every superhero need his theme music". His other single "All of the Lights" has a whopping fifteen extra artists, including Rihanna, Elton John, Fergie, Kid Cudi and many others. I could write a whole essay on Runaway, or Blame Game Then, in 2013 Kanye released "Yeezus", a.k.a. ABSOLUTE GENIUS. It is his anti-hiphop album of harsh, grinding samples, and disjointed jarring beats that comes together and by no sense of reason create some beautifully profound music. He denounces the institutional racism of the DEA and the CCA in his controversial track "New Slaves". He mocks the hubris and egocentrism that everybody sees him as having in his track I am a God, which takes the absolute piss out of the modern man who considers himself a god, with the absurd line "I am a God/ So hurry up with my damn croissants!" Kanye has stopped caring what people think about him a long time ago. But that's not what makes the album ABSOLUTE GENIUS. It's the fact that the entire album is in fact an allegory depicting the Tragic fall of the "Yeezus" persona, going from absolute stardom and egotism with the strong, hard hitting, angry, egotistical tracks On Sight, Black Skinhead, I am a God, and New Slaves. Then, it shows the invevitable Tragic fall, like something straight from Aristotle himself: Hold My Liquor and I'm in it deal with Alcohol and Sex addiction in a way that shouts the typical social glorification of the Rockstar lifestyle, whilst robbing it of all its glory. Had to stop at 7/11 like I needed gas/ I'm lying I needed condoms don't look through the glass./ Chasing love all the bittersweet hours lost/ eating asian pussy all I need was sweet and sour sauce The distorted sound of the tracks and the uneasy schizophrenic sampling shows the deterioration of the Yeezus persona as he get in too deep, the distortion of his voice throughout the song makes the listener realise the horror of what it is to embrace these aspects of life. Blood on the Leaves is the climax of the album. He returns to the Robot Voice to show the detachment and emotionless state that his sinful ways have led him to, removing his humanity and making him a heartless, soulless machine. This song is the Anagnorisis of the album (Similar to when Oedipus realizes that he's married his mother in the Greek Tragedy). Yeezus has fallen low since he declared himself a god. "Now you sittin' courtside, wifey on the other side/ Gotta keep 'em separated, I call that apartheid/ Then she said she impregnated, that's the night your heart died/ Then you gotta go and tell your girl and report that/ Main reason cause your pastor said you can't abort that/ Now your driver say that new Benz you can't afford that/ All that cocaine on the table you can't snort that/ That goin' to that owin' money that the court got/ All in on that alimony, uh, yeah-yeah, she got you homie/ 'til death but do your part, unholy matrimony." Guilt Trip is a continuation of Yeezus' road to redemption, his catharsis (Continuation of his Robot Voice). It's Yeezus' attempts to overcome his failed relationship and coming to terms with his own fallibility. "Focus on the future and let the crew knock her" "If you loved me so much then why'd you let me go?" (x3) Then, we get into the final stage with the last two songs: Send it Up and Bound 2. Send it Up is Yeezus coming to terms with what has happened and joyfully choosing to put it all behind him. "Reliving the past? Your loss" is the beginning of the song, and it ends with Beanie Mann singing "Memories dont live like people do; They always 'member you/ whether things are good or bad/ it's just the memories that you had". At the end of Kanye's verse, he shows that the Yeezus persona has revived anew "Yeezus just rose again." Bound 2 is the 'happy ending' of Yeezus. Yeezus, after all that he's endured: the greatness, the loss, the suffering and the revival; he now is redeemed. He no longer is chasing the fame, the money, the superficial things, and he's found that "One good girl [who] is worth a thousand bitches" meaning that he has a legitimate relationship with a woman, as opposed to all the bitchy girls that he's been dealing with. This girl gives him everything that Yeezus could ever ask for: companionship. The final lines of the song reflect their relationship. It's not perfect, but "you know, ain't nobody perfect". They celebrate the small milestones of making it to thanksgiving and to Christmas; perhaps they can make it all the way to the altar, but first she's going to need to forget and forgive the person that Yeezus was. In the last two lines, Yeezus sums up the entire journey, on a number of levels: After this long-ass journey and transition that Yeezus has gone through, reflecting the verses of these raps and self-reflection; or the verses of him against his demons; or the verses of the Bible as they get married they're both tired, and sad at the state of how things are for people still living their lives full of despair, and in a metaphor and reference to the shortest "verse" in the Bible, they weep, just as "Jesus wept." "Hey, you remember where we first met?/ Okay, I don't remember where we first met/ But hey, admittin' is the first step/ And hey, you know ain't nobody perfect/ And I know, with the hoes I got the worst rep/ But hey, their backstroke I'm tryna perfect/ And hey, ayo, we made it: Thanksgivin'/ So hey, maybe we can make it to Christmas/ She asked me what I wished for on my wishlist/ Have you ever asked your bitch for other bitches?/ Maybe we could still make it to the church steps/ But first, you gon' remember how to forget/ After all these long-ass verses/ I'm tired, you tired, Jesus wept" Now I've been writing this comment for the past hour, so I won't even go into his non-musical exploits, but rest assured that as far as fashion goes, Kanye West is leading the forefront with his Red Octobers or Yeezy Boost Sneakers with a resale value of several thousand dollars each. Now, I hope that if you actually took the time to read at least half of this, you will see that the hatred for Kanye is little more than an attempt to marginalize one of the greatest artists of our time. His outbursts, though not classy, are not unfounded. Heck, John Lennon literally said the Beatles were bigger than Jesus; if that's not hubris I don't know what is. Both Lennon and West are icons and artists who have changed this world forever. Just because you haven't taken the time to see further than your limited frame-of-reference by no means makes Kanye a bad artist or a bad human being. He is God sent, and full to the brim of musical talent. His new album will undoubtedly bring another wave of incredible artistry.
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Some of y’all Muricans (howdy) are being real silly stupid falling for this bologna

Northeastern Murican here. Kinda a Canadian but also kinda Upstate NY white trash. Southern transplant so I’m not being wholly dishonest saying y’all.
I love my country, and I love my fellow Americans, but we are being very very reckless nowadays and as a young man looking to start the adventure that is life, I’m fucking worried. I’m legitimately worried that something very strange is going on, and that most of us are just going along with it because we’re sick and tired and miserable. I’m not saying the virus is not a serious health risk, because clearly it is; I’m not saying that African Americans, or maybe American descendants of slavery, have not been systematically brutalized for centuries in our country, because clearly they have; I’m certainly not saying that our leaders are engaged in some sort of power struggle with inter dimensional aliens and that these aliens are about to make themselves known to us, because clearly that’s comically absurd fantasy. I’m sorry that I feel the need to clarify to such an extreme, but I really want this to be communicated in a clear and rational manner: Something fucking weird is going on guys, and you don’t have to be Joe fucking Rogan to see it.
So for the love of whatever the fuck you care about, whatever it is, I don’t even care, just be nice to each other. For the love of fucking whatever, be nice to each other. Maybe life is meaningless and maybe God is a lie and maybe suffering is entirely pointless and we’re all better off biting a bullet. I, personally, don’t believe that last one AT ALL, and I hope that you guys can hear the good vibes in between the lines. IT WILL BE OKAY. JUST BE NICE TO EACH OTHER. MOST PEOPLE ARE GOOD PEOPLE, AND MOST OF THE REST ARE JUST CONFUSED.
Like, fuck! Is it that hard? Am I speaking a different language here?
¿Entiendes? ¿Puedes entenderme ahora? ¡No necesita a dar daño a nadie nadie!
C’mon guys! George Washington wore dentures with slave teeth and Thomas Jefferson raped at least one of his slaves, but the lofty ideas they didn’t live up to are still real! We can still make them happen! WE CAN STILL MAKE THEM HAPPEN. Here, I’ll say it again: WE CAN STILL MAKE THEM HAPPEN.
¿🏳️🏳️‍🌈🇺🇸🏳️‍🌈🏴?
I PLEDGE ALLEGIANCE TO THE FLAG OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. IM NOT SURE ABOUT THE REPUBLIC FOR WHICH IT STANDS THEYVE KINDA DONE SOME QUESTIONABLE STUFF IN THE PAST, ONE NATION, UNDER THE SKY AND ALSO POSSIBLY GOD BUT I DONT KNOW WHY THEY PUT THAT PART IN PRIESTS NOT WIELDING POLITICAL POWER IS A GOOD THING QUESTION MARK ??? HARD TO DIVISE BUT CLEARLY NOT ~that~ HARD TO DIVISE, WITH SOME LIBERTY AND SOME JUSTICE FOR MAYBE A MAJORITY OF PEOPLE.
If you know; you know. Anyways, yeah chill out. Maybe smoke a doobie if you like that kinda thing. Maybe try out some yoga. Maybe buy yourself a little something nice, and feel good about it, and love a little. After all, there IS, in fact, a fountain that was not made by the hands of men. I heard that once, not sure where. SAT NARAYAN WAHE GURU. 🕉
Has the thought ever occurred to you, that you, yeah you, have the potential to make the world a better place, no matter who you are or where you come from? No? Me neither.
I dunno guys. I’m an arrogant little prick who loves looking at himself in the mirror and flexing. I look at woman’s butts when I don’t think they’re paying attention. I sing in public and I make weird noises at people and quite frankly I’m not sure if any of the people around me think I’m sane and I’m insecure about it. But I look out at all of the anger, and all the hate, and all the suffering, and it burns at me. It fucking burns at me. BE NICE TO EACH OTHER GOD DAMN WHO THE FUCK RAISED UUUUUUUUUS??? WHO THE FUCK RAISED UUUUUUUS??? LETS GET OUR COLLECTIVE ACT TOGETHER AND JUST BE HONEST AND TRY TO MAKE THE WORLD A
FUCKING BETTER PLACE???
Is this thing on? Hello? Yoo-hoo?
To be 100% honest, I am slightly concerned that saying this is gonna get me put on a list. I could just be fried, but I am slightly concerned that saying this is gonna get me put on a list.
It’s time for big 🧠 time. Also known as tin foil hat territory, delirious loony land, crazy nutty McWhoTheFuckDoesThisGuyThinkHeIs type shit. Bruh.
At least one conspiracy has to be right, right? Some of them have been proven true after all; Operation Paperclip, where we shipped in Nazis after WWII to run our space program. This is easily verifiable fact. Or maybe you haven’t heard of how the CIA accidentally started the LSD counterculture while they were testing the chemical’s utility as a TRUTH SERUM (wtf? why did they think LSD was a truth serum? Government excess truly astounds :P). Operation “Midnight Climax”. Yeah they really fucking called it that. What a bunch of asshats. I haven’t even told you the juicy, what country are you even talking about shit. THE CIA HIRED PROSTITUTES TO LURE MEN OFF THE STREET INTO A BUILDING WHERE THEY WOULD BE and I paraphrase, I think fairly RENDERED UNCONSCIOUS, THEN DOSED WITH LARGE AMOUNTS OF LSD, LOCKED IN A ROOM, AND OBSERVED THROUGH A TWO WAY MIRROR.
What kind of fucked up nonsense is this? Who the fuck was in charge of this? Why didn’t they go to prison? Please raise your hand if you think any government official at any time should think that it’s okay to do something like this to a person, let alone CITIZENS OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA let me say this again for the people in the back CITIZENS OF THE UNITED FEDERATION OF PLANETS. Huh?
News flash everybody: JEFFERY EPSTEIN REALLY PROBABLY DIDNT KILL HIMSELF. Like cmon, really? That story is a fucking comedy of errors that borders on fantastical. It could be true, but I would bet money that it’s not. Unfortunately I can’t make that bet because we’ll probably never know.
But that doesn’t mean you gotta worry! There’s nothing we can do about it! HOHOHO HEHEHE HAHAHA! “See how they run like pigs from a gun; I’m flying.” Not sure who you’re talking about, Mr. Lennon, but I’m getting the sense that you think you’re on another level. You know who else thinks they’re on another level? A lot of really talented musicians. That’s really bizarre, don’t you think? Why do artists think they’re so great? Arrogant dickheads... unless...
THE TRUTH IS OUT THERE. 👽
But what was I saying? Oh right, scary stuff. Don’t worry about that stuff. I hate to be That GuyTM but we’re all gonna die eventually, so even though things might be terrible, at least you have the sweet longing release of death to look forward to! Oh shit did I say more scary stuff? No, actually I didn’t. If nothing in life is certain, then at least death is, and if you base your life around your inevitable death then you might be surprised to find that your life becomes a whole lot brighter. A WHOLE LOT BRIGHTER. Ironic, isn’t it? It’s almost as though attachment is what causes suffering... where my baby yoda fans at? Ayo! Baby Yoda! What a cute little fuck. My dad has a Baby Yoda knit doll in his office and I’m pretty sure it’s the only thing keeping him from losing his mind. That and all the Beatles posters.
He’s a good dude. I’m really lucky, and I try to make sure that he knows that, because it makes him feel better about the rest of the shit. That’s what I’m trying to do right now, for you too. Because I love you. I love you and I’m sorry that things are hard and I’m sorry that none of this is fair and I’m sorry. I feel no guilt, and no shame, but I am so so so so, so so so so, so so so so sorry. I’m being deadass.
For the love of whatever, I swear on my life I’m being deadass; I’m sorry.
Cuz it’s not fair. None of this is fair. You have to be blind or naive to think that life is fair, and you have to be blind or naive to think that life will ever be ~fair~. Who gets to decide fair? You? Me? That orange guy who literally does not give a single fuck about anything ever and that’s why people love him? News flash; while I agree that the system is a bloated monster that feeds off of the lower classes and small businesses, the best thing to do is NOT to fucking stab the system to death with the back of a hammer. It sucks, but it’s not evil! Nothing’s evil! Nobody’s evil! (Bundy was most certainly fucking evil. Ain’t gone lie folks, you can choose to be a real motherfucker if you like. I’m not gonna tell you that’s okay, cuz it’s not, but you also gotta be true to yourself. I dunno. Touch my kids and I’ll fucking murder you, bitch)
That’s about all I got in the tank. I could keep going, but I’m really just rambling here. RAMBLE ON 🤘🏽. No people, lets be smart and ramble OFF. 🧽
Peace and love, to all in the people hood of mankind. I love you no matter who you are, and I hope your day wasn’t terrible.
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With all the Lil Pump drama, here's a massive guide on hip-hop in China

With all of the Lil Pump drama thats been going on for a couple weeks, there's been a renewed interest in hip-hop in China, and as a Chinese person I can give an in-depth look into the various artists and style in China, for those that want to know a little bit more than just Higher Brothers.
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Credit to u/JamRed10 and u/itsobs for making the first two guides, but they were missing quite a bit when capturing China as a whole.
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Hip-hop in China is just now becoming a big deal with the second season of The Rap of China having just ended (and is accused of becoming maybe a little too mainstream), and can be divided into two categories :
Some examples of the Chinese style :
Gai - Self-control and Discipline
GAI ft Kungfu-Pen and AfterJourney - Tiger Mountain
Key.L - The Vigilante of the Forest
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Chinese rap is also divided into cities, as is Chinese culture as a whole to be honest. As such, groups tend to form exclusive to cities, with Chengdu and Chongqing becoming the two biggest ones (due to the dialects there being far superior to mandarin when it comes to the rhymes and flow needed for hip-hop to sound good). When looking at Chinese hiphop you will see "CDC" and "CSC" a lot, this is just "ChengDu Cheng" and "ChangSha Cheng" which simply means Chengdu City and Changsha City.
From Chengdu :
Isabellae
Made in China
Aston Martin
OG MaSiWei - Learning Taoist Principles
Successful
Mainlanders Supreme - slightly controversial outside the mainland for light dissing Taiwanese, Japanese, Filipinos (the song literally goes under the premise "20 years ago you all laughed at the People's Republic now you are all forced to fear us, all who want to get rich come to China)
You Can't See Me
Shady Has it All
Fuck Foreigners....
  1. AnsrJ - had one of the best Lil Pump disses
Fuck Lil Pump
  1. Wang Yitai/3HO - may not be the best rapper but he happens to have an amazing voice
Don't Close Your Eyes
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The Chongqing rappers are the main rivals to the Chengdu artists :
Empty Fort Strategy
A Western-Style Gangsta Rap Song - The Soul of Chongqing
Hotpot Soup
Singing Voice-
Love Goes Like the Tide
The Roar of the Ocean
Big Boss
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The Xinjiang rappers are quickly making the Islamic province the capital of Chinese Hip-hop, with two Uyghur artists stealing the show in the latest season of The Rap of China. Just like their African-American counterparts, their minority struggle with a hostile government has pushed them into embracing an unknown musical style to show their struggle.
2 Much ft Cadell
Sorry
Yellow Skin Flow
I Fight for my Homies and Hip-hop
My Mother is the Giant in my Life
Don't Wanna live on the Streets (entirely in Uyghur)
Three Pass ft ICE (skip to 1:50 to hear him go fast)
A REAL MAN
Yellow Green Indigo Blue and Purple
The Changsha rappers are not really trying to gain international recognition, but rather make music they enjoy. This leads to their style encompassing pretty much the entirety of the hip-hop spectrum, depending on what they feel like doing.
My Life Goes Up and Down Like a Bungee so Just Jump
Power to the People
The Flow of Jianghu
Three-Man Wanderers
Li Sao
Soldier of the Mandate of Heaven
Dark Dreams ft SIO
HIGHER BROTHERS DISS
Those Disgusting Memories
Rap from Nanjing is pretty much just one guy
Tao Lu
Xi'an
PG One - Zhong Er Bing
Bei Bei - So Fresh
I Love Xi'an City
Taiwanese rap has been around far longer than it has on the mainland, and includes some really good stuff. The ancient Chinese style is sadly absent from the music there. Whether or not you consider Taiwan to be connected to mainland China, the rap game most certainly is, and artists across the strait will frequently collaborate.
MC is Coming
Your Average Guy
MC Hotdog and Chang Chen-yue ft Kungfu Pen and PACT - Goodbye Hiphop
There's quite a lot from Taiwan, enough to make another post like this, so I will just leave you with Hotdog, and if you're interested, find some more by looking into it.
Guangdong
You're Like That
Ya Boi Tizzy T ft MC Hotdog
Tibetan Rap is quite young, and often talks about the Tibetan lifestyle in the wild terrain, far from the problems of the cities.
Dreaming of Tibet
Do Whatever You Want
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Throwback Write-Up #2: The Roots - Things Fall Apart

Artist: The Roots
Album: Things Fall Apart
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· Google Play Music
Album Background
To understand the lead-up to Things Fall Apart’s release, its important to recognize the dilemma The Roots found themselves in as they set out to record the follow-up to 1996’s Illadelph Halflife. The Roots were a bit….out of place - at least within the context of the day’s hip-hop environment. While hip-hop’s mainstream was dominated by the East Coast-West Coast beef, the larger-than-life personalities of Puff Daddy and Jay-Z, and the bubbling rise of Southern hip-hop, The Roots were at a bit of a cross-roads. They represented the push-back to Bad Boy, a critical darling that combined jazz and hip-hop in a way that satisfied everybody – except the mainstream. They weren’t the only acts pushing back, but The Roots lacked what other acts that managed to push through the East Coast-West Coast beef had: an identity. This isn’t to say The Roots didn’t have anything to say, they just hadn’t figured out a way to package together their unique blend of neo-soul, jazz, and hip-hop in a way that the masses could latch onto.
While their previous record had pulled from the grittier New York sound that Wu-Tang had helped bring to the forefront of hip-hop, a different set of influences would help shape Things Fall Apart. While band-leader ?uestlove spent time working on D’Angelo’s Voodoo¸ he focused on learning from his contemporaries, citing DJ Premier and J Dilla as major influences in his evolution of sound. They helped him learn to play “dirty”, making his beats off-kilter and less – well – clean. Nobody doubted ?uest’s capability as a drummer, but if anything he was too studied for the era. His beats didn’t give rapper Black Thought much room to explore his grittier side, and in the era of Biggie’s violent narratives snatching the spotlight, The Roots needed a darker edge to help snatch some of the spotlight. In his 2013 memoir Mo’ Meta Blues, ?uestlove talks about a turning point in his production career, in which he played an early version of eventual Things Fall Apart stand-out “Double Trouble” for Dilla and DJ Premier. “I knew that the other guys respected me as a drummer… but I also wanted them to respect me as a producer”.
What the record came to be was nothing short of pioneering: a seamless combination of the burgeoning neo-soul movement and the gritty sounds dominating the hip-hop charts; a masterful combination of the live instrumentation they had perfected over their previous three projects, and the new-age sampling that was dominating much of hip-hop’s sound. This combination of sound - so inherently old and new, chaotic but focused, hard-hitting but psychedelic – gave Black Thought room to flex his lyrical muscles, cementing himself as one of the top lyricists of the era (and his place in my top 3 rappers of all-time).
Album Review
Before getting into the tracklist, I feel as though it is important to discuss both the album’s title and it’s art. Things Fall Apart is named after the classic (and often spark-noted) novel of the same name by Chinua Achebe. The Roots – and associated acts within their lane, such as Common and Mos Def – were meant to parallel the main character of the novel, Okonkwo. Okonkwo leads an African tribe during the rise of European colonialism, and despite being respected by his peers and being considered the strongest warrior amongst his peers, he is unable to fight back against the colonizers, with his peers submitting to the invaders’ authority. While not explicitly stated, The Roots’ “colonizers” are the previously mentioned acts that dominated the airwaves in the late 90’s, as the “bling era” truly got into full-swing. Much like Okonkwo, The Roots were not simply going to cower and accept this new leadership in hip-hop. That being said (spoilers if you for some reason haven’t read the novel, and are interested in doing so), The Roots know this is ultimately a losing battle. The labels (read: colonizers) had too many resources invested to overcome, and the most that could be done was to hold the line.
The main artwork, known as “Woman Running”, comes from a riot in Brooklyn during the height of the Civil Rights era. It depicts two black teenagers being chased by dozens of police officers, and the genuine fear in the woman’s face is as powerful of an image as you’ll find: aggressive, unflinching, in-your-face. This iconic image represented the injustice of the Civil Rights era and captured the eye of anybody who happened upon it. There were four alternative covers as well: “Ace in the Hand”, showing mob boss Giuseppe Masseria’s dead, outstretched arm holding a single Ace playing card; “The Church Bombing”, depicting a mostly-destroyed church, with remaining stained-glass that portrays persevering hope and spirituality; “Baby in the Rubble”, an iconic shot of a baby left behind in the aftermath of Japanese destruction in China in the 1930’s; and “Crying Child”, showing a malnourished Somalian child and representing the famine that still ruled much of the world.
Track-by-Track Review
  1. Act Won (Things Fall Apart)
The album begins with two samples of dialogue, laid over brooding instrumentation that at times sounds like it is trying to cut through into the forefront, with drum-kicks and the spinning of records cutting into and out of the audio. The most important part, however, is the dialogue: a conversation cut from Spike Lee’s 1990 movie Mo’ Better Blues, and a quote from Harry Allen, an activist and PR genius who helped Public Enemy invoke emotion in their audience to inspire conversation and change. The first clip seems to represent The Roots’ internal dilemma, in which Denzel Washington’s character complains that black people aren’t supporting their art. “If we had to depend upon black people to eat, we would starve to death…..It incenses me that our own people don’t realize our own heritage, our own culture, this is our music.” This same dialogue had to have been happening internally, as The Roots were unable to find support for their music amongst a market dominated by braggadocio that they felt wasn’t doing enough to talk about the very real issues plaguing their community.
Wesley Snipe’s character retorts back that “The people don’t come because you grandiose motherfuckers don’t play shit that they like. If you played the shit that they liked, then the people would come. Simple as that.” By beginning the album with this clip, the band acknowledged their own reputation, of making brilliant music that nobody wanted to listen to outside of their core fanbase. They had a dedicated following, but if you weren’t a Roots fan, then you didn’t particularly give a shit about them. It foreshadows what is to come for the rest of the record: a change in sound, combining the brilliant music they knew they could create with the sounds that piqued the interest of the public. The Harry Allen quote furthers this, suggesting that hip-hop records and, by extension, The Roots are “treated as though they are disposable…they are not maximized as product, not to mention as art”.
  1. Table of Contents (Parts 1 & 2)
This track begins with Black Thought seemingly killing time, waiting on the drum-line to kick in, building up towards his verse as the instrumental builds up to the kick. When the instrumental does kick, it is meant to immediately let the listener know: this isn’t like the previous records from The Roots. It’s messy, even chaotic, and showcases the influences of the contemporaries he’s spent ample time with – namely, J Dilla, as it’s mixed in a way that keeps listeners on their toes at all times. It creates a platform for Black Thought to stretch out over the track, with the drumline cutting in and out to allow for Thought to mix up his flows. While on its surface, Thought’s verse may come across as aimless and simply a well-constructed way for him to say that he’s the best rapper out, it is important to remember what this track represents. This is the turning point in The Roots’ career, as they blossomed out of their shell from a technically proficient but at times tasteless jazz rap band, into an interesting and unique group determined to stand out in the now-crowded hip-hop scene. As Black Thought’s verse fades out, an abrupt switch brings about Part 2, with Malik B on the vocals. A more focused, albeit barer, beat gives Malik room to lay down a verse chock-full of internals and dense rhyme-schemes that switch up constantly, showing that it isn’t just the instrumentals that were going to be constantly changing up on this record.
  1. The Next Movement
While Table of Contents showcased the new, chaotic direction TFA was about to undertake, The Next Movement made a more explicit statement: this isn’t just the beginning of a new record; it’s a change within hip-hop. The Roots weren’t going to let the more profound, raw hip-hop styles they loved be pushed to the side by the Bling era, and Thought makes that abundantly clear, spitting
Yo, the whole state of things in the world ‘bout to change
Black rain fallin’ from the sky look strange
The ghetto is red hot, we steppin on flames
Yo, it’s the inflation on the price for fame
And it was all the same, but then the antidote came
With DJ Jazzy Jeff scratching and Jazzyfatnastees provided background vocals, ?uestlove’s funky drumline provides a base for Black Thought to lay not only two energetic and technically impressive verses, but also one of the most addictive hooks he’s written to date. While Thought exclaims that he’s “The Dalai Lama of the mic”, The Roots as a collective hit you with a right hook meant to prove that they can make accessible, hit music while still being true to who they are as artists.
  1. Step Into the Realm
On Step into the Re(a)lm, ?uestlove showcases a little-known technique used often in the early 90s: the pause tape. ?uest described this process in an interview with DRUM! Magazine, saying
“When you wanted to create a drum loop, you get a recorder, press record and pause at the same time. When the drum break came, you would let the paused tape go right on the 1, and then pause it on the 1 again. After you did this about 20 times, you would have about five minutes of drums.”
Obviously this process was incredibly tedious, and was left behind by improved sampling technology that was prominent by the time the group was recording this project. Yet, a not so subtle homage can be heard on this track, with the backing track fading in and out, with the break coming at the end of the 45. This makes the already somber instrumental give even more room for Malik B and Black Thought’s hard hitting bars to pack an even bigger punch. The beat fades away for Thought to spit about his “mic slapping you senseless” and rolling through your hood “cocked back, Me and Hot Mack, the ’98, El Dorado Cadillac Jacks”.
  1. The Spark
While Black Thought can tend to get most of the shine when talking about The Roots’ pens, Malik B showcases on “The Spark” why he’s not an MC to be trifled with. With another head-bopping drumline from ?uest backing him, Malik spits on his purpose in life, driven by his faith in Islam. His faith is at odds with his violent tendencies, which he states are products of his environment. While he struggles with this internal conflict, he warns any who oppose him that are “wondering what’s in my heart, velocity or piety; yo, it depends on which one you bring to surface; at times I get trifled but to worship is my purpose”. He continues his exploration of this internal struggle between peace and violence, stating his full Islamic name is Abdul Malik, meaning servant of God. But just bars later, he spits “show me the vault or the safe, cause I’m on the paper chase”. While Malik explores this internal struggle, a smooth bassline combines with a keyboard-laden backtrack (both courtesy of D’Angelo) to give him room to shine, and they way his vocals are layered on certain bars really helps make his bars hit on what feels like his chance at the spotlight on this record.
  1. Dynamite!
While it feels almost wrong to use the word “banger”, given its connotations and tendency to be used to describe records lacking lyrical muscles or real meaning…..this track’s kind of a banger. J Dilla’s production hand shines, sampling a funky guitar from Nirvana (not that one, a 60’s jazz band by the same name). The track manages to stand out amongst an already stacked tracklist, with Black Thought’s hook proving to be infectious (edit: it’s taken me way too long to write the next track review, I keep coming back to this). Thought and Rehani Sayeed go back and forth throughout the track, effortlessly weaving into and out of each verse, talking about the importance of being present while riding this beat with some absolutely insane flows. And god DAMN is the beat on this thing sick. It’s quintessential Dilla, seemingly basic on the surface, but the more you listen to it the better it sounds. And while it may not seem like some technically complex thing, there’s a reason nobody could go toe-to-toe with Dilla: he was the only one who could make beats like this. For that matter. As soon as you finish reading this….go spin Donuts. I mean, listen to Things Fall Apart first if you haven’t. But like, right after. Donuts.
  1. Without a Doubt
This Lady B-assisted joint features a sample flip from fellow Philadelphia artist Schoolly D’s “Saturday Night”, and you’d be hard-pressed to argue that they don’t do the beat justice. With ?uest’s production hand spinning the sample into and out of the drumline, it gives the song a lot more unpredictability, and this gives Black Thought room to lay two of his most under-rated verses in his illustrious discography. That being said, this song acts as an ode to Philadelphia, with Lady B’s hook bringing things together. Thought’s verses constantly change flow, and the beat almost sounds like it reacts to his bars, giving them more space where he needs it. And this song further pushes what this entire album seemed to state: “Warn, ring the alarm, cause here The Roots come”.
  1. Ain’t Sayin’ Nothin’ New
So you like rapping? What about when one of the greatest MC’s of all-time raps his ass off, with one of his greatest influences matching him bar-for-bar? I don’t say this lightly when I say this is some of the best rapping you’ll find on this entire project, with Black Thought and Dice Raw absolutely spazzing on an infectious ?uestlove beat. They make it clear that the popular acts of the day don’t impress them, and suggesting that those guys, well, aint sayin nothin new. Dice Raw raps like HE’s the one who belongs on everybody’s top 10 lists, and honestly might have gotten the better of Thought on this track. That’s not to say Thought doesn’t deliver great verses, but Raw has more moments in which he shines.
Straight from the old school, ayo, Raw’s in full effect
I’m like, Lex Luther with rifles filled with kryptonite
When you grip the mic, its like, c’mon kids, lets say goodnight!
You don’t like me? But don’t even know why you should hate me
You scared to face these so I still remain safely
  1. Double Trouble
I feel like I wasted the “So you like rapping?” line a song too early. A song meant to pay homage to the original “double trouble” routine from the movie Wild Style, Black Thought and Mos Def put together one of hip-hop’s greatest examples of rappers trading bars. Ever. The beat, which ?uest told Drum Magazine took him about five hours to get the drums right for, is the epitome of the “dirty” sound that has come up so often throughout this write-up. Right from the get-go, Black Thought steers into this dirty sound by scatting at the top of the hook. As far as the bars go, there isn’t really anything I can say that does it justice. If the idea of Black Thought and Mos Def trading bars doesn’t speak for itself, then I probably can’t help you.
It’s also crazy to think that this song originally featured Talib Kweli as well, but there were too many bars for one song. Black Thought chose to steer into a Run-D.M.C. style track, with the back-and-forth bars meant to play like a tug-of-war between the rappers. This song’s background has one of my favorite hip-hop stories as well, with Black Thought recounting Mos leaving mid-recording to “go get a fish sandwich” and not coming back for a week. So there’s that.
  1. Act Too (The Love of My Life)
This song acts as an ode to hip-hop itself, with Thought calling it the love of his life throughout the track. He weaves in stories of struggling in his quest to make it in hip-hop, saying “it was all for you” and that he wouldn’t have made it in life if it weren’t for hip-hop. While Thought’s verse isn’t much deeper than just being a love letter to hip-hop, the guest verse provided by Chicago rapper Common is far more critical of the direction of hip-hop. While referencing his incredible song “I Used to Love H.E.R.” from Resurrection, Common expresses his discontent with the state of hip-hop, with bars aimed at N.W.A. (when we touch, it was more than just a Fuck the Police) and Puff (Her Daddy’ll beat H.E.R., eyes all Puff-ed). He seems to have the same underlying attitude of hip-hop being the love of his life, but instead expresses his discontent with the way hip-hop’s other suitors choose to treat her. For Common, it was always about love, and hip-hop had been overrun by hate. The beautiful beat acts as a perfect backdrop for these two to portray their love of hip-hop.
  1. 100% Dundee
While not the most popular song on the album, this one has stood out as one of my favorites from day one. Right from the get, Thought comes out the gate just spazzing – “Yo, on these seventy-three keys of ivory and ebony; I swear solemnly that I’ll forever rock steadily”. The title and hook act as a reference to Crocodile Dundee, where if hip-hop is the wild, the Roots are the absolute best out there, akin to Mick Dundee hunting fake MCs. With Rahzel beatboxing and Kamal Gray shining on the piano, the beat is just dirty enough to give Black Thought and Malik B room to spit some of their best verses on this whole project (Note: I think I’ve said that on almost half the songs on this project. It’s just that kind of album. Sorry). As far as the content goes, it basically re-iterates the ideas presented by calling the track 100% Dundee. They’re a level above everybody else in hip-hop, and they’re out to kill any fake MC’s who dare stand in their path.
  1. Diedre vs. Dice
A short 45-second interlude, Diedre vs. Dice consists of a short Dice Raw verse that was probably just too dope to be left off the project, but wasn’t able to be extrapolated into a full-fledged idea/song. With a barebones beat consisting of a dirty drum-line from ?uest and some strings that come into and out of the instrumental rather quickly, Dice Raw warns that “to me, these punk MC’s is nothin but fruit”. While short, it provides a needed break in the album that has just been going full-force for about ten tracks straight.
  1. Adrenaline!
And just as Diedre vs. Dice provides a mild break in the heavy-hitting instrumentals, Adrenaline! Comes right back with a stand-out performance not only by four spitters, but also by Kamal Gray on piano absolutely shining behind ?uestlove’s beat. While by this point in the project it should come as no surprise that Black Thought, Malik B, and Dice Raw all come through with heavy-hitting verses, a pre-Roc Beanie Sigel verse may come out of left field a bit, but his talent shines through already. This song is as Philly as it gets, with every rapper on here making references to Philly spots and icons. And the hook, while as barebones as a hook can really be, still manages to act as an earworm.
  1. 3rd Acts: ? Vs. Scratch 2 … Electric Boogaloo
This interlude, consisting entirely of scratching, was probably just put here so they could put Electric Boogaloo in a song title. Note: I really wanted to type a long-winded thing about how the lyricism just doesn’t stand up to some other tracks on the album and do this whole thing. But The Weeknd album comes out in like an hour and a half. So….priorities.
  1. You Got Me
Here we are. The big one. If this is the only track you’ve heard from The Roots, that’s okay. You need to fix it, but it’s okay. This is one of those songs that transcends beyond a genre or an album a little bit. Even though this album is amazing, this song reached a whole different level that the rest of the album never reached. This track won the group a grammy, and is far and away their biggest hit, despite not having anything that screams “Hit Single” about it. The hook, originally written by a then-unknown Jill Scott, is performed on the album cut by the amazing Erykah Badu.
The track tells the story of Thought meeting a woman from Philly while performing in Paris and linking when they get back, and the struggles of their budding relationship. The hook combines with Eve’s verse to act as the woman’s perspective, with her questioning if Thought only loves the mic before ensuring him that she could be trusted. The hook reassures this – “Baby don’t worry, you know that you got me”.
The instrumental on this thing is absolutely beautiful, with a rather simple guitar and drumline being supported by background vocals and strings to give an airy, euphoric sound that just plays so well into Erykah’s voice. It isn’t until the outro that you hear a whole lot out of ?uestlove, but this is one of the few tracks where he almost doesn’t need to take the center stage.
  1. Don’t See Us
As the album winds down, the instrumentals stay a little more low-key, like in the preceding track. The beat on this thing constantly changes, with a basic drumline and handclap being the only consistency. The keyboards on this are great when they show up, and the beat just begs for somebody to rap over it. And that’s just what Malik B, Black Thought, and Dice Raw all do, with six verses packed into this track. That being said, this track is honestly one of the weaker full-length tracks on the project and one of the only knocks on it. That’s not to say that it’s bad, because the instrumental is cool and the rappers all provide nice verses. But compared to so many of the other songs on this track list, this track just lacks that it factor, that thing that jumps out and grabs you and makes you go “Oh shit, that was kinda crazy”.
  1. The Return to Innocence Lost
The first time this song came on, I was just relaxing to this album and enjoying the unique sounds that make The Roots so incredible. There had been four or five times that I had stopped and went, “okay, I wasn’t ready for that, holy shit”. Boy was I naïve.
The Return to Innocence Lost is a spoken word poem by Ursula Rucker describing the vicious cycle of the hood. Anthony Tidd plays the guitar that weaves in and out behind her. I really don’t know how to describe how powerful this poem is, other than to say that it is one of the most haunting, disturbing things I’ve ever heard. When I write these track-by-track reviews, I usually sit and listen to each track 4-5 times before I start writing. I didn’t make it through the second round of this one. Its…. Incredible. And haunting. And powerful. And I could never do it justice in a hhh write-up.
  1. Act Fore….The End?
The introduction of this track gives a peak into the way The Roots operate: don’t know what to do? Make music. With a piano sample from an old TV Series theme Eager Beaver, scratching throughout, and one final dirty drumline from ?uest, the beat was laid out there for Black Thought to shine all on his own. He contributes three stellar verses that make up for an otherwise forgettable hook, and while this “hidden track” doesn’t add a ton to the album as a whole, it’s still a good track and I wouldn’t dare complain about more music from The Roots.
Conclusion
While “political” or “conscious” hip-hop is usually associated with having bars aimed at political figures or talking about systematic change, much of Things Fall Apart doesn’t fit that mold. It’s almost as if the sound itself was a statement, because it isn’t like Thought was spending lines shit-talking Bill Clinton. He was talking about the Philly streets, about the area he grew up in. Yet, the political tag this album gets applied doesn’t feel inherently misplaced. Thought’s stories act as their own message, taking the concept of suffering going on in his neighborhood and putting it on this grand pedestal for all to see.
All in all, this project not only provides some of the best live instrumentation in hip-hop, but some of the best lyricism you'll find as well. This project has some clear influence, not only other other projects of the Soulquarian era, but decades later as well. You can hear it on modern classics like To Pimp a Butterfly, as well as on some of the instrumentals chosen by Chicago's SaveMoney collective and related acts. This album feels like a moment in hip-hop, where an entire sound cultivated into one big project that everybody can look back on as one of the pinnacles of an entire sound.
Five Favorites: Dynamite!, The Return to Innocence Lost, You Got Me, 100% Dundee, Double Trouble
Final Rating: 9.6/10
Discussion Questions?
· Had you heard this project before? If not, did you recognize the main cover?
· What is your favorite Roots album, and where does this one stack up?
· How do you compare this project to the other projects coming out of the Soulquarian era?
· Would you consider this project political/conscious?
· How well does this album hold up?
· If released today, do you think this album would be received better or worse?
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Black Panther 2 Pitch

So, I gotta be totally honest. I didn't totally vibe with Nando's BP take. The CGI was too heavy, but taking the key sci-fi element out of the story at the climax isn't the right move, imho. It's a bit like destroying Mjolnir in Thor 1, and it was a much weaker story in the comics because it was a nerf rather than a setup for something even cooler, especially if it nerfs the rest of the action of the other soldiers, and assures that vibranium armor is not preventing Wakandans from slaughtering each other wholesale. Moving T'Challa and Killmonger's fight to the surface achieves the things he described in terms of thematic resonance of that fight and minimizing the unnecessary CGI. Plus, a hyperspeed traintrack on the surface makes more sense, low key.
But, we got the film we got, and so in order to give Black Panther his 'Winter Soldier' film, though WS was also his film in a way, something that ratchets up the themes that the character naturally inhabits, gets to up the kineticness of their fighting style by leaning into their powers and weapons, and features another fan favorite character as second billing to make the movie even bigger and deeper. There's really only one character everyone wants to see, and so with all that said, I pitch to you:

Black Panther: King of Atlantis

Act I:
The movie starts with Black Panther taking back the crown from Shuri/his MotheM'Baku in a challenge that the other immediately concedes with hugs and celebration. T'Challa knows how to run a country, is doing all his outreach with his diplomats, the speech we were missing from BP1, all that. He is betrothed to Nakia, but he is overprotective of her despite her skillfullness. Shuri has created more weapons, but he hesitates to show his full strength to the world for fear of jealousy and reprisals. T'Challa works closely with Everett Ross, despite Okoye's continued concerns about Ross' loyalties. Wakandan ambassador Moses Magnum turns out to be a vibranium arms dealer, and he simply banishes him, nothing more. When Atlantis reveals itself to the world, following in Wakanda's lead after seeing their success, they reach out to Wakanda first. This is where we meet our main Atlanteans. Prince Namor, General Krang, the sorceress Andromeda and the elder Queen Korra. Some Americans are also there (for fun, Falcon Cap and War Machine with Ross repping the USA and Valkyrie repping Asgard). And while Namor and Shuri hit it off, General Krang and Okoye get off on the wrong foot as Korra and Ramonda size each other up in the most cordial way possible. Unfortunately, there is an explosion, Korra is killed, others are rescued from drowning but the weapon is found to be a vibranium one and Wakanda is blamed. Prince, now King Namor, in his grief, declares war.
Act IIa:
They first attempt to settle this in the old ways, Namor and T'Challa on a field with their armies behind them. Shuri has prepped additional doodads and thingamabobs for his armor, more power, more juice. But in the fight this proves ineffective as Namor is strong enough to kick T'Challa so hard it fully charges his armor bright purple so that it discharges it all when he hits the wall behind him. These two champions fight hard, and T'Challa seems defeated and does not yield, this leads to Namor breaking his arm really badly, crippling him in some visceral meaningful way, but he fights on, and with careful agility and striking at weak points puts Namor on his heels, who then calls in reinforcements before he is killed. T'Challa manages to retreat thanks to Nakia's help as Wakanda is seiged for days on end. No one is coming to help and while they manage to ferret out the amphibious spies that threaten their security within the dome, their real plan is to spy on Atlantis to figure out how far this war can escalate, and so Nakia, the career spy and Okoye, the General go on this mission while T'Challa and Shuri attempt to negotiate a truce with Andromeda. This all falls apart when Moses Magnum shows up offering weapons to Wakanda in its time of dearest need. Really cool vicious stuff, Stark-inspired powered armor in Vibranium, really powerful canons on airships and drones, stuff Shuri wouldn't think of because she's "just not a soldier." T'Challa accepts, deciding to no longer hide his might in the face of nearly losing his people.
Act IIb:
T'Challa, with powered armor and all sorts of foolishness surprises Namor on his home turf and taking the battle to a remote island completely thrashes him, nearly destroying Nakia's fact-finding mission and blowing Okoye's cover putting her into an underwater fight she loses until Nakia rescues her. T'Challa is overwhelming, merciless, not heroic at all. He wins by any means necessary and informs Krang and co that he is now the rightful King of Atlantis. They will never serve him and so they resolve to bring their best weapons, buying everything Moses Magnum will sell them and bringing giant whales with legs and a tidal wave and renewing the fight against Atlantis. T'Challa and Namor, in custody in thick vibranium restraints, have a chat, and Namor tells, not only of his hatred, but of his history, and why the ancients, Odin, Agamotto and Bast conspired together to sink their city. They were insatiable in their violence, conquering the world with their pride of battle and for fear that the would be conquered if they didn't. He apologizes for his mistake, but T'Challa will hear none of it, due to the cost of lives. He does reflect on the events though and begins to tweak his suit, incorporating the HUD and expandable weapons, as we see T'Challa is actually a skilled programmer, even one handed. Atlantis' diplomat Andromeda goes to the USA and presumably to Asgard and ensures that they will not act in this war or it will spread to them as well from every coastline. Then all at once, at night they attack from the depths of water beneath Wakanda, flooding it, causing chaos and bringing down the dome for their troops.
Act III:
T'Challa watches his country fall around him, his people, his loved ones spread out and possibly dying. Nakia is diving down to stop the flow of Atlanteans, but her oxygen is running low again. T'Challa too is filled with rage as the stronger Atlanteans from the depths of the sea ransack his city. He knows he must go for the head, and so he confronts General Krang, now in the throne room. Ramonda is there, both a hostage because of proximity to danger and also not due to her wisdom and craft (and low key combat skills). General Krang tells him his plan to cleans Wakandan society, starting by executing all his prisoners, including his old friend W'Kabi. He also reveals Moses Magnum's weapons deal. He taunts T'Challa saying he can't be in two places at once and that's when Nakia walks in telling him to go, that she has this handled. T'Challa, having learned his lesson, they share a kiss, and he runs towards the prison, breaking his now healed arm out of its cast. Nakia distracts Krang as Ramonda tries to execute him, but he's tough enough to take a blade through the chest and Nakia battles a weakened Krang, eventually killing him by turning his own weapons against him. Meanwhile, T'Challa gets to the prison, stops Andromeda and her men, and sees Shuri freeing Namor, but instead of stopping him, he puts his staff back in his hand, saying that while he cannot forgive him, he will not stop others from doing so. T'Challa proclaims Namor King of Atlantis again, gesturing to what his nation has become. T'Challa tells Shuri to hold nothing back and then we see T'Challa in his newest suit, Shuri in powered armor (with the panther gauntlet things, those gotta stay) and Namor stalking forward. Namor calls out to his people and when Moses Magnum sees this he takes control of all the tech he's sold remotely, the drones, the tanks, the powered armor, even arm mounted weapons start going haywire. Shuri is trapped and Namor offers to rescue her, and T'Challa trusts him to do so safetly and as he runs down Moses Magnum, who throws everything he has at him, but T'Challa fights smart, and is on his home turf. He moves stealthily, he scans for weaknesses in the devices, he speaks in ways that unnerve Moses about justice, power, duty and loyalty. Moses knows he's about to die, T'Challa unmasks and Moses begs for his life, T'Challa admits that he does not have it in him to kill in cold blood, so there must be another way...
Cut to Moses Magnum in a CIA holding facility for war crimes, with a warning that if T'Challa ever sees him again, there will be consequences. Cut to T'Challa's wedding to Nakia, Namor is Shuri's date. Valkyrie is Ayo's. Insert other Marvel cameos as needed here. Finish with a really fun wedding reception as everyone bows to Nakia, the Queen of Wakanda. Post Credits 1, at the reception, just people dancing, almost blooper reel-ish, maybe even a choreographed dance number. Post Credits 2 is either (or maybe there's three) Zemo in prison hearing about the wedding and talking about Barons and Kings and that T'Challa will be the one to beg for release OR Shuri in the lab discovering Shadow Physics and disappearing with a shadow teleport.
Summary and Themes
As you probably know, a huge part of the Black Panther premise is a sense of anti-colonialism, an African country that remained great precisely because it was never ransacked by European powers. While the first movie dealt with the internal conflicts there, what responsibility do those who have avoided such subjugation have to those who did not avoid it, it does not handle it directly. This is an attempt to do so, and instead of directly having Wakanda go against real life colonizers, Namor offers a chance to explore these themes in a more abstract way with a truly different race of people. Through this, T'Challa's own anger can be reflected in Namor, humanizing him, and pointing out that he too is a legacy, bringing the question to bear: how do the children of the conquerors live with the children of the conquered? T'Challa answers that question with a great deal of tolerance, and being honest about his limitations, owning them, and moving forward with every tool he has available, constantly growing and dealing with his own fears of loss as a great man with a great deal to lose. This also helps establish and cement the pride and supremacist nature of Imperius Rex! While also showing why he is now more tempered and no longer asserting himself as the rightful ruler of the world because, despite all his bluster, he too has a conscience and will not allow wanton loss of life merely to extend his own greatness, which his loss does nothing to dissuade, because it was never about his accomplishments, but the way he sees himself because of how he was raised. He's the entitled guy that can back it up, which is what makes him amazing.
The film also is intended to give T'Challa more of a central role, both emotionally and physically, with his two fights with Namor, the big war scene where he almost single handedly routes an entire army, the battle with Moses Magnum and the supporting battles with Shuri's Armor vs Namor and Nakia/Ramonda vs Krang and probably an Okoye vs Andromeda needs to happen too to round that out. But T'Challa is the one who makes the major choices here, when to fight, when to win, when to stop winning, when to win again, and he is complicit in elevating his supporting cast to their greatest potential, and not just by his absence.
Any thoughts? Questions? I'd love to discuss any of this more.
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The Kanye Copypasta

So, every now and then I decide to engage in the modern version of self-flagellation to pay for my sins: Youtube comments. It was on a youtube video regarding Kanye's newest endeavor to create a video game. Needless to say, the comments were absolute trash. I could not stand to see Yeezus trashtalked any longer by defeners who likely never heard more than the occasional signal.
Ladies and Gentlemen of /Kanye, I present to you my rant in all its glory.
Let me give you every reason that Kanye West is nothing but an undeserved scapegoat, who had provided nothing but top-tier music since his debut. Let me school you with some straight facts:
Kanye, despite his publicity stunts, is regarded by many as a kind, compassionate individual. He often talks to his fans, and from all accounts is genuinely interested in what they have to say, what their life is like, and what their goals are. This is somebody who for the past nine years has been public enemy number one. It would be easy for him to go into absolute seclusion, and bitterly resent everybody, but he doesn't. He has a passion behind what he does, and it reflects in his music. Rick Rubin regards Kanye as the most influential and groundbreaking artist in hip-hop at the moment. Paul McCartney regards Kanye as a genius. He invited Seth Rogen and James Franco to perform their "Bound 3" parody at his wedding. He has won the love and respect of anybody who genuinely takes an interest in his music (Which has won 21 grammy awards, might I add). Despite the VMA incident, Kanye and Taylor Swift are good friends, and Swift herself has a deep respect for Kanye as an artist.
Not to mention, the dude has not had it easy. He slaved for years as a producer before finally making his big break on the production for Jay-Z's Blueprint, with beats for Ain't No Love (Heart of the City) and I.Z.Z.O (Takeover). Despite his success as a producer, everybody told him he couldn't rap, and would never make it.
He eventually dropped College Dropout in 2004, reinventing the game with an album full of incredible soul-beats at a time where everybody was still trying to copy the G-Funk West Coast vibe Dr. Dre's 2001 had left. The album had smash hits like Through the Wire, where he rapped about his near-death experience in a car crash while STILL WEARING his reconstructive mouthgear; or his club-hit about Jesus in Jesus Walks, at a time where you weren't going to get anything religious on the radio unless you're on country/gospel station in the South.
Late Registration debuted 2005, with a completely fresh Soul sound, and featuring the talents of Adam Levine (Maroon 5), Nas, Jay-Z, and of course Jamie Foxx in his smash hit "Gold Digger". I don't care who you are, this song had everybody dancing and was played and still is played in every club from New York to Tokyo to Berlin. His other single "Diamonds From Sierra Lione" touched on the issues of Blood Diamonds and the exploitation of Africans by Africans
"Over here, its the drug trade - we die from drugs/ Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs".
This album also has one of his most heart-felt songs Kanye has produced to date: "Hey Mama", his tribute to his mother Donda West, who raised him as single black mother in Chicago, with all the trials and tribulations that brought. The song is a beautiful display of a man who has a deepfound respect for the one who gave him everything.
"I was three years old when you and I moved to the Chi/ Late december, harsh winter gave me a cold/ You fixed me up something that was good for my soul/ Famous homemade chicken soup, can I have another bowl?/ You worked late nights just to keep on the lights/ Momma got the training wheels so I could keep on my bike/ ... and it don't gotta be mother's day/ or your birthday for me to just call and say: 'Mama!' I wanna scream so loud for you/ cause i'm so proud of you."
2007 Kanye released Graduation. This was a completely new sound to his previous Soulful works. This had a heavy techno/EDM inspiration, from artists such as Daft Punk, in addition to the influence of House Music with its Chi-town origins. His hit song "Stronger", sampling the also famous Daft Punk song "Harder, Better, Faster" was played once again world-wide in every club from L.A. to London to Sydney. It was groundbreaking, as Kanye melded genres that nobody had been able to meld. He gave popularity to the Robotic Voice trope that many artists copy to this day, and re-purposed auto-tune. It was no longer for untalented hacks who couldn't sing: It was for artists who wanted to give a specific feel to their music.
Then by 2008, things really started going south for Kanye. His mother passed away due to complications with a cosmetic surgical operation, his relationship with his girlfriend was deteriorating, and he had a hatred of himself. It was in this despair and desperation that he produced his darkest work, "808s and Heartbreaks", which is essentially his thesis on pop music, providing us with an incredible set of pop beats, all of which were phenomenal, and embracing the cold, detached Robot Voice that he had popularized as a way of reflecting the depression and lack of joy and humanity he possessed. The album provided him an avenue to channel the dark times he was going through. The track "Coldest Winter" is directly about the passing of his mother, Donda
"It's 4am and I can't sleep/ Her love is all that I can see/ Memories made in the coldest winte goodbye my friend, will I ever love again/ If spring can take the snow away, can it wash away all our mistakes?/ Memories made in the coldest winte Goodbye my friend, I won't ever love again"
Then, in 2010 Kanye releases his Magnum Opus, "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy". Critically acclaimed and regarded by many as the greatest rap album of all time, this album blew everybody out of the water, with not a single bad track. It received the near impossible 10/10 rating by Pitchfork, putting it in the same league as "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "Abbey Road" by the Beatles, "London Calling" by The Clash, and "Animals" by Pink Floyd. It was deeply self-reflexive, and in most senses a powerful declaration that he was not defeated, that he is in fact at the top of his game and that nothing can stop Yeezy season approaching. His song "Power" is nothing short of an inspiring, uplifting, empowering composition which firmly asserts that Kanye is back, and he does not give a flying fuck.
"Screams from the haters got a nice ring to it/ I guess every superhero need his theme music".
His other single "All of the Lights" has a whopping fifteen extra artists, including Rihanna, Elton John, Fergie, Kid Cudi and many others. I could write a whole essay on Runaway, or Blame Game
Then, in 2013 Kanye released "Yeezus", a.k.a. ABSOLUTE GENIUS. It is his anti-hiphop album of harsh, grinding samples, and disjointed jarring beats that comes together and by no sense of reason create some beautifully profound music. He denounces the institutional racism of the DEA and the CCA in his controversial track "New Slaves". He mocks the hubris and egocentrism that everybody sees him as having in his track I am a God, which takes the absolute piss out of the modern man who considers himself a god, with the absurd line
"I am a God/ So hurry up with my damn croissants!"
Kanye has stopped caring what people think about him a long time ago.
But that's not what makes the album ABSOLUTE GENIUS. It's the fact that the entire album is in fact an allegory depicting the Tragic fall of the "Yeezus" persona, going from absolute stardom and egotism with the strong, hard hitting, angry, egotistical tracks On Sight, Black Skinhead, I am a God, and New Slaves. Then, it shows the invevitable Tragic fall, like something straight from Aristotle himself: Hold My Liquor and I'm in it deal with Alcohol and Sex addiction in a way that shouts the typical social glorification of the Rockstar lifestyle, whilst robbing it of all its glory.
Had to stop at 7/11 like I needed gas/ I'm lying I needed condoms don't look through the glass./ Chasing love all the bittersweet hours lost/ eating asian pussy all I need was sweet and sour sauce
The distorted sound of the tracks and the uneasy schizophrenic sampling shows the deterioration of the Yeezus persona as he get in too deep, the distortion of his voice throughout the song makes the listener realise the horror of what it is to embrace these aspects of life.
Blood on the Leaves is the climax of the album. He returns to the Robot Voice to show the detachment and emotionless state that his sinful ways have led him to, removing his humanity and making him a heartless, soulless machine. This song is the Anagnorisis of the album (Similar to when Oedipus realizes that he's married his mother in the Greek Tragedy). Yeezus has fallen low since he declared himself a god.
"Now you sittin' courtside, wifey on the other side/ Gotta keep 'em separated, I call that apartheid/ Then she said she impregnated, that's the night your heart died/ Then you gotta go and tell your girl and report that/ Main reason cause your pastor said you can't abort that/ Now your driver say that new Benz you can't afford that/ All that cocaine on the table you can't snort that/ That goin' to that owin' money that the court got/ All in on that alimony, uh, yeah-yeah, she got you homie/ 'til death but do your part, unholy matrimony."
Guilt Trip is a continuation of Yeezus' road to redemption, his catharsis (Continuation of his Robot Voice). It's Yeezus' attempts to overcome his failed relationship and coming to terms with his own fallibility.
"Focus on the future and let the crew knock her" "If you loved me so much then why'd you let me go?" (x3)
Then, we get into the final stage with the last two songs: Send it Up and Bound 2.
Send it Up is Yeezus coming to terms with what has happened and joyfully choosing to put it all behind him.
"Reliving the past? Your loss"
is the beginning of the song, and it ends with Beanie Mann singing
"Memories dont live like people do; They always 'member you/ whether things are good or bad/ it's just the memories that you had".
At the end of Kanye's verse, he shows that the Yeezus persona has revived anew
"Yeezus just rose again."
Bound 2 is the 'happy ending' of Yeezus. Yeezus, after all that he's endured: the greatness, the loss, the suffering and the revival; he now is redeemed. He no longer is chasing the fame, the money, the superficial things, and he's found that
"One good girl [who] is worth a thousand bitches"
meaning that he has a legitimate relationship with a woman, as opposed to all the bitchy girls that he's been dealing with. This girl gives him everything that Yeezus could ever ask for: companionship. The final lines of the song reflect their relationship. It's not perfect, but "you know, ain't nobody perfect". They celebrate the small milestones of making it to thanksgiving and to Christmas; perhaps they can make it all the way to the altar, but first she's going to need to forget and forgive the person that Yeezus was. In the last two lines, Yeezus sums up the entire journey, on a number of levels: After this long-ass journey and transition that Yeezus has gone through, reflecting the verses of these raps and self-reflection; or the verses of him against his demons; or the verses of the Bible as they get married they're both tired, and sad at the state of how things are for people still living their lives full of despair, and in a metaphor and reference to the shortest "verse" in the Bible, they weep, just as "Jesus wept."
"Hey, you remember where we first met?/ Okay, I don't remember where we first met/ But hey, admittin' is the first step/ And hey, you know ain't nobody perfect/ And I know, with the hoes I got the worst rep/ But hey, their backstroke I'm tryna perfect/ And hey, ayo, we made it: Thanksgivin'/ So hey, maybe we can make it to Christmas/ She asked me what I wished for on my wishlist/ Have you ever asked your bitch for other bitches?/ Maybe we could still make it to the church steps/ But first, you gon' remember how to forget/ After all these long-ass verses/ I'm tired, you tired, Jesus wept"
Now I've been writing this comment for the past hour, so I won't even go into his non-musical exploits, but rest assured that as far as fashion goes, Kanye West is leading the forefront with his Red Octobers or Yeezy Boost Sneakers with a resale value of several thousand dollars each.
Now, I hope that if you actually took the time to read at least half of this, you will see that the hatred for Kanye is little more than an attempt to marginalize one of the greatest artists of our time. His outbursts, though not classy, are not unfounded. Heck, John Lennon literally said the Beatles were bigger than Jesus; if that's not hubris I don't know what is. Both Lennon and West are icons and artists who have changed this world forever. Just because you haven't taken the time to see further than your limited frame-of-reference by no means makes Kanye a bad artist or a bad human being. He is God sent, and full to the brim of musical talent. His new album will undoubtedly bring another wave of incredible artistry.
EDIT: Amended a factual error regarding Graduation.
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How to Compete with the Alt-Right Hate Machine Online

There was post a last month from an ex altrighter, and I think it had a lot of insightful tidbits on the organized internet presence the right-wing has that the left tends to completely lack.
All of the post below is a good read, but I also bolded some particularly relevant parts.
Before I begin, I would like to thank the mods for removing the account karma/age restriction. This is the first time I am successfully posting this. I have tried twice previously.
I know, I know, before you yell at me for having such a horrid ideology, or for being so hateful, or wondering how a human being could possibly harbour such animosity, let me assure you that I will explain everything. Just keep scrolling. But first, the reasons for me leaving this cult, and how you can defeat them, and why you should fight back.
I left the alternative right movement, also known as the White Nationalist movement, the völkisch movement, the neo-Nazi movement, etc. because I saw the dangers of what they were doing. We never expected to get this far with our ideology. We originally intended to pull over just enough people in order to have sufficient members in a race waan economic downfall. You see, we didn't exactly want these converts to be white supremacists, but just merely "redpilled" (Matrix analogy), aka (falsely, based on partially reported stats from a few districts) believing that African-Americans commit a higher proportion of crime, falsely believing that global warming/climate change is a Jewish hoax to extort taxpayer dollars for green incentives, falsely believing that Jews are using their disproportionate role in the media to promote White genocide (based on a few quotes from ultra liberal Jews such as Barbara Lerner Spectre and others). We wanted a buffer zone of sorts, who would blindly defend us, believing us to be heroes. We were very good at it, we read up on a lot of propaganda books and perfected our art via the Internet. Now I want off the Trump train before it crashes into the red button at 1,488 miles per hour.
The hierarchy of White Supremacists works like this:
There are those at the complete apex of WN society. Those guys agree that liberals are correct on virtually all issues. They seeks to wilfully misinterpret those issues in order to sway a significant number of people. If they are so liberal, why are they so hateful and Paleo-conservative? Some do it for money (selling books, running forums, etc), others do it because they want to belong to a family, and still others do it because they are bored, or because they want to watch the world burn. I did it because I wanted to feel surrounded by people who were willing to die for me (grew up orphaned). Regardless, they are liberals who are smart enough to skew statistics and facts in order to distort the worldview through a lens which they can put on the next level of WNs:
The second level of WNs: they are smart enough to understand statistics, mathematics, and pattern analysis, but not clever enough to see the true meaning behind it. For example, they might look at a statistic that shows that judges sentence white men (killers, rapists, etc) to death more than black men (same), and interpret that as Jewish bias in the court rooms. However, what they don't realize is that the majority of victims of White crime are also White, and the majority of victims of Black crime are also Black. So in reality, the judges are punishing people more for a crime against White people than against Blacks, but the second level of WNs are not smart enough to realize that. They can be radicalised by the wilful distortion of factual information. They then take this information and disseminate in en masse via the Internet to:
The third level of WNs. These people are looking for an answer where there is none. They want to make sense of this world, and they can easily be swayed through memes and White Supremacist websites such as Stormfront or godlikeproductions, or even 4chan (/pol/). These people view themselves as the "leaders" of our movement, and they falsely think they are geniuses who are uncovering a scheme of oppression against them. They are the originators of most of our creativity, as they take raw data and place an almost psychedelic/fantastic theme over it. They take music videos, TV snips, political ads, etc and paste WN figures over them and refine our memes. They create stereotypical dialogues and repeat them to associate Blacks and Hispanics with such dialogue ("AYO HOL UP", "WE WUZ KANGZ", etc). They are very creative but are not critical thinkers.
Then there is the public, which eats this stuff up like Soylent Green, not knowing it is an extremely repulsive stew repackaged as patriotism, as honor, as progress. They will be the foot soldiers that weaponize their votes, that obstruct meaningful progress, that stir up the flames of racial hatred by subconsciously treating Blacks and Hispanics differently.
Trump himself is not as racist as we are (although he does have a lot more in common with his generation than he cares to admit). But by electing him, we have normalized a lot of his radical views.
So if this is what you are up against, how the flying fuck do you actually win??? How will you triumph against such dedication and determination? SHOULDN'T YOU JUST GIVE UP AND WATCH THE WORLD BURN??
I would like you to look to the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. Many of them (were racists and sexists themselves, not all, but besides the point) were faced with insurmountable odds, and yet they trumped the odds with a blend of will, cleverness, and patriotism. If you care about the world you grew up in, you will fight tooth and nail to win, and IT CAN BE DONE. I will explain how it can be done, but first some inspirational quotes from some inspirational people and some not-so-inspirational people, some even downright evil people:
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace." - Samuel Adams.
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" - Unknown, usually attributed to T. Jefferson.
"Those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do NOT DESERVE TO LIVE" - The founder of Nazism, Hitler himself. He knew a thing or two about persuading people.
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." - Napoleon Bonaparte.
"Victory belongs to the most persevering." - Same guy as above.
Do you see why you have to fight now? Because the price of freedom, of life, of victory is ETERNAL VIGILANCE, of constant fighting, of forever marching. Our hominid ancestors would have died if they stopped after having only hunted one caribou, only killed one invader, only drank one handful of stream water. They had to CONSTANTLY struggle in order to survive and pass on their genes.
Now you are dealing with a group of lunatics who are no longer fringe, who want to do nothing as the ice caps melt (see AfD, Geert Wilders, Donald Trump, possibly Le Pen, David Duke, et al), who want to deny aid to those in need (although I do agree with integrating immigrants into Western culture, better security checks on immigrants from unstable areas, etc), who want to deport or kill entire demographics based on faulty statistics. They won't stop there, eventually, the Northern Europeans (Aryan master race) will grow to resent the "filthy Slav peasants" and "tomato niggers from once great Rome" and it will be complete, neverending chaos.
It seems hopeless. After you defeat the WNs, they will attempt to emerge again. They are not the only ones. ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Chinese Communist Party, the Russians (who definitely are subverting liberal ideology and deliberately sabotaging progressive politicians, some stirring up both sides of the pot (New Black Panthers as well as National Front)), totalitarian regimes, evil corporations (not all corporations are evil, just the ones breaking laws or exploiting loopholes), etc. You will ALWAYS have to fight. And if you don't want to fight like your own life depends on it, then you deserve every ounce of the failure that is coming your way, and the Nazis deserve every bit of the victory that is nigh. Most of the people we save will never recognize what we did for them, how hard we will fight for them. It doesn't matter. If you want to change the world, you have to put in time and effort. If you refuse to, then enjoy rotting in the remnants of the once great Republic, enjoy rotting in your own filth and despair.
We take the fight online. (Less street organizing, except to arm the disenfranchised legally. Hopefully we will never have to take up arms against tyranny, but make sure that minorities, people with unpopular political views, people who could find themselves facing the business end of a Holocaust, etc are armed and know how to defend themselves. Hopefully they will never have to use this knowledge or their acquired arms. But they should be prepared anyways. If Trump is smart, he will teach his grandchildren the same, as the Trump surname will become as stereotypically Jewish as "Goldstein" within a few generations. He has no idea of the beast he has awaken and propelled to the mainstream.) Things you never thought were possible are possible now. We can reach many more people online, and children's political views will be forged online, not by their parents. Your racist uncle that shared conservative memes on his Facebook timeline will have more influence on your little brother than you or your parents will.
We will create websites, we will counter meme them. We will spread our knowledge to as many websites as possible, YouTube, funnyJunk, 9gag, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc. We will debunk their lies, and when they try to concern troll, respond with stuff like "do facts trigger you?" and generally make them look like the SJWs they hate. If they call you cucks, anti-white, etc just respond with "So citing facts is anti-white/cuck/etc?" Appeal to both emotion and fact, but mostly to facts that can ride on a wave of emotion and spread like a contagion. Report their accounts, get it taken offline. They are no longer alt-right. Their policies are now the new right. Sane conservatives are now the alt-right. In order to beat them we have to adopt any tactics that have been successful for them. They have edited Sarah Andersen and Ben Garrison comics (Ben G. is not exactly a sane person, but not full alt-right either), and falsely portrayed both of the aforementioned names as racists (Ben G is, again, a little racist, but not as racist as the alt-right is portraying him as.)
Be creative. Do what you think is funny, but make sure it is legible, easy to understand, and at the same time intelligent and powerful. You are the counter-culture now. The alt-right's views have gone mainstream. If you want to counter them, you have to be the voice that is heard and the voice that cuts deep into the logic centre of the mind. You guys are smart. I know this, because the smartest alt-righters are not actual alt-right but rather manipulators. The top universities are populated (at the professoresearcher level) with liberals, anti-fascists, and progressives. Shoot a prof an email asking them for help on some of the research you will have to do.
Don't be afraid to use YouTube comment bots, sign in with multiple accounts on 9gag and YouTube, etc. We fight dirty. It works. If you are morally okay with obeying moderator-set rules on memecenter, even if the disobedience of such would save human lives, and prevent global warming, and influence politics in a meaningful way, then you have your moral priorities backwards. We need to utilize whatever resources we have. Proxychains, false flagging, etc. You think the WNs (White Nats) don't false flag on Twitter, pretending to be violent black thugs and tweeting stuff like "kill whitey"? They do, and they have influenced a great many people. (Don't do anything illegal. If you do anything illegal, I am not responsible. I gave you a fair warning.) They started the "#DraftOurDaughters" movement and now the "#NoWhiteDemocrats" movement in order to cause division within the Democrats. It worked. The "#BernieOrBust" movement, you think that was started by actual Bernie supporters? It originated at 8chan, and some Bernie supporters ate it up. Bernie supporters didn't dig through Wikileaks, that was us. We caused many voters in the Rust Belt to stay home who would have fallen in line behind Clinton had we not manipulated them. (There was NO MASSIVE SURGE of disaffected voters in Michigan and Wisconsin. After all the votes had been counted, yes, Trump won more votes NATIONALLY than Edit: ROMNEY, not Clinton, but roughly the same amount in Wisconsin and Michigan. Clinton just had way less voters than Obama did in those states, although in PA Trump had a surge of new voters. And you guys could have flipped Texas if you had played it right.)
Many, many Trump supporters went on their public Facebook profiles and shared memes that influenced NeverTrump voters. The majority of people were sick of the constant bombardment of propaganda, but some are not. These voters made the key difference in some very close states. They went online and downvoted almost every YouTube video they saw that remotely criticized Trump. Most millennials went Hillary, but if you look at YouTube videos (Which Mils watch disproportionately compared to Gen X and older), the pro Hillary ones have a shit ton of downvotes relative to upvotes whereas the pro-Trump ones do not. This does not make sense when comparing it to the Millennial vote, but that is because the alt-right and Trump supporters in general who are not alt-right are an extremely vocal minority ("the silent majority stands with Trump!" is total bullshit. They stood with Hillary, as uncharismatic and bland as she was.). When little children look at YouTube videos they will notice this trend in up/downvote ratio, and they will mistakenly view the Trump supporters as more populous, and subsequently more popular, along with their views. They will adopt these views to fit in, DO NOT FUCKING LET THEM. Downvote and report every Holocaust denial video, every "LOL SJW FAG CUCKS TRIGGERED HAHAHAHAHAHA" video, every "blacks are criminals because they commit more crimes proportionately" (LIE, see above) video. They will also be drawn to even more extreme videos and become White Nationalists or at the very least anti black racists or extreme sexists who want to exterminate feminists in no time. See this study: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0894439314555329.
Do NOT fall for the "oh you hate views you disagree with" fallacy. They will use this on you, and we loved to use this as alt-righters. We would go around and try to normalize Holocaust denial with this tactic. When somebody uses this, just respond with something that makes even more sense than their comment, such as "why do you have a problem accepting evidence and FACTS", or "My views: supported by facts. Your views: supported by [the most violent, stupid, and loony nutcase that shares their view(s) (fallacy, I know, but do it)]". Some of you are way more intelligent than I can ever hope to be. Be creative. Don't be rigid, when life gives you lemons, squeeze out some lemon juice, some creativity, some humor, and some cold, hard, truth, blend it, and mace the world with it. Remember, you are competing with the alt-right for the best first impression on the new generations. The most vocal will have a better chance of winning, but the ones that seem to make the most sense will win for sure. Make sure your arguments are convincing enough to null and void all counter arguments, don't try too hard to use big words, and if you must use faulty logic, that is better than using perfect logic that isn't transmissible.
If they accuse CNN or NBC of being biased or wrong, remind the bystanders that CNN is like a federal agent investigating 9/11, while Breitbart is like the truther. The truther may accurately point out that jet fuel cannot melt steel beams, but the FBI's top minds understands that the extremely hot jet fuel can weaken the steel beams to where they collapse from the weight. If one were to only take the statement "JET FUEL CAN'T MELT STEEL BEAMS" at face value, one would think that 9/11 was an inside job (simple, but inaccurate fallacy). If one were to do more research, one would see the truth behind it. (Same with the firefighter's remarks taken out of context, the angle of the steel beam cut, the "pop pop pop demolition" noise, etc). We loved to spread 9/11 "Truth"er stuff as alt-righters in order to convince the world that Jews did 9/11. We did a lot of research in order to do it, and we took the facts WAAAAAY out of context just to change a few minds. THIS is what you are up against. If you are strong, you will fight them and crush them.
As you can see, it is very easy for the alt-right to sway minds. Wear your anti fascism like a uniform. Don't let them persuade you by taking stuff out of context. Do research, and use anything that can be used against them, against them.
We don't have to reinvent the wheel either. For example, if I post a statistic debunking a WN lie, you guys could have a Photoshop/GIMP competition in the comments section (like a EnoughTrumpSpam PhotoshopBattles) to meme it, and then select the best meme and disseminate it. You could select the best two/three memes in order to avoid looking forceful and organized.
Generation Z (post Millennials) are just as conservative as the Silent Generation.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2016/09/17/how-modern-teenagers-are-rebelling-against-their-parents-by-bein/
Memes and YouTube comments clearly worked. Telegraph will tell you it is because of rebellion against their parents, but who sparked the flames of revolution? We did.
Now, there are a new generation of children born every day. They will seek out what they are supposed to believe in via the Internet. Make a great first impression, or lose them forever to the Nazis. The tide CAN be turned.
**Read up on Search Engine Optimization. Start a WordPress blog. Start a YouTube channel. Ask a liberal professor to help you gather facts (they will do this shit for free if they believe in the work you are doing, we have that advantage). Do whatever you have to do to win.
Utilize the American Strategy. Basically, each person can express his/her creativity to the fullest in their own way, and not follow a common blueprint. This way, if the Neo-Nazis find a weakness in one of us, the majority of us can continue to progress. Each little squadron has its own method of attack, and we crush the Nazis and the Soviets using this "multiple little brains" strategy.**
They will attempt to persuade you to switch camps. They can be extremely convincing. Don't fucking fall for it. They are experts at skewing facts to fit their narrative.
You will feel uncertain, but don't ever for a second stop fighting. I will continue to post updates. Look for them (by clicking on my username and looking at the Submitted tab).
Libera Et Impera
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How to Compete with the Alt-Right Hate Machine Online

There was post a last week from an ex altrighter, and I think it had a lot of insightful tidbits on the organized internet presence the right-wing has that the left tends to completely lack.
All of the post below is a good read, but I also bolded some particularly relevant parts.
Before I begin, I would like to thank the mods for removing the account karma/age restriction. This is the first time I am successfully posting this. I have tried twice previously.
I know, I know, before you yell at me for having such a horrid ideology, or for being so hateful, or wondering how a human being could possibly harbour such animosity, let me assure you that I will explain everything. Just keep scrolling. But first, the reasons for me leaving this cult, and how you can defeat them, and why you should fight back.
I left the alternative right movement, also known as the White Nationalist movement, the völkisch movement, the neo-Nazi movement, etc. because I saw the dangers of what they were doing. We never expected to get this far with our ideology. We originally intended to pull over just enough people in order to have sufficient members in a race waan economic downfall. You see, we didn't exactly want these converts to be white supremacists, but just merely "redpilled" (Matrix analogy), aka (falsely, based on partially reported stats from a few districts) believing that African-Americans commit a higher proportion of crime, falsely believing that global warming/climate change is a Jewish hoax to extort taxpayer dollars for green incentives, falsely believing that Jews are using their disproportionate role in the media to promote White genocide (based on a few quotes from ultra liberal Jews such as Barbara Lerner Spectre and others). We wanted a buffer zone of sorts, who would blindly defend us, believing us to be heroes. We were very good at it, we read up on a lot of propaganda books and perfected our art via the Internet. Now I want off the Trump train before it crashes into the red button at 1,488 miles per hour.
The hierarchy of White Supremacists works like this:
There are those at the complete apex of WN society. Those guys agree that liberals are correct on virtually all issues. They seeks to wilfully misinterpret those issues in order to sway a significant number of people. If they are so liberal, why are they so hateful and Paleo-conservative? Some do it for money (selling books, running forums, etc), others do it because they want to belong to a family, and still others do it because they are bored, or because they want to watch the world burn. I did it because I wanted to feel surrounded by people who were willing to die for me (grew up orphaned). Regardless, they are liberals who are smart enough to skew statistics and facts in order to distort the worldview through a lens which they can put on the next level of WNs:
The second level of WNs: they are smart enough to understand statistics, mathematics, and pattern analysis, but not clever enough to see the true meaning behind it. For example, they might look at a statistic that shows that judges sentence white men (killers, rapists, etc) to death more than black men (same), and interpret that as Jewish bias in the court rooms. However, what they don't realize is that the majority of victims of White crime are also White, and the majority of victims of Black crime are also Black. So in reality, the judges are punishing people more for a crime against White people than against Blacks, but the second level of WNs are not smart enough to realize that. They can be radicalised by the wilful distortion of factual information. They then take this information and disseminate in en masse via the Internet to:
The third level of WNs. These people are looking for an answer where there is none. They want to make sense of this world, and they can easily be swayed through memes and White Supremacist websites such as Stormfront or godlikeproductions, or even 4chan (/pol/). These people view themselves as the "leaders" of our movement, and they falsely think they are geniuses who are uncovering a scheme of oppression against them. They are the originators of most of our creativity, as they take raw data and place an almost psychedelic/fantastic theme over it. They take music videos, TV snips, political ads, etc and paste WN figures over them and refine our memes. They create stereotypical dialogues and repeat them to associate Blacks and Hispanics with such dialogue ("AYO HOL UP", "WE WUZ KANGZ", etc). They are very creative but are not critical thinkers.
Then there is the public, which eats this stuff up like Soylent Green, not knowing it is an extremely repulsive stew repackaged as patriotism, as honor, as progress. They will be the foot soldiers that weaponize their votes, that obstruct meaningful progress, that stir up the flames of racial hatred by subconsciously treating Blacks and Hispanics differently.
Trump himself is not as racist as we are (although he does have a lot more in common with his generation than he cares to admit). But by electing him, we have normalized a lot of his radical views.
So if this is what you are up against, how the flying fuck do you actually win??? How will you triumph against such dedication and determination? SHOULDN'T YOU JUST GIVE UP AND WATCH THE WORLD BURN??
I would like you to look to the Founding Fathers of the United States of America. Many of them (were racists and sexists themselves, not all, but besides the point) were faced with insurmountable odds, and yet they trumped the odds with a blend of will, cleverness, and patriotism. If you care about the world you grew up in, you will fight tooth and nail to win, and IT CAN BE DONE. I will explain how it can be done, but first some inspirational quotes from some inspirational people and some not-so-inspirational people, some even downright evil people:
"If ye love wealth greater than liberty, the tranquility of servitude greater than the animating contest for freedom, go home from us in peace." - Samuel Adams.
"The price of freedom is eternal vigilance" - Unknown, usually attributed to T. Jefferson.
"Those who do not want to fight in this world of eternal struggle do NOT DESERVE TO LIVE" - The founder of Nazism, Hitler himself. He knew a thing or two about persuading people.
"Death is nothing, but to live defeated and inglorious is to die daily." - Napoleon Bonaparte.
"Victory belongs to the most persevering." - Same guy as above.
Do you see why you have to fight now? Because the price of freedom, of life, of victory is ETERNAL VIGILANCE, of constant fighting, of forever marching. Our hominid ancestors would have died if they stopped after having only hunted one caribou, only killed one invader, only drank one handful of stream water. They had to CONSTANTLY struggle in order to survive and pass on their genes.
Now you are dealing with a group of lunatics who are no longer fringe, who want to do nothing as the ice caps melt (see AfD, Geert Wilders, Donald Trump, possibly Le Pen, David Duke, et al), who want to deny aid to those in need (although I do agree with integrating immigrants into Western culture, better security checks on immigrants from unstable areas, etc), who want to deport or kill entire demographics based on faulty statistics. They won't stop there, eventually, the Northern Europeans (Aryan master race) will grow to resent the "filthy Slav peasants" and "tomato niggers from once great Rome" and it will be complete, neverending chaos.
It seems hopeless. After you defeat the WNs, they will attempt to emerge again. They are not the only ones. ISIS, Al Qaeda, the Chinese Communist Party, the Russians (who definitely are subverting liberal ideology and deliberately sabotaging progressive politicians, some stirring up both sides of the pot (New Black Panthers as well as National Front)), totalitarian regimes, evil corporations (not all corporations are evil, just the ones breaking laws or exploiting loopholes), etc. You will ALWAYS have to fight. And if you don't want to fight like your own life depends on it, then you deserve every ounce of the failure that is coming your way, and the Nazis deserve every bit of the victory that is nigh. Most of the people we save will never recognize what we did for them, how hard we will fight for them. It doesn't matter. If you want to change the world, you have to put in time and effort. If you refuse to, then enjoy rotting in the remnants of the once great Republic, enjoy rotting in your own filth and despair.
We take the fight online. (Less street organizing, except to arm the disenfranchised legally. Hopefully we will never have to take up arms against tyranny, but make sure that minorities, people with unpopular political views, people who could find themselves facing the business end of a Holocaust, etc are armed and know how to defend themselves. Hopefully they will never have to use this knowledge or their acquired arms. But they should be prepared anyways. If Trump is smart, he will teach his grandchildren the same, as the Trump surname will become as stereotypically Jewish as "Goldstein" within a few generations. He has no idea of the beast he has awaken and propelled to the mainstream.) Things you never thought were possible are possible now. We can reach many more people online, and children's political views will be forged online, not by their parents. Your racist uncle that shared conservative memes on his Facebook timeline will have more influence on your little brother than you or your parents will.
We will create websites, we will counter meme them. We will spread our knowledge to as many websites as possible, YouTube, funnyJunk, 9gag, Reddit, Facebook, Twitter, etc. We will debunk their lies, and when they try to concern troll, respond with stuff like "do facts trigger you?" and generally make them look like the SJWs they hate. If they call you cucks, anti-white, etc just respond with "So citing facts is anti-white/cuck/etc?" Appeal to both emotion and fact, but mostly to facts that can ride on a wave of emotion and spread like a contagion. Report their accounts, get it taken offline. They are no longer alt-right. Their policies are now the new right. Sane conservatives are now the alt-right. In order to beat them we have to adopt any tactics that have been successful for them. They have edited Sarah Andersen and Ben Garrison comics (Ben G. is not exactly a sane person, but not full alt-right either), and falsely portrayed both of the aforementioned names as racists (Ben G is, again, a little racist, but not as racist as the alt-right is portraying him as.)
Be creative. Do what you think is funny, but make sure it is legible, easy to understand, and at the same time intelligent and powerful. You are the counter-culture now. The alt-right's views have gone mainstream. If you want to counter them, you have to be the voice that is heard and the voice that cuts deep into the logic centre of the mind. You guys are smart. I know this, because the smartest alt-righters are not actual alt-right but rather manipulators. The top universities are populated (at the professoresearcher level) with liberals, anti-fascists, and progressives. Shoot a prof an email asking them for help on some of the research you will have to do.
Don't be afraid to use YouTube comment bots, sign in with multiple accounts on 9gag and YouTube, etc. We fight dirty. It works. If you are morally okay with obeying moderator-set rules on memecenter, even if the disobedience of such would save human lives, and prevent global warming, and influence politics in a meaningful way, then you have your moral priorities backwards. We need to utilize whatever resources we have. Proxychains, false flagging, etc. You think the WNs (White Nats) don't false flag on Twitter, pretending to be violent black thugs and tweeting stuff like "kill whitey"? They do, and they have influenced a great many people. (Don't do anything illegal. If you do anything illegal, I am not responsible. I gave you a fair warning.) They started the "#DraftOurDaughters" movement and now the "#NoWhiteDemocrats" movement in order to cause division within the Democrats. It worked. The "#BernieOrBust" movement, you think that was started by actual Bernie supporters? It originated at 8chan, and some Bernie supporters ate it up. Bernie supporters didn't dig through Wikileaks, that was us. We caused many voters in the Rust Belt to stay home who would have fallen in line behind Clinton had we not manipulated them. (There was NO MASSIVE SURGE of disaffected voters in Michigan and Wisconsin. After all the votes had been counted, yes, Trump won more votes NATIONALLY than Edit: ROMNEY, not Clinton, but roughly the same amount in Wisconsin and Michigan. Clinton just had way less voters than Obama did in those states, although in PA Trump had a surge of new voters. And you guys could have flipped Texas if you had played it right.)
Many, many Trump supporters went on their public Facebook profiles and shared memes that influenced NeverTrump voters. The majority of people were sick of the constant bombardment of propaganda, but some are not. These voters made the key difference in some very close states. They went online and downvoted almost every YouTube video they saw that remotely criticized Trump. Most millennials went Hillary, but if you look at YouTube videos (Which Mils watch disproportionately compared to Gen X and older), the pro Hillary ones have a shit ton of downvotes relative to upvotes whereas the pro-Trump ones do not. This does not make sense when comparing it to the Millennial vote, but that is because the alt-right and Trump supporters in general who are not alt-right are an extremely vocal minority ("the silent majority stands with Trump!" is total bullshit. They stood with Hillary, as uncharismatic and bland as she was.). When little children look at YouTube videos they will notice this trend in up/downvote ratio, and they will mistakenly view the Trump supporters as more populous, and subsequently more popular, along with their views. They will adopt these views to fit in, DO NOT FUCKING LET THEM. Downvote and report every Holocaust denial video, every "LOL SJW FAG CUCKS TRIGGERED HAHAHAHAHAHA" video, every "blacks are criminals because they commit more crimes proportionately" (LIE, see above) video. They will also be drawn to even more extreme videos and become White Nationalists or at the very least anti black racists or extreme sexists who want to exterminate feminists in no time. See this study: http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/0894439314555329.
Do NOT fall for the "oh you hate views you disagree with" fallacy. They will use this on you, and we loved to use this as alt-righters. We would go around and try to normalize Holocaust denial with this tactic. When somebody uses this, just respond with something that makes even more sense than their comment, such as "why do you have a problem accepting evidence and FACTS", or "My views: supported by facts. Your views: supported by [the most violent, stupid, and loony nutcase that shares their view(s) (fallacy, I know, but do it)]". Some of you are way more intelligent than I can ever hope to be. Be creative. Don't be rigid, when life gives you lemons, squeeze out some lemon juice, some creativity, some humor, and some cold, hard, truth, blend it, and mace the world with it. Remember, you are competing with the alt-right for the best first impression on the new generations. The most vocal will have a better chance of winning, but the ones that seem to make the most sense will win for sure. Make sure your arguments are convincing enough to null and void all counter arguments, don't try too hard to use big words, and if you must use faulty logic, that is better than using perfect logic that isn't transmissible.
If they accuse CNN or NBC of being biased or wrong, remind the bystanders that CNN is like a federal agent investigating 9/11, while Breitbart is like the truther. The truther may accurately point out that jet fuel cannot melt steel beams, but the FBI's top minds understands that the extremely hot jet fuel can weaken the steel beams to where they collapse from the weight. If one were to only take the statement "JET FUEL CAN'T MELT STEEL BEAMS" at face value, one would think that 9/11 was an inside job (simple, but inaccurate fallacy). If one were to do more research, one would see the truth behind it. (Same with the firefighter's remarks taken out of context, the angle of the steel beam cut, the "pop pop pop demolition" noise, etc). We loved to spread 9/11 "Truth"er stuff as alt-righters in order to convince the world that Jews did 9/11. We did a lot of research in order to do it, and we took the facts WAAAAAY out of context just to change a few minds. THIS is what you are up against. If you are strong, you will fight them and crush them.
As you can see, it is very easy for the alt-right to sway minds. Wear your anti fascism like a uniform. Don't let them persuade you by taking stuff out of context. Do research, and use anything that can be used against them, against them.
We don't have to reinvent the wheel either. For example, if I post a statistic debunking a WN lie, you guys could have a Photoshop/GIMP competition in the comments section (like a EnoughTrumpSpam PhotoshopBattles) to meme it, and then select the best meme and disseminate it. You could select the best two/three memes in order to avoid looking forceful and organized.
Generation Z (post Millennials) are just as conservative as the Silent Generation.
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/2016/09/17/how-modern-teenagers-are-rebelling-against-their-parents-by-bein/
Memes and YouTube comments clearly worked. Telegraph will tell you it is because of rebellion against their parents, but who sparked the flames of revolution? We did.
Now, there are a new generation of children born every day. They will seek out what they are supposed to believe in via the Internet. Make a great first impression, or lose them forever to the Nazis. The tide CAN be turned.
**Read up on Search Engine Optimization. Start a WordPress blog. Start a YouTube channel. Ask a liberal professor to help you gather facts (they will do this shit for free if they believe in the work you are doing, we have that advantage). Do whatever you have to do to win.
Utilize the American Strategy. Basically, each person can express his/her creativity to the fullest in their own way, and not follow a common blueprint. This way, if the Neo-Nazis find a weakness in one of us, the majority of us can continue to progress. Each little squadron has its own method of attack, and we crush the Nazis and the Soviets using this "multiple little brains" strategy.**
They will attempt to persuade you to switch camps. They can be extremely convincing. Don't fucking fall for it. They are experts at skewing facts to fit their narrative.
You will feel uncertain, but don't ever for a second stop fighting. I will continue to post updates. Look for them (by clicking on my username and looking at the Submitted tab).
Libera Et Impera
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On Kanye West

Let me give you every reason that Kanye West is nothing but an undeserved scapegoat, who had provided nothing but top-tier music since his debut. Let me school you with some straight facts:
Kanye, despite his publicity stunts, is regarded by many as a kind, compassionate individual. He often talks to his fans, and from all accounts is genuinely interested in what they have to say, what their life is like, and what their goals are. This is somebody who for the past nine years has been public enemy number one. It would be easy for him to go into absolute seclusion, and bitterly resent everybody, but he doesn't. He has a passion behind what he does, and it reflects in his music. Rick Rubin regards Kanye as the most influential and groundbreaking artist in hip-hop at the moment. Paul McCartney regards Kanye as a genius. He invited Seth Rogen and James Franco to perform their "Bound 3" parody at his wedding. He has won the love and respect of anybody who genuinely takes an interest in his music (Which has won 21 grammy awards, might I add). Despite the VMA incident, Kanye and Taylor Swift are good friends, and Swift herself has a deep respect for Kanye as an artist.
Not to mention, the dude has not had it easy. He slaved for years as a producer before finally making his big break on the production for Jay-Z's Blueprint, with beats for Ain't No Love (Heart of the City) and I.Z.Z.O (Takeover). Despite his success as a producer, everybody told him he couldn't rap, and would never make it.
He eventually dropped College Dropout in 2004, reinventing the game with an album full of incredible soul-beats at a time where everybody was still trying to copy the G-Funk West Coast vibe Dr. Dre's 2001 had left. The album had smash hits like Through the Wire, where he rapped about his near-death experience in a car crash while STILL WEARING his reconstructive mouthgear; or his club-hit about Jesus in Jesus Walks, at a time where you weren't going to get anything religious on the radio unless you're on country/gospel station in the South.
Late Registration debuted 2005, with a completely fresh Soul sound, and featuring the talents of Adam Levine (Maroon 5), Nas, Jay-Z, and of course Jamie Foxx in his smash hit "Gold Digger". I don't care who you are, this song had everybody dancing and was played and still is played in every club from New York to Tokyo to Berlin. His other single "Diamonds From Sierra Lione" touched on the issues of Blood Diamonds and the exploitation of Africans by Africans
"Over here, its the drug trade - we die from drugs/ Over there, they die from what we buy from drugs".
This album also has one of his most heart-felt songs Kanye has produced to date: "Hey Mama", his tribute to his mother Donda West, who raised him as single black mother in Chicago, with all the trials and tribulations that brought. The song is a beautiful display of a man who has a deepfound respect for the one who gave him everything.
"I was three years old when you and I moved to the Chi/ Late december, harsh winter gave me a cold/ You fixed me up something that was good for my soul/ Famous homemade chicken soup, can I have another bowl?/ You worked late nights just to keep on the lights/ Momma got the training wheels so I could keep on my bike/ ... and it don't gotta be mother's day/ or your birthday for me to just call and say: 'Mama!' I wanna scream so loud for you/ cause i'm so proud of you."
2007 Kanye released Graduation. This was a completely new sound to his previous Soulful works. This had a heavy techno/EDM inspiration, from artists such as Daft Punk, in addition to the influence of House Music with its Chi-town origins. His hit song "Stronger", sampling the also famous Daft Punk song "Harder, Better, Faster" was played once again world-wide in every club from L.A. to London to Sydney. It was groundbreaking, as Kanye melded genres that nobody had been able to meld. He gave popularity to the Robotic Voice trope that many artists copy to this day, and re-purposed auto-tune. It was no longer for untalented hacks who couldn't sing: It was for artists who wanted to give a specific feel to their music.
Then by 2008, things really started going south for Kanye. His mother passed away due to complications with a cosmetic surgical operation, his relationship with his girlfriend was deteriorating, and he had a hatred of himself. It was in this despair and desperation that he produced his darkest work, "808s and Heartbreaks", which is essentially his thesis on pop music, providing us with an incredible set of pop beats, all of which were phenomenal, and embracing the cold, detached Robot Voice that he had popularized as a way of reflecting the depression and lack of joy and humanity he possessed. The album provided him an avenue to channel the dark times he was going through. The track "Coldest Winter" is directly about the passing of his mother, Donda
"It's 4am and I can't sleep/ Her love is all that I can see/ Memories made in the coldest winte goodbye my friend, will I ever love again/ If spring can take the snow away, can it wash away all our mistakes?/ Memories made in the coldest winte Goodbye my friend, I won't ever love again"
Then, in 2010 Kanye releases his Magnum Opus, "My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy". Critically acclaimed and regarded by many as the greatest rap album of all time, this album blew everybody out of the water, with not a single bad track. It received the near impossible 10/10 rating by Pitchfork, putting it in the same league as "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band" and "Abbey Road" by the Beatles, "London Calling" by The Clash, and "Animals" by Pink Floyd. It was deeply self-reflexive, and in most senses a powerful declaration that he was not defeated, that he is in fact at the top of his game and that nothing can stop Yeezy season approaching. His song "Power" is nothing short of an inspiring, uplifting, empowering composition which firmly asserts that Kanye is back, and he does not give a flying fuck.
"Screams from the haters got a nice ring to it/ I guess every superhero need his theme music".
His other single "All of the Lights" has a whopping fifteen extra artists, including Rihanna, Elton John, Fergie, Kid Cudi and many others. I could write a whole essay on Runaway or Blame Game.
Then, in 2013 Kanye released "Yeezus", a.k.a. ABSOLUTE GENIUS. It is his anti-hiphop album of harsh, grinding samples, and disjointed jarring beats that comes together and by no sense of reason create some beautifully profound music. He denounces the institutional racism of the DEA and the CCA in his controversial track "New Slaves". He mocks the hubris and egocentrism that everybody sees him as having in his track I am a God, which takes the absolute piss out of the modern man who considers himself a god, with the absurd line
"I am a God/ So hurry up with my damn croissants!"
Kanye has stopped caring what people think about him a long time ago.
But that's not what makes the album ABSOLUTE GENIUS. It's the fact that the entire album is in fact an allegory depicting the Tragic fall of the "Yeezus" persona, going from absolute stardom and egotism with the strong, hard hitting, angry, egotistical tracks On Sight, Black Skinhead, I am a God, and New Slaves. Then, it shows the invevitable Tragic fall, like something straight from Aristotle himself: Hold My Liquor and I'm in it deal with Alcohol and Sex addiction in a way that shouts the typical social glorification of the Rockstar lifestyle, whilst robbing it of all its glory.
Had to stop at 7/11 like I needed gas/ I'm lying I needed condoms don't look through the glass./ Chasing love all the bittersweet hours lost/ eating asian pussy all I need was sweet and sour sauce
The distorted sound of the tracks and the uneasy schizophrenic sampling shows the deterioration of the Yeezus persona as he get in too deep, the distortion of his voice throughout the song makes the listener realise the horror of what it is to embrace these aspects of life.
Blood on the Leaves is the climax of the album. He returns to the Robot Voice to show the detachment and emotionless state that his sinful ways have led him to, removing his humanity and making him a heartless, soulless machine. This song is the Anagnorisis of the album (Similar to when Oedipus realizes that he's married his mother in the Greek Tragedy). Yeezus has fallen low since he declared himself a god.
"Now you sittin' courtside, wifey on the other side/ Gotta keep 'em separated, I call that apartheid/ Then she said she impregnated, that's the night your heart died/ Then you gotta go and tell your girl and report that/ Main reason cause your pastor said you can't abort that/ Now your driver say that new Benz you can't afford that/ All that cocaine on the table you can't snort that/ That goin' to that owin' money that the court got/ All in on that alimony, uh, yeah-yeah, she got you homie/ 'til death but do your part, unholy matrimony."
Guilt Trip is a continuation of Yeezus' road to redemption, his catharsis (Continuation of his Robot Voice). It's Yeezus' attempts to overcome his failed relationship and coming to terms with his own fallibility.
"Focus on the future and let the crew knock her" "If you loved me so much then why'd you let me go?" (x3)
Then, we get into the final stage with the last two songs: Send it Up and Bound 2.
Send it Up is Yeezus coming to terms with what has happened and joyfully choosing to put it all behind him.
"Reliving the past? Your loss"
is the beginning of the song, and it ends with Beanie Mann singing
"Memories dont live like people do; They always 'member you/ whether things are good or bad/ it's just the memories that you had".
At the end of Kanye's verse, he shows that the Yeezus persona has revived anew
"Yeezus just rose again."
Bound 2 is the 'happy ending' of Yeezus. Yeezus, after all that he's endured: the greatness, the loss, the suffering and the revival; he now is redeemed. He no longer is chasing the fame, the money, the superficial things, and he's found that
"One good girl [who] is worth a thousand bitches"
meaning that he has a legitimate relationship with a woman, as opposed to all the bitchy girls that he's been dealing with. This girl gives him everything that Yeezus could ever ask for: companionship. The final lines of the song reflect their relationship. It's not perfect, but "you know, ain't nobody perfect". They celebrate the small milestones of making it to thanksgiving and to Christmas; perhaps they can make it all the way to the altar, but first she's going to need to forget and forgive the person that Yeezus was. In the last two lines, Yeezus sums up the entire journey, on a number of levels: After this long-ass journey and transition that Yeezus has gone through, reflecting the verses of these raps and self-reflection; or the verses of him against his demons; or the verses of the Bible as they get married they're both tired, and sad at the state of how things are for people still living their lives full of despair, and in a metaphor and reference to the shortest "verse" in the Bible, they weep, just as "Jesus wept."
"Hey, you remember where we first met?/ Okay, I don't remember where we first met/ But hey, admittin' is the first step/ And hey, you know ain't nobody perfect/ And I know, with the hoes I got the worst rep/ But hey, their backstroke I'm tryna perfect/ And hey, ayo, we made it: Thanksgivin'/ So hey, maybe we can make it to Christmas/ She asked me what I wished for on my wishlist/ Have you ever asked your bitch for other bitches?/ Maybe we could still make it to the church steps/ But first, you gon' remember how to forget/ After all these long-ass verses/ I'm tired, you tired, Jesus wept"
We've had The Life of Pablo for over half a year now, and rest assured that in years to come we will undoubtedly see its influence pervade into the hip-hop scene to come with its unfinished production style, but that can be discussed at another time.
Now I've been writing this comment for the past hour, so I won't even go into his non-musical exploits, but rest assured that as far as fashion goes, Kanye West is leading the forefront with his Red Octobers or Yeezy Boost Sneakers with a resale value of several thousand dollars each.
Now, I hope that if you actually took the time to read at least half of this, you will see that the hatred for Kanye is little more than an attempt to marginalize one of the greatest artists of our time. His outbursts, though not classy, are not unfounded. Heck, John Lennon literally said the Beatles were bigger than Jesus; if that's not hubris I don't know what is. Both Lennon and West are icons and artists who have changed this world forever. Just because you haven't taken the time to see further than your limited frame-of-reference by no means makes Kanye a bad artist or a bad human being. He is God sent, and full to the brim of musical talent.
shout out to u/thebeardlessman for being so goddamn wavy
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Ayo Name Meaning. The meaning of Ayo is “Joy; joyful”. Keep in mind that many names may have different meanings in other countries and languages, so be careful that the name that you choose doesn’t mean something bad or unpleasant. Search comprehensively and find the name meaning of Ayo and its name origin or of any other name in our database. 7 submissions from all over the world agree the name Ayo means "Joy" and is of Nigerian origin. According to a user from Nigeria, the name Ayo means "happiness or joy". Search for more names by meaning . Submit the origin and/or meaning of Ayo to us below. Origin of Ayo. The name Ayo is of African Yoruba origin. The meaning of Ayo is "joy". Ayo is used as both a boys and girls name. It consists of 3 letters and 2 syllables and is pronounced A-yo. African Names and Their Meanings. Are you looking for names for your little bundle of joy? If it is names of African origin that you are looking for, this article will surely be of help. Here is a list of African names separately categorized into names for boys and girls, along with their meanings. 2 definitions of AYO. Definition of AYO in Slang/Internet Slang. What does AYO stand for? Name Meanings > Meaning of Africa Names > What does Ayo mean? Meaning of Ayo - History and Origin. Etymology. Web Sites. Meaning of "Ayo" African name. The name Ayo originated as an African name. The name Ayo is most often used as a boy name or male name. In African, the name Ayo means - nigerian name meaning happiness. Africa which is the third largest continent in the world has their own cultures and beliefs which also differs among the tribes and nations in Africa.One of the easiest ways to identify the origin of every African is through the names they bear, the name of each individual that is from Africa has a way of linking to his or her African origin. Pronunciation : case sensitive: see the pronunciation key for a guide on how to write the sounds; sounds can only be searched in names that have been assigned pronunciations * is a wildcard that will match zero or more letters in the pronunciation example: *lee matches names which end with the sound lee _ is a wildcard that will match exactly one letter in the pronunciation Find out the meaning of the baby girl name Ayo from the African Origin Login Register . Login Register . Login Register . Login Register . Home What does the name Ayo mean? In the African origin, Ayo means "Joyful". Ayo? Try the baby middle Ayo /ˈɑːjoʊ/ is a common Yoruba given name, it can be given to both male and female. Ayo in Yoruba means Joy, it may refer to: Ayọ, Nigerian-German singer-songwriter; Ayo Aderinwale, Nigerian diplomat; Ayo Bankole, Nigerian composer; Ayo Fayose, Nigerian politician; Ayo Ogunsheye, Nigerian academic; Ayo Oni, Nigerian politician

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