... and oh yeah yeezy!

so this dude wrote an epic rant about #grammygate or #kanyegate or whatever the kids are calling the whole kanye/beck thing:


so do i aagree with this guy? find out on page 2......

Enh some of this. I agree that it's ok for Kanye to shoot up at the Grammys however he sees fit, but that doesn't mean he's beyond reproach. I also agree that it's great that marshawn lynch is making a statement against the practice of forcing athletes to talk to the media, but (see the above sentence). On one hand, he has a very good point about the backlash against Kanye as it parallels that of the backlash against modern civil rights activism. The practice of shouting down unpopular opinions and firebombing the arbiters of those opinions is the most anti-American thing that we allow to go unchecked. But, well...

I think Kanye missed a really good opportunity to address the troubling trend of homogeny in pop music as evidenced by the nominees and outcomes of the Grammy’s “big 4” awards. We also see this trend perpetuated with the Oscar nods, but ‘Ye doesn’t have a soundtrack song this year, so I don’t suspect he’d be worried about that.

Ok, so Kanye shouldn't be shouted down and shit on for having an un-status-quo opinion on the Grammys. BUT THAT DOESN'T MEAN HE IS ABOVE CRITICISM, and our ranter up there is arguing simultaneously that Kanye is brave for disrespectfully speaking against the Grammy award process because the Grammys are powerful, but that anybody who disrespectfully speaks out against him is out of bounds because... Kanye is way richer than them. What?

Let’s get to the real point here: our ranter up there is ok with how Kanye expresses position not b/c Kanye is brave. He’s ok with Kanye expresses his position b/c he agrees with Kanye. He is a Stan as he puts it. So his issue isn’t that a champion of civil disobedience is being shouted down by the verypublic on whose behalf he speaks. It’s that the public is speaking out against KANYE WEST. And he likes KANYE WEST.  And he agrees with KANYE WEST. So in essence Kanye west getting berated in the court of public opinion is the RANTER getting berated in the court of public opinion. That whole stream of consciousness is good old fashioned self-defense in the eyes of Mr. Bandz up there.

So let’s break it down for real here.

1. It’s great that Kanye and marshawn challenge systems of authority for the injustices and foolishness they see in them.
2. It makes Kanye look foolish when he makes his ploy for "artistry" on a night where one of the most artistically irreproachable artists of the last 2 decades wins the big one.    
3.  If marshawn lynch doesn’t wanna give interviews, he should take the fines. It makes him look petty and wavering when he grant interviews and repeats a phrase over and over just to avoid the fine. You can afford it, Beast Mode.     
4. But you are under no obligation to answer the questions how they want you to once you’ve made yourself available.      
5. And hey media: stop antagonizing marshawn! Interview Richard Sherman instead, he always has insightful things to say.      
6. Back to ye: if your point was about black artists, say so. don’t try and pc it up by saying the Grammy’s are disrespecting "artistry" when what you mean is, "damn, Beyoncé and pharrel had great shit that lost the biggest awards they were up for. Because, honestly, what album defined 2014 like bey's? What song represents 2014 more than 'happy'?". And finally
7.  ye wasn't standing against any injustice at the Grammys other than, “I like Beyoncé because she's married to my big homie, and also I haven't made the news in a while"

So where do I stand on the whole beck beating bey, Kanye jumping to her defense thing?

I don’t know, I’m sorta immune to Kanye at this point.  His “you ain’t got the answer sway!” tirade numbed me to his antics, and then yeezus was only 4 songs strong, so…

So yeah, I like Kanye’s music too much to give up on him, but new him is sorta like the charlotte bobcats in my book right now: flashy, fresh, right up my wheel house, but sorta meh, and kinda oblivious to how bad he looks to the outside world. I don’t hate that he jumped on stage, I just hate that he jumped on stage sincerely. Look, you’re not soy bomb, you’re Kanye west. The world listens when you speak.  You demand an interview after the ceremony and say the same thing you said in the E interview, man you’re gonna make some waves. You might even consider making an actually good album this year and then declining the invitation to the Grammy’s in 2016 to make your point. That would be some real shit right there. You didn’t have to jump on stage like lil’ mama.

You know what Beyoncé did, the lady you’re defending so hard? She didn’t say a word, she just dropped the album like, “now what?” And the world listened. YOU’RE ON THAT SAME LEVEL! When they stripped Muhammad Ali of his belt, he didn’t jump in the ring in the middle of Joe Frazier’s fights to announce that he was the real champ. He beat people up until they had to give him the fight. Sure he pulled all sorts of antics, but that was to sell the fight, not make the point.

I don’t think bey needs a protector. Not the way she big dogs her way around the R & B scene. The real thing ‘ye shoulda been crying about is how queen Bey Bogarded Ledisi’s song. She’s so good, JOHN LEGEND & COMMON, two certified artists in their own right, didn’t even think no was an option when she asked to sing Ledisi’s song.

Oh well. I got bar stuff to do…

p.s., Beck is awesome.