Shit list 2010: Worst lyric on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasty
Posted by Anupa in Rappers, Shit List 2010 on 22. Dec, 2010 | 3 Comments
Fuck lists. Everyone makes the same damn list with the same damn songs and movies and predictable-ass people on it. You can read plenty of lists right now, but there is one thing these lists won’t tell you, which is THE DAMN TRUTH. Many music/art/film critics complain of this weird agenda to promote streamlined taste, [...]
Word up: So, should I believe the Kanye hype?
Posted by Anupa in Favourite Interviews, media, Music, Pop Culture, Rappers, Word up on 24. Nov, 2010 | 4 Comments
Hiiii it’s meeee, the annoying person who has been talking about Kanye West’s new album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy for the past two weeks since it leaked!!!I promised a lot of skeptical people (fuck you!) I would stop talking about it, though I guess this post means I didn’t (sorry!). I can’t help it! [...]
Morning Dump: Mr. Romance, Balanced book reading, Welcome to Lagos,
Posted by theashcan in Morning Dump on 28. Aug, 2010 | 1 Comment
Are New York Times book reviewers biased towards white dudes from Brooklyn? When was the last time you read a book by a female author? Do you get the hype around Jonathan Franzen? I’m crazy tired so sorry about the lazy rhetoricals. But yeah, Chris Jackson wrote something about some such and I dug it [...]
Show and tell: Kanye West, “Power”
Posted by jessekg in Music, Uncategorized on 06. Aug, 2010 | 1 Comment
First off, sorry for two Kanye posts. We sort of have an unwritten rule about that, but have you seen Kanye’s video for Power yet? With the amount of hype it was getting, it being a “painting” and all, not a video, according to Ye’s twitter account, I have to admit I was definitely curious. [...]
Being almost famous apparently nothing like that movie, Almost Famous
Posted by Simon in Pop Culture on 04. Aug, 2010 | 1 Comment
On top of starting social meme’s and, occasionally, being a musician, Kanye West has become Twitter’s newest most hilarious celebrity to follow. I mean, where else but @kanyewest can you view pictures of goblets, and crowns, and victorian dressers, and Persian rugs, and Chanel jackets, and read informative stream of consciousness including gem’s like: “Fur [...]
