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Slap-Boxing With Jesus

Who’s Ready For “Graduation?”

You know, for all the... um... “criticism” I’ve given about the guy, somewhere down the line I guess I “forgot” to mention that I actually like Kanye West (pause) [1]. Granted, not in the way that I think he’s the new DJ Premier or anything (he’s not even the new Madd Rapper, for that matter), but in that similar, Dip Set love-hate style. Plus, he’s willing to take great lengths in getting his name out there, even though he ends up looking like a whiny little bitch most of the time, which I can admire.

For any artist, trying to make oneself appear as if they’re a deeply conflicted, tortured soul despite the fact that they’ve likely spent more money on gaudy baubles than I have in my savings account is like the quasi-homosexual alternative to the typical wave cap-rocking gat-toter. It’s hard for me to take the shit these fruitbag tendencies seriously: I mean, all top-selling (and even some that go plastic wood grain) artists should instantly know that certain amenities the average nine-to-fiver enjoys like the ability to walk outside in public without being mobbed by a shitload of groupies gets thrown out the window once they hit the big time. I don’t know about you, but my Chicken Crunchwrap Supreme isn’t any less fulfilling just because Eminem can’t go out and get one like I can.

Whatever the case may be, it appears as if Kanye is leaning more towards Slim Shady’s now-legendary bitch fits that’s left him a reclusive shell of his former self. For years I’d see glimpses of this behavior in certain songs here and there, but now it looks like he’s fully ready to unleash that “time of the month,” douchebaggy attitude as a full-length album.

Whereas that leaked, soft-ass single he “co-produced” with DJ Toomp was more or less a hip-hop version of “I Will Survive,” his latest crapterpiece, “Stronger, [2]” seems to be taking shots at the Internets schmucks - such as yours truly – that call him out on his phony “hip-hop prophet” ideologies. From the surgically-repaired-but-still-fucked-up-looking mouthpiece himself:

So I started reading the hip-hop blogs... where they would say Kanye, one of his shoelaces ain’t tied…he’s a bitch... So those are some of the things that led to ‘Stronger, that don’t kill me can only make me Stronger.‘”

Oh really?

Basically, Tooda is getting asshurt because there are still those out in the hip-hop world who refuse to acknowledge him as some driving slipper-rocking rap deity, which I just find hilarious. For someone who could literally buy and sell this site I write on, drawing inspiration from those who call him out on his sideways-softy attitude to make a song is about as sauce as me plugging my ears up and bitching whenever some hump calls me out of character, which is ridiculously ass-backward. However, in the unlikely (but probable) possibility that I’m partly responsible for him making this song, while I'll definitely take a masochistic pride in the fact that i had a hand in this latest ear violation, I may consider changing my profile picture back to its former photo. Lord knows I don’t need some random-ass hump asking me for an autograph while I’m shopping for some honey buns.

[1] I am a fan of shitty music, after all.

[2] If you haven’t yet, feel free to check out Donwill’s post on the screenshots for this damn thing. And to those that live in the Tri-State area, please support duke and his crew Tanya Morgan by coming out to that Brooklyn Hip-Hop Festival going on this weekend.

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