Though HBO takes my breath away. So many (so many) great movies, and so much great television. It's like a goldmine (really, like discovering that the Internet has everything).

I've more than once defended Netflix like they're my child.

I've been pretty impressed with Netflix's catalogue, even if it's been sliding down. They have more than once (and more than more than that) shocked me with just the newish independent or foreign movie the AV Club or other critics led me towards.

What has this country come to when someone gets blasted for staying seated during the national anthem while news networks give equal voice to people arguing on behalf of a presidential candidate whose whole campaign is literally taunts and hoorahs? John Oliver's thing about global warming "debates" should be redone…

Is that the real title, Episode VIII: Money Never Sleeps?

I think that's confusing vibe with genre. Rap is composed of rapping and production that facilitates it. That is the fact of the matter, so Kanye rapping over beats is rap music, whether or not it's what you would prefer in your rap music. Say I don't like Vanilla Ice; he's no longer hip hop? Quality does not genre…

Then it's just a difference of opinion, but Take Care is a masterpiece, as are many of Kanye's works. And I hate to even argue because it feels like arguing against people who say rap isn't music. I'm just stressing myself out defending music not only self-evidently beautiful but praised by critical consensus.

If you're criticizing him for being emotionally open, then that's all you need to say. Go listen to your unfeeling, "I'm the best" stuff, which may be good, too. When you're ready to face your emotions, come back and discard your flinching conceptions of what it means to be "hard."

"Drake sucks." The superficial response of someone who has never listened to Drake.

Got really excited hearing this. Still excited. Kanye inspired one of Drake's best verses ("Say What's Real"). Their collaboration should be strange and wonderful.

Impressive nonetheless! I've read about five or six Discworlds, and I love them, but it's like The Familiar by Mark Z. Danielewski. I'm not expecting to ever read nearly all of them.

Oh man. I Phantom. Haven't listened to anything else by him, but that one rules. Great example of what a solo artist can do that would be tougher or just different with a group being behind the whole thing. It's a rap novel.

"High All the Time" is my jam. Stephen King loves that album too. "In Da Club" was ironically a grower for me lol.

Were they doing the rapping over straight jazz sax like Kendrick does? That's what I was referring to by progressive. That would be incredible over the span of an entire album. Not just the jazzy nature of the beat but the actual, not-time-signature-but-just-saxophones, freewheeling stuff. And he's a virtuoso of…

I'd say gkmc is pretty solid gold, with TPAB being really great in its progressiveness, if not classic. Haven't listened to Midnight Marauders extensively enough to comment, but Kendrick seems easily more virtuosic than Q-Tip or Phife. There seems a prohibitive "The old guys were better" sense in hip hop.

But even responding is feeding into it.

I'm not sure what all this Kendrick Lamar backlash is except that people can't handle someone being that good, that conscious, and that popular all at once. You know if Kendrick was half as famous, all of these people who make fun of him would be saying, "You guys don't know hip hop if you don't like Kendrick Lamar,"…

Fuck, that's a lot. I'm proud of finishing the Dark Tower series.

Starfape.

Plus, no internet, media gone.