I kinda thought Kanye was decent until he decided he wanted to be a rapper.  Talib Kweli’s Get By is a really fantastic beat creatively sampling one of the greatest records of all time.  Since then, the shit has been rolling down the hill, getting faster and faster.

Your repeated attempts to make the same boomer joke that no one cared for. I’m sure there is another site more attuned to your sensibilities. This shtick is sad.

Terrifying.

There are a ton, and I’m no music historian; the Ken Burns doc goes into a lot of this. But off the top of my head, beyond the obvious like the banjo and finger picking and slide, there were the flattened “blues” notes and scales, melismatic and call and response vocals, and a lot of rhymthmic complexities.

Dude all up in the comments section on the AV Club hates nerds.

Oh please.

My point is that the actions of the state of Israel are currently making diaspora Jews less safe. I don’t think that’s in dispute at this point.

Yeah, kind of looking like that is running the other way lately, unfortunately.

That last bit. Is this “the lil nas x” play because they’re both black or what? Kind of a whole lot of really big differences between these things.

For sure. His planet-sized ego and team of sycophants led him to overlook the clearly obvious extent to which being a batshit Nazi asshole might make getting sample clearances more difficult.  But maybe he can sustain his declining career by exclusively sampling neo-Nazi bands, on top of stealing design ideas from…

Kind of a dumb take.

Not sure where that “(probably mostly)“ comes from exactly, but country music owes as much to spirituals as it does to Celtic music, and most of the vocal and instrumental techniques that are considered to be quintessentially country (and which distinguish it from Irish folk music) are African-American in origin.

Well, separating a vulnerable global minority from the actions of a rogue right-wing state wouldn’t be the worst thing that ever happened.

Nobody cared the first time.

Consider the possibility that the charts don’t reflect your taste.

This sounds WAY more like country than like any song that has been on the country charts in decades.

This is a weird take, given that slaves were introduced into the incipient United States long before anyone found Appalachia.

Who tf are you?

Pretty sure that the articles reflect the interesting case of someone fired from SNL hosting SNL. And the review of the SNL episode is right here to see.

This motherfucker has had all this coming since the City College stampede.