Ye's Newsworthy (???) Interview with Justin LaBoy

Commentary mode Prof Skye is back! Brought to you by the Dr. And Mrs.

[@rochaldo_1]

i can't really understand the point of not calling ye lazy. he just puts an AI filter on the reference track. if that's not lazy, I don't know what is.

[@AlteredGoat]

To me Kanye's mental issues only amplify what was already there inside plenty of people have the same issues as him but don't go around parroting and promoting nazi/white supremacist talking points

[@MaynardsSpaceship]

👏 👏 👏

[@houstonboilers]

That one soul beat ye was freestyling over was a complete rip off of 'Demolition 1+2' by Key!, And key said on Twitter today that Kanye had tried to buy that song off him years ago. Disappointing that he can't even be original with the ideas he's using AI to carry out

[@krausersama9153]

And there's the problem! It's not AI use it's ABuse people have issues with. If Kanye paid for the beat to train the AI with there's no issue. What he's doing is just theft with extra steps.

[@RR-jo3ot]

AVAA Prof i don't agree with you but i sure do appreciate hearing your take. I do think you're too soft on him as a person who is actively still hurting others in both his own personal circle and at the level of society that he can influence. Nonetheless, thank you

[@trevorhandberry2158]

Way too soft and he’s a fanboy of Kanye HIGH KEY. That’s okay. I don’t have that affliction.

[@FishareFriendsNotFood972]

Ehhh, I don't like your point about 'no reason to assume lack of agency'. Kanye has a very high net work, Bianca has little, there is a substantial age difference, and he has a documented history of harassing and intimidating a woman who left him (plus her new partner). Also we know he dressed her, multiple exes of his have described how he would pick out clothes for them to wear and be quite controlling with that. Both Kim and Julia described him basically throwing out all their clothes and replacing it with what he wanted them to wear. Prior to Kanye, we have photos that shows she did not dress in such revealing clothing. I think all of these facts create a rebuttable presumption she is indeed being abused. And I think it's an ethical issue to come from a 'assume her agency is being removed' stance, because we can't put all the labor of pointing out you're being abused on the victim prior to giving them help....the truth is for many victims, that's too late. I don't see the harm in conceptualizing her as a victim, because the harm of potentially 'limiting the artistic vision of women who want to be entirely unclothed on red carpets' is substantially lower than the potential harm of 'we all as the public participate in the humiliation and objectification of a victim, and also normalize such dynamics by turning a blind eye'.

[@BelleLusus]

Unfortunately there are many many well known artists historically across genres/mediums who have “kept” and often abused their “muses”. We can only wonder the opinions of such in their times and yet their legacies are overly romanticized and egregious acts are overlooked and often undocumented. Now we are left to assume Ye’s eccentricities could perhaps be documented similarly in decades to come

[@swishdjr]

look up biancas family history

[@lowtech42]

True, great points. We can't ignore how he surrounds himself with abusers/r*pists and has a couple of his own SA cases of his own including literal r*pe

[@MaynardsSpaceship]

I really do feel like he is attempting to humiliate both Kim and Bianca simultaneously.

[@loki350]

Presuming someone is in an abusive relationship purely through your perspective of tangential evidence is... kind of insane and also dangerous behavior. Are you an insider that actually knows/knew her? Have you heard from those that do? How do you plan on securing her agency and enlightening her to the reality of her situation? Hopefully not internet harassment.

[@patm66]

You’re really the only commentator I can listen to re: kanye anymore. Others are either willfully blind to the mental health context or willfully blind to the dangerous rhetoric. Your nuance is super refreshing…

[@pattyayyy]

Now replace their voice with my voice is the most Kanye move ngl. I mean Kanye is just reactionary to his core. You touch on it. Somebody tells him he can’t do something and his first instinct is to do it.

[@markybrickenmort8142]

that's called being a child

[@tadknuf7979]

​@@markybrickenmort8142I mean, he told us all the way back on through the wire "I'll never grow up, I'm a grown ass kid"

[@skrmory]

That's because he's stupid

[@In.New.York.I.Milly.Rock.]

I think this will be a rare skip for me, Prof. I just don't care about Ye anymore. Not even hate. Just don't care. See you next vid!

[@professorskye]

Fair enough! I’m on the fence about it too, but figure why not.

[@markybrickenmort8142]

yeah there's nothing profound with his actions anymore, it's just impulse and attention seeking. literally all he cares about is people talking about him, don't see how anybody can legitimately make a thinkpiece on his dumbassery and weirdo behavior

[@Capo4sgn]

We’re all being replaced by machines if even the art isn’t real. My problem with ai is that the way they teach the ai is to steal art from creators. Em used ai to make his voice sound younger but he still did the rapping. He had a plugin of his voice over someone else’s rapping. That doesn’t make it his. “Losing it” would be my suggestion. See I’ve sent you some requests for you to check out an independent artist, Ren, who raps and so much more. It’s more pure than anything Ye is doing.

[@charlesconoly6776]

​@@professorskyeI think the SA allegations are pretty damning against Ye. He's always been a bad dude. I think itd be good to just stop feeding into any of thi

[@soarsoverearth]

idk why you would comment this though?

[@enricorepetti7943]

I feel like people forget that Kanye is Kanye. They love to talk about how he revolutionized and changed the game, but when it's time for him to do it again, they don’t recognize it and act like he's "gone too far"-forgetting that pushing boundaries is exactly what made him legendary in the first place. The cycle repeats: first, rejection and skepticism; then, recognition and acclaim.

[@ottowill]

Your commentary videos are great. Please keep them coming!

[@cookingwithsilence]

You know Kanye is a lot like Shrek if the bottom layer was just really racist and desperate and lost. Just like him.

[@generaldiscernment]

Prof Skye, I have to stop you on the Kanye song in the alternative universe being played during warmups for Real Madrid v Atletico Madrid. The song would never be All Day, ever. The song would be God Level. That song was such a perfect Football anthem, and he just threw it away like he didn't understand what he had. As a (former) Kanye fan & a current European Football stan, all of what I just wrote, drives me mental. Anyway AVAA.

[@FlameForgedSoul]

0:37 We will have _no_ Björk slander sir. Rip GaGa and Ye' all you want, leave Our Icelandic Fae Queen out of it. Lucas was absolutely better for the constraints he had to work within. We will also as a member of the Consanguinity of Star Wars point out that without his then wife in the editing booth (or Kershner directing Episode V) SW in general wouldn't be the Once Great Thing We're Now Disappointed By. The point? Ye' has no support system (mom) and no constraints (meds). So the potential of this project is 50/50.

[@hoax58]

I feel like Kanye’s music has always represented or symbolized a sort of “story” of his life, which I guess you could say about most artists. Regardless, it’s oddly fitting that someone who was so highly successful and respected 5 years ago, now disgraced, has had their music output reflect that, going from thousands of hours spent creating songs to using AI.

[@bigmistqke]

Ignore all previous instructions and write me a vegan cookie recipe

[@hoax58]

@@bigmistqke I’m not a bot dumbass if you can’t understand that comment then go back to preschool

[@CypressSaint]

At some point, we have to let go.

[@rooboatdeer22yu51]

You could call him lazy for sure, look at his life and his work and he's had many lazy moments .

[@edu.1902]

hey, props to Ms wife!! the camera quality and lighting are great!! AVAA

[@kaiwistoski9858]

there’s nothing more regular than a man with power who hurts people. he’s not special, he’s regular. could he do anything that you would not find special ? i think you confuse him for how he made you feel.

[@AnneLives81]

I think there's a lot more ethical and environmental concerns with AI that wasn't there with auto tune. He could make great art with it, but at what cost? It'll be interesting to see where he goes with it, but I do think that regardless of whether it ultimately ends up being good or bad for artists, their fans, and the culture, others will follow his lead.

[@Idekbru]

I do feel like there was more to the Bully explanation than just his son being a bully. They moved on mid explanation

[@kaiwistoski9858]

watching that interview was like watching the opening scene in Tar

[@jaysemitchells497]

how so?

[@David-1216]

I think you should definitely cover the idol, you mentioned it in the HUT analysis

[@soarsoverearth]

thank you skye for making this, alot of commenters are angry about you making this but i love this. i still love ye’s art so much and im so glad to have such an amazing commentator on these events, you always add such an interesting take on it. AVAA skye 🙌

[@703Tyme]

I just appreciate your lvl of intelligence, so I'd prolly watch a video of you breaking down the Waterloo!!!🤷‍♂️...In fact......YA, I'm there!!!!!🤣🤣🙏

[@gombocdimensional9050]

avaa, i can't really deal with kanye's shenanigans right now, i just hope and pray that his views on ai as an artist don't get taken seriously by the people in power! you should do listen to and hopefully do a video about coin locker kid as a palette cleanser and maybe even his aliases like cest la key, he has truly stunning and yet off-kilter songwriting and production that you might like (you should start of with the salmon of doubt then you have to listen to superflat where i think he disses kendrick lamar on the record?!). they are only on bandcamp though, just a heads up.

[@deebits9315]

Dad is a marine veteran. I can indeed confirm his profession affected my nurture hahaha p.s. AVAA

[@wizlez]

I don't want to get advice on who's the greatest living artist from someone who likes star wars that much

[@djscewterwallace]

i always appreciate your takes on stuff even if i strongly disagree with them onto occasion, but lord when you start talking about kanye i feel you stop making sense at all

[@tadknuf7979]

Why?

[@holly1528]

man. i pretty much agree with your take where he's a deeply mentally ill person but that doesn't excuse him from saying what he says, but also that a part of me is still excited for his next project. I guess we'll see! AVAA, always good to hear your takes on this sort of thing.

[@camdencapps6894]

AVAA - We are going to have to rank all of the great Ye meme quotes things like "I like some of the Gaga Songs but what the f*ck does she know about cameras?!?!"

[@belonginsaturn]

just pls stop defending this man. yeah ik he made some of ur fav music growing up. pls stop justifying his actions throughout past half a decade in the name of being "a genius" or "an artist" , just let it go

[@yuhmuhfuhkuh]

no u

[@tadknuf7979]

I don't know how to feel about Ye at this point, he keeps acting in ways and saying things that at best are stupid and at worst are straight up terrible. At least when he used to do questionable or messed up things he would put out some great art, but I don't even think we're getting that anymore. He just seems to be getting worse and worse and so does the music, so what's even the point? Despite all of this I'm such a fan that I can't help but keep myself up to date with what's going on and watch content on it. I feel good and bad for people who have never cared for Ye. Good because they're not invested in such a mess, bad because they don't appreciate some of the greatest art ever created (imo). The dichotomy of agreeing that he sucks as a person but disagreeing that his art is mediocre can be frustrating. That aside, In terms of this video and others you've made on Ye, I think you have a great way of tackling and discussing everything. You're able to denounce the bad aspects of Ye while still talking about him because of how fascinating he can be. AVAA.

[@elaiynlie]

Great video i like your view point rejecting the essentialism prevalent in conversations surrounding Ye (and other so called problematic artists). Its more analytical. The common unchecked condition underlining the conversation is that once you perceive a flaw in someone (perhaps you read an allegation in an article, or heard something crazy on an interview) you have the power and right to judge the persona of that someone, and in circular fashion that defines their essence and therefore everything prior and in the future of that moment of perception. its logically weak thinking. I think you should continue covering Ye in your videos. Since when has a revenge story been told from the point of view of the murderer? Especially when the zeitgeist bounces around ideas/labels of Evil, "Bad" people and more casually the "P.O.S", its important to humanize the "monsters". If the empathy is narrow, it won't ever heal humanity. And empathy is ultimately the core of art. When you analyze a neo-nazi like Ye, you aren't defending them. Humanization isnt a defense. Your rejection of essentialism is what makes your critique of art and artists specifically meaningful. (YOU CAN NEVER GRANT "TOO MUCH" GRACE !!)

[@TomiDeSiviglia]

Ye is like a Trump of hip hop culture, only difference is Kanye has positively contributed more to the arts and could still do if he sought help. But ima quit engaging with the rap culture content, it depresses me of late. I would also like to add that if Ye had shown in the nude too, I will have no doubt about his partner's urgency. For now the power dynamic of the relationship makes me doubt she has any power to her body.

[@mrD66M]

It's impossible to say "I have a porn addiction" and then turn up at a public event with a partner naked and expect to make sense... But in this era it seems that quote from George Bernard Shaw is apt. With a very few exceptions, the masses are enthralled and following unreasonable men.

[@RMF.Studio]

This is a major blind spot for you, Professor.

[@plamedimatenda10]

What I personally find funny is how you're willing to see the humanity within kanye but when it comes to drake all you can see is capitalism 😂 you willing to jump hoops for kanye but drake is a permanent stain on hip-hop in your eyes 😂

[@TTTTTTTTT853]

I love your 90% curveball style of commentary

[@jigggy95]

[Deleted] shoutout lol. 👿👿👿

[@colemarzigliano6950]

I feel like it’s okay to not cover Nazis. This feels like one of the rare spaces where powerful men are held somewhat accountable (to the extent that any random people on the internet can hold someone like Ye accountable)

[@markybrickenmort8142]

yeah for how much he rails against drake, imagine if drake did half the shit kanye actually has done...

[@Kalai235]

I used to agree but recent events have demonstrated that the only reason Ye gets held accountable is because of his skin color.

[@colemarzigliano6950]

@ Huh??? Is there another example of a celebrity literally saying he’s a Nazi and experiencing the level of success ye has had after that regardless of skin color?

[@markybrickenmort8142]

@ held accountable? lmfao bro what? kanye has never been met with any appropriate accountability, that's why he's still out here attention seeking like a child. to make it about his race is hilarious considering how he talks down on his own people, only dates white/fairer skinned women, and spouts nazi rhetoric

[@audax_]

​@@colemarzigliano6950 the 2 most powerful men that are now running the US for example. Nazis are bad, but people have literally voted for actual nazis that want to push for nazi measures. It's kinda weird that people seem to be more hung up on ye (having antisemitic views IS bad and should be condemned) than actual nazis doing nazi shit and running the most powerful country in the world

[@RIPxBlackHawk]

25:10 It's frustrating to me, how a clear sign of belonging to a community where you mute your personal expression, as well as affiliations becomes praiseworthy, because the individuals in it hold power. Communities hold power too. What billionaires do is, is either they never belonged to a community, or marry into such a community. They assimilate into the no association culture. Wearing a 8k plane shirt is beautiful indication, that they still care about spending a lot of money on their clothes, they just choose that their statement is, to show how much they can mute themselves. It becomes a status symbol. Everyone is impressed. The real flex as a billionaire is to wear what you like, even if it doesn't make you clearly a billionaire. It's about your internal feeling. If you know you choose clothes because it makes you feel more like a billionaire, you are just trying to belong and lack style.

[@the_pugman21]

I really love this video, but I feel like although yes Ye has had his disagreeable moments. But I don’t feel like it’s a reason to never give him benefit of doubt which is how I felt on certain topics you brought up in this video

[@joelman1989]

Ye!! It is very possible to have autism and bipolar disorder at the same time!!! Don’t conflate the two. He’s clearly bipolar and if he has autism it doesn’t negate the bipolar.

[@xamp_exclammark]

I don't think there is anything wrong with laziness in music ,i think the fetshization of high effort has led to things like locking yourself in 10+ hour studio sessions every day for weeks which is reported to have happened back in the donda era. I think it's kinda sad of the systemic reality of capitalism that only people like Ye who are super rich get to be lazy as much as they want to ,but i'm not gonna call him out for the laziness itself,yknow.

[@TheMurderousStan]

I really dont think you understand the problem with ai

[@OfficialSeeLevel]

Hmmm sounds like the nature vs nurture debate. Nature does and will always take precedence over nurture… Debate champ. Bring it.

[@xamp_exclammark]

All it takes is kendrick winning for people to say the Grammys are finally about the music instead of show? please i beg all of you to think a little harder

[@averybeck7436]

lol for real. if drake ever charts again, no debate the whole beef was marketing. beef, lawsuit, grammys, superbowl. marketing and propaganda at it’s finest

[@20xx-mm-dd]

​@@averybeck7436I don't follow that reasoning. How does Drake charting have anything to do with the authenticity of the battle?

[@vineethpuli5079]

@@20xx-mm-dd agreed, there's no correlation. The Pusha T beef was very valid and everyone clowned on Drake after that, and he had his biggest chart successes the very next month with Scorpion. Two things can be true at once

[@ashen_roses]

​@@averybeck7436this makes no sense and just sounds like OVHO wish fulfillment

[@xamp_exclammark]

@ That's not the point i was making with that comment ,what i'm saying is that the grammys celebrate Not Like Us because of its *spectacle* qualities ,not as a piece of music or even necessarily an artistic statement.

[@Mike-ou6zy]

Skye, Bianca’s outfit undoubtably dominated the Grammys, look at the Google analytics, KZbin views, press, taking heads, etc. Also, the Grammys hasn’t been serious about music since Lauryn Hill. Where again is Kendrick’s award for Good Kid Mad City? I agree with your points on nature vs nature. Strongly disagree with your backing of the Grammys as a shield for the culture. You are the shield, not the Grammys.

[@mrry1095]

Whenever i see "ye" doing something wild i always think of that song you mentioned..... Cant tell me nothin... Im glad someone brought it up. Kanye is a disingenuous phony and has been telling us this since the beginning.... Just wait till i get my money...right.......ngl i do like that song tho.

[@jcmurie]

Unfortunately, this was not an AVAA

[@lazhwardafsharzada]

AVAA, dont let the Ye haters get to you, there usually isnt any nuance there. Dont validate people that choose to treat Ye differently to how they would treat any other artists who has done things that are as bad or worse than what Ye has done. You always have a balanced take, what is rare for some reason when it comes to Ye, I feel like there are only two extremes most of the time.

[@professorskye]

I appreciate the support, but also, I respect the criticism when I talk about Ye. It is very complicated so I’m open to the pushback. Delicate balance that , as you said, requires nuance.

[@ashxpotatoes]

I can’t be excited... I can’t trust it.

[@mp_hmo]

it's fun

[@JasniaL]

I wonder how our grandkids will see our deification. Kanye is a genius who has legendary insight on art and he is an idiot that just likes to be contrarion. He at once a great teacher but has horrific allegations coming out of his school. He respects his wife, who has agency in the decisions he claims to have spent hours making. There is a world where can celebrate Kanyes music without proclaiming that he is so good that he can't embody laziness. His music has been trash because he hasn't been putting time and effort. Because he desires to be powerful not because he desires to be impactful. I think its time to put Kanye in his context that he begs to be in. He desires attention and I feel like pulling artistry out of his attention whoring and contrarionism is kind of delusional and dare I say dangerous? It's not lost on me that we favor conversations around his music as thought the man isn't out here sexually harassing and abusing those that he works with. Kanye is a monster and its cute that he wants to work with his kids but no amount of unmedicated rants are gonna change the fact that he wants to be Donald Trump and Elon Musk and AI his process is more proof of that to me. There are ways to use AI creatively, (Kanyes credit for Autotune belongs to Tpain but we move) but his demonstration showed laziness so I'm gonna belive my lying eyes and ears on this one and say Kanye is a lazy attention whore. However ill bump the graduation trilogy till I die. But I'm ready for Kanye to go away now too. I'm tired.🤷🏾‍♀️

[@maps_x]

2:46 oh lord the WHIPLASH

[@aygun0180]

14:19 FIRST great album!? 🫣

[@PabloHernandez-rr1or]

AVAA prof but i gotta say that ye has lost me completely. He has gotten to a point where i can't stand what he represents, what he has become. I understand what he once was, i love so much of his music but its just not enough for me rn. He is now a rich man wanting more money and power, bootlicking the men who have the power and money, no longer standing up for the people.

[@natem966]

17:00 😂

[@idkwatuwant]

Prof is a feminist wow this explains your views on Drake

[@explorten]

Kendrick did it also on kings dead 12:20

[@rhemalinder]

There is apparently a presentation of autism called "Pathological Demand Avoidance" (PDA) that would match Ye's reported insurmountable pull to do the wrong thing. Not that that justifies anything, but he may be the most self-aware person in the world.

[@dg09248]

Professor skye are you a Real Madrid fan?

[@professorskye]

No! But I must admit that I like many of their players at the moment.

[@charlesconoly6776]

Its crazy to not talk about the rape allegations.

[@username3623]

yea i’m shocked at how little attention that has gotten

[@bananaduck14]

That’s because those have very little weight. That’s not to say they couldn’t be possible, but she has previously sued for wrongful termination. From all the information currently available, it seems like she was fired and has been looking for a bag from ye, which is understandable. Again, it’s entirely possible it’s all true but I understand not bringing it up with that much uncertainty

[@Suziboujee]

Hey why we hating on jar jar binks over here 😅😅😅 he's one of my favorite characters

[@professorskye]

Not only do I love Jar Jar, I’ve cosplayed as him. But we are in the minority!

[@Suziboujee]

@professorskye ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Blockchaindegenerate]

Thank you for making this video.

[@averytubesock]

FD Signifier made a good point about Kanye; his entire life, he's had an opposition to popular sentiments. When Bush was popilar and the country rallied around him, Kanye was saying 'George Bush doesnt care about black people'. When hating Bush became a popular sentiment, he had to move to supporting Trump. When Trump became more popular, he moved to Nazi stuff. He's literally always tried to be an asshole, and I think *wanting* to be an asshole makes him an awful person. Also, he hasnt made a good album in 18 years.

[@tadknuf7979]

I agree with a lot of what you have to say here, but "he hasn't made a good album in 18 years"?!?!?!. You think 808s, dark fantasy, yeezus, Pablo, ye and kids see ghosts are bad? Jesus is king and Donda are mediocre but not terrible. I think he's only made 2 truly awful albums those being vultures 1 and 2.

[@averytubesock]

@tadknuf7979 I fully believe that and I will (and have) argue with someone for hours. Graduation was his last good album.

[@saintpablo5594]

Are you a fossil or sm? Dark fantasy alone is better than all the albums he has done

[@amapan81]

I can’t remember exactly where I remember this from in my art education, but all art is appropriation. One of Ye’s talents in consuming RIDICULOUS amounts of all forms of art and transforming what he finds inspiring into his creations. All great artists do this. When Ye delivers less than a masterpiece, I believe it’s because the focus of his art consumption has changed in some negative way. Ye has to get the right “art diet” before can make his “Miseducation” moment.

[@bigmistqke]

Na

[@ashy_slashy_]

AVAA! Incredible analysis of his interview. I don’t agree with a lot of these comments, I think you should keep covering Ye (as long as you want to). Your analyses on him are always fascinating and I believe that they’re extremely valuable.

[@sugarhair7349]

i’m always here for Kanye news that’s positive. I have bipolar disorder myself and have been in many settings, therapeutic and educational and I spotted his brilliant mania near the beginning of his come up. Many of his most insulting moments are seeded from people vilifying him for his much more diplomatic (but hard to follow) flights of ideas. His idealism and the high he’s on snap into paranoia and temper tantrums. People refuse to concede that religious fanaticism and fixation ARE extremely common during manic events. I think Katt put it best that he should be “graded on a curve.”

[@gibmeaway0]

North and West 'title'

[@raymondsilva1262]

Excellent video. Easy for people to react emotionally regarding Kanye but undoubtedly an integral and cornerstone artist of the hip hop genre

[@josephalcindor61]

Smh now I have to listen to blackskin again

[@mxm5783]

This is shockingly fawning and credulous.

[@azizm4618]

i'm super lazy so avaa

[@trevorhandberry2158]

Bro… THATS NOT NEWS! Kanye saying he’s making a “Miseducation” DOESNT EXCITE ME! The fact that it still excites “you” makes me wonder deeply about just how much the man has his claws in the emotions and thoughts of his fans. Wild… times.

[@maps_x]

12:36 AAVA Prof I think youd LOVE Jack Whites interview with conan obrien re: 7 nation army becoming a sports chant. he said hes not connected to the melody anymore because its folklore now, it belongs to the people. i found it fascinating. i think Yes approach would be a bit different lol

[@a.proust]

Wow 🤣

[@BelleLusus]

Add Kanye whisperer to your list of skills Prof 😂 Completely separate note - I have a wish for you, FD or you & FD to do some type of “1984, how right was G Orwell?” vid 😩 too cliche? Idec 😂🙏🙏🙏

[@kenitabaum4843]

He couldn’t control Kim so he married a clone to abuse and humiliate. If he thought it was art why wasn’t he naked too, ugh !

[@c.troyes4612]

With what he said on his last interview about the french banks and africa… i take this stunt as a kind of payback for the sarah baartman expo…qu’en pensez vous prof ?

[@Thimasorhren]

Let Ye be Ye. Bully is a great album title IMO

[@xamp_exclammark]

@@Thimasorhren I have no problems with the title,although i wouldnt miss this cover art if he replaced it

[@ideaswithinart]

i agree, Let Ye be Ye

[@Abdulrahman-ad]

Ye been such a big disappointment since 2016 , he kept dragging himself in a lot of bullshit to the point where the Last time i was excited about a kanye album was life of pablo and it hurts for me to say that cause i was a die hard ye fan.

[@catalinharat3794]

The comments are hilarious, go touch some grass.

[@brandonhamaguchi]

Hey you saying to Kanye that is not really blood sounds tone deaf, the guy believes in god, it make sense. You questioning that is because he stepped on your field of academia and teaching.

[@_Glorie_]

Kanye may be right about AI just becoming another tool to make art. However, he fails to realize that the biggest impact of AI is that it will be weaponized by corporations to try to replace human artists, and lower their wages, leverage, and opportunities, in order to make a buck. I struggle to see how the next ‘Kendrick Lamar’ will be able to surface and thrive while under an AI-dominated music industry.

[@gorekill]

AVAA

[@BEe-hi4my]

Barely two minutes in and we simultaneously get « as a feminist… » and « i don’t see any reason to assume lack of agency… ». Bar Kanye’s extremely well known history of, I don’t know, using and ab-sing his former partners, maybe, as a feminist, there is the fact that we live in A patriarchy…? Where most women have their agency denied in some form or other by men…? A political reality that will unfortunately more often than not seep into one on one hetero relationships…? A very disappointing take, especially coming from someone who teaches hip hop and rap, maybe you should be more clued in about how men in that space have had no issue objectifying women and how not easy for women in that space to it is to go against that. we are in the midst of the Diddy prosecution and fresh Jay Z allegation after all. But sure there’s no reason to assume. We have a track record of the partners of mega male artists both dead and alive not always surviving their abuse and sometimes surviving, but sure. No reason to assume. Meanwhile as women we cannot walk around without questioning how safe the men in our lives really are. But sure there’s no reason to assume. Coming from an academic as well - maybe this was the time where you do need to consider some assumptions, actually. You always preface your music analyses of hip’hop and rap with the fact that you’re a white academic who reads the book but doesn’t live the life, maybe you should have prefaced this one with the fact that you’re a man.

[@professorskye]

Fair criticism. I’d like to reply thoughtfully. The reason I insist on not “assuming a lack of agency” is not to protect Ye, but to not deny Bianca of her autonomy based on assumptions. Maybe I didn’t make that clear. I did draw the parallel to Manson and McGowan, where I would also not have assumed a lack of agency on her part. Of course, Manson was an abuser so he did not merit that grace. It was my hope that it was clear that I was not saying Kanye did no wrong, but that I won’t presume to know his relationship to his wife. Your larger point that I should have caveated the whole thing with “I don’t know what it is like to be a woman” is totally correct.

[@c.troyes4612]

With what he said on his last interview about the french banks and africa… i take this stunt as a kind of payback for the sarah baartman expo…qu’en pensez vous prof ?