Oh Kanye

Long before Kanye West became an incredibly talented producer and public relations disaster, he was once a talented rapper as well. Lyrically adept and clever, he threw down some seriously great tracks in his first two albums. Here’s a good one.

I think every child of immigrants can relate to some of the lyrics in this song. Secretly, or overtly, I think we long  to gather our parents around the kitchen table, plunk down a check with many zeroes in it, and just say “you don’t have to worry anymore.”

But regardless of who he is now, he captured the sentiment exactly.

And a note on Kanye…what happened? He came out in his debut album as an incredibly talented producer with some great rapping skills and as time went on those skills have went in completely opposite directions. His latest album is almost a lock for Hip-Hop album of the year on the sole reason that his beats are pushing rap to new levels. Lyrically….it’s garbage. Not garbage in that they’re profane or vulgar (which they are) but they’re just terrible.

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