Tag Archives: Kanye West

Seven Things We Don’t Care About This Week: Your Moment of Zen Edition

And now, your moment of Zen. Continue reading

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Yeezy Taught Me: How Kanye & The Roots Make Live Hip Hop Work

Sam Behrens expounds upon the nuances of live hip hop, and what Eminem and Kanye can — and can’t — teach you about the art of performance.
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Kanye West’s Confederate Flag Swag, and the New Slaves

Ever the provocateur, Kanye West is an audacious musician and public figure. Christian N. Kerr ruminates on one of the hip-hops artist’s most recent controversies — his appropriation of the Confederate Flag as fashion statement — and how his audience might be the new slaves of consumerism. Continue reading

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A Quinquagenary of Events Important to Baby Boomers, and 14 Other Predictions for 2014

John, Paul, Smaug, and Kanye…and other stuff that will go down in twenty-fourteen. Continue reading

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