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In reply to the discussion: What is Kanye Wests malfunction? [View all]ancianita
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is Kanye's. But it's not. It's anti-Kanye.
The Grammys are going forward no matter who really gives a shit who gets one. The reason Kanye acts in the Grammys the way he does is because of you all who DO watch it for the music. He only makes an issue of who wins because that becomes the history of American music -- and he claims it shouldn't be what the white execs knowledge says it is, but what real -- white or black -- artists say it is. Kanye, Prince and Oprah play for the long game. To be essential to American culture.
We all must realize that the only American music that is not directly European immigrant derived is slave derived -- from people traumatized by brutality and living with the attendant amnesia of their forgotten past lives in the ongoing struggle to survive in their present lives. THAT is their dialect, their delta blues, gospel, rhythm and blues, rock 'n' roll, rap, hip hop and deep house.