I am dying of laughter, all up in my cube, at Kanye West's apparent blackness..
SPIN: You made a conscious effort to shape Graduation for the next level of mainstream success?
KANYE: A conscious effort to take it to the next level in every form of success. More black people bought this album than any I've made.
SPIN: Does that make sense to you?
KANYE: Uh-huh. Because I made the album blacker.
Like, you know, at one time, this woulda been called making the stuff more Soulful, or from the heart (like, you know, how black folks do it, all the time, well, except for Byron Gumble and Wanye Brady....). But, to Kanye, it's taking the cultural paintbrush and making it "Blacker"
Oh folks it gets better....
SPIN: And what foods would fall into that category?
KANYE: White-people food? You know what it is. You never ate fried chicken and said, "This tastes white." It's America. People know the stereotypes. I play to the stereotypes. I believe in the stereotypes. And I submit to them. [Affects a black, Southern accent] "Man, black people sure can cook some chicken! And I'ma get some black chicken."
I think I just had a cardiac arrest of laughter...but part of me is like, you know...other than the "Italian way" (Bread crumb breading) I hate to admit, but I've never eaten a piece of Fried Chicken made by white hands that I enjoy....like...SSsssHHH Kanye, we don't need the man to know we don't trust his chicken! Like, I hate to think that Kanye's borderline racially offensive interview-rant has a point...but...umm...there is something soulful about how blackfolks fry chicken...I just wish Kanye didn't point that out for me to have to actually contemplate that..
And in closing Kanye says
"It's like, how much more black could this be? and the answer is none. None more black."
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Just damnit....
(Cues "Everything's Right, Everything's Wrong" by Chris Clark...a white chick signed to Motown, and Screenwriter for "Lady Sings The Blues")
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