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About Me Everyone misses the old Kanye. Even Kanye misses the old Kanye. Wouldn't it be so Kanye if Kanye could go back to the old Kanye? I love Kanye like Kanye loves Kanye so naturally, this blog is all about Kanye- old and new. Being twenty years old, I can’t truthfully say that I have been with Kanye from the beginning. Having said that, he’s been with me since the beginning. Much to my parent’s dismay, I could recite the lyrics to 2005’s Gold Digger before I could explain to you what a gold digger is. I don’t think I can say that the lyrics inspired eight year old me, but I still loved it nonetheless. 12 years later, life led me from the Washington Metropolitan Area to the University of South Carolina where I am now a sophomore-- and yes, still listening to Kanye. If we’re being honest, I still listen to Gold Digger on a regular basis. My methods of listening to music have drastically changed. There is no longer an iPod shuffle or hot pink iPod nano in my life. I do
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Kanye 2020

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Kanye 2020? I doubt I'd ever go that far but I am curious about Kanye's political stances and ideologies. I don’t know if anyone's true philosophies and ideologies are something other people can fully grasp but let's try to dissect Kanye a bit here. This will no doubt be tough since Kanye is such a complicated person but here we go:   Kanye really is a man of the people. One time he said,  “Because I was 14 and middle class. I know what it felt like to not get what I have. People say to me ‘You’re successful, what are you crying about?’. I’m crying about the people. I’m crying about their daughters. Our daughters, as one family. What good is it? What good is anything that everyone can’t have? Every ism. They think we’re done with racism. What about elitism, what about separatism, what about classism? That’s all.”   Let's start with Kanye and politics. Personally, I think trying to figure out Kanye's political stance is worse than doing advanced calculu
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: An unconventional cry for help

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This blog has helped me to realize how oblivious I was  (still am)  to deeper meanings of songs. I don't consider myself a two-dimensional person in the slightest. If anything, I'm an overthinker that reads too far into things but divulging into this album certainly changed my point of view.  I'm not a member of any Kanye West fan clubs but I've consistently enjoyed his music for as long as I can remember. Despite being the unfortunate age of 13,  2010 was a great year and so was Kanye's 2010 album  My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy . I want to dissect this album for you guys and I think the coolest way to do it would be by trying to figure out what goes on in Kanye's head.  Back in the day (the dark times of middle  school),  I  used to sit at my computer and listen to the album on Y ouT ube  while online shopping for Abercrombie graphic tees (that I later came to regret). Anyways, my point is that I never thought of the songs as having deeper meaning or
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