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There was, commonly, little pride or reward in parading such a flagrant persona in the open—rare is the admission of the archetype out loud by the wearer—which makes the latest project by the Toronto rapper, titled, all the more mystifying; it’s luxuriant in braggadocio and light on remorse, a millennial mindset all too familiar.
He isn’t the only one dressed in shiny cosplay. Along with Kanye West, who released his 10th studio album,is merely an accelerant to a larger conversation about how and what we need to make good art. What their music is about—what it—has nothing to do with the music on its own. Neither artist is at their peak here; a lot of what we hear onis recycled material.
An amalgam of heartbreak and loss, scorn and swagger, of all the drunken voicemails, “u up” texts, and family drama encountered in previous iterations,is a regurgitation of everything that predates it. You can’t help but wonder if this is the character that Drake—once a teen actor on—has wanted to play all along; that maybe this is his final form. There is no evidence of growth. No surprise turns.
Kanye also wrestles with old devils. Love, spirituality, and the death of his mother, for whom the album is named, all find root onIf we can, for a moment, divorce the art from the man and his tangled politics, there is no denying that Kanye is a gifted stylist, producer, and orchestrater. Every album
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