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His guests seemed to upstage him, even Nicki Minaj. I was pretty underwhelmed by it to be honest.
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While Kanye West is very much a man of the pop moment, I think he connects with a very strong strain in American popular music: the musician who cultivates an image that is inseparable from his music - an artist whose work can be enjoyed on its own - yet which is fully completed only when we also form opinions about his public persona, his statements, his actions.įrom Elvis Presley to Bob Dylan to Michael Jackson to Madonna to Bruce Springsteen, pop music has a history of both sincerity and assuming a pose that takes on its own authenticity. You can say it's yet another example of egregious self-aggrandizement. West, appropriating it, applies it to the drama of his own life. Scott-Heron placed his question in the context of the oppressed and of conspiracy theories that were being floated at the times about radical groups such as the SDS, the Black Panthers, and the Young Lords. Being "lost in the world," as the song title says, means combining American and African pop rhythms with a sample of the poet-musician Gil Scott-Heron declaiming, "Who will survive in America?" In "Lost in the World," West creates a surging soundscape that transports the listener, carrying you along with him as he seems to travel around the world, searching for his place in it. At other points on the album, West diffuses his self-regard so that it becomes universal.
