"I'm so appalled, spalding ball, balding Donald Trump taking dollars from y'all"

[JHan]

4. I been avoiding that thread.

It's okay to not like some types of music, I can name like 4 country songs I like...but ignorance is no excuse. College Dropout was a big deal. Original, surprising, (yeah there are samples but they're intelligently done) Several themes going on in each track, and he was strong lyrically.. and his laid back style allowed you to really focus on what he's trying to say.

I know what to expect from him, and I don't listen to him for anything super deep - musicians aren't my main go-to for deep insights about life in the first place. I don't know what to make of him today, maybe this is who he's always been. Maybe he hasn't dealt with shit handed to him all that well in his life. His "slavery was a choice" fooleries is enough to get him a FuckOffForever card but he did say something that made me think..

When he said "Trump wants black people to like him like they did in the 90's", it was laughed at but where's the lie? And it's not just black people or should I say "celebrities" so even then Kanye was on shit.. still the point remains: Trump's celebrity blinded a lot of people to his ugliness. He was laughed at, made fun of, but still considered relatively harmless. He was just a showman, after all, a real estate tycoon with media mojo whose crassness didn't stop people wanting to be seen with him. It didn't matter then that he put out an ad slandering the central park 5. People still lined up. The rich white dude was still given all the room in the world to be flawed yet loved until he became a monster and the stench too great to ignore.