Comments on: Kanye West – Late Registration http://www.hiphoplinguistics.com/reviews/albums/2005/09/kanye-west-late-registration Hip-Hop Linguistics Thu, 09 Feb 2012 13:29:45 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Clifford http://www.hiphoplinguistics.com/reviews/albums/2005/09/kanye-west-late-registration/comment-page-1#comment-8349 Clifford Tue, 25 Dec 2007 08:11:03 +0000 http://hiphoplinguistics.com/wordpress/?p=10#comment-8349 This album made me appreciate what real hip hop is.<ul></ul> This album made me appreciate what real hip hop is.
    ]]>         By: Malaika http://www.hiphoplinguistics.com/reviews/albums/2005/09/kanye-west-late-registration/comment-page-1#comment-2562 Malaika Sat, 15 Sep 2007 00:58:30 +0000 http://hiphoplinguistics.com/wordpress/?p=10#comment-2562 To whomever wrote this piece...I'm just stumbling upon this article after two years. I must say, it is right on point. I had this same epiphany a couple of days ago with the advent of Kanye's new album---that a lot of white critics are trying to make Kanye the "good guy" of rap instead of recognizing that he does indeed represent an aspect of hip hop and blackness that is underrepresented by their own media. I couldn't understand why Kanye got so much hype from many whites, until I realized that, based on appearances, he makes them comfortable. When I started seeing how many 50 v. Kanye, evil v. good, good rap vs. bad rap album reviews that placed Kanye smack dab in the grind of the American hype machine, I realized what it was all about. And I was disturbed. One article even noted that Kanye "ascends" rap, and takes it to a "higher" level. Do these guys not know that blacks actually are interested in more than gun-toting and womanizing? That Kanye is not the lone face of non-gangsta hip hop, nor that 50 is not the standard? I love Kanye, I support all that he does- he is one of the few artists whose albums I will buy whether or not I hear their single on the radio, read a review, or see a music video of theirs. All these thoughts came to me about two years after you've uttered all of them. Continue keeping it real.<ul></ul> To whomever wrote this piece…I’m just stumbling upon this article after two years. I must say, it is right on point. I had this same epiphany a couple of days ago with the advent of Kanye’s new album—that a lot of white critics are trying to make Kanye the “good guy” of rap instead of recognizing that he does indeed represent an aspect of hip hop and blackness that is underrepresented by their own media. I couldn’t understand why Kanye got so much hype from many whites, until I realized that, based on appearances, he makes them comfortable.

    When I started seeing how many 50 v. Kanye, evil v. good, good rap vs. bad rap album reviews that placed Kanye smack dab in the grind of the American hype machine, I realized what it was all about. And I was disturbed. One article even noted that Kanye “ascends” rap, and takes it to a “higher” level. Do these guys not know that blacks actually are interested in more than gun-toting and womanizing? That Kanye is not the lone face of non-gangsta hip hop, nor that 50 is not the standard? I love Kanye, I support all that he does- he is one of the few artists whose albums I will buy whether or not I hear their single on the radio, read a review, or see a music video of theirs.

    All these thoughts came to me about two years after you’ve uttered all of them. Continue keeping it real.

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