The Kanye West Dare
As you can see, this blog post is coming a while after that post. I wanted to be properly ready for this experience. My coworker kept visiting me these past couple weeks to ask if I’d listened to the album yet. And then two of my YouTube heroes mentioned Kanye in the interim: Dan Howell: https://youtu.be/ljZuro77hbI?t=11m John Green: https://www.facebook.com/JohnGreenfans/posts/10152947043469751 I was particularly disappointed by John Green, but then, he also likes Catcher in the Rye and I couldn’t stand that book. To each their own. I don’t know if it will still be the top comment but go click on John’s post and read the essay someone named Kate wrote. I read it, and my grudging reaction is that sure, Kanye West may have some valid political points to make. And as John Green would say, it’s always important to imagine people complexly. But my experience here is going to be of the music, per Dan Howell’s request. Most recently when my coworker came over to ask whe...