Relatively outdated hip-hop line that I recently heard again and suddenly realized is dumb ... of the week
Artist : Kanye West Song : Everything I Am In this song, Mr. West attempts to define himself by establishing what he is not. Thesis: the things that he is not = everything he is. This seems rather all-encompassing, as listing the things you are as means of defining who you are would seem much simpler than acknowledging everything you are not (table, coconut, Asian person, wind, pencil, and so on and so forth) in order to reach that same conclusion. However, as in many rap songs, the “theme” is only approached intermittently, and the song quickly devolves into some faux self-deprecation and the declaration, “I got a lot of cheese.” But one line in this song has been stuck in my head since I heard it again the other day, and I would like to explore it here further: I never rock a mink coat in the winter time like Killa Cam Or rock some mink boots in the summertime like Will.i.am What is intriguing here is that Mr. West seems to be implying there are two established sides of the hip-hop...