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| Thema: Re:Kanye West | Antwort auf: Re:Kanye West von Sascha | |
| >2004 war das. Damals war er noch nicht ganz so Plemm-Plemm. Naja. "(...) Karp has a gift for crafting portraits of hip-hop stars that are as funny and revealing as they are succinct, and his take on a pre-fame West is funny but also, like much of the rest of the book, surprisingly emotional and poignant. Phonte (whose longtime Little Brother producer 9th Wonder produced “I’ve Heard,” perhaps Karp’s best song) rapped that money doesn’t change you; it just makes you more of what you already are. On that note, it’s clear that even when West was living with his mom in New Jersey—volunteering that he was also a rapper to people who just wanted his damn beat CD and embarrassing himself by rapping at mortified waitresses whether they wanted him to or not—he was the deranged, attention-crazed narcissist he would become in embryonic form. It just took money and fame and power to kill the humble kid who always showed up early for recording sessions despite living in the middle of nowhere and give birth to the superstar seemingly perpetually in the grips of a very public nervous breakdown. West and Karp have a bit of an A Star Is Born dynamic: As the once white-hot Karp plummets to the ground, the nerdy kid unexpectedly rockets to stardom as a rapper-producer.(...)" [http://www.avclub.com/article/jensen-karps-kanye-west-owes-me-300-triumphantly-f-238153] ***Diese Nachricht wurde von Felix Deutschland am 11.02.2017 02:06 bearbeitet.*** |
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