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Ep. 47: In for a Kanye. In for a Pound

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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The Moral Compulsion of Civil Rights

Kanye has enormous talent and yet he's gravitated towards becoming something of a reality star in addition to everything else. And I don't know what to make of that other than the fact that he's like the perfect kind of artistic visionary for our era, right? We are living in a reality TV era we elected a reality TV president in Trump in America,. But it's just interesting because it's like Kanye you could be, you know, you could be John Lennon man you can be like Tupac but insteadyou're on the Kardashians' show. You have people to be really brilliant, different domains, they have to sort of be abnormal in a particular skill set.

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