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

The Re-Education with Eli Lake

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Miles Davis and Kanye Changed Music

Miles Davis changed music like five times. And it's hard for an artist to make one big change and really change the way that music sounds popular music sounds. This is why I would compare Kanye to Miles Davis because Miles Davis changes music you know he starts off as a kind of a younger guy in the bebop scene goes to California does the cool jazz comes back to New York is doing it right with two drummers. You can one can only imagine if there was a Twitter and social media, you know, in the 1950s and 1960s and 1970s we might have all kinds of evidence that Miles Davis had a lot of crazy opinions as well.

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