
Ep. 47: In for a Kanye. In for a Pound
The Re-Education with Eli Lake
Kanye Turns Himself Into a Rapper
Kanye turned himself into a frontman, which I think no one had done so that was really significant. He uses his platform as a rapper to introduce the idea long before someone like Chance the rapper whose coloring book is great. And then he has, you know, and I love the first three records, then he takes a bit of a left turn and does 808s and heartbreak which isn't even a rap album. It's almost sounds like an industrial kind of post punk thing.
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