Kanye West is one of the greatest revolutionaries in the last 100 year. Some may take this a disrespectful to those who paved the way, but the God's honest truth is the road ain't paved. Lets just get one thing straight Kanye West doesn't go on rants. Rants are foolish and there is nothing foolish about what he's saying. Kanye West has recently been on a media frenzy over the last couple of months, the biggest two being his infamous interview with BBC's Zane Lowe and his most recent interview with Power 105's The Breakfast Club. While, Zane Lowe interview was brilliant for the fact that he not only understood Yeezus, but he just let Ye' talk; The Breakfast Club was great because they asked the hard questions. However, they still didn't connect with him. Charlamagne Tha God, who is a very intelligent man and contemporary genius in his own right sounded so obtuse, thickheaded, and lost by Kanye's remarks. Charlamagne could not understand the message Kanye was trying to relay. It's not about money its not aout material things it about changing the way this world operates. Charlamange wants Ye' to get back to making great music. Yeezus was ten tracks of straight fire. It was a modern day Slim Shady LP with all of the anger and frustration of a modern day black man, and better production to boot. Kanye was criticized for trying to reach the people at the top with his revolutionary movement, instead of a more grass roots approach. Well, what do you call College Dropout, what do you call Late Registration, what do you call Gaduation, what do you call 808's And Heartbreaks, what do you call My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, what do you call Watch The Throne, and what do you call Yeezus. That was grass roots. That was rallying the people. Kanye West has been the most popular musician of the last decade all while being thw biggest political activist. Besides the underground artists like Immortal Technique, what artist talks about more social issues and injustices than Kanye West. Charlamagne Tha God told Ye' that Malcolm X never had money Martin Luther King never had money, and Kanye didn't need money to change the world. Truth is we are not getting lynched out in public anymore or sprayed with the fire hose, but we are worse off than we were fifty years ago as black people. They don't have to kill us they have us so enslaved now, that we do it for them, and if we don't kill each other they put us in jail. The United States makes up less than five percent of the worlds population and over twenty-five percent of the world's prison population (75% of them being black). Good clothes and sneakers do need to be made more affordable. We all need clean water. You can't even go to the store and buy organic food for your children without spending an arm and a leg. The only way to give your children a good education is to move to a affluent suburb or pay for privet school. You know what Marcus Garvey, Huey Newton, Malcolm X, and Martin Luther King all have in common, they all died without seeing their dreams come to fruition. Kanye should only be applauded for his efforts to not let that happen to him. Yes we have a black president, but that is only one out of forty-four. And who believes we gonna live to see another one. Like Ye' said, there are only fourteen black billionaires out of 1400. On top of that out of all the Fortune 500 companies only six black CEOs. We can't change the world if we are not in control. We need those black billionaires to make changes that last forever You can't change things from the outside looking in. We have to break down these social walls. Kanye West is a genius, I;m a Genius, Charlamagne Tha God is a Genius, but i say we need to take things a step further Kanye. Fuck Steve Jobs, Fuck Devid Stern, Fuck Michael Angelo, we need to strive to be De' Medici families, we need to strive to be the Rothschild's, we need be like the Vanderbilt's, and the Rockefeller's. We need to right history. What does this have to do with hip hop? Everything! This is hip hop. Jay Z peformed at the Inaugural Ball in 2008. Beyonce performed at the Inauguration this year. Drake will be palyed when we make to the top. J. Cole and Kendrick Lamar will be blasted through the speakers as the lower class revolution takes way. Marcus Garvey is hip hop, Malcolm X is hip hop, Obama is hip hop, we are hip hop, and once we breakdown that brick wall the world will be hip hop. That's what Kanye West is trying to do, and while everyone may not agree with his tactics, we should all respect his movement. Everybody say they love Kanye, but nobody wanna be Team Ye'
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