As he's on his first headlining tour of his career and selling out shows, like all three of his California dates.
Any rap fan can no longer dismiss him to the lower tier when discussing leaders of the new school.
It feels like a "Biggie, Jay Z & Nas" moment.
Sean Don has a catalogue and hits to back him up as the underdog indeed becomes the wolf.
"I'm not a businessman. I'm a business, man" - Jay Z, Diamonds From the Sierra Leone Remix.
Besides his statistics musically his run business wise is second to none
If you listen to his music and not just "skim through it"
There has been a shift.
In the era of Method Man and The Firm, legendary group and Grammy nominated Cross Movement was dismissed by the mainstream as lame and who are only trying to criticize.
Lecrae had to battle that stigma as well but after becoming a multi Grammy winner and Anomaly went God independently he signed with Columbia.
His Reach Records' artist Andy Mineo has a friendship with Sway and has been featured on RapFix and Sway's Universe.
There are children who grew up only knowing their president as Barack Hussien Obama
What was enough of that it was parodied by Richard Pyror, Eddie Murphy, and immortalized in Chris Rock’s Head of State happened.
And the world didn’t end
On The Life of Pablo Kanye West responds to his detractors missing his more soulful and political activist side.
And even Big Brother Jay Z offered more validity to those cries by saying ‘We miss the old Kanye’
So what does this mean? Is there an etherial ‘old’ Kanye that was a backpacker who was a lovable producer-rapper
This thought process is dismissive forgetting all that came before this current iteration of Yeezy.
Paired with the limited edition Boys Don’t Cry magazine Blond has caused waves & shook up the industry.
As a visual album Endless essentially fulfilled any contractual obligations Ocean made with Def Jam.
Blond released a day after topped Billboard’s 200 while Endless is ineligible for Billboard Chart.
During a Hot 97 interview Steve Stoute revealed that Pusha T actually wrote the original ‘I’m Lovin It’ jingle for McDonalds.
This was met with acclaim throughout the media from Time to Rolling Stone reinforcing that Push has always strove to break out of any preconceived notions anyone has had about him.
With boasts of a music video from Oscar winning director Steve McQueen, Puff Daddy announcing he would executive produce, an unlikely pairing of the self professed 'black Beatle' & Sir Paul McCartney the anticipation of Kanye West's new project was at an all time high.
Untimely Twitter rants, G.O.O.D. Friday delays, renewed controversy with Taylor Swift & Wiz Khalifa caused fans to become bitter towards Kanye's antics. Many fans believed that the album would need to meet musical miracle to excuse his many antics.
From the phonogram all the way to the iPod, we've witness the inevitable change in the music industry. The rise of the digital age allowed music to be way more accessible than it has ever been.
Many artists didn't know how to plan for such a change.
Coming from CD to mp3, how do you clearly define unit sales?
While everyone acted as sheep, one artist built an empire that allowed him to become the shepherd and sway how and when the the industry changes.
With the help of his clique, Jay Z defined how we listen and consume new music & content.
Blacks have been portrayed in media since cinema has begun.
Starting from minstrel shows, complete with blackface, working actors like Mantan Moreland & Stepin Fetchit kept working by taking the only roles available but even with the degrading roles their talent shone throughout.
Decades after the groundbreaking Beulah & controversial Amos & Andy the birth of The Jeffersons, spinning off from All In The Family, was arguably one of the first examples of a black American family prospering on television. This Emmy award winning show is one of the longest running shows in American television history.
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