I read on wikipedia that Michael Jackson was ‘the coolest guy ever’ before he turned into a plastic man/went krazie/loved kidz 2 much. From what I understand, every1 wanted 2 be him, and he started a lot of trends without even knowing it. He invented aesthetics that he didn’t even know were so popular.
I’ve read in some pop culture gossip magazines that Kanye is trying 2 ‘be the Michael Jackson of this generation.’ Not sure if he can do it, cuz things are s000 different now. There wasn’t really any sort of intranet/internet for things to go viral on, and ‘design’ was so different back then. We all just had such different expectations of cutting edge culture, and we weren’t as reflective. MJ was ‘a genius’ back then, but kinda wish he was in his prime now so that our ’society’ could basically ‘execute him’ [via pressure that he couldn't handle/grasp/cope with].
I feel like inside of Kanye and MJ are people who are ‘kinda the same’ but there’s probably 1 core difference that I’m trying 2 identify. Do yall know what it is?
When u think about it, I think ‘being cool’ is just trying 2 b a tastemaker for people who still ‘honor the concept of ‘cool’.’ (this means u r trying to be a white tween tastemaker).
Do yall think that if BLIPSTERDOM existed when MJ was an adolescent, he would have found a personal brand that would have prevented him from being a weirdo child preddy? Is Kanye West ‘a ghey’ or just ‘too cultured’ for other rappers to ‘get’?
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when i look at kanye i imagine him ‘getting his ass beat’ by 8-12 white people and screaming really loudly in a high pitched voice
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted February 27th, 2009 at 6:47 pm
@tao, r u the real tao lin?
i lol’d
the real tao lin would make me lol
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i don’t really know any bl@ck p3ople.
wish i did :(
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//////////Reply by perezhilton
//////////Posted February 26th, 2009 at 8:02 pm
@4evr nurave, wrong place to look. there are no minorities on hro
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//////////Reply by xavier
//////////Posted February 26th, 2009 at 8:26 pm
@4evr nurave, black people are overrated, they are not even that cool
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1st comm. whoo!!!!! check out my blog
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//////////Reply by liveluvlawl
//////////Posted February 26th, 2009 at 6:24 pm
@zachary german (aka FGGT), publish sum ebooks FGGT.
PAPAS GOT A BRAND NEW BAG Y’ALL
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted February 27th, 2009 at 7:36 pm
@zachary german,
i downloaded ur mixtape “what i call ed banger vol 5432509436.”
i was excited.
i was curious.
“Car” by Built to Spill
“No Other One” by Weezer
“Thanks A Lot” by Third Eye Blind
“The Past and Pending” by The Shins
then u let me down
so ntry lvl
“Dry Your Eyes” by The Streets
“The Girl Is Mine” by Michael Jackson
then u let down some more
so mnstrm
“Perfect Lines” by The Promise Ring
then u let me down again
so mallpunk
“Communist Daughter” by Neutral Milk Hotel
“Get The Letter Out” by Enon
so meh
“Everybody Plays The Fool” by Marvin Gaye
“Uptown” by The Crystals
“Some Velvet Morning” by Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazlewood
then u confused me
i liked these songs but
is this what u call “ed banger 728437294″?
“Nightclubbing” by Iggy Pop
“Cosmic Dancer” by T. Rex
then u managed to find two songs kinda that work
wish they were bangers
wish they were remixes
wish they were from the conceptual forest
wish ur egocast wasn’t an insult to urself
just want 2 help my bro
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a) that is a mysteriously comical picture of kanye yall
b) I didn’t vote cuz i cudnt decide. the difference is probly Michael was humble in many ways, and didn’t come across like sum1 who would lick his own butthole if he was flexible enough
c) its hard to do a kanye impression
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Kanye doesn’t have danz skillz nor white gloves
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HRO is becoming too heady. I mean these are real issues!!! It’ like, I’m mainstream and HRO is turning into an advertiser. Get out of my head! %Authenticity$$$
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all about the benjamin’s
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MJ was cooler than Kanye is.
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//////////Reply by Myth
//////////Posted February 26th, 2009 at 7:23 pm
@Myth, Justice and Daft Punk are more like the same person anyway. Who knows maybe they are.
Can anyone verify this? Has Daft Punk been seen without their helmets on?
I just want to see them ‘both’ play the same show. Is that too much to ask?
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//////////Reply by bigtyme
//////////Posted February 26th, 2009 at 9:10 pm
@Myth, no they aren’t. that is defs confirmed if you opened yr fuckn eyes mate and maybe read something
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mj<kanye anyday
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//////////Reply by xavier
//////////Posted February 26th, 2009 at 11:37 pm
@ok ok, false
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kanye wants 2 be white, but not his skin – can’t let go of any purchasing fans he has.
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kanye/MJ=SUPER+ fake. what would they be without the hawtbeatts backng them?
0000.
that is what.
ripoffs, spinoffs, runoffs, hackoffs, shitz if i know the difference. its all Pop2kNowCulturez, rite?
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kanye sux. no one here can say they nver got drunk and dansed to MJ. but kanye fucks falloutghey and does bad remixes of their songs. not even joostice could do a good remix of f.o.b.
kanye < MJ < charlie chaplin
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H8 Kanye. He is an ass munch. Miss you Michael, “you are not alone.”
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yeah, if you don’t think about the creepy things michael says/does, then he pretty much blows yeezy out the water [via Captain EO].
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anybody wanna be my date to see JoBros 3D: The Movie?
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wel,come back carles
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//////////Reply by HRO-bro
//////////Posted February 26th, 2009 at 10:28 pm
@cp, you accidently wrote a comma on your comment
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maybe he’s speaking in code?
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kanye is into altwomen eventho is more mainstream, so i guess Mj is the alt bro here
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‘VH1 has cleaned up those comments a bit, and it also included West’s less-popular follow-up observation: “O.J. Simpson, amazing. Is he not? What he did, when he did, what he did. Was he not amazing though?”‘
Is he a reader?
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted February 27th, 2009 at 6:58 pm
@¶, we don’t read.
we h8
we <3
we miss
we cmmt like CRLS
we bro out
this is bro book 1.0
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when i see imagine altbro mj oj brown asshole beat up 4 x 4 x 4 x blogz commentz
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i thought i smelled shit – this is sum crazy white boy blow hole, but i’m hear to help! kanyes relevance to rappers is moot cuz he is the ultimate symbol of the age of irrelevance. only people who were around in the 80’s – (and I mean around and involved in the ’scene’,not drooling into cereal milk) can get you out this hole. everything you revere is the result of the years 77 to 88′.
everything after is truly, hipster runoff…
Ye’ (?) could never go up against Michael Jackson. it’s not possible for this generation to work to that effect – you get the one crying girl for Sunjiya lol
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//////////Reply by SilverTell
//////////Posted February 27th, 2009 at 7:04 pm
@echo,
Culture
“in the end it doesn’t even matter n e more.” rip hacksterbro
we r living in a post-meaning society
we r pomo
we r bros searching for meaning and purpose in the matrix
kanye is “better” bc he ‘gets this’ concept.
“better” doesn’t mean anything
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The difference is that kanye pays people to read hipsterrunoff and wears whatever they find. He’s on the ‘early adopter’ part of the curve, not the innovation end.
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MJ had all the singing and dancing talent, and Kanye has production talent. Just a different kind of talent. Also, I don’t think Kanye will ever be as monumental a star. But who knows. He does set a lot of trends.
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//////////Reply by mjsanganddancedgood
//////////Posted February 28th, 2009 at 8:05 pm
(I also think MJ’s talent was far more impressive and rare.)
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mj adopts little kids long before they’re debuted into society by mainstream hormonal development. i would still rather fuck janet, though.
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