Why Kanye inspires me?

Part of the problem with facebook is the status update. I still like faceboook but it's only conducive to a certain depth of knowledge.

With Befe's bites. I hope to delve deeper in to my thoughts, beliefs, views. There were probably be issues of faith, politics, music, television, film, art, culture whatever I might be thinking about at the time.

Kanye West inspires me really.

He has a middle class upbringing and never had to hustle. When I say hustle I mean he never had to sell drugs, worry about killing someone or the quote on quote regular problems of rappers. That doesn't mean that he didn't have challenges.

I like to dance in addition to just listening to music. Kanye makes music people can dance to as well as music that has a message. Let's start off at the College Dropout. This album focuses on family, faith, education, and materialism.

I'm a Christian and besides "Jesus Walks" there are other high points to this album. In the track "All Falls Down" I see the perception of success being critiqued. "We'll buy a lot of clothes but we don't really need em things we buy to cover up whats inside"
"Then I spent 400 bucks on this
Just to be like nigga you ain't up on this!"

There are lot of other great examples from this one track but I'ma let that simmer right quick.

Many people do things without questioning there own motivations. I know I do a lot. We should question and challenge why we do the things the we do.

Independent from his music he's also the sartorial style icon. http://www.esquire.com/blogs/mens-fashion/kanye-west-fashion-2010

Back to the music. Some people familiar with his producing know that before he became an artist he used to produce for acts such as Jay-Z, Alcia Keys, Jermaine Dupri others. He had to challenge the views of people that he worked for hard to be taken as a serious artist.

After the College Dropout instead of just relying on soul samples he used Jon Brion the film score guy to add variety in his musical repertoire. There were intricate orchestral pieces overlaid with Ye rapping and rhyming. His musical proclivities continued to evolve with Graduation featuring samples from the great Steely Dan and Elton John. 808s took this evolution even farther with West singing. My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy had elements found on all 4 of his initial albums. My pastor once said that "Rivers flow, Reservoirs hold water. Reservoirs just hold water and don't spread it, but with rivers there is a change and movement" In life we should be rivers flowing, changing not reservoirs staying the same.

Kanye isn't afraid of controversy either. I don't have to tell you about the George Bush doesn't like black people. Not to mention him interrupting Taylor Swift at the MTV awards.

I don't agree with Ye here of course. I think W. having 2 African-American secretaries of state would show he's probably not racist. There's other stuff he's done too. Like speak on the soft bigotry of low expectations and not being guilty of it.