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Berto and I are going to do in-depth eps on Licorice Pizza (in theaters), the new Cosby doc (Showtime), and the new Kanye doc (Netflix) - if you wanna watch beforehand. :)

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Anonymous

Just saw the first of the Kanye Triology documentary on Netflix, and it is interesting. From the looks of it they seemed to be conveying the message that he would get racially discriminated a lot. People would expect him to provide beats for free or as samples, and if he didn't, they'd get upset with him, even though he was working day and night producing each piece of music. They were also trying to slot him into a producer stereotype, that created music for other well-known artists like Jay Z etc. to perform in albums, or perform on-stage etc. Although, according to his own claims, he had always been creating all this music starting in 7th grade, with the ultimate goal of eventually becoming a great rapper in his own right! If all of this is true, I can see how the repeated rejection after rejection after rejection for several years, until his career finally took off, could have created a lot of mental-emotional trauma for him. I still feel unable to use the background of his sad history, as good enough justification of his poor public conduct (as well as general misconduct towards women including the likes of Taylor Swift, Kim Kardashian etc.) over the last 5 to 7 years. Its almost like in the present times, he has internalized all of the discrimination he experienced from big record labels like Jay Z's Rock-a-Fella, in his younger days, and redirected all that ire and anger towards an equally if not more, oppressed group - that of women, by discriminating against them, bullying them, emotionally or verbally manipulating or abusing them, silencing them etc. in the public sphere. So in short, he's being no better than his perpetrators, and this situation is the byproduct of his own experience of injustices when he didn't have enough access to power and wealth.. I am not sure what to make of it or what the solution to this is, other than many years of therapy to fix this continued dysfunctional cycle of passing trauma from one oppressed group to the next.

Anonymous

Look forward to all!