Kanye West
“Gorgeous”

A few programming notes.

• I listen to MBDTF about four times a week, still. Probably more, but that’s a lowball estimate.
• This is my second- or third-favorite song on the album. But it’s probably the best rap song?
• I walk around Queens “rapping” along to it whenever I listen to it, cf, this morning, for about thirty minutes.
• I want to do this song on karaoke.
• I know this song is about like race wars and stuff, but it’s still the one that resonates the most with how I wish I could be:

Is hip hop just a euphemism for a new religion?
The soul music for the slaves that the youth is missing?
This is more than just my road to redemption.
Malcolm West had the whole nation standing at attention.
As long as I’m in Polo, smiling, they think they got me,
But they would try to crack me if they ever see a black me.
I thought I chose a field where they couldn’t sap me.
If a figga ain’t shootin a jump shot, I’m running a track meet.
But this pimp is at the top of mount Olympus,
Ready for the World Games. This is my Olympics.
We make ‘em say ho’ cause the game is so pimpish.
Choke a South Park writer with a fish stick.
I insisted to get up offa this dick,
And these drugs, ligatures cant resist it.
Remind me of when they tried to have Ali enlisted.
If I ever wasn’t one of the greatest, mista, I must have missed it!

Kanye’s good at stuff, and so am I.