Hanif Abdurraqib - Ode to Kanye West
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- Опубліковано 26 сер 2024
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Hanif Abdurraqib, performing at AWP 2015 in Minneapolis, MN.
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I still want to make a feast out of every man's happiest moments and I don't know what this makes men like us bound to our loneliness. you have an incredible way of poeming
As the eloquent Sarah Kay would say, "COME ON!" *snaps so hard fingers fall off*
"how easy it is for all of us to wake up next to someone who never will again"
Too real; rose out of bed - I was suffocating with the imagery billowing from his voice. Such a distinctly haunting puddle he leaves me in.
I am extremely Addicted to this form of poetry. It has opened my mind to many things.
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Man, Hanif, you never ever disappoint.
This is brilliant. Haunting. Hanif is a beautiful poet.
I can't watch this without feeling chills down my spine.
This has been my favorite poem hands down for years🔥🔥🔥
Made me cry. This was just so lovely.
I love the way you write, and I love the way you recite it. You really inspire me as a poet
got to meet him and see him perform! he's dope
He snatches my scalp every time I️ swear
Hanif is damn perfect.
Phenomenal. Just a ridiculously good poem
It's such a shame that mainstream trash will get constant repeat and this has 51k views
Wow.
I'm having trouble interpreting this poem.. could anyone share their thoughts on the meaning?
The whole opening of the poem (and much of the rest, it seems) is heavily about race/racial violence as well. "Hey boy, you know we ain't rupture this country's spine and unearth all this country's gold for you people to cocoon your teeth in it" (being spoken by critics of Kanye, i.e. white folk upset about black folks climbing socially). "you ain’t getting that again til heaven calls for your body after it's been tied to a truck in East Texas by another diamond drowned Jesus chain."
Country's gold -Taylor Swift had blonde hair at some point didn't she? Born from US, blonde/golden hair being the standard for female innocence and beauty, and then some people's dislike for 'mixed race relations'. (Not connected to the poem, just personal grrs: But it's ok for a 'white country' to buy weapons and/or oil from a 'non white country'). Sorry. I dunno, I guess I am good at confusing opticians, and see things where nothing is.
actually the beginning of the poem can also be referencing to the incident of James Byrd Jr., a horrible crime against humanity and targeted towards the African-American community. A law against hate crime in the US has been named after him
Kanye's mom passed away and this is when he went into depression mode. The album 808 and heartbreaks was released the following year after the death of his mother; it touched on many themes such as fame and grief. Kanye and his mom only had each other when they lived in Chicago and he made multiple songs dedicated to her. I believe Hanif is connecting what it is like to lose a single mother and having to cope with it when in the limelight.
Spellbound
THAT LAUGH AT :08
kanyeee
I don't get it can someone explain please
+Charyn thanks!
+Charyn i don't see it, could you copy & paste it?
YE-PAC-SHAKUR
KANYE2020