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[SONGS OF THE DECADE] #10 Kanye West – Gold Digger

Posted on | December 21, 2009 | No Comments

SONGS OF THE DECADE #10

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Kanye West – Gold Digger (2005)

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Kanye’s ego belittles the fact that he may, in fact, be right more often than not. He just may be the greatest voice of this generation of this decade, but now that he’s looked like a jerk for saying so (let alone a comment that made him the jerk flavor of the month), fewer will believe his statement than would before. All of those contradictions are there in Kanye’s most famous song: his reverence for the stars of the past (Ray Charles) and the present (Jamie Foxx), his insecurity about just how brash he can be (I ain’t saying she’s a Gold Digger), and yet still maintaining the courage of his convictions (but she ain’t messin’ with no broke n*ggas). Kanye’s is actually rather modest compared to many of his peers in mainstream hip-hop (which was his whole appeal from the start); he gets into trouble when he doesn’t shut up about it. As it were, there’s a whole word out there that was desperate to hear what he had to say, no matter how un-TV friendly, for whatever reasons. Kanye became a star, for better or for worse, simply by being true to himself.

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