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Kanye West’s Great American Night
New York Times ^ | 06/01/2018 | John canamerica

Posted on 06/01/2018 9:19:30 AM PDT by bagadonutz

MORAN, Wyo. — At around 10 p.m. Thursday at the Diamond Cross Ranch here, Chris Rock stepped up on a small platform, looked out over a few hundred people huddled around a wildly flickering bonfire, and leaned in to his convocation. “I touched a moose!” he exclaimed, “and the moose said to me, ‘Hey, there’s a lot of …’” — well, let’s just say people who don’t ordinarily gather on a ranch in Wyoming. He nodded toward the fire. “Tomorrow night that will be a cross,” he deadpanned. Hip-hop, he said, is “the first art form created by free black men” (though jazz would probably quibble with that characterization). He continued, “No black man has taken more advantage of his freedom than Kanye West.” On and off for the past several months, Mr. West has been working on new music in Wyoming — much like the Hawaii sessions that gave birth to “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” — flying in collaborators and basking in nature’s splendor. Mr. West has promised several albums from this work: Pusha-T’s “Daytona,” which was released last week; new projects from Nas and Teyana Taylor; and two albums from Mr. West, one with Kid Cudi and one solo. On and off for the past several months, Mr. West has been working on new music in Wyoming — much like the Hawaii sessions that gave birth to “My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” — flying in collaborators and basking in nature’s splendor.

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TOPICS: Culture/Society; News/Current Events; US: Wyoming
KEYWORDS: kanye
Article too long to excerpt. #maga
1 posted on 06/01/2018 9:19:30 AM PDT by bagadonutz
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To: bagadonutz

Oh to be in The Million Dollar Cowboy Bar to see Kanye and his peeps dancing to a bluegrass band last night!


2 posted on 06/01/2018 9:22:08 AM PDT by bagadonutz (knuckledragger)
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To: bagadonutz

bookmark


3 posted on 06/01/2018 9:40:29 AM PDT by GOP Poet
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To: bagadonutz

Last part of article:

It was both surreal and also deeply unremarkable, this intermingling of crowds; the we-can-all-get-along video for Blake Shelton’s “Boys ’Round Here” came to mind. If there was any tension, it was minor — some stern looking police officers patrolling the room. At one point, the band was covering Bruce Springsteen’s “Atlantic City,” and it sounded like the singer might have replaced “racket boys” with “MAGA boys.”

A little while later, Mr. West showed up. While a crowd formed around him, it wasn’t unmanageable. He posed for pictures with locals, sat and talked to Big Sean for a bit, and generally played the part of guy in a bar, just like everyone around him. And on this night, in this room, America looked like it might be something great after all.


4 posted on 06/01/2018 9:56:53 AM PDT by bagadonutz (knuckledragger)
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What’s that supposed to mean, “I touched a moose”?


5 posted on 06/01/2018 10:30:26 AM PDT by jackibutterfly (Jesus drove a Honda,but didn't talk about it:"For I did not speak of my own Accord"John 12:49(KJ)
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To: bagadonutz

Now why would they want to gather in Wyoming which must be full of white oppressors?


6 posted on 06/01/2018 10:39:13 AM PDT by mrsmel (I won't be reconstructed and I do not give a damn.)
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To: bagadonutz

“Oh to be in The Million Dollar Cowboy Bar to see Kanye and his peeps dancing to a bluegrass band last night!”

Then check out Gangstagrass:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JovA1T98IdU

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cCEHQ_nhxOA

Sounds like something out of Justified. (Language warning.)


7 posted on 06/01/2018 1:48:21 PM PDT by unlearner (A war is coming.)
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To: bagadonutz

Does Kanye West sing country and western?


8 posted on 06/01/2018 4:32:09 PM PDT by minnesota_bound
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"Does Kanye West sing country and western?"

"Oh, we have both kinds of music here, Country AND Western."

9 posted on 06/01/2018 6:05:49 PM PDT by boop ("I said give me the brandy!")
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