I found those comparisons patently ridiculous, partially because I’ve read this book. You’ve mentioned Picasso in relationship to yourself in the past, so let’s talk about it. Picasso on Art: A Selection of Views – Edited by Dore Ashton I imagine the composer of 808s and Heartbreak might relate to that. You should know that there are people at your level (in this case in other fields) that understand that. That’s because no one book – or album – can contain it. He lost his father a while back and he’s come back again and again to that reality, unpacking it over multiple books, unconcerned entirely about the market for what was his necessary work.
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And he isn’t dusty with the shit: Kevin Young is about our age, black, and knows his way around the realities of loss, grief, and how to process them through art. I’ll warn you now: it’s poetry, but it’s poetry by one of the best cats doing it today. That’s unfair to you and probably reductive, but in case there are parts of what you’re dealing with related to grief, this is a book you should check out. Book of Hours – Kevin YoungĪ lot of people speak on your grief like they know it. This is kind of the thinking behind why swings like that are important. You took some swings at these questions with My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. What Rose does here is not only dig into what’s wrong, but what hip hop could do right. I think we can both agree that it does, though we might differ on what that looks like. This one is about hip hop and its effect on society, if such a relationship exists. If you have time, give any of these books ten pages of your time and see if they stick. I don’t know, and I recognize that I don’t know, and human being to human being, I hope you work it out.Īnyway, here’s a list of things that, since you’re not on tour or actively in the spotlight right now, you should think about having someone pick up for you. So I’m not at any point trying to unpack what you’re dealing with. Not to mention the realization that because you are who you are, that is likely to be the case for the rest of your life. I understand how that can be crippling, not knowing people’s intentions or ever meeting them on unconditional terms. I get that almost no one actually knows you and that it has been difficult for some time to tell who means you well. A lot of people do that to you already and even the people who are longtime fans are probably 90% wrong. I won’t pretend to know what you’re going through and real talk? I’m usually blasting something you did, not trying to figure out why a celebrity is saying something unconventional. I tried to pick things that I thought, given a fair shake, you might dig. Most importantly, I genuinely think this booklist might speak to you. I wouldn’t go so far as to say I’m the Kanye of librarianship, but I got a couple of fire mixtapes floating around. Also, I’m a black man who works in the library field, which, statistically speaking, makes me kind of rare. I’m totally about to do that, but I’d ask you to bear with me because I’m really, really good at this. That admission is part of what makes people who do things like this annoying: we don’t really know who we’re talking to, but we do it anyway.
I’m going to present some book recommendations that no one can convince me wouldn’t act as a salve for your wounds, whatever wounds they might be. And I’ll be honest, I’m about to do that shitty thing where someone offers something they do all the time that works for them as though it were a given that it will work for everybody else. I know, I know: you think reading is mad overrated ( to put it mildly). When I’m not writing essays and poems about who doesn’t like black people, I’m a librarian. No jokes, no pot shots, no judgement…just straight offering. You seem like a dude who’s always “on” and I’m a dude who’s mostly “off” unless I’m performing, which isn’t really being “on”, but pretending to be “on.” You know, for effect.Īnyhow, regardless of what I may think of some of the stuff that hits the internet or your catalog, I feel like there’s something I can offer you at a time like this. It’s hard to say, since I know a lot of what you put into the world is for effect, but even having considered that, I’m generally not real close with people who are capable of those kinds of displays. All cards on the table: we probably wouldn’t be friends in real life. We don’t know each other – or rather, you don’t know me, and I only know of you – so that might not mean much to you. I hope this letter finds you…in a better place than you’ve been lately.
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