One last thing: notice that West is rapping his ass off here, relentlessly. Life has improved significantly since then, even as West has become less worth paying attention to. The kind of life West rapped about seemed as alien to me then as the lives of the gainfully employed, people with nice cars who had places to go every morning while I was stuck walking the dog or calling employment agencies or applying to dozens of places that would never acknowledge me. This song emerged during the long, protracted lead-up to My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy when West was dropping unfinished tracks every week for free, and because I’d just arrived in Texas at that point and couldn’t find a job, I had time to wander around the Round Rock neighborhood where we lived and listen to these songs on repeat. Nothing here to speak of, but “See Me Now” always cheers me up it makes me think of The Jeffersons for some reason. Which is, really, a booming rap anthem about extreme self-regard and newfound gratuitous wealth and partying with your friends and leading a toast to your dead mom. It occurs to me now that in a lot of ways, “See Me Now” is “Good Life” reincarnated, but minus T-Pain. “Good Life” came very close to making this list, the only track from 2007’s Graduation with anything resembling a chance. Beyonce, Big Sean, and Charlie Wilson (from My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, 2010) So enjoy, but don’t expect future West offerings to have the same effect.ġ0. also New York City generally.) Regardless of what the media would have you believe, peak Kanye is behind us it’s over, and the man will never matter as much as he once did. Once upon a time, Kanye West was for the middle-class and the semi-dispossessed today, Kanye West is for the affluent “creatives” and art designers.
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