![]() ![]() A job one of the industry’s most grizzled, diverse veterans assumed would take months to complete at the time he was brought into the fold hit assembly lines mere weeks later. If we’re to believe Rick Rubin’s many quotables in the Wall Street Journal, half the songs here feature lyrics written and vocalized in under two hours. Understanding the spirit of that performance, it was hard to be scared by it.īut looking back on those performances now does raise a few questions about the state of Yeezus and Yeezy, good and bad. Unlike many of those performances, the awkwardness of the moment was overpowered by its mere presence: why is Kanye screaming at us, and how did the Occupy movement get control of SNL’s projectors? Are these songs kind of good, or am I just totally amazed this is happening? SNL’s stage rarely proves a song is worth its salt, but it can certainly raise the eyebrow of the middle class America. If not in physicality, Kanye’s performances of “New Slaves” and “Black Skinhead” certainly embodied the spirits of predecessors Sinead O’Connor, Ashlee Simpson, Fear, Eminem, and… Kanye himself. The best statement you could ever hope to make was a provocative, meme-like stage show that capitalized on the essence of the times. ![]() ![]() If all those summers in the late ’90s wasted away in front of a television airing Saturday Night Live reruns from the mid-’90s taught me anything, it was never to trust the SNL stage. ![]()
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