{"id":84,"date":"2025-11-14T08:59:55","date_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:59:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/2025\/11\/14\/matt-kanyes-back\/"},"modified":"2025-11-14T08:59:55","modified_gmt":"2025-11-14T08:59:55","slug":"matt-kanyes-back","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/2025\/11\/14\/matt-kanyes-back\/","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Kanye\u2019s Back"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nJRHEqp-yKQ\">Kanye has started apologizing for the event he went through<\/a>. I didn\u2019t comment on it publicly when it happened because it seemed so strange to me that such a beautiful soul, who had created so much life-changing music with so much love, could express such hate. I\u2019ve had close friends who are bipolar, so I\u2019m familiar with the disease, and seeing Ye\u2019s episode was really heartbreaking, both for the things he was saying and also that it was clearly a medical issue, unfortunately, playing out in the public sphere. (I can\u2019t imagine anything worse.) Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future. <\/p>\n<p>Who knows what\u2019s next, but hopefully this is the start of a new generative era for Ye, who clearly has the ability to innovate across many fields. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/drake-drops-booking-agent-shared-kendrick-lamar-1236113230\/\">Especially with no rap songs in the Billboard 40 for the first time since 1990<\/a>! It does feel like we\u2019re living through a New Renaissance right now, there\u2019s an explosion of creativity and access. I\u2019m wishing Ye peace and equanimity with the challenges he\u2019s facing, and I\u2019m definitely going to revisit some of his early work (<em>The College Dropout<\/em> (ha!) through <em>Cruel Summer<\/em>) that was so influential on me as I was growing up.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In case you missed it, Kanye has started apologizing for the event he went through. I didn\u2019t comment on it publicly when it happened because it seemed so strange to me that such a beautiful soul, who had created so much life-changing music with so much love, could express such hate. I\u2019ve had close friends [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":85,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xn--mnchen-3ya.xyz\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}