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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAri Melbatoast is proffering an ode to Jay-Z today!
Why hes the second coming of Walt Whitman, Robert Frost, Marianne Moore, William Shakespeare and John Milton all in one. Didnt you know?
And its not even Friday!!! To what do I owe this spectacular good fortune?
NEOH
(323 posts)Ars Longa
(536 posts)on those of us who really don't like it!!
SocialDemocrat61
(7,707 posts)Someone needs to slap him to stop appropriating black culture to try to look cool.
Cant believe they fired Katie Phang and kept that fool.
2naSalit
(103,078 posts)I have the misfortune of seeing him in his rap mode what I see is akin to Chuck Schumer trying to moonwalk.
senseandsensibility
(25,056 posts)I can not watch him. I wish they'd kept Katy Phang or Joy instead of him.
Ocelot II
(130,701 posts)I like opera, but many people don't; so, knowing that, if I were the host of a news/opinion cable show I would not make my audience, which probably mostly doesn't share my enthusiasm, listen to clips of famous singers performing Puccini.
Ursus Rex
(487 posts)but IMO problematic as a person. No flames, por favor.
rsdsharp
(12,036 posts)Even though hes neither cool, nor a dad.
Every rap/hip-hop lyric is slowly recited, with appropriate long pauses, as if its the most profound thought ever uttered, while he stares at the camera daring you to disagree.
PCIntern
(28,416 posts)You would think he were Gielgud reciting Shakespeare.
miyazaki
(2,660 posts)He needs to give up with that.