Fuck Kanye but at the same time he's one of the most important and influential musicians of my generation and you bet your ass I'm gonna listen to it and everything he'll put out from now until perpetuity. I'll just pirate it so he doesn't get the proceeds.
Andjhostet
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Nothing David Day writes should be given any credibility. He made stuff up, like, all the time. Treat it as fan fiction.
Sure thing, I'll do my best to explain it:
One way systems in downtowns are good at one thing: Moving suburbanites into downtown for work, and out of downtown for the commute home.
The cons of them are numerous:
They distribute vitality unevenly, and cause many businesses to fail due to decreased visibility on cross streets (you can't see a store on the south side of a cross street in the intersection if you are facing north, but you can see it if you are facing south).
They intimidate out of towners, and those not familiar with downtown. It is shown that often a suburbanite will just often just leave downtown all together, rather than loop around the block if they miss their destination.
One way systems move cars faster. This seems like a good thing at the surface, but is actually a really bad thing. A faster car means a car less likely to stop for a pedestrian. A faster car means a higher likelihood of fatality in a pedestrian accident. A faster car means a driver less likely to find a business on a whim they want to purchase from. Simply put, congestion and/or slow driving are objectively good things in downtowns. Slow, two way streets encourage walkability, and they statistically encourage wayyy more sales at local businesses. Slow streets in dense areas are wealth generators.
There's probably more I can think of but this is the main gist of it.
Found an article quickly if you wanted to read up on it.
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2013-01-31/the-case-against-one-way-streets
Really insightful video. I really wish downtown Minneapolis would get rid of the one way system. We've known for decades that one way systems kill downtowns and it's completely moronic we've kept it for this long despite all the evidence that it's harmful. Changing this, and converting more office space to residential could make the downtown a thriving place.
Are you serious? Dude completely changed hip hop, multiple times. Absolutely massive innovator in production style, and basically created the chipmunk soul style of production. He would be considered one of the most important figures in hip hop even if he never even released an album, just for his production work with Jay Z.
The College Dropout was a landmark record for hip hop, for many reasons.
Then he had another landmark record in 808s, popularizing the use of auto tune and melodicism in hip hop (not a trend in hip hop I loved, but you can't deny the influence here).
Then he had another landmark record in MBDTF, bringing hip hop to the absolute front and center of pop culture. Completely bombastic and basically the HH equivalent of a stadium rock album. Collabs with Justin Vernon and samples from King Crimson brought in fans of rock to hip hop like never before.
Yeezus is slowly showing itself to be more and more influential as well, though this one was delayed a bit but we're seeing more and more high profile disciples.
Anyone that denies the influence of Kanye is completely ignorant. He's a piece of shit, sure. But his music has been incredibly important and to deny that is absolutely ridiculous.