The King of all Niggas, and adored by all Kardashians and other stupid people, Kuntye decided to play games by staging a one-off at TWO in the fucking morning. Ha ha, he snaps his fingers, and thousands come running, no matter what time of day.
Webster Hall is at East 11th Street, an area that once had about a half-dozen old record stores and another dozen used bookstores. It's in the fabled "East Village," but not really. The real "East Village" of 20 years ago was an L shape of hippie-loaded tenements leading down to St. Mark's Place and The Bowery. CBGB's (if it was still there) would be a seven or eight block walk from Webster Hall. The hippies and low-rent drug addict scumbags were several blocks further East, along with the tattoo parlors and cheap Indian food places...most of it replaced by gentrification.
14th Street (the major hub where the subway stops) now has a Whole Foods market, a Trader Joe's, some "big box" appliance stores, fancy gourmet and designer clothes outlets, and plenty of overpriced condos. The "needle park" now has "crafts vendors" on a Saturday and a farmer's market so that Yuppies can get organic food at high prices.
So all Kanye did was play a venue that required his Niggas to take the train in from Brooklyn or the Bronx, or grab a bus or a cab from some much more low rent part of Manhattan. Yeah, a big fucking clog at an hour when most people were sleeping, and not interested in hearing a roaring crowd of maniacs seething all over side-streets.
Sunday night at 2am? Oh sure, Saturday night doesn't end till Sunday in the wee hours.
Many events were called off on Saturday, and also for Sunday, due to the threat of massive thunderstorms. (America has been hit by insane climate change this past week, including triple digit heat in California, and deadly flooding in Texas). Aside from that, did Kanye remember what happened at nearby Irving Plaza a few weeks ago? Some monkey named T.I. staged a rap concert, and backstage an idiot began firing his gun at people, doing a lot of damage.
According to the NY Times, "maybe a couple thousand young people were clustered — in the street, on the sidewalks, on stoops, on balconies, sitting atop United States Postal Service trucks — waiting for a concert that was beginning to seem as if it might not happen. When Mr. West rode by, a few hundred of them spied him and peeled off, surrounding his car, taking pictures, reaching for handshakes. After a minute or so, he drove off..."
No show. Fortunately, the mob dispersed without a riot, probably because every cop that could be pressed into service was down there, on overtime.
It comes down to...more publicity for Kuntye, as if he isn't in the papers every day, along with the Kuntrashians, and the half-sister Jenners. Go to any Internet news website, and NON-news about the fucking Jenners is always front page: "She's premiered her new line of lipstick...she's looking fierce as she goes to a party in a revealing top...she's dating a new black guy..." and on and on.
Bizarre isn't it, that in the 21st Century, with billions of people on the fucking planet, and ALL the media can do is flog ONE ridiculous "reality show" family of sluts and ONE particular rapper! What else? The depressing Brexit story and the Presidential election? And Banksy laughing all the way to the bank after spray-painting his boring shit on a building?
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