"It’s refreshing to hear high-culture shout-outs in rap songs, with artists rather than dons and CEOs as role models. Yet Jay doesn’t seem to love the paintings but rather the social echelons they represent, an elitism somehow more odious than his Tom Ford and Maybach homages. The conspicuous waddling of his auction paddle, like the yearning he expresses to get “bluebloods” to attend his housewarming, is a more alienating class betrayal than hip-hop’s usual aspirational materialism—a transformation not just of circumstances but of identity and allegiance."
Posted on: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 15:51:57 +0000
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