Blog: The Passion of the Weiss

B. Michael Payne steps into the arena. It must feel weird being even a relatively old-school hip-hop head. Back in the late 90s and early 00s, you only knew Kanye West as a Roc-a-Fella producer with occasional placements on semi-underrated Jay-Z projects. The College Dropout leak and College Dropout album were game changers, but for critics, they often had more to do with music geekery - i.e. making the leap from producer to rapper and bringing together backpacks and Bentleys. A decade later, it's illegal in Dubai to stare directly into [...]