The opening essay was the most empathetic and big-picture analysis of the current situation that I’ve seen. Kudos to you for doing it in one take without edits.

When you gotta review an album at 8 but also do an ethics lesson at 10

I’m loving this new direction of these video essay/history lesson/music review combos where even when I don’t listen to every record you review I love hearing and learning your thoughts on these things that have been greatly disturbing me the last few months (and beyond)

I quite appreciate the video essay. It's interesting getting the input of scholars in these matters of public discourse. I wish we could get more of these from more intellectuals.

Opening essay was very good Skye. Can’t believe you came up with “Crack Jester”. You absolutely should revisit Reasonable Drought”, one of the best albums of 2020…Stove does his thing as always and the Marci production is just *chefs kiss*

"Incarcerated Scarfaces" was _Cuban Linx..._ So great that your son's senior quote is "Conductor, we have a problem!" That's G ish right there - even, or especially, in Serbian! Which Rome Streetz LP did you get?!? Yes... _yes,_ you should review _Reasonable Drought_ 🥰 Edit: _NEVER LISTENED TO BLACK STAR?!?_ 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️ Ohhhhhhh, homey! Listen to that first album... ASAP.

I enjoy your music reviews. I LOVE the history you tack on It's a genuine joy when I see you have a new video. Keep crushing it Professor

Professor we have a problem

That's why you're the GOAT! Always giving us something to think about by the end (or in this case the beginning) of the video. Keeps the brain hungry for knowledge and gets the viewer to think a bit deeper. Thanks professor 😁

"The last supper is me at the table with twelve water whippers" is absolutely the line of the year. The juxtaposition of biblical imagery and crack vocabulary couldn't portray Hip-Hop's cultural reconquista (and I ain't leaving without my 40 acres) better, but the whole thing is still fun and not too self-serious.

the intro essay was very important and not too "political" at all. i appreciate your perspective!

the essay aspect of your videos is my favorite part so a full segment is amazing

I really liked the essay portion of the video as well, glad you released it!

You 100% should review reasonable drought! Has some of his best moments as a rapper on there, and the roc Marciano production is a nice switch up from the north shrine griselda stuff he’s on e.g. songs like Crosses, Cocaine Cologne, and Balenciaga $tamp (the end of his first verse on Cocaine Cologne is probably my favorite moment from him)

Thanks for this opening Professor, very helpful indeed, also glad you enjoyed the album.

Glad you released the first part and great review!

I'm always here for this guy's Griselda reviews

Professor Skye you are the best man thank you for your perspective and analysis on this topic very much appreciated

Phenomenal lecture, professor. Thank you for sharing this with us.

I think in your assessment of Stove God Cooks as "the crack jester" there's another good pun in there. What does Stove God do? Crack jokes.

I’ve been critical about the way you talk in a racial fashion before but I think you hit the nail on the head with this one. It’s really important to talk about history in this context - people get so caught up in the present that they forget to see things as greater trends. Well done

appreciate the essay at the start. my dad is a professor, you remind me of him in some aspects lol

Great review....really enjoyed your beginning commentary. Kyrie is a good dude that gives back to the community. Many black folks search for explanations in controversial places

Loved the opening essay. I've started to realize how often we focus on things that are easier to get "fix" rather than actual problems. Whether it's white supermacy, or capitalist ideas, some things are so entrenched in our systems that they seem impossible to get rid of. We just accept them and the ways things are just cause they are and have been. It's that "wages are low cause of immigrant workers", "whites-only union strike is not working cause of black workers" way of thinking that ignores the forest for the trees, whether it's on purpose or not. We're all guilty of this to different extents, but those in power are somehow always the beneficiaries (funny that). Also, great album. I think this might actually be my favorite of the series. p.s. since this is my first time commenting here, I wanted to let you know that I really appreciate the videos. I've been watching them for few months now, and I always learn from your insights and academic angle of hip-hop. I find the contexualizations for albums that you often do, extremely helpful.

Incarcerated Scarfaces is the LEAD single from Only Built 4 Cuban Linx.

I really like the intro to this video because it 1) is a really interesting lesson in history and politics, and 2) gives me something to say when people inevitably go “why did he name the album that” when I put them on to WSG’s music.

Don't ever apologize for talking politics on your channel, ubiquitous concepts such as white supremacy must always be called out and challenged. There will be a natural pushback against uncomfortable topics such as this, but it needs to be confronted in the way that you do. As a matter of fact, I would subscribe to a channel dedicated to you solely talking about politics and your political analysis through a scholarly lens (perhaps more on the From the Desk channel lol). Thank you so much Professor Skye. ❤

I learned so much today thank you for explaining everything the begining was the best part of all of this

Great video. The essay the beginning was very important and the review was great. To answer a few questions related to buffalo, Robbie is the lead singer of the goo goo dolls, a very successful band from buffalo and yes flip is a crack head who can rap but he also just goes down in the middle of the road and messes up traffic to freestyle. Also please review black star. Again, great review and thanks for the essay at the beginning!

Review REASONABLE DROUGHT SIR!!!!!

God bless you, Skye.

Excellent essay (as well as a great review of the album). Did you hear Benny the Butcher's "Welcome to the States" song about the Buffalo shooting? He released it on KZfaq.

AVAA: I would definitely subscribe to a Prof Skye video essay channel!

кондуктер, имамо проблем!

Review Reasonable Drought!! Great album, SGC is really charismatic. Btw, loved your political commentary

Dude you are dope at this

Thank you for the lesson.

Great video

Would be cool if Griselda did sample one of your quotes about them.

This is one of the best Skye videos ever

A basketball player for the Nets is an easier scapegoat for people to project their fears onto. It takes too much courage to confront Tucker Carlson and his supporters.

Skye’s you mail the opening. As a POC I find myself defending Ye & Kyrie a lot lately in conversation with friends. I don’t agree with their message but I’m against the canceling with people who don’t hold that much power. Celebrities don’t hold nowhere as near as people in media and politicians. But yet we can let them say outlandish thing with no consequence and it’s accepted as free speech.

Please Review stumpwork by dry cleaning

please review new Backxwash album or the new Cities Aviv album,both are amazing and would love to hear your thoughts about them

Reasonable Drought was in my top 5 the year it came out and imo stove god hasn’t really lived up to it since. So yes you should review it or at least give it a listen.

Honestly this is a cool history lesson but as a black man myself from Brooklyn ny that lives 2 blocks away from crown heights which has a large community of them the way people talk about them like their another race when in actuality it's a religion from Africa just like Jesus was born in Bethlehem which is in South Africa the issue is how they go about things when black celebrities say anything good or bad & or mention that religion that started in Eutopia in anyway they'll will try to destroy them by taking away their livelihoods then the black celebrities have to go on some apology tours to get their careers back which is completely ridiculous that's where the tension between both communities lies.

Fantastic essay

great essay btw

Incarcerated Scarfaces is on Only Built 4 Cuban Linx :)

WHERE DO I GET A WORLD MAP LIKE THIS

Your sincere investment into making mainstream art digestible is appreciated Prof.

“Bozo did the dub, I did the dub” Hahaha 😂😂 whole time I was watching this I was thinking “oh FUCK I’m not even supposed to be here”

We the people thank you for what you do for our culture

Thank you for this! I never considered myself racist and then my dad married a black woman and we all lived together with 3 black children. I realized over the course of those years that even though I had no racist feelings, when you live with another race, you change some things. Not to get specific but if you have to change anything about yourself to live with another race, the things you changed were probably racist. That's how powerful white supremacy is. You can live your whole life using it and the privilege it provides and never even know it and think you're being a good person all the while! Btw I love how you said you are anti-white supremacy and THAT is controversial. It's so true and sad.

I think we agree pretty close to as much as I think we do

Very interesting opening. Although it might come off as a bit one sided, it is truthful. Our society is based off of our inherent racist behavior and system. But it's all about equilibrium. We need to be wary about going too hard on these right wingers because then we give in to the same philosophy they give in to. We need to inform and warn, not condemn and ban. It's hard to apply but it's the true road to our society's "salvation" or return to an unattained equity. Anyways, very interesting rant. Maybe would help to nuance, although the argument ignites extreme reactions. These arguments are hard to approach stoicly or reasonably... Thanks for sparking the minds of your viewers.

Please review ka descendants of Cain brother

the Pearl Jam 'Ten' album placement was appreciated

REASONABLE DROUGHT you must absolutely review it

You would love the new Black Star album, No Fear of Time.

I was thinking about the term white privilege, and came to the conclusion it's a inclusive term. White privilege is stamped on non wasp Europeans, second third fourth generation, who assimilated into American culture. Becoming white by " race" and a shared pride of American freedom, of a white class society. Although poor whites are alienated by wealth, race gave them false sense of class. Anti semitism isn't really a thing here, because Ashkenazi are considered white here. Some practice the religion of Judaism, but religious freedom has been protected, since the beginning of America. Race was defined at that time as well, there are only two races black and white, two classes slaves and free.

Impressive essay

There is, evidently, a lot to say on the topic of white supremacy and the ways it still influences so much reactionary culture even from unlikely sources (such as black celebrities), but I wouldn't be the right one to speak on this. though deconstructing everything that ties notably back to frameworks of white supremacy would be next to impossible, I think the ways that you chose to address it and the fact you unambiguously namedropped several figures propagating such hateful movements in the mainstream was reall well done.

REASONABLE DROUGHT REVIEW PLZZZ

That intro and insight into how white supremacy is the agenda in alot of whats going on in the media was fucking so timely. How you tied it into the album was fucking definitely a 1 of 1 and your a gift to this culture Professor. Thank you.

Would you ever be open to debating on the subject of Whiteness? I know of a few KZfaq that could debate with you.

Jewish guy and Westside Gunn fan here. Good rant, but two major criticisms. 1)Not sure that this belongs on a Westside Gunn video. Yes naming his album "Hitler wears hermes" or "Hitlers" as he calls them in his raps is kind of cringey and can make me uncomfortable but to be honest it doesn't even register on the scale as "antisemitism", this is just someone being edgy and being a bit clumsy about it. Having listened to a lot of his music a lot of those references are kind of "prison yard" shit. People who have been to prison often are in the habit of wearing hateful symbols as a way of projecting attitude to get people to leave them alone. Same reason WG also wears confederate flags in one of his videos. It's not good, but not the best or even a good example of antisemitism in hip hop. Jay Electronica's album which was practically a 40 minute nazi rant went over everyone's head because it was all dog whistles. Either way I'm happy he renamed the album but I just don't care that much, there are much bigger problems right now. 2)Not sure if I agree with drawing a sharp line between "has power" and "doesn't have power" between white and black celebrities. There are two problems with it. For one it's kind of whataboutism. Kanye's followers outnumber Jews and his economic influence was at least at one point massive. He has a massive platform and has been influencing people to come out of the woodwork to spread antisemitism. Kyrie is an issue because this guy REALLY fuckin hates Jews. Again it's going over people's heads because he speaks mostly in dogwhistles, but he dropped an Instagram video which was practically the 14 words quoted verbatim. This is what ACTUAL antisemitism looks like, not a hitler album cover or a bad joke. I feel like I've been screaming this from the rooftops and no one is listening. This is what a dyed in the wool jew hater looks and acts like. My KZfaq feed is being inundated with literal nazi propaganda including videos showing the saxaphone guy and our good ol friend the happy merchant (I can show you a screenshot if you like) and youtube aint doing shit about it because they've realized that they are making too much money off of this stuff to care. It IS a problem and I'm getting a little sick of hearing from people that it isnt. The second issue is that if you willingly ignore antisemitism and white supremacy when it comes from black people then white supremacists' are always going to use non white people as a conduit to spread this garbage. They already are (see Ye, Candace Owens) Where do you think the BHI get all their money to go street preaching everywhere? I'm sure at least some of it comes from Nazis. If I were a white supremacist's it's exactly where I would be putting my money especially since we have some white leftists practically writing non white people a blank check to spread white supremacy. Any way I only responded to this video because it's overall pretty good and your grasp on history is better than most people let alone music reviewers. I don't even care if Kyrie Irving plays basketball or not. I don't even watch sports, but I will never back down from the fact that this guy is a bigoted piece of shit who hates Jews, and if you like what Kyrie Irving is saying then I fuckin hate you too.

Day 36 of Asking for you to Review the song Achilles Come Down by Gang of Youths

You should review reasonable drought

Great vid but the part were he’s talking about fly god jr and then lead back into the white supremest stuff was uneeded it was not that deep

REVIEW REASONABLE DROUGHT!!!! There I said it!!!!

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It’s ARTPOP’s 9th birthday! Please give it a listen you won’t regret it❤❤❤

Why would you tease us!! Of course we want you to review reasonable drought but I think we’ve all given up asking you to review older projects 😂

I think Jay Worthy is griselda now that's why

Reasonable drought please… I just realized you haven’t reviewed it yet… shocking. 😊

The west was won with satire.

One love!!! first!

If anyone gives you push back on outing white supremacy then you shouldn’t worry about having them as supporters. If they didn’t see it before then if they are reasonable they should change their stance after it being broken down to them, if they don’t they are willfully ignorant.

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i would love to see this guy react to bastard by tyler the creator 😂

You may be the only one I heard like Side A more than B.

Holy shit.. wait.. you haven't heard Black star. Oh, my.

Review Reasonable Drought you have no idea

REVIEW RESONABLE DROUGHT !

Westside Pootie is being groomed to take over Griselda after west he says he wants her to be the most powerful label executive

Are you fucking kidding me? 🤦🏾‍♂️ Review Reasonable Drought, DAMMIT! 😝 Also listen to Dogfood and Horse by AA Rashid. He’s a fire rapper in his own right.

One girl was white

« Derrière un clavier, leur propagande est sur le web Ils parlent de libérer la France de cette islamisation Appellent à brûler les mosquées… » -Tunisiano

I just think there’s a bit of audacity in your stance on lyric… considering the fact that what he shared had nothing to do with antisemitism and everything to do with a black man searching for truth in a world where our history/lineage has been made extremely difficult to trace. The fact that you can’t see that shows a bit of ignorance of our experience as black Americans, and ignorance towards all that kyrie has done in his past to make attempts to help his community out of an oppressed state. Just saying. But carry on… your approach on cultural truth isn’t the type to be censored anyway.

felt really uneccesary to say you go to Wegmans and not Tops grocery store.

Been following since pray for Haiti but this whole thing comes off as anti white. I'm unfollowing.

I think the MORE dangerous thing than ANYTHING u talked about was the fact that NONE of us went and rewatched that George Floyd tape or checked out the doc Kyrie tweeted.

The Earth isn't a ball, btw... but carry on, Professor...

Always love you're content professor skyee but it is MUSlim not MUZlim

Kyrie supported a movie that said that BLACK PEOPLE ARE THE ORIGINAL JEWS.... horrible horrible....anti semitism is horrible.... that's not what Kyrie did...get your facts straight

clown bro 👊

I can’t believe you think that Tucker Carlson is a white supremacist, but whatever. Like your videos

I have been outraged at Tucker Carlson for years, and I know tons of other people have too. There is no deplateforming the right wing media machine from grass roots, they are allowed to do whatever they want unless it breaks a law.

Flygod Jr is not good at all , im not from reddit