![]() ![]() That year, Kyrie Irving was drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers. ![]() At camp in the summer of 2011, we listened nonstop. ![]() Kanye West performs at the 50th annual Grammy Awards in Los Angeles in 2008, during what many consider to be West’s heyday.Īnd then Fantasy came out. KEVORK DJANSEZIAN / THE ASSOCIATED PRESS FILES “When he first started out, he was huge,” says Barry Kay, a local entertainment figure who’s DJed Jewish events for 23 years. When I turned 13, it was 2008, meaning my Bar Mitzvah year coincided with West’s heyday as a radio superstar. I knew that wasn’t true, and started to listen more intently when I got my first iPod. The way rap was portrayed made it seem not an artform, but a threat. My entire childhood had been spent misunderstanding what the genre was, completely under the influence of racist depictions of rappers in television and film. I loved Kanye’s 2010 masterpiece because it expanded my understanding of what hip-hop was and could be. ![]() I loved the NBA because I loved to watch the game at its highest level, with the most skilled players in the world. As a Jewish teenager in the year 2011, two things I cared about were the National Basketball Association and Kanye West’s My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. ![]()
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