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Kanye West Is the Next Maya Angelou

Will McCahill — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 09:29:00 CST

Famously egotistical rapper Kanye West is back in the studio—and comparing himself to Kobe Bryant and Maya Angelou in a typical-for-him, all-caps blog post . Unlike many rappers, he promises he won’t get worse with age, because “true poets get better,” he writes. There’s just one problem: “First of all...

Nashville Becomes 'Silicon Valley of Music Business'

Harry Kimball — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:45:53 CDT

Nashville really is Music City, Richard Florida writes in the Atlantic . Charting the demographics of the music industry from 1970 to 2004, Florida found that “Nashville was the only city that registered positive growth. In effect, it sucked up all the growth in the music industry.” It’s not just stars...