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Watch the Throne therefore should not be judged as an album, but rather  as a move in this savvy strategy of institutionalizing hegemony in the  face of potential decline. Kanye and Jay-Z’s alliance offers a new  blueprint for managing decline in a turbulent world from which  international relations scholars and American foreign policy  practitioners alike should learn. And if political scientists don’t want  to take lessons from hip hop artists, then allow me to give the last  word to Cyhi Da Prince: “my haters got PhDs, y’all just some major  haters with some math minors.”
Jay-Z’s Hegemony in the Age of Kanye | Marc Lynch
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tballardbrown:

Watch the Throne therefore should not be judged as an album, but rather as a move in this savvy strategy of institutionalizing hegemony in the face of potential decline. Kanye and Jay-Z’s alliance offers a new blueprint for managing decline in a turbulent world from which international relations scholars and American foreign policy practitioners alike should learn. And if political scientists don’t want to take lessons from hip hop artists, then allow me to give the last word to Cyhi Da Prince: “my haters got PhDs, y’all just some major haters with some math minors.”

Jay-Z’s Hegemony in the Age of Kanye | Marc Lynch

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(via npr)

My eyes getting wider, but still…

The most important things on earth happen every night on tv during the 2 hours between when I planned to go to bed and when I actually do.

The Summer of George

Welcome to the beginning of a hobby that could do me in. Hope this doesn’t affect my professional life in the negative way that everything else I do affects my personal life.