Jeen-Yuhs, Afrofuturism & Baudrillards Hyperreality: Examining Kanye Wests Role in Black Culture
"Can you remember who you were, before the world told you who you should be?" -Charles Bukowski What are your natural drivers? What...
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ACID RANT is a cultural movement focused on fostering a community of critical-thinking, creative youth that want to disrupt the system and unlock humanity's full potential. We do that through creating and curating counter-culture.
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- Feb 22, 2022
- 6 min
How Hip Hop Culture Saved New York City
Hip Hop started out in the parties between the 5 Boroughs of New York. It sprang up from this destitute environment that was depleted of...
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Acid Rant
- Feb 17, 2022
- 6 min
Joe Rogan, Dave Chappelle & The Boondocks: First Amendment Rights
“The First Amendment is first for a reason. Second Amendment is just in case the first one doesn't work out.” -Dave Chappelle What...
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Acid Rant
- Jan 19, 2022
- 9 min
Walt Disney’s EPCOT, Steve Jobs & Andy Warhol: How Kanye West is Building A Better World
It was William Shakespeare who said Life is a Stage & it was Steve Jobs who revolutionized the medium when he premiered the iPhone. Steve...
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Acid Rant
- Jan 7, 2022
- 5 min
In Praise of Shadows & The Evolutionary Origins of Drip
Appreciating beauty takes an elevated consciousness. Beauty is an end all by itself. This is something we instinctively recognize but...
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Acid Rant
- Nov 29, 2021
- 6 min
Virgil Abloh: Hip Hops Renaissance Man
Every creative is a Jedi in the fight against the dark side. Every creative has to hone their craft & harness their creative energy or...
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Acid Rant
- Oct 31, 2021
- 7 min
How 'Cancel Culture' is Blackballing Tory Lanez Magnum Opus
I see my life through the lens of music. It's probably because I always have headphones on. Every situation is a music video. I'm...
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Acid Rant
- Oct 29, 2021
- 7 min
Hip Hop Producers Are The Oracle of Postmodern Pop Culture
What are dreams? You see something with your eyes closed that doesn’t exist in the real world. If you focus hard enough on the visions...
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Acid Rant
- Oct 7, 2021
- 14 min
Dave Chappelle: Neo In Hollywoods Matrix
“I’m gonna become a parable, about either what you’re supposed to do or what you’re not supposed to do. I'm either gonna be a legend or...
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Acid Rant
- Sep 2, 2021
- 19 min
Kanye West & Michael Jackson: American Prodigies
Permanence, perseverance and persistence in spite of all obstacles, discouragement, and impossibilities: It is this, that in all things...
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Acid Rant
- Aug 18, 2021
- 11 min
Lauryn Hill, Nas & Dave: Why We Need Art During Times Of Crisis
Yesterday I watched a clip of Afghani people at an airport escaping towards a Plane that is taking off after the Taliban took control of...
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Acid Rant
- Jul 22, 2021
- 18 min
WWE, AEW, Daniel Bryan & The Monday Night Wars: CM Punk Was Right, Obviously
Since becoming Sports Entertainment, WWE tries to hide a lot of things from its history, for obvious reasons. Professional wrestling is...
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Acid Rant
- Jun 27, 2021
- 12 min
Synesthesia & Charles Baudelaire: How Tyler The Creator Creates Worlds
Tyler The Creator just dropped his album ‘Call Me If you get lost’. I'm already a heavily outspoken Tyler fan so you can already assume...
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Acid Rant
- Jun 6, 2021
- 8 min
Bo Burnham's Inside: Epochal Art
“I was a kid who was stuck in his room There isn't much more to say about it When you're a kid and you're stuck in your room You'll do...
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Acid Rant
- May 20, 2021
- 9 min
Dave Chappelle's Midnight Miracles & Messaging In Media: Gladiator Circus World
We all want to be the hero. I want to be the hero. I want to slay the dragon, get the treasure chest, save the princess, and get a...
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Acid Rant
- Apr 28, 2021
- 13 min
Tokyo Noise, HyperReality & Art in Lockdown: Sounds To Distort Reality
Toronto used to be a big, loud and uncomfortably fast city. When I was 13 I’d skip class and ride the train downtown, I’d look out the...
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Acid Rant
- Apr 18, 2021
- 14 min
Chiraq, Hip Hop & The Philosophy of War
"War, huh, yeah What is it good for? Absolutely nothing, uhh" -Edwin Starr Like many humans on Earth, war is a major proponent in the...
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Acid Rant
- Apr 7, 2021
- 13 min
DMX, Earl Sweatshirt & Jean Paul Sartre: The Effects of The Internet on The Human Condition
Preface: * DMX was recently admitted to the hospital due to a heart attack. Prayers & condolences to his family & anyone who knew or...
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Acid Rant
- Apr 1, 2021
- 15 min
Banksys 'Devolved Parliament' & Stanley Kubrick's Dr. Strangelove: or What I Realized in Lockdown
Banksy, the world’s most famous street artist, joined the ranks of the world’s most expensive artists when his 2009 satirical painting,...
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Acid Rant
- Mar 26, 2021
- 7 min
Bill Burr, Kanye West & Drake: The Fine Line of Emotional Artistry(Don't Leave Your Blues Out Of It)
I’ve been very emotional lately. Just as a human being. Obviously it’s due to the state of the world, lockdown, the way I’m living, not...
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