Venkatesh Rao

he's being fairly accessible imo - almost no music nerd vocab, just common terms and every day descriptors. i would wager most anyone growing up on pitchfork reviews, etc could probably follow at least the gist of that write up

Oh I understand the write-up. I just have zero expectations of hearing all that in the music.

This one is still a fairly quick look on Yeezus though. When someone writes a book on that album, it'll need an entire chapter on its treatment of the OJ trial.

You’re one of the initiates then huh

Well documented, yes.https://twitter.com/alexeyguzey/status/898929362140930049?s=20 …

How much investment in listening to music did it take you to arrive at that appreciation do you think?

If I remember correctly, there was about a year where about four times a week, I would listen to Kanye West's entire discography in reverse-chronological order. There was a couple years of deep-diving on music blogs before that, but not a lot transferred between genres.

Hmm this is a good data point. So 200 listens of what, 10 albums at an hour each, so 2000 hours training of auditory cortex alone. Plus all the meta learning for 2 years.