B-Sides: "He's Not Reading the Room": Kanye, Jay-Z, and the Price of Influence

What does it mean when the artists who shaped culture can no longer read it?

Vance and Ahmad dig into Kanye West's unraveling public persona — separating the mental health conversation from the accountability one — and weigh Jay-Z's outsized influence against his responsibility to the communities that built him.

They also float a bold idea for bringing a real music residency culture to the DMV, and trace hip-hop's roots back to rock and roll to ask who the genre was always really for.

Equal parts culture criticism and creative vision.

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