In my day… Quincy Jones on Kanye West

The critique can sound like “he didn’t earn it”, but I think the valuable criticism is that “he didn’t learn it”. As we make things more convenient, we risk circumventing learning experiences that can make our knowledge more whole and our output better.

There are/were real benefits to apprentice-like systems. It’s great that ideas can rise easier these days, but what might we have learned if we weren’t so antsy to get past the student phase? I know I worry about this.

Anyway, here’s the story...

And as good as Kanye’s music is, none of it compares to MJ and Jones’s Don’t Stop TIll You Get Enough. Click the link and let your desk chair dance begin.