Music Review: How Kanye West’s song “Lift Yourself” bravely tackles the issues surrounding the Scoop-Diddy-Whoop conflict, and why no one else is talking about it

It’s not hard to understand why everyone is talking about Kanye West’s new song “Lift Yourself.” To the uninitiated, the song merely sounds like Kanye had a stroke while dropping the bars that he promised he was going to drop in the verse prior. However, to those who are familiar with Scoop and the surrounding Diddy-Whoop region, his lyrics speak to a fairly nuanced and particularly complex view of the political catastrophe that has taken place there.

For a refresher, in late 2017, The Diddy-Whoops Poop-di Scooped the Northern Scoop territory, thus engaging in a poop-diddy whoop-scoop, that quickly desolved into a poop poop. In retaliation, the Scoops Whoopity-Scooped the Diddy-Whoops, and actually opened the door for a two way, Scoop-diddy-whoop scwoopicide. This is awful to be sure, as the whoop-diddy-scooping of the scoop-diddy-whooping can only be described as a scoopty whoop. However, to cast moral judgement on which side deserves more poop-di than the other is poop-di in itself. And yet, Kanye is out here talking about it in a way that no other could.

Kanye’s comment on poop-diddy, whoop-scoop brought me to tears, as I imagined a scoopty-whoop in a whoop-di-scoop-di-poop at the time of such a poopy-di scoop, but was left hopeful with his ending line, promising of a whoop-diddy-scoop, poop to the scoop-diddy-whoop that is ravaging the poop, poop of so many innocent scoopty. To this I say, bravo, Kanye, bravo. Thank you for speaking out about such a hushed topic, and hopefully more artists can one day lift themselves to tackle such highly complex issues as this one in all of their next bars.

– JG ’20