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Nathan Rabin’s review of ‘Kanye West Owes Me $300’

Nathan Rabin reviews a book by someone who read one of Nathan Rabin’s reviews of his work:

In the section of my review of The Great Escape that Karp quotes in his book, I write that “Karl’s creative soul might not be worth the hassle,” a fairly brutal and heartless assertion (Jesus, it’s easy to be a cold-hearted fuck when you think you’ll never encounter the people you write about) he surprisingly agrees with. I would now like to take the time to say that Karp’s creative soul is most assuredly worth the hassle. It just took a different medium for him to fulfill his enormous potential. He took his overhyped nothing of a rap career and transformed it into the basis of a book that is something special. If that isn’t hip-hop, I don’t know what is.

Source: Jensen Karp’s Kanye West Owes Me $300 is a triumphantly funny look at failure