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munday mermon take III: sammy davis!!
ok. besides sunday sermon slowly morphing into munday mermon…recently, we’ve entered but another feedback loop, another debate that goes everywhere and nowhere. thought i’d put it out there for some traction. so…hovi is often compared to frank sinatra, and even himself has frequently drawn the same parallel (“we ratpack niggas, let sam tap dance on you, then i sinatra shot ya god damn you”…for example). given the analogy, the other day we tried to follow through and list off who the other members of the ratpack would be if jay was sinatra. we didn’t get far…because the first question was who’s sammy. someone threw out kanye. i said bullshit. and the debate pretty much went in circles from there. we obviously love kanye, BUT sammy was an entertainer that was everything an entertainer can be–a showman, a translator, a time capsule, an interloper, an agent of change. i see the argument for kanye with regard to genius, entertainment (adjusting for the ways in which the stakes have changed, and a variety show wealth of talent is no longer required to be in the game), and access/ability to navigate an extremely diverse number of places. BUT for me, kanye (esp recently) has a loooonnnng way to go before becoming all that was, is and can be represented by sammy davis jr. just my opinion. you decide.
