• Kanye West: The Art of Staging
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[QUOTE=Tetsmega;51123000]Why would it be ironic? Kanye is one of the most highly influential hip-hop artists today. Some would even argue he redefined the genre at some point in time(i'm not sure which album or year)[/QUOTE] There are a couple different schools of thought, [I]The College Dropout[/I] was "chipmunk soul" hip-hop that came out at a time when crunk or gangsta was the prevailing form of rap, [I]Graduation[/I] outsold 50 Cent's [I]Curtis[/I] album which dropped on the same day and was seen as signaling the end of gangsta rap's dominance, [I]808s and Heartbreak[/I] laid the groundwork for the new wave of more introspective hip-hop artists like Kid Cudi or Drake. [editline]29th September 2016[/editline] I wouldn't call it influential but [I]The Life of Pablo[/I] was definitely an interesting album in that it was changed and updated in the weeks following its release (as it was digital-only streaming).
Personally I respect Kanye for his work, even when his personality is what it is, but many artists possess a pompous, even narcissistic personality, but that doesn't mean that they wouldn't be talented or influential. I just never cared for his music because hip-hop/rap is something that I never got into, it's just not my type of music.
Plenty of great artists were narcissistic asswipes, Kanye being one doesn't preclude him from being a great musician. Personally I don't listen to that kind of music, it's never drawn me in like other genres have. But I do respect him as an artist, even if I can't appreciate his art.
I like some of Kanye's songs but from what I've listened to they're good and catchy but the man is an idiot. He doesn't know that Spartan's weren't Roman.
[QUOTE=elowin;51127139]you're only making it harder to tell if you're being ironic or not and i'm not even sure if that's your intention[/QUOTE] If you know me you know that I'm a massive Ye stan and one of the biggest on fp easily
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