Hate it if you want, but Kanye West is the greatest artist of our generation.
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Best of shit is still shit.
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[quote]Best of shit is still shit.[/quote]
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Too bad you can't tell him anything
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Best. Troll. Ever.
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-hypebeast
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Edited by Rubyk: 9/28/2015 8:08:17 PMErr.. I wouldn't say best, he sure is pretty -blam!-ing amazing at what he does, but not the [i]best[/i] one of all music genres. Maybe of rap.
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I didn't specify music. I said art.
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Well, we could say that music falls under the art category.
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I'm not saying it doesn't, I'm talking about the bigger category.
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I never said you said it didn't. I'm just saying that he's not really the [i]best[/i] one, he's near it, but not the best one. I also believe that the best X at Y is more of a personal opinion.
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Of course, art is subjective. But calling Monet a bad artist, even if you don't like fine art, is silly. He is great because he was generation defining, and that is clearly what Kanye is.
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He's Shakespeare in the flesh. [spoiler]If Shakespeare was a joke, got em![/spoiler]
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Edited by BenDover: 9/28/2015 7:29:30 PMShut your dumb window-licking crayon-eating cocksucking mouth-breathing ass up. Nirvana was the greatest band of the last 30 years. Kanye West is a sack of 3 year old rotted shitwater.
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... The fact that there are statistics to prove this hurts me.
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You're funny! :D
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That's really not saying much
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Troll confirmed
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Not a troll. Like I said, hate it if you wish, it's true. His [i]worst rated[/i] album was the most impactful album of the past 15 years. 21 Grammys, 7 platinum albums. That says something, whether you like it or not.
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Maybe it just shows the lack of good music in America, so that which is mediocre shines.
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"Mediocre" is surely not the adjective you want to use describe Kanye's music, even if you don't necessarily like hip-hop. Seriously, listen to [i]My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy.[/i] I have not heard of one person who's actually [i]listened[/i] to Kanye West's music call it bad. The people who call him a bad artist are just jumping on a hate bandwagon that the media creates because they can't control Yeezy like they can other artists. That's literally what [i]Yeezus[/i] was about, a big "fuсk you" to the media by re-appropriating untouchable subjects and breaking expectations of a hip-hop artist. Calling Kanye West and his music mediocre, is analogical to calling Michael Jackson's music mediocre because of the controversies he faced in the media.
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I'll be honest his beats are actually good, very unique blend of older music. That said lyrically eh not so much. His lyrics are nonsensical at best and I can't say he's being poetic when it appears he's just saying things to rhyme. In other words he's good with his beats not his lyrics but that's what people these days listen to only the beat of the song and a catchy hook
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Actually I feel the exact opposite about him, he doesn't just say things to rhyme, his lyrics are not saturated by the strive for multi-syllabic rhymes over meaning (ahem Eminem), but rather he is constantly giving double meaning and a social conscious to them. Many of his lyrics are akin to how the lyrics of rock are in the fact that there is sentiment in their simplicity. You wouldn't expect the lyrics of Eminem on a rock song. I'm not saying Eminem is not an excellent lyricist, however I am saying that in the strive to have these complex rhyme schemes, sometimes he really just doesn't say anything significant on a song whatsoever. For example, here are some lines from "New Slaves," off of [i]Yeezus[/i]: [quote]Y'all throwing contracts at me You know that niggаs can't read Throw on some Maybach keys -blam!- it, c'est la vie[/quote] No, he didn't use complex words. There isn't a complex rhyme scheme. But the meaning and emotion behind it is so vivid. He doesn't have to mask behind a veil of multi-syllabic words, if he can say it as simply as possible, which he does, [i]because he is one of the few genuine artists that speak their mind anymore. [/i] If you didn't catch the meaning, he's saying there is a stereotype that black people are dumb and materialistic, and this stereotype is very real as record labels will offer cash, cars, etc as incentive for a black artist to sign with them. He further goes on to say "fuсk it, c'est la vie" (French saying for "that's life") which is saying that black people end up settling for less because that's life, that's the boxed in, uncontrollable situation media giants and record labels force onto these artists, and the artists just has to accept the Maybach and remain as a slave to the corporations.
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I stopped when you started bashing Eminem. And here is why, I actually just got done reading a report 6 page report in my English 122 class where the author states factual evidence that disproves your claims against him. He actually does what you claim he doesn't do. Such as the double meaning with words. Didn't read the rest since the beginning had a plethora of bs
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Edited by The Cellar Door: 9/28/2015 10:35:36 PMOh look, another edgy white kid who can't accept that Eminem has faults. Maybe if you actually [i]read[/i] what I said, you would see that I wasn't bashing Eminem, simply saying that having multi-syllabic rhyme schemes is not the only way to be lyrical, and that Eminem has in the past over complicated what he is saying just to make a rhyme out of sesquipedalian words. Also, never use "I read a paper in my English class that disproves your argument." That doesn't disprove any argument, whatsoever. I can cite double entendres that Kanye has said as well, I just didn't because that wasn't the point of what I said. You obviously didn't pick up on that because you didn't read it.