Can I ask why? Sure, he can be an asshole at times with a huge ego, but I separated the person from the music and the music is quite good in my opinion.

His music is nothing special. His lyrics are terrible, his flow is average at best. He brings nothing new or original. To top it off, he's also a piece of shit as a human.

You seem set in your opinion which is fine, but I guess we'll just have to agree to disagree.

[quote]He brings nothing new or original[/quote] Thanks for genuinely making me burst out laughing. If you're going to criticize something, please at least have [i]somewhat[/i] of a clue of what you're degrading.

Care to enlighten me? Art is subjective my friend.

[quote]Care to enlighten me? Art is subjective my friend.[/quote] I'll explain how, and it'll be your choice to blindly disagree with it if you choose to. I hope you'll take the time to read this, I'll try to keep it short. His first album, [i]The College Dropout[/i], broke the mold of what a rapper could say in his/her music. For a number of years, rap was constrained to strictly gangsta rap, vindicating the stereotype of rap solely being about money, drugs, violence, women, etc. In fact, rappers wouldn't get signed if they didn't rap about these things, which made TCD such a pivotal moment in rap. Kanye used this album to communicate social commentary, family values, personal insecurities, and religious beliefs. He also reintroduced the art of sampling soul music into hip-hop. With [i]Late Registration[/i], he introduced orchestral instruments into the genre, as well as enlisting the help of Jon Brion, a music producer for movies, in order to create a cinematic feel to the record. Again, he used this album to vocalize social commentary, notably about the blood diamond trade, poverty, healthcare, etc. [i]Graduation[/i] defined what it meant to be avant-garde hip-hop. He took inspiration for chord progression and melodies from Arena Rock legends like The Rolling Stones, and his lyrics were adjusted to focus more on vowel sounds, inspired by the likes of Bob Dylan and U2. He ditched the soul sample and introduced lush electronic synthesizers and layered production to create that arena feel. He merged the electronic and hip-hop genres for the first time, which has continued to shape how music sounds today. His most groundbreaking album, and the most groundbreaking album of this century so far (not my opinion, Rolling Stone's), [i]808's & Heartbreak[/i] went completely off the grid. It's somewhere between neo-soul, punk, electronic, and hip-hop. He established a juxtaposition in the production by utilizing a heavy 808 drum machine paired with futuristic, plinking electronic keys and synthesizers, and the natural sounds of tribal drums. With the vocals, he paired lyrics of sorrow and heartbreak with the emotionless robotic sounds of autotune and a vocoder. He introduced a way of using auto tune artistically rather than using it to correct imperfections in ones voice. [i]My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy[/i] is the quintessential hip-hop album of the 21st century, and is well regarded by music critics as one of the best albums ever made. It paired maximalist production with purposely hypocritical lyrics. You have the orchestral horns, booming drums, violent percussion, eclectic synthesizers, and lush keys. You have the King Crimson sample, the Elton John vocals, the Rakim verse, etc. There is really so much to say about this album, you could write an entire essay about it. [i]Yeezus[/i] is, again, a complete departure from the mainstream. It was intentionally anti-radio. He intentionally starts the album off with an abrasive saw synthesizer slicing right through the listeners ear, instead of the one song in the album he knew everybody would like. Perhaps his most abstract lyrical work yet, he utilizes a minimalistic industrial stylization that quite literally makes the album sound like nothing you've ever heard from a rapper. He enlisted the help of the legend that is Rick Rubin to reduce everything about the album. It's labeled a rap album, but it sounds like a psychedelic rock/metal/industrial/grunge album.

Literally every single one of his albums brings something new and fresh to the table, which then in turn allures other rappers and artists alike to utilize his techniques and composition practices. He's the reason a plethora of new age rappers are as popular as they are today, such as Chance the Rapper, Big Sean, and Logic, all of whom look to Kanye as a huge inspiration for their art form. He's quite arguably the most influential rapper of all time, and is the predominant reason ganger rap was no longer the only option for rap artists in the 21st century. If you'd like you can search more up on you're own, but I hardly feel like having to explain something so blatantly obvious. Not trying to be malicious, but please refrain from showcasing such ignorance in the future. A little bit of googling can take you a long way.

The words [i]kanye[/i] amd [i]techniques[/i] don't belong in the same paragraph

If you're going to try make a rebuttal, do it properly. What you've replied to me with is nothing short of garbage.

He's done nothing that hasn't been done before. Albeit he does it with more personality and charisma than others. That's what brought him to the mainstream. But to say everything he's done has brought something new and fresh is a fallacy. You can disagree all you want, but you will not change my mind.

Okay, you're choosing to be willfully ignorant then. Have a nice day.