Is Kanye the father of this era of "softness"?

[Yakno1]

Kanye first three albums were solid, no real complaints and blows most of the shyt out now out the water ; Is Kanye solely to blame for this new era of "Drake", "Big Sean" etc

 

[SpacelySprockets]

Yes

 

[Wild self]

Of course.

You should be happy. Or else most of us would still be wearing baggy ass Rocawear shyts and mean mugging while listening to some damn mixtape rapper in 2013.

 

[Kingshango]

More or less yeah.

 

[Ashtrey]

Yes its pretty obvious the emergence of Kanye changed the game forever.

 

[Jone2three45]

Absolutely.

 

[Ninjaz In Paris]

Si...

 

[Cool Hand Luke]

He didn't create an era of softness. He allowed rappers to be themselves and stop trying to be gangsters to get their chance in the rap game.

 

[CELL]

Let's be honest here brehs Pharrell started everything. Thing with Pharrell is he's actually likeable and hugely talented without reminding us constantly.

 

[Boolean]

7 for 7 nikkas

 

[Yakno1]

Let's be honest here brehs Pharrell started everything. Thing with Pharrell is he's actually likeable and hugely talented without reminding us constantly.

Naw dawg.....Naw; Pharell was popular but had no where near the impact on the music level or did not have the same impact with that large of a audience like Kanye did

 

[How Sway?]

not just ye but pharrell and lupe had their hand in it. But i wouldn't say nikkas are soft just more comfortable in their own skin i guess

 

[Ultimate Warrior]

***snorts 38seconds***

Kanye is far from soft, he does shyt these soft nikkas wish they could do, you think Waffle, Big Sean and the rest of these ph balance cats wouldve shytted on Taylor swift moment, or shyt on the president?

Kanye should be a honarary member of A.B.N Z-RO AND TRAE, never met a soft person half of white america hate.

Drake would get on snl and sing lullabyes, what did Yeezus do?

 

[CELL]

Naw dawg.....Naw; Pharell was popular but had no where near the impact on the music level or did not have the same impact with that large of a audience like Kanye did

You must be kidding, right? Alright maybe in terms of sales as an individual artist and overall, "star appeal" but in terms of impact Pharrell and Chad changed the whole eras sound for a good few years.

But there's no doubt in my mind that there'd be no Kanye without a Pharrell. He was that, "normal" guy before anyone. Then it was Kanye, Lupe, Charles Hamilton and finally we're at J.Cole. Cole is the weakest out of all of them and Lupe's on crack.

 

[28 Gramz]

I always said that the combination of Wayne 07-08 and Graduation going into 808's n Heartbreak was the Blueprint for this era of rappers.