He implied that Macklemore has been more important to the culture. He bigged up jay z but what this dude who clearly has no understanding of Kanyes history is that Kanye produced some of jays best songs and biggest hits
I mean,I don't agree that Macklemore is more relevant to Hip-Hop music.
I also feel Kanye's production and his image was pivotal a decade ago the problem here is
Kanye has only veered further and further away from a "Backpack rapper" to a baller without
the gangsta raps.
I mean this in particular,I agree with :
Bob Ezrin said:
In the review of the endless new album, Caramanica wonders if “being slightly finished is the new finished.” And that just makes my blood boil. The great musicians, writers, poets, rappers, performers, dancers, players, conductors, directors and producers work all their lives for that one moment of complete perfection – that one brilliant performance, that one perfect song, that one enduring and life-altering work. 10,000 hours is peanuts in comparison to the real amount of time spent by true artists in their lifelong pursuit of excellence. But no one else that I have seen is this happy to have the audience watching all along the way. They are working to the culmination of something; to the exquisite feeling of completion that comes from working and reworking until that moment when their creation, or their performance, is as good as it could possibly be. This guy is just feeding the media machine and I’m not even certain to what end. Maybe he JUST needs the attention, like that flasher, and isn’t happy unless he’s the center of it.
I can completely understand this sentiment ! This is something that's rampant in contemporary Hip-Hop music. You've got fans who don't care about quality
so they'll have their favorite rapper put out 100 to 200 mediocre songs a year instead of 12 excellent ones. Then you've got rappers who aren't
concerned with being as good as possible at their craft because they already know they won't be rewarded for it, if in the unlikely event they blow up.
So they opt for cookie cutter, samey sounding songs with only a handful of topics covered. We're at the point that mediocre "lyrical" rappers are considered
stand outs (Hopsin, Childish Gambino etc.) because they're being compared to mediocre all around rappers (Lil b, Soulja boy etc.).
He doesn't stop there though, he highlights our hardcore celebrity culture that loves when Kanye says crazy shyt because they can manufacture click bait titles
that'll infuriate Kanye haters and further infatuate Kanye lovers.
The thing is to me, Kanye West fell back on the innovation that I loved on for example MyBeautifulDarkTwistedFantasy.
Ugly, muddy sounding mixing,banging drums, tons of space, guitar solo's, dope samples, tons of different ideas from the past and present even looks at what could potentially be Hip-Hops future. He even broke the typical mold of 3 to 5 minute songs opting for much longer songs that actually held your attention because of how
well they were crafted.
Then he turns around and becomes a trend chaser not a cutting edge boundary pushing artist but rapper #9999 that slaps on some auto-tune, cops
a beat from a popular producer AND proceeds to do something exceedingly mediocre with it. Why is this dude who could confront topics like mortality, being
doubted, being a walking,talking contradiction because he had a "Polo and a back" or chasing the "2 kids and a wife with a good job" fantasy lifestyle suddenly shying away from these topics and instead rapping what sounds like Brazzers scenes for like 50 minutes ?
More over why the fukk is this mediocrity getting rated so high? It's like Consequence and Rhymefest left, he started hanging with 20 somethings
and his musically became equally immature despite him ( or someone else

) writing considerably better as shortly as a few years ago.
Bob Ezrin said:
I don’t even know why I’m so angry about this. Except maybe I lament for a world where being truly, world-shakingly excellent at anything – at least in the field of popular music if not elsewhere – is no longer absolutely necessary. You can be a star today just by creating a public life that people pay attention to. That’s it. All you have to do is be interesting or likable or shocking enough and you can have your 15 minutes of fame…even if that means that no one will remember you or what you’ve done in just a few years.
When I think about artists who have come and gone and how easy it is to get on depending on how low you'll go, it disgusts me.
Look at V-Nasty.
Look at Stitches.
Look at Riff Raff.
Look at iggy azalea.
Look at any number of "White Rappers" who don't take this shyt seriously as a craft or a form of expression and you see the white
reflection of Black rappers who also just see this as a hustle, as a paycheck or as I said in the Noisey/Vice etc.thread, you see people
who just see this as "pop music". So that they can churn out a bunch of funny hair color having, 70's era hard rock black leather wearing,
auto-tune gurgled lyrics speaking clones.
That's a troll who changed his screen name to Bob Ezrin.
fukk Pink Floyd, Kanye just as dope to OUR GENERATION.
And I love Pink Floyd. But let's their cultural relevance to me as a black man is not as powerful as Ye's.
Just cu Bob Ezrin worked with them doesn't make his opinion on HIP HOP relevant.
Maurice White just died,if you want a cultural equivalent of a musician that's considered an
innovator and boundary pusher that should be relevant to black people THAT'S ONE.
I mean it's not even about "Pink floyd" really, it's about dudes who aren't touching their careers or
simply don't exist without them like a Kanye west (cause who would he sample ?

) getting
pushed into the really small club called "genius" because they sold a lot of records.
*** "Their" in this case being brilliant musicians of the past. Black, White or otherwise.