Listening to old Kanye makes you hate his guts.

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this is something people hate to acknowledge.

Disregard his antics off stage...cause SINCE THEN Kanye is one of the GOATs and has improved ever since then

I agree, just exclude his latest work. Yeezus was just pure garbage.
 

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I just stick to his first 3 albums
Because I know that Kanye will never be back.
Funny thing is I appreciate graduation more now than I did when it first released. The first time I listened to it I hated it. Went back a few years ago and its his 3rd best album to me.
 

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he doesnt even write his own rhymes
let that boy cook

he can do whatever he wants, you cant spend 10 plus years and thousands of beats in the same ballpark ... you run out of shyt to do

I loved CD when it dropped and I love Yeezus ... Im not even that huge of a fan but he puts out quality shyt

its when his weak fans make him drop that in between shyt thats a mixture of his new and old shyt thats where shyt gets forced and corny Late registration had alot of that type of shyt ... you cant be corny and serious at the same time you are wasting time

white dress is the first song that comes on in my car since it dropped
 

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I believe I did...

College Dropout was one of the most relatable albums that I ever heard (outside of Ressurection, Atliens and One Day It Will All Make Sense) I related much more to it than any Tupac, Nas, Ice Cube or Wu-Tang album although I'm huge fans of all of them..

Being relatable in itself doesn't make music good...But for someone like Kanye who is a marginally talented lyricist, with a shaky tone and delivery that relatability made up for his weaknesses to me..

Now that, thats gone I find myself less intrigued and attracted to his work.. As do the majority of his "Day 1 fans" as you can see from his steady decline in sales, popularity and influence..

But he doesn't HAVE to go backwards and I don't HAVE to move forward with him.. It is what it is.. He'll always have guys like Chris Brown and Harry B that will listen to audio of him spitting into a tin cup and call it genius...

:yeshrug:


You're right, he doesn't have to go backwards. Bound 2 is a perfect example. It has the classic Kanye sound mixed with the "genius" throwing random lyrics out there and waiting for his fans to suck him off for it. There's a bit of something for everybody.
 

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You're right, he doesn't have to go backwards. Bound 2 is a perfect example. It has the classic Kanye sound mixed with the "genius" throwing random lyrics out there and waiting for his fans to suck him off for it. There's a bit of something for everybody.
Bound 2 would have been a throwaway track on his first two albums...The fact that people kept pointing to that and Blood On The Leaves as examples that he still "got it" just showed how far the bar had been lowered to me..

The soul asthetic was there but them bars were triddash...
 

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His last album was the asbolute worst shyt he ever made.

At some point you lose any sense of self-regulation, he truly believes everything he makes is gold, that last album was evidence of that.

It was awful lyrically, sonically and every other way an album can be awful.

To me its a album I would make if I were a rapper and as a producer wish I made, I would be confident as fukk if I were him too cause he makes music he wants to make and makes millions for it, Cant blame him. Growing up listening to Nine Inch Nails and recently Tricky and Throbbing gristle they make me understand and like the album with a different ear. If you're already listening to this album already wanting a specific hip hop sound and hating on kanye you're bound to hate it.
 

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To me its a album I would make if I were a rapper and as a producer wish I made, I would be confident as fukk if I were him too cause he makes music he wants to make and makes millions for it, Cant blame him. Growing up listening to Nine Inch Nails and recently Tricky and Throbbing gristle they make me understand and like the album with a different ear. If you're already listening to this album already wanting a specific hip hop sound and hating on kanye you're bound to hate it.
I understand how people can love and hate Yeezus...The production was good to me...I just liked it better when El-P did it on RTJ because Killer Mike had the voice, delivery and content to compliment it..But Ye's pen game (or ghostwriting team) was missing in action and his delivery was off key and out of pocket...
 

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Bound 2 would have been a throwaway track on his first two albums...The fact that people kept pointing to that and Blood On The Leaves as examples that he still "got it" just showed how far the bar had been lowered to me..

The soul asthetic was there but them bars were triddash...

Yeah, the lyrics are piss poor but the production shows he can still do the soul sampling without going "backwards."
 

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Folks love projecting. If you didn't know Kanye was trying to sell-out asap, then not only do you know contrite music, you have little to no social skills. I like BlackStar, but I always knew they were sellouts. Always.

You guys will continue to be tortured by these artists.
 

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I understand how people can love and hate Yeezus...The production was good to me...I just liked it better when El-P did it on RTJ because Killer Mike had the voice, delivery and content to compliment it..But Ye's pen game (or ghostwriting team) was missing in action and his delivery was off key and out of pocket...

I personaly thought his delivery, flow, lyrics were great, not every body could be a lyricist like killer mike but kanye has better songs, albums and is imo a better "artist"
 
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