Carolinas Identity*
I'm a bad troll...
This is still the best song ever, of all time.
he has set p. much every trend in rap music for the past decade and he is probably one of the top producers in the genre's history
his early production work on albums like Jay-Z's blueprint and kanye's college dropout brought back soul samples in rap music
late registration was college dropout w/ orchestral elements added
graduation was what brought on that huge wave of dancey electric poppy rap music
808s and heartbreaks is basically why drake, kid cudi, etc. exist
mbdtf is one of the greatest albums of all time, period. people have written books about it.
yeezus is like a poppy death grips album. lots of popular recent rap/hip hop songs have been a lot less "clean" and more gritty.
also he didnt set the price on that shirt, the company selling it did. it was just part of a line of clothing he designed for them. one of the main issues w/ kanye haters is that they just repeat all the popular memes about him instead of doing any kind of research into them which is how statements like "kanye talks about materialism in his songs then sells white t-shirts for 120 dollars a pop" get propagated
kanye's a better producer than eminem. definitely a better musician.
i think em runs circles around him as a rapper though.
kanye's actual rapping isn't technically outstanding, no
he definitely knows how to make a good song though, and the whole package is what is important
every kanye album is v v good
eminem has mmlp, sslp, and parts of the eminem show of vv good and then a bunch of reaaaaaaaaaaally ****-tier music
MMLP2 and the new stuff from Shady XV is fantastic. You're selling Eminem Show short as well. Recovery wasn't that bad and neither was Relapse. They were both just okay.
also he didnt set the price on that shirt, the company selling it did. it was just part of a line of clothing he designed for them. one of the main issues w/ kanye haters is that they just repeat all the popular memes about him instead of doing any kind of research into them which is how statements like "kanye talks about materialism in his songs then sells white t-shirts for 120 dollars a pop" get propagated
It's not about materialism. It's about him being silly. He is a silly man. That's why so many people make jokes about him. Not because they are haters. He is just lacks self-awareness and it's funny.
Which in and of itself isn't a big deal. Where it hurts his art, in my opinion, is when social issues show up in a lot of his music. It's hard to listen to any person with that little self-awareness speak on the nature of the world. Which is why I contrasted him with Tupac, who was terrifyingly self-aware of himself and the world he lived in.
What appears to be Kanye's saving grace is his musical ability. Because without him, we wouldn't have dancy electric pop rap, Drake, or Kid Cudi, and then where would we be?
i disagree i tried to like mmlp2 and shady xv but there just isn't enough there that i like
it is all technically good rapping, but it just feels like eminem just kind of tosses a random "shocking" verse onto whatever beat instead of making a cohesive song like he used to
alot of the verses seem completely interchangeable i guess i dunno
not for me... songs i like off those albums:
mmlp2: bad guy, love game (because kendricks verse), brainless, rap god
recovery: cold wind blows, no love
relapse: beautiful
shady xv: ...eh
songs i like off others:
mmlp: all of it, especially kill you, criminal, and kim
sslp: all of it, rock bottom is my favorite eminem song. 97 bonnie and clyde is also v good and so is if i had.
eminem show: till i collapse, cleanin out my closet, white america, without me (for nostalgia), business, say what you want, and drips (because lol)
encore: like toy soldiers, mockingbird, encore/curtains down
also his verse on forgot about dre is the best thing he did in his career
What appears to be Kanye's saving grace is his musical ability. Because without him, we wouldn't have dancy electric pop rap, Drake, or Kid Cudi, and then where would we be?
I'm not much of a Country guy, but this is p good.
Now I ain't saying she's a gold digger