Was this an accurate portrayal of Kanye West?

>>93835686
Since it was to signify his ego, yes, yes it was.

Accurate enough that Kanye himself was deeply affected by it, to the extent that he raps about it to this day.

>>93835705
>to the extent that he raps about it to this day.
But he only mentions it once in a song in MBDTF 7 years back
"Chock a South Park writer with a fishstick"

>>93835773
He mentions it in Watch The Throne, too.
>South Park had 'em all laughin', now all my niggas designin', we all swaggin'

Hey /co/, what's your favorite Kanye album?

>>93835686
Its really funny to see Kanye fans angrily call people "Matt and Trey" whenever someone mentions they didn't personally like one of his songs. Its only music, no need to turn it into a cult.

>>93835686
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1P4EP5TI574&ab_channel=BotanicSage%5BBS%5D

>>93835773
Tbqh Gorgeous was the best track off MBDTF

>>93835868
There are people who legitimately think Kanye is going to be the next David Bowie.

>>93835868
>Its only music
And it's not even good music, which makes it even funnier.

>>93835893
Kanye is going to be SOMETHING in the history of music. I'm just not sure what yet. He's already dramatically lost his shit at least once. He also seems to have no self-awareness whatsoever. Like, all this stuff where it seems like he's playing a role or pandering to the crowds, that's actually him.

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>>93835893
Bruh

>>93835773

The fact that he mentions it AT ALL is kind of enough. South Park makes fun of everyone.

>>93835893
But Kanye doesn't have a drug problem and he's already made more money.

>>93835903
Kanye has disassociative disorder. He is legit mentally ill.

Memes aside, Kanye is significantly more woke than any other mainstream artist of this era, puts in more work than any other modern artist, and Yeezus is one of the most cutting edge albums in history

>>93836108
And no great music

>>93836172
t. has never listened to kanye

>>93835903
Reminds me of the Beck thing the way he played it off it seemed like a joke like he was making fun of his last outburst, but then he came out and said it was serious he just didn't feel like pointing out that Beyonce should have won again.

>>93836194
t. has never listened to great music

>>93835891
I'd say Devil In A New Dress desu, but Gorgeous had one of the best verses of his career.

>>93835847
Late Registration always

>>93836172
What makes you say that?

>>93836265
t. doesn't listen to rap because its a black thing

Semi-related but Child Rebel Soldier (Kanye, Lupe Fiasco, and Pharrell) should've released a full album
>https://youtube.com/watch?v=jC_ir5wM8mE

>>93836141
Go to bed yeezy

>>93836141
>more woke
All the more reason to ignore him

>>93836555
To be fair, black things aren't shit because black people like them, black people just tend to like shit.

>>93836640
To be fair you just have shit taste

>>93836141
>Yeezus is one of the most cutting edge albums in history
I love Kanye but come on man

>>93835847
I am a true patrician, I listen to death grip instead.

>>93835686
Yes, Kanye is really a gay fish.

>>93836141
Is that you Kanye?
Life of Pablo was trash.

>>93836141
>Yeezus is one of the most cutting edge albums in history
Apparently SOMEBODY hasn't listened to Tales from Topographic Oceans.

>>93835847
I only listen to D-Devils.

>>93836141
Kanye, you stop posting on 4chan right now

Kanye is fine as far as pop goes.

Man...
I miss the old Kanye

>>93835903
I think he is a strange person but I also think he is so aware that people try to make him look crazy for saying the truth.

>>93835847
Yeezus.

I love how it was intentionally the opposite of Dark Fantasy which I feel was overproduced at points.

I don't know if this part was intentional but it felt like a kind of glorified take on the older Tupac style of hip-hop that had a stripped-down sound and provocative lyrics, in the same way that Tarantino films such as Kill Bill and Django Unchained evoke the overall feeling of certain classic films without actually being anything like them.

It also reminds me of Plastic Ono Band in how it's really raw and primal in a way that's a departure from their usual stuff.

IMO Dark Fantasy is for the mainstream or a person who doesn't normally like hip-hop, the college trilogy is for the hip-hop aficionado, and Yeezus I guess would be for the self-proclaimed patricians who like weird music, though I wouldn't call myself that.

>>93835893
How the hell is he not? He's a critical darling, he takes a drastically different direction with each album, he's a bit of a wacko, he's friends with everyone in the industry.

>>93837651
What did you think of 'Monster', specifically Nicki Minaj's verse? Not a big fan of that album, but Monster is pretty sick imo

>>93837958
It's great, but it's one of those songs that I've heard so many times now I can't stand to listen to it anymore.

Most everyone agrees Nicki's part is great, she has such great delivery, but it's always been odd to me that the charisma she has on this song doesn't really show itself in any of her solo work.

>>93835686
i'm not even joking, the South Park Kanye was much too rational and coherent. real Kanye is indistinguishable from a schizophrenic person (or he's pretending to be)

>>93835893
Bowie was a bisexual as fuck, nice guy, and all out druggie among other things
Kanye west is the legit opposite of everything bowie was and stood for

>>93836555
I Listen to quite a bit of rap though
>>93836534
correct opinions

>>93835686
Least I ain't married to no hobbit.

>>93838187
You sound like a dad rock kid who acts like the 80's was perfect despite not even being alive at the time.

>>93838336
>druggie
>perfect

>>93838336
The 80's was one of Bowie's worst points in his career.

>>93835847
MBDTF definitely, it'd be Yeezus but Yeezus doesn't have Blame Game on it

Kayne is an idiot savant

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>>93835847
I liked the one with piano being tapped repetitively and the ballerinas

Did anyone else think it was weird that he actually voiced Kenny West on The Cleveland Show?

I think the funniest thing about this is everyone was like "watch Kanye get mad about this shit" he ended up embracing it tho

>>93835847
Easily late registration

the life of pablo is my guilty pleasure
I legit don't like 808s

>>93838651
>bitching about it in his music
>embracing it

>>93836862
Straight from the go kanye

>>93835782
Is that a rhyme?

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>>93835847
Yeezus is my absolute favorite!I'm glad there's a Kanye thread here.

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>>93836598
>>93836627
>>93836680
>>93836732
>>93836741
>>93836767
>all this shit taste
Good lord

I like Kanye's music but I don't like the man himself.
It's the same way how I feel about John Lennon.

>>93838708
>making a joke about a thing is bitching now
You must be real fun to talk to.

>>93838790
congrats you've somehow managed to separate the artist from the art.

>>93837674
You can't be the critics' darling if you're successful.

>>93838831
I know. that was the point I was making.

>>93835903
He is already. He was a major influence on rap and music in general already.

>>93838790
I'm curious, why don't you like him?

>>93838868
I was making fun of you for it.

>>93835847
Graduation.
The only one I bought.

>>93838904
Okay. Why?

>>93838896
Lennon or Kanye?

>>93838927
Kanye

>>93838927
You did something everyone does.

>>93836265
I listened to Ziggy Stardust and Low a few times. The latter was kinda interesting but tame by today's standards and the former sounded like regular rock music. Don't see the hype.

>>93838951
Except not really, there are definitely people who can't separate art from the artist and they are likely a minority, but they're still pretty vocal.

>>93838971
Listen to Heroes, it's my favorite of his

>>93838336
>thinking the 80s was bowie's prime
Lost your argument there

>>93838946
I just think he's a egotistical dickhead. It's part of his charm, sure, I just don't like him for that.

>>93838951
Okay, anon. I apologize.

>>93839009
Don't apologize just take the fucking hit.

>>93836298
my african-american compatriot

>>93839009
He is an egotistical dickhead, I will admit that, but I think it's part as a psychological defense mechanism with him. He's an asshole, but I never thought he was intentionally malicious, which I think many people think he is.

>>93835686
No he wasn't retarded enough

>>93838989
I'll check it out. I'll always respect Bowie for giving us Raw Power and saving Iggy Pop's career. I just don't see what's so special about his music aside from his image. Meanwhile I knew The College Dropout was great from the very first song.
>>93839009
What's a rapper with no ego?

>>93836108
>made more money
wew lad he's bankrupt and married Kim solely to prolong his shelf life, otherwise he'd be a walmart greeter by now.

>>93839028
Okay then, I'll take the hit. Sorry, anon.

>>93839048
Oh yeah, he's not intentionally being hurtful towards anybody. It just gets on my nerves sometimes.

>>93839069
>What's a rapper with no ego?
His name is Biz Markie.

>>93839081
STOP APOLOGIZING TAKE THE FUCKING HIT

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>>93835847
The College Dropout

>>93839097
Okay, anon. I don't mean to make you angry.

>>93835847
College Dropout.Been listening to since it came out, I don't think there's an album I've listened to more in my life.

>>93839128
Just shut up and take the hit.

>>93839069
Heroes is only 40 minutes long and I suggest you listen straight through, the B Side gets very ambient/experimental
>What's a rapper with no ego?
Chance

>>93835686
I'm not familiar with him besides this episode and the fact he is married to the big butt woman. But it was still a funny episode, what I got was thst he is a dumbass egocentric talentless jerk.

>>93839147
But I'm bored and I want to talk.

>>93835893
He's a great artist but he never addressed his demons the way Bowie did for stability, and right now he seems more concerned with chasing celebrity bullshit (social media, fashion, being adored) than actually writing and growing as an artist. If he gets his shit together he might be for hiphop what Bowie was to rock but right now he's headed for burnout.

I can't really say because I don't know him personally, but I think Kanye is mostly misunderstood because he isn't very good at conveying what he means and takes heat for it as well as intending well but handling things poorly

>>93839171
He's like the Karl Pilkington of music.

>>93839166
Are Americans this deluded?

>>93839171
He's a rapper. Wordplay and messaging is everything he should know. I don't think it's that, it's that he probably afraid of what others would see him if he actually expressed his true self.

>>93835847
Plastic Beach. or Demon days.

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>>93836555
Not him, but Rap music peaked during the 90's and 2000's, with Kanye only having an extremely tangiental role in any breakthroughs. He was never that goos himself, just original, which isn't the same thing. Other artists have taken ideas from Kanye and applied them far more effectively, so while he might be a pioneer in the most liberal of senses, his actual work has always been "eh, it's listenable." The only song I've ever really liked from him is Gold Digger.

And nothing from the 2000 era has come close to Buggin' Out.

>>93839234
>Not the self titled album
How do you not like "Kanye"

>>93838709
The sweet kanye?

>>93839400
chop up the beats kanye

>>93839166
The people that was inspired by bowie went to became international stars. Hip hop is only pop music in America, Kenye can't fill an stadium in Argentina or Mongolia, and the people inspired by him are irrelevant to the international market. While in Anglo countries besides NZ American hip hop is still popular in the rest of the world it's niche music and the style has its own local stars, Kenye will never be comparable with bowie and there's nothing wrong with that. Seeking validation is a waste of time. If Kenye is important to hip hop he will have his own place in the history of hip hop, playing catch up with other styles of music from other decades it's retarded.

>>93835847
The Life of Pablo, after I trimmed out all the garbage tracks.
Unedited?
The College Dropout.
College Dropout is his best release though, I don't dispute that.

>>93839424
>The Life of Pablo, after I trimmed out all the garbage tracks.
Skip directly from Ultralight Beam to Waves

>>93839412
>Kenye can't fill an stadium in Argentina or Mongolia
If Vanilla Ice can fill out a stadium in Russia during the 2010s I think Kanye would have no issues filling out one in Argentina.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCG4RmxYy1s

>>93839217
He's actually quite honest with people especially through music, with what he raps about, he seems pretty genuine in what he's saying

>>93838676
808s is easially his worst I don't know a single person who likes it

>>93839070
He was the number 20 on the list of richest American celebrities less than 3 years ago and you think he's broke? You obviously don't understand how money works. I guess Donald Trump is broke as well, since he's filed for bankruptcy only half a dozen times in his lifetime. It's just a way for the rich to systematically manage their funds and cheat the system a little bit more. I bet you think Sciencetology isn't a money scam as well.

>>93839542
And? You are wrong to believe vainilla ice popularity somehow represents Kenye.

>>93839620
i know like 5 people who do

>>93839412
Hip hop is definatly more popular than rock globally every country has its own style of shitty hip hop

>>93839155
>Chance

You must have not heard about the MTV thing.

>>93839631

While scientology is a massive laundering machine, I think you're off if you think they don't genuinely believe in scientology. They're crazy, Tom Cruise is a crazy.

>>93839432
Pretty much lol
I liked famous and feedback too
But man that first half stretch.
And really Waves sucks because of Chris 'the cannibal' Brown

>>93839155
>threatens not to do MTV appearances after one of their critics says his album lacked the emotional complexity of his earlier work
>mocks major labels that distribute his work and made him a millionaire

Nah famalams, Chance is just a whiny white boy hipster "artiste" who happens to be black. He's the black Jack White.

>>93839333
!the only song I liked is Gold Digger
Aaand opinion disregarded

>>93839666
It's niche. And that isn't the point, bowie goes back to the 70s when rock was actually popular, and Kenye isn't popular outside a handful of countries.

>>93839744
What major labels have distributed Chance's work? He did one deal with Apple and they're not a label at all.

>>93839770
He's not arguing that Rock never had it's day, he's saying
(accurately) that Rap has dethroned rock as the biggest genre.

>>93839770
>hip hop
>niche

You have to be joking. Where the fuck do you live bro?

>>93839792
He's literally Blacklemore though.

>>93836128
>What is Ziggy Stardust
Do you even know who David Bowie is? He literally admitted to almost losing his mind because of his alter ego bullshit which is why he stopped doing it.

>>93839824
He's not THAT corny. And Acid Rap was a very good project. But yeah, I don't buy his church boy persona.

>>93835686
If anything, it was too grounded and sane.

>>93839862
Oh, that's pretty much precisely my opinion.
Cool.
I just feel he's putting himself on too high a pedestal, and when you fall from that it can be very hard to get people to trust you anymore.
But hey, who knows?

>>93839793
Not only that is retarded, as pop music is bigger, but hip hop isn't the biggest genre outside very few countries. Outside America hip hop is no bigger than fucking electro music

>>93835847
Still a big fan of 808s & Heartbreak.

>Amazing
>Heartless
>Love Lockdown
>Paranoid

Speaking of /co/, here's Heartless' music video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Co0tTeuUVhU

>>93839693
Where did I say I didn't think there were genuine believers of Sciencetology? All I said was that it's a money scam. That in no way implies it can't also have crazies who are dumb enough to believe this pyramid scheme/money laundering organization is the real deal.

>>93835903
Kanye is a legitimate autistic savant.

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>Never listened to Kanye

haha what if a total musical retard came in and asked which album to start with from him?

>>93839889
I think people will forgive him for anything as long as he puts out good music. If he wants to wave the independent church boy flag that's fine, just keep giving us quality work. Hell I donated to his charity so he must doing something right.

>>93840041
Start with his first one then go chronologically from there. His artistic progression is pretty interesting

>>93840041
College Dropout. You should also check out his musical influences like Jay Z, Common, Dilla, Tribe etc etc

>>93840041
>which album to start with
Kill La Kanye
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-VJGSd1pUs

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>>93840081
Thanks. I'll start with the first and work my way up.

>>93839825
>What is Ziggy Stardust
A fucking character.
>He literally admitted to almost losing his mind because of his alter ego bullshit which is why he stopped doing it.
No, he almost lost his mind because he was a raging drug addict almost half a fucking decade. He stop doing the persona stuff, because he got insecure about weather or not people actually like him and his music or rather just his thematics.

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>>93839793
That's wrong.

>>93839412
Note I said of hiphop, not of music. Rock will always have a bigger influence on other genres because it's more accessible. But granted it's a massively spreading genre that's getting more popular all the time.

>>93836219
>Beck was the only artist in the building not invited to the after party

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>>93839070
>>93839631
>>93839693
Kanye West's money problem wasn't due to a lack of wealth, it was due to a lack of liquidity

Lets say you have
>a massive mansion
>43 cars
>a toilet made entirely of diamonds
>tons of shares in successful businesses
>$12 in the bank
Are you poor? Fuck no. You have tons of wealth. You just have very little of it in currency. You go to McDonalds, they don't accept investment properties as payment.
This is what West's issue was when he was begging for money. His assets weren't liquid and he needed liquid assets.

TL;DR - Kanye West is wearing a thousand dollar suit as he asks for loose change for the bus

I remember everybody shitting on Kanye until MBDTF came out, and then they couldn't stop sucking him off.

I dunno but I'm highly certain that Kim Kardashian is a hobbit

>>93840877

Well she definitely fluffed paris hilton enough to figure out her reality tv star secret.

>>93840845
How does one end up in such a situation? Avoiding that would be as easy as only having 42 cars.

>>93835933
How is David Bowie similar to Kanye?

>>93841023
Unexpected expenses or losses in revenue, poor budgeting etc
Lack of liquidity certainly isn't a good thing and is probably related to poor choices or lack of good accounting/investment strategy

>>93840877
I'm surprised her disgusting ass hasn't exploded with all the shit they put in it.

>>93840110
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hizl_SEn9dM

JDilla worked on so many tracks but this is his best

>>93835847
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy

All of The Lights is my hype track.