What's the deal with dadrockers (Jon King from gang of 4

genuinely curious as well because I've also realized this is a thing

>>72471811
To appear relevant

Kanye likes to play with noise, the human voice, and song structures in interesting ways. He's clearly studied music, unlike almost every other rapper.

>be aging rockstar
>don't want to be thrown on the scrapheap with other dadrockers
>realise you need to appeal to the youth
>kanye west is popular amongst youth
>kanye west is despised by most people over 40
>decide to praise kanye to appear "down with the kids"

>>72471811
real recognize real

Current Kanye kind of sounds like post-punk in hip-hop form so maybe that has something to do with it.

Didn't Bowie say he liked Kanye too?

>>72471845
>>72471870
Yeah, I figured this was the case. Kanye is really not any different from any other rapper, even though many people like to think so

There's not much to it. Pop music is almost uniformly garbage, so whenever someone with a semblance of musical talent appears, it's only natural that they get a lot of praise. Same thing happened with Nirvana in the 90s.

Also, keep in mind that these dadrodckers will be praising other, less mainstream artists; you just won't hear about all the other cases because they're not newsworthy.

>>72471975
Yeah

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But can you really take a guy his age seriously though? When he was still alive he probably catched the p4k virus somewhere and decided to shill. And GoF was never relevant