You can see that people are going from being jealous of KanYe West for his talent to fearing him and the power he is securing for himself.
Only a few years ago he willfully jumped out the window (no Ron Browz or Erick Sermon) and went off script during the televised Hurricane Katrina fundraiser. That was career suicide for EVERYONE else in the world.
Who would have done that in the Hip-Hop generation?
KanYe West is scrutinized more than any entertainer next to Michael Jackson. MJ is actually crazy though, whereas KanYe is only slightly eccentric and even more talented than MJ.
I am starting to think that KanYe is so talented that he may not even be a human. For all we know, KanYe West left the Earth on a spaceship after the ‘Late Registration’ album.
The KanYe West that we all see now is just an android with the original ‘Ye Tudda’s vision.
I love Ye but I actually think he’s a bit crazy, in that good sorta way that allows him to be a musical genius and what not. This picture scares the shit out of me though. He looks like that Sabretooth character from the first X-Men movie.
Let’s just reprogram him to think he’s Michael Jackson circa 1992 and pickup right after Remember the Time. Dude still gets to wear ugly ass Kani or Cross Colours and pump out neon pink hits.
that pic of ‘ye is hella creepy. it’s dope though.
I love that photo shoot.
If we have to compare him to Mike….let’s stick with Off The Wall Mike okay? Cause Russian Princess Mike scares me.
Fuck this Idiot!!!
He’s no “new version of Pete Rock”, this fool could not hold DILLA’s jock…I really don’t get what the big deal is about his music? Kanye is GARBAGE!!!
Wow DX…tell us how you REALLY feel. Ye Tudda is dope. Sometimes he makes mis-steps, and throws the world a curve, but we’re witnessing dude’s dopeness in real-time, and right now, he can’t be stopped. I mean damn….he’s a emcee WHO CAN’T SING, and yet, made an entire album singing, and never rapped! And he’s STILL WINNING. For real…who’s fucking with that?
Kanye > MJ?? Thems fightin words, DP. Kanye samples beats from old MJ hits and STILL doesn’t outsell the kid. I love Ye…a simple search of PT will attest to this. But MJ had the hungarian ladies being carried out on stretchers. Ye?? Not so much.
Plus MJ had the moves, James Brown laid the foundation for them moves, but damnit if Mike didn’t have the entire world doin the the moonwalk. I bet you hella white supremacists even did the moon walk. And don’t even get me started on Moonwalker. Have you seen Kanye’s two left feet-dancin ass?? Makes me shudder.
Sidenote: I’m mad at the protruding top lip/sunken bottom lip they photoshopped on Ye in this cover. We all know his bottom jaw is too buff for that situation to be possible.
MJ is one of the GOAT entertainers, but when you find out that he didn’t write his music how does that legend still hold up? Let’s be clear…
James Brown > Prince > KanYe West > Michael Jackson > Diana Ross (<-- the original bossy bitch)
Thank you for exposing MJ as the farce he is…I hate on KanYe, but he is head and shoulders ahead on his promo game. FYI Diana is not a true boss, but was created by the MO machine…check Tina T…
Louis Armstrong/Duke Ellington –>
Lester Young/Thelonious Monk/Nat King Cole –>
Charlie Parker/Charles Mingus/Ike Turner –>
Miles Davis/James Brown/Dionne Warwick/Aretha –>
Curtis Mayfield/Sly/Stevie/Funakdelic –>
Michael Jackson + Quincy Jones –>
PRINCE (The Time, Sheila E., The Family, Madhouse, etc) –>
Prince Paul/RZA –>
‘Ye
^ I’ll forgive you for not putting John Coltrane on your list if you forgive me for not putting Steveland on mine
Kanye West thinks he’s the High Evolutionary of Hip Hop. Eventually he’s gonna spark an Evolutionary War (no Marvel)…who got the Infinity Gauntlet in this bitch? *Looks around*
One.
Dallas– deal. And we both should hang our heads a second for forgetting Brother Ray! He’s easy to take for granted but…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cf0X7Qu
Also, re: Stevie, I wasn’t a Sesame Street (or Electric Company) fan as a kid but maybe if I’d seen THIS–
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ul7X5js1vE
One more thing on Kanye– I know you were at Chapelle’s Block Party and may have saw things differently but in the film at least, there’s nothing BETTER than that “Jesus Walks” with the marching band and few moments that come close.
LOL @ Ye’s contemporary Pharrell literally dancing for his supper…
http://nahright.com/news/2009/03/24/video-somebody-make-a-gif-of-this/
I know how you feel lil’ buddy…. Only breakfast menu!?!!??
Kanye smoke that GOOD ish pun intended.
I guess no more XXL for you DP. What happened them fools stopped cutting them checks or what?
Kanye is crazy talented but couldn’t fuck with MJ on his best day and MJ on his worst. Sorry DP.
King Blair,
Yeah, I doubt that they will have me back on that site, but you never know.
Dallas you are wrong. Michael Jackson also wrote and produced some of his songs. Like KWest, he also knew what producers to work with. Working with Quincy was no accident. Who made the music video genre bigger than a short 2-3 minute film?
Not to mention, Michael was a beast when it came to vocal arrangements that are still being imitated by artist-songwriters like Neo.
@Angela, he had Hungarian men passing out.
@Gee, you do realize that Kanye’s promo game is directly tied to the times he lives in. Internet, Youtube, blogs, etc.
@Dallas, them fighting words for real. MJ had 2-3 careers where most artists stop at kid superstars.
Wait, how many people heard Michael Jackson freak the beatbox? Peep his song “Who Is it?”
To put it in real perspective…all of Kanye’s (hell, PLUS Lil Wayne’s) record sales for all of their albums combined still can’t equal the sales of the Thriller album alone worldwide. Who’s really the King?
Best comment I’ve heard on Kanye “creeping in on Mike Jax territory”…
“Kanye himself probably started that himself.”
The true test of Ye is how he endures his first (of possible mulitple) fall offs. MJ had it after the Jacksons got too old to be cute, Madonna has had her bricks, Mariah needed “time off”, etc. The true success of the mega pop star is how they bounce back, endure and succeed after their first (or any) relative failure. When Ye Tudda has that happen and STILL MATTER. Then we can talk his greatness.
Alas – he is a polarizing figure because we’re at the 20th comment on this drop.
VeE,
MJ touched them boys. All the other shit he did in music is mitigated by his freakishness. KanYe West makes the boys wear tight pants and MJ schemes on getting his hands inside of them [ll].
Sonn went from Thriller to just ILLER
I’d be remiss not to mention Fela, especially since Dallas reps those great DJ Spinna James Brown versus Fela gigs–
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4AA6EuZe-k
Not sure how musical culture devolved into caring about anyone’s “tight pants” but… Fela’s are even tighter (ll) than James, tho’ the music is looser.
Candice said it…
It is what it is…
@40,
while folks recognize that KanYe is doing his thing, I cosign your comment.
We have already seen LL take a brick or two only to come back SEVERAL times and drop an ill bomb on them. I don’t think any emcee has fell off as much as LL but yet still remain relevant through out his career.
When it is all said and done, you really have to give Puff props as a producer/artist because he ain’t never left the game since he was dancing for girl groups or Father MC back in the day.
@Dallas,
there’s no video tape evidence to support your accusations. However there’s a video of a golden shower popping off.
::extra late rebuttal::
DP, don’t matter who wrote MJ’s lyrics.
MJ’s ad libs > Kanye’s entire catalog.
And I’m still a Kanye stan.
And I agree with Vee. We ain’t seen no kiddie fondling on tape. lol
Kanye = Dunks
I don’t see how Kanye can even be compared to MJ- no way 25 years from now he’ll have a legacy like Jacko. He used to produce some dope beats though.
Stevie>MJ
can you really compare kanye to past greats at this stage in his career? what if you’d asked this question before MJ got ran over by the media train?
Veering a lil left:
Dallas, when can I get a Bad Brains drop? (or did I miss it??) As influence goes, they rate.
Polo,
I am digging thru my archives now to see if I still have my cassette from your hardcore days. You got those tracks on .mp3?
Before I get into BadBrains I have to do a drop on this band from Detroit called Death. Their album is the proverbial fish with feet for hardcore punk music.
Too Black, too strong. Some brothers from Detroit named Death.