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Led Zeppelin
3rd July 2008, 13:47
Yeah, he has a huge ego, but give credit where credit is due, he has some awesome songs.

Some examples:

Kanye West - Touch The Sky

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dldtY9ZbqYs

Kanye West - Heard 'Em Say

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A6rUOO-MwRI

Kanye West - Gold Digger

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LU13MRtSD7E

Kanye West - Through The Wire

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvb-1wjAtk4
chimx
3rd July 2008, 16:09
your videos died, but yes i like kanye west.
Rex0230
3rd July 2008, 17:01
kanye is excellent as a producer, but sucks as a rapper! he got one of the lamest flow... i give his flow #2 at worst flows ever! and winner for the lamest flow is... lil' wayne! :thumbup1: now he sucks big time! he spits like 2 words every 10 sec...
Led Zeppelin
3rd July 2008, 21:57
your videos died, but yes i like kanye west.

What do you mean they died?
Labor Shall Rule
6th July 2008, 06:02
You forgot this:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7KnBnlqOv4

I normally don't dig anti-choice rappers, but he's pretty good.
KrazyRabidSheep
6th July 2008, 15:38
kanye is excellent as a producer, but sucks as a rapper!
Good news!

Kayne West is not a rapper; he is a hip-hop artist.

A former girlfriend got me into hip-hop a couple years back; I like Kayne West (even if he is a little pop.)

edit: oh, by the way, my favourite song of his is "Good Life".
Vanguard1917
6th July 2008, 16:52
He's a boring, fairly talentless rapper in my opinion. I don't like him. And i don't like the fact that we're all supposed to like him.
BurnTheOliveTree
6th July 2008, 23:28
Gold digger is an appallingly bad song, but West as a whole is a cut above the usual rubbish, I think.

-Alex
Unicorn
6th July 2008, 23:40
Kanye West is a terribly sexist and reactionary artist.
More Fire for the People
6th July 2008, 23:44
Kanye West is the shit. Anyone who thinks Kanye West is 'sexist' or 'reactionary' is a self-sodomizer, i.e. a dick with their head up their ass.
professorchaos
7th July 2008, 04:43
Good news!

Kayne West is not a rapper; he is a hip-hop artist.

A former girlfriend got me into hip-hop a couple years back; I like Kayne West (even if he is a little pop.)

edit: oh, by the way, my favourite song of his is "Good Life".Hip-hop is the musical style, rap is the lyrical style. He is a rapper and a hip-hop artist.
Lost In Translation
7th July 2008, 05:10
I love "Touch the Sky" and "Good Life", but not all of Kanye West's music. I have to agree he's quite egotistical, claiming that he was "one of the kings of this business" in the recent BET music awards (or something like that). But all in all, you have to respect the man for what he does.
KrazyRabidSheep
7th July 2008, 06:28
Hip-hop is the musical style, rap is the lyrical style. He is a rapper and a hip-hop artist.
Hip hop is further down the evolutionary chain from rap.
While rap concepts (the rhythmic chanting) can exist in hip hop (but does not always), that does not mean hip hop is rap.

The two-tone beat of ska (sometimes called the "skank" or "riddim") exists in rocksteady, reggae, two-tone, rockabilly, and other ska descendants; would you call all of these genres ska?

Likewise, rock is a descendant of R&B, jump blues, boogie-woogie, jazz, and ultimately ragtime. Would you consider Chuck Mangione and System of a Down in the same genre as Scott Joplin?
Led Zeppelin
7th July 2008, 13:28
Gold digger is an appallingly bad song

Why?

If you ain't no punk holla' we want pre-nup
WE WANT PRE-NUP!, yeah
Rex0230
7th July 2008, 16:02
He's a boring, fairly talentless rapper in my opinion. I don't like him. And i don't like the fact that we're all supposed to like him.

agree!
Sir Comradical
7th July 2008, 16:34
Overrated rapper, boring lyrics and crap flow. His social political commentary has been done before and is really nothing special...acts like a ***** too.
Sir Comradical
7th July 2008, 16:39
Hip hop is further down the evolutionary chain from rap.
While rap concepts (the rhythmic chanting) can exist in hip hop (but does not always), that does not mean hip hop is rap.

The two-tone beat of ska (sometimes called the "skank" or "riddim") exists in rocksteady, reggae, two-tone, rockabilly, and other ska descendants; would you call all of these genres ska?

Likewise, rock is a descendant of R&B, jump blues, boogie-woogie, jazz, and ultimately ragtime. Would you consider Chuck Mangione and System of a Down in the same genre as Scott Joplin?

I don't think it's that complicated at all. Hiphop is a noun indicating the genre of the music. Rap was originally a verb eg. "can you rap?", this verb later became a noun and later became used to represent the genre. I'm a purist when it comes to the words i use. So if someone asks me what music i like i say "Hiphop"...saying "rap" is about as silly as answering that question by saying "sing".
Pawn Power
7th July 2008, 16:43
His voice is kinda annoying, so no, not a fan.
Sir Comradical
7th July 2008, 16:45
His voice in kinda annoying, so no, not a fan.

Yes it is...

http://img47.imageshack.us/img47/4549/immortaltechniquesubwayzu0.png

Immortal Technique ftw.