EminemBase wrote:You would only say this if you knew nothing at all about Kanye West, his background, his ambitions, his knowledge and passion for rap etc.
I'm in the UK and we do actually hear a lot of Kanye so I don't know where you got that.
I'm not talking about his latest fucking around with autotune, that started in 2008.
The College Dropout, Late Registration and Graduation are rap albums. With elements of soul. They're hip-hop. And obviously he doesn't sound like Eminem. Just like Eminem doesn't sound like 2Pac. But they're all similar in their ambitions, passion and love for the art.
Kanye is not a pop-rapper by any means. That's total bs. You don't know Kanye.
You're right, I don't know anything about Kanye apart from the music I've heard from him, I shouldn't have to go reading up on his backround, I want to hear it lyrically, we all have different opinions on what makes a great rapper and for me creative lyrics are the essential quality needed, something I feel Kanye falls short in, auto-tune along with whoring himself around to be on any appearance track is annoying aswell.
In Scotland we had Goldigger overplayed on the radio and nothing much else memorable was played for a long period of time, even Jesus Walks didn't have much radio time, and I got that from living in Scotland.
And IMO he did go "pop" (I know it really means popular, but you get what I mean) and no I don't know Kanye, I'm very glad I don't, the impression he gave most of the world was he was a grade A twat, and I thought that before he bitched about Beyonce not winning some shitty MTV award
