Kanye is obviously a very controversial artist for a lot of reasons. The big question is if Kanye was like a media trained normal rapper, would he be as big as he is? Moments like the taylor incident, supporting trump, maga hat, and "slavery was a choice". Would Kanye be bigger or smaller without moments like this?

smaller

ye gotta be top 10 most famous people on the planet and thats mostly due to his antics

smaller, but not by much

he already had a lot of connections before his first album and would probably still be semi-relevant in music, but his controversies made him more "iconic" i guess. would def not have two shoe deals if he didn't say his s***

Still huge artist cause of the talent, but not as iconic probably

Not only has controversy around him made him more popular, it made celebs like bush and Taylor famous

Assuming taylor swift moment still happens, he is just as famous

He part shock value just like most of em

He’d be 10x bigger if every scandal starting with Taylor Swift on to now didn’t happen

He’d be smaller if any scandal before then didn’t happen

Nigga was finna go on tour with Lady Gaga and Pastelle woulda been his BBC/Sean John and he would have got his foot into fashion and still been loved more by white people

And ironically he wouldn’t have had to beg for white daddy to save him bc Pastelle would have gave him hella capital and connections presumably

All died with the Taylor Swift s***

he wouldn't be Ye. half of what crystallized him as so iconic is stuff he got backlash for at the time. I was watching Cnn yesterday and Don lemon literally told anderson cooper "Imma let you finish"

Would we have even gotten MBDTF or by extension Yeezus if he didn't have that controversy though?

Damn. This niggas career looks a lot different if that Swift s*** doesn’t happen.

Probably doesn’t make MBDTF and just Remakes Graduation a few more times

Gives him more relevance

But he was the biggest artist in the world in like 2007, with like no big drama right?

Ever heard of 808s?

808s still happens cause his mom passed away but if Taylor Swift never happens he doesn’t feel the need to make an apology album (MBDTF) for the people

Yeah, but why would he remake graduation?

Maybe not remake graduation but def stay on the pop rap lane

you mean in the US

6ix9ine more famous in europe than Kanye

Not just europe lol he also speaks Spanish