I think I agree with you that Kanye should have stepped away long ago.

The front half of his career was so potent to me personally that Kendrick doing the superbowl is his introduction in the same conversation as Kanye to me

I wasn't saying you were wrong for heralding JAY Z. Im saying that this current generation find it hard to resonate with his catalog.

You sound very combative for no reason, like a female.

If he stopped after Donda LP2, when he floated into the sky, he would’ve went down as the greatest to ever do it

Instead he did a 3rd LP with SA niggas and the rest is history

Yeah a lot of niggas on this website did not grow up with parents that even listened to rap and weren’t immersed in rap culture at all until they discovered Kanye and expect me to have the same opinions as them

I was raised on hip hop purely , my perspective is gonna be different

I misread the tone of your post because a lot of people have been saying this same sentiment but actually from their perspective

There wasn’t nothing female about what I just said though, women definitely have a better grip on their emotions than men

If you consider yourself a hip-hop head and haven’t listened to Hovs prime catalog then you’re missing out big time

I understand why the current generation of kids wouldn’t like it tho. It’s highly lyrical and the production may feel dated to them

On to the next one music video was so potent they swear it had to be illuminati

Followed Kanye from College Dropout to now. Remember seeing Frontin on BET when the s*** released. I grew up on Hip Hop, Kanye was always an alternative type dude to a lot of rap listeners.

You had to live through that BP3 era

Didnt age that well but that album was the s*** at the time

As an old head myself (I watched every Kanye album come out in real time)

We had to go back and listen to older rap too that sounded dated and stuff in order to have buy in on the music and a valid opinion imo.

That’s kind of been lost in the internet discourse of music and I think it’s important to conserve it.

What’s crazy is Kanye’s creativity and passion fizzled out after a decade

Kendrick’s over a decade in and just hit a new prime

Yeah I grew up literally arguing with most the adults in my life about Kanye and definitely niggas at school , thats why I tell people this Kanye is the undisputed GOAT s*** is some online s***

In real life people have diverse opinions, theres nobody who is unanimously loved

I think his music being unavailable on streaming for years, as well as him owning a competitor to Spotify and AM is why so many younger people are unfamiliar. Spotify isn’t exactly gonna favor the discover algorithm for a guy that is trying to eat into their market share

I never got the impression he was a big fan of Kendrick's music, this is expected

Didn’t they do like 50 tracks together at one point
He was on all day and tlop etc

Seemed like they were cool at least

You can thank Yachty and Uzi for starting the trend of “look how cool I am, Who’s biggie?”

Absolutely. I remember being a kid and my peers not f***ing with golden era hip-hop (krs, Rakim, kool g rap) bc it felt like old head music. I always tried to pay my respects tho bc that’s previous gen’s always lay the foundation for the next

Death of Autotune, Run this Town, Empire State of Mind, Already Home, on to the next one, young forever. In retrospect that s*** was crazy lmao

Album is honestly still dope to me tbh

Freddie doesn't fw the swatistika s*** and rumour is that he wasn't paid for Back To Me verse 👀

Kendrick and Cole don’t portray a big enough lifestyle for Kanye to think they’re cool

He lowkey acts like a suburban white kid

When I look back at it, "Jockin Jay-Z" was literally an "A Milli" clone lol

S*** was so lame man lol

Multiple rappers tried to get an A Milli type song around that time it was kinda nasty lol