At age 42 still a high selling artist with changing the vibe of the album every time without chasing hits

How he still has 35+ million monthly Spotify listeners

How when Follow God was #1 trending on Youtube when the vid dropped

But they still try to say the boy irrelevant music wise

They called Ye a flop but it's been streamed over a billion times

Ye still popping even with the some of the nonsense he's been saying

How many other 40 year olds doing this :word:

blows my mind to think he’s been a big mainstream artist since 2004/05 and still haven’t lost a step

Greatest artist resting or alive

I am genuinely baffled at how he’s still popular

kanye west is the greatest and most influential artist of the 21st century

your favorite artist could never

Kanye West is the greatest music artist of all time. I'm tired of people comparing him to oldheads. He has outclassed everyone else.

the greatest of our generation. his legacy will last forever

I love that you could bring ye out at a concert in 2004 and 2019 and the crowd would go equally as insane

That Forbes cover was just confirmation.

I mean he went from almost a million first week with graduation to 250k with JiK. He was outselling everyone back then. Him doing what he did to 50 would be like if he dropped the same day as Drake nowadays and outsold him. Not happening. So he's lost a bit of a step.

streaming completely changed that s*** bro no album has gotten CLOSE to platinum first week since streaming services came into play

I really just mean as far as popularity is concerned. He ain't gonna be #1 over several artists. Back then he could've dropped the same week as anyone and outsold the hell out of them

No he wasn't Ye was big but he was always smaller then Em and such.

He had a small period of power but it wasn't long and 808s killed his sales for the rest of his career. It was plenty of big artist that coulda outsold Ye then he just avoided them.

Grad was his one time as the kinda top dawg

Man had a one year run as that guy dude I love Ye but you exaggerating his run.

Grad was the peak and that was it

That’s on God

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