Decided to start a thread with interesting quotes from articles I across about Kanye

While most star artists of the past suffered significant commercial setbacks during their late-career experimental turns away from the pop and rock mainstream -- Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Prince -- Kanye West seems all but impervious to such fading fortunes, as his albums have routinely bowed with blockbuster-level first-week numbers regardless of how seemingly uncommercial the music within is. Even Jesus Is King, a Christian- and gospel-based, 11-track effort with no advance singles, few guests and largely unimpressed early reviews, moved a robust 264,000 first-week equivalent album units.

West's multi-platform, multi-medium mastery when it comes to exciting and satisfying his cult following appears to have earned him something close to lifetime allegiance -- while the credit he's built up in the larger culture as both an artist and celebrity means his projects will always draw heavy amounts of interest, regardless of how they (or West in general) are generally received by mainstream media. In an attention economy, Kanye West has all the capital he could ever need, and he knows how to use it as well as any other artist in 21st century music.
billboard.com/amp/articles/columns/hip-hop/9625581/kanye-west-donda-reasons-why-chart-performance