I showed my mom and brother Roses in high school and they just made fun of the fact that he said "reefer". Made me mad 'cause I wanted them to vibe with how deep the song really is.

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grandfather came over for the holidays and had asked me if i heard how beautiful jesus is king is

People always looking for something to poke fun at Kanye with instead of seeing the bigger picture

I just throw on Dark Fantasy, s***s so dope and one of the most accessible songs ever

I try to do this with my younger sister but she's too mind controlled by social media and popular negative opinions to fully embrace him

Showed her CD after nudging for a while and she really liked it and added a s*** ton to her playlist...but then refused to continue down and play like LR or literally anything else

Then now she'll say she doesn't like or care for his music when its clear every time I show her something she likes it. Only One one of her favorite songs just off me randomly playing it years back and she still acts ignorant

S***'s annoying a lot of people out there aren't really interested in good music

my dad got some random mixtapes made on cassettes because his car only had a cassette player and Throught the Wire was on it. Both my dad and mom loves his old stuff

I've always played Kanye's music here and there for my cousins when we were growing up, but out of all the albums, they listen to The Life of Pablo over everything.

depending on age, hype for that album was booming in high schools (in america, at least) so it was probably the most likely album they'd access

I'll never forget my Mexican immigrant mom's reaction to the end of H.A.M. she said it was the devil's music

My family likes different eras of Kanye so there is always something good or some kind of common ground to talk about.

Mom & dad likes CD & LR, older Brother loves CD to Grad, Younger brother loves Yeezus & MBDTF, younger sister likes 808s & Grad, & I like almost everything, so

We also all laugh together about dumb s*** he does nowadays tho. Ranging from basically "damn that nigga wild'n lmao" to "damn what happened to the nigga man smh wtf".

I would never show any member of my family a rap song. Period. My family are trash and consider my interest in rap as a source of peculiarity and satire (even though it’s been a 20 year obsession now with a whole room needed for my album collections).

I showed my mom JIK and now she thinks I'm part of some christian denomination.

wtf

shut the f*** up and play ON SIGHT for ya grandma

i still havent recovered from telling ppl to listen to ye, before hearing it myself 😔

ye is not bad. one of my friends texted me right after it came out saying they absolutely loved it. You gotta understand people that havent listened to anything kanye are probably coming from a background of mid tier music. So while Ye might have been only decent to us folks that have listened to his previous work, it was astonishing for them in comparison to what they typically listen to.

My mom loves Ye, Drake & the Weeknd. She grew up listening to MJ/Prince and them.

Idk one friend told me he skiped every song expect all mine snd yikes

It’s bad.

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of course, the two most generic songs on the album

Showed my pops some of "MBDTF".

He noticed the Smokey Robinson sample off of "DIAND" right away.