True but his celebrity presence and fashion influence went above the music already by the time he released clothes. if the shutter shades were Yeezy he’d be Bill Gates rich

Pablo & MSG were fire enough to keep his namesake in music good like 4 shaky years (aside from KSG) in a competitive climate theyre close fs

Im not saying anything about what graduation was or wasnt

Im saying TLOP was more cultural relevance than musical relevance

i wonder if tlop would’ve done a milli fw if it released properly

You're right I mixed 2017 and 2018 together for some reason

I think I need to go with 16 then

Im saying they both were, he was wayyyyy more active in Grad era though

I’m not saying Grad didnt have cultural relevance

I’m saying TLOP didnt have the same musical relevance as Grad so it was a peak but not in the same way Grad was, im not taking anything away from Grad its more of a comment about TLOP

TLOP wasnt so big bc it had traditional hit singles that era was more big due to fashion and aesthetic of the era, that wasn’t the case for Grad

Hmmmm idk not to the extent that he was by yeezus really. You have to agree that living thru Kanye once Yeezy was an established juggernaut in fashion and he had confirmed sm of his dominance and creativity in multiple fields, it was like people truly began to worship the guy.

People loved graduation Kanye. People prayed to Yeezus Ye lol.

Pablo was the intersection of his backpack old head fans and his zoomer fans who havnt heard the College trilogy

TLOP was really the last time we saw babyface Kanye before he turned heel so it makes sense

he had everyone on his side even with the politics

Lmao thats real but as the fanbase became more cult like he lost a lot of casual listener interest. There was a point where old white ladies were buying Kanye albums!

with a normal rollout and no Tidal, tlop would've had 3 top 10 singles and maybe even a #1 song. and 800k first week

The TLOP era tweets were a time man

TLOP release era was one of the most amazing things I'd ever seen

Yeah but that didnt happen

Graduation was his peak

Was it really during graduation tho? From calling bush a racist to pissing ppl off at SNL with his stunner shaded auto tune falsettos lmaooo. Kanye has always turned off some form of listener but he's always managed to increase his base no matter what. I mean globally you could argue regardless of music or normative social opinion he's as famous as he's ever been only infamous lol. The Yeezus Pablo time period he really was more appealable to old white ladies cuz Kris Jenner was on tv with him lmaooo. I could agree he was much more socially acceptable or w/e in his graduation era

2016-2017. Was working at adidas at the time everyone wanted Yeezys (except me, well maybe the 900s) his music wasn’t everywhere but his influence was.

Cruel Summer to The Life of Pablo

2008 and 2016

2008 over 2007?

id say Graduation was peak era for being a Kanye fan

artistically, his peak was MBDTF

Grad thru Yeezus is just some of the most peak music in general

Each album has its own unique setting and era