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I always wonder about this. I like Kanye's older music, but it feels like he told y'all that he's the most important and influential musician of our generation, and everyone believed it.
He put the light on some shit and made it popular, but he was never really an originator of anything. Dude was just real popular
Are you serious? Dude completely changed hip hop, multiple times. Absolutely massive innovator in production style, and basically created the chipmunk soul style of production. He would be considered one of the most important figures in hip hop even if he never even released an album, just for his production work with Jay Z.
The College Dropout was a landmark record for hip hop, for many reasons.
Then he had another landmark record in 808s, popularizing the use of auto tune and melodicism in hip hop (not a trend in hip hop I loved, but you can't deny the influence here).
Then he had another landmark record in MBDTF, bringing hip hop to the absolute front and center of pop culture. Completely bombastic and basically the HH equivalent of a stadium rock album. Collabs with Justin Vernon and samples from King Crimson brought in fans of rock to hip hop like never before.
Yeezus is slowly showing itself to be more and more influential as well, though this one was delayed a bit but we're seeing more and more high profile disciples.
Anyone that denies the influence of Kanye is completely ignorant. He's a piece of shit, sure. But his music has been incredibly important and to deny that is absolutely ridiculous.
What did he change though, that wasn't already a growing wave?
Conscious rap has been a thing since the beginning of rap, 808s/ Cudis style, Yeezus/Death Grips.. He gets credit for soul sampling, which can be seen plenty in RZAs work, and huge with Erick Sermons Music before Kanye was into it
And rap was already pop before 2010. Wayne was on every pop song remix in the c3 era
I just think dude gets to much credit for innovation because of his fame.
808s was the stadium album, I couldn't credit MBDTF with drawing a rock crowd to hiphop. For one Run DMC had that shit decades before.
He popularised some stuff, like autotune but he didn't start the wave.
I think the truth is between both of you guys.
808s, his most depressive album of his career is his stadium album? Was this a typo? I could accept Grad maybe.
I actually did mean Graduation, the one with Chris Martin and all.