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Originally Posted by foreverasskiss
Lownt God Rising is good but nothing like Yeezus. i mean Ye released the best album of 2013. how is that possible? - with him being a media superstar, his wife and all? it's like if Dangerous was my fav of 91. shit's crazy!!! it goes against all my ethos. hahah, like i had any ethos to begin with.
im glad it happened.
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I feel the same way. I mean, it's really weird to sit back and reflect on how Kanye fits into the overarching "theme" of my top 10 artists list, which he broke into with a bullet in her first half of 2013.
I've always been a pretty by the book post punker: SY, Fugazi, Unwound, Wire, Jackie-O Motherfucker, Mission of Burma, GY!BE, and so on. But Yeezy is without a doubt one of my favorite artists of all time at this point, and sometimes I feel like I'm breaking a rule of my own making.
But fuck it. Lou Reed himself thought Yeezus was brilliant, and smart as hell. And he was right! Jello Biafra might not agree. The Melvins might not agree. But if it's Lou-certified brilliant, then I don't feel any need to justify Ye's place among the other 9 artists in my top ten. He's just that fucking good, that fucking weird, and that fucking iconoclastic.
Plus he's opened me up to entire sub-realms of hip hop, and boosted my interest in electronic music, which is kicking ass and taking names this year like hip-hop did last year. Kanye West is making intentionally polarizing music, and using his public persona to fuck with the very industries he was once enchanted by (music and fashion). It's like he's daring people to write him off as a loudmouth narcissist with no talent, but nobody can do that. Even the suggestion of it is absurd. He forces people to who really want to hate him to dig through an uninterrupted run of 100% brilliant fucking albums to find their ammunition and their rationale for hating him so.
But they can't find it, so they panic and make fun of his teeth, or his big personality, and they end up looking like goddamn goobers when the absolute guru of musical integrity praises his album for its brilliance.
Anyway, I'm rambling. If I was a 17 year old again, strutting around in a Drive Like Jehu shirt and thinking myself to be the shit of all shits, I'd probably find a way to continue writing him off to protect my own vision of my cultural identity. But then I'd be a giant poser bitch, and I'd be super embarrassed about it later.
It's the best album of 2013, and that's just how it is.