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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
Haha were you honestly going to say Kanye was the MJ of hip hop? Dude... don't cheapen Michael like that! I don't think ANY hip hop group can be the MJ of hip hop because what MJ did since he was a kid was too transformational. We forget how influential MJ is simply because we all live in a world AFTER him. Call me when Kanye invents entirely new genres of music, becomes a cultural icon, and inspires generations to dance.
Best i can give Kanye is the Lou Reed of rap. Mercurial. Unstable. Not always making popular decisions. Still defined a decade of music
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Hey, I can get behind this. You are basically saying that my favorite post Sonic Youth artist is like the my favorite pre-Sonic Youth artist of rap.
But Kanye's been infinitely more successful than Lou Reed, and successful in a different way. He hasn't exactly invented new genres of music, but he has changed the sound of modern hip-hop with every new album he's released. I suppose he's not the MJ of rap, but if someone had to be, it would be him. But he's not. He's released too much good material and too little bad material to be the Prince or David Bowie of rap, though, so I'm stuck thinking MJ is the best comparison, because basically the only standards for universal greatness are The Beatles, Mochael Jackson, Nirvana, and... well, maybe Kanye's just his own thing. And others are destined to be the Kanye of other things, rather than Kanye being the anyone of anything himself.
But I can roll with that Lou Reed comparison ...