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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
I know you are a Kanye superfanatico BUT what we are talking about is not quantifiable in any way. Yeah I am biased in not being a fan of the guy, but remember I am not a hater, I investigate things before I make hot take statements and I legitimately mean what I said even I was being snarky. Sure five or six years, ten years ago even I would have totally agreed with you.
when i listen to rap on the radio to me it doesn't sound like Kanye's more recent albums. I'm not being a hater, just being honest
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Whoah there, Brohammed. Remember who you're talking to here. I may be a hopelessly devoted Kanye fanatic, but nothing, not even the man himself, is more important to me than clearly defined quantitative measurement techniques and solid statistical reporting.
The comment I made was not meant to be a quantifiable one. Let me be clear: it was 100% subjective, and limited even beyond that by my own fundamentally imperfect memory and recall ability. That's why I said
that I can think of."
So fear not. There was no presumption of stating a fact. I was just telling you what came to my mind in the moment. I genuinely tried to think of some artists that had no overt links to Kanye somewhere in their delivery or style, and while I'm sure there are actually many — YG, for example, must have been in a coma between 2004 and 2014), I was hard pressed to name a name on the fly.
Even YG, whose style and approach is the polar opposite of Kanye's took a page from the book of Kendrick, who was at least informed by the 'Ye age.. still, no similarities between them that I can find — and I REALLY tried to think of a rapper that can be said to be a direct sonic descendent of Drake... For that one, I've still got nothing.
Anyway, brother, it was just an off the cuff, chin rubbing moment for me. Let it be known that I was definitely not suggesting that my ruminations were backed by hard data.
