College prof told me Kanye West is a top-10 musician, all time.

Music Theorist wrote:

Earlier today I wrapped up a music theory course with a final. The professor is considered to be pretty knowledgeable, etc. Anyway, all semester he kind of led us on with an inside joke, saying he'd reveal his favorite current musician after the final. And so today he revealed his favorite musician: Kanye West, saying that everything about Kanye's music is brilliant, and he can measure up to the all time greats. Don't get me wrong, I like some Kanye West music, but all time great?

Does my professor's statement have merit, or was he just trolling us?

PS: not sure why this thread was originally deleted?

This is laughable. Kanye isn't top ten in anything other than saying crazy sh**.

All he does is sample other artists music.

He isn't even close to being a top 10 rapper.

What about the substance? wrote:

I'm still waiting to hear or see comments that debate what he was saying. I have only observed news pundits and their guests bashing him about mental illness.

Is 'prison reform' a bad thing?

Is independent thinking, a bad thing?

Is questioning a political party that has dominated black America for many decades, a bad thing?

Yes it's a bad thing when a crazy idiot has a rambling rant about it and doesn't know what he is talking about.

The guys lost his mind when his mother died.

This guy has never voted and said he doesn't read books. That is quite obvious from his words and actions the last ten years.

TrackFan19 wrote:

What about the substance? wrote:

I'm still waiting to hear or see comments that debate what he was saying. I have only observed news pundits and their guests bashing him about mental illness.

Is 'prison reform' a bad thing?

Is independent thinking, a bad thing?

Is questioning a political party that has dominated black America for many decades, a bad thing?

Yes it's a bad thing when a crazy idiot has a rambling rant about it and doesn't know what he is talking about.

The guys lost his mind when his mother died.

This guy has never voted and said he doesn't read books. That is quite obvious from his words and actions the last ten years.

You ddin't answer a single question.

Kanye is probably one of the most critically-acclaimed artists ever, or at least in the last 20 years or so.

If you take his solo albums off Metacritic, nobody in the true mainstream really compares with him except Arcade Fire, Kendrick Lamar, Vampire Weekend, and a select few others. So yes, the argument has merit.

This is laughable. Kanye isn't top ten in anything other than saying crazy sh**.

All he does is sample other artists music.

He isn't even close to being a top 10 rapper.

He's the most critically acclaimed rapper that has released at least 5 albums. Kendrick is more critically acclaimed, probably. That's about it. Most rappers do not produce their own music.

Also, get out of here with the dumb "only samples other people's music.". That's what hip hop is based upon. Every great hip hop producer samples, it's an artform in and of itself and devaluing someone's work because they sample is like devaluing a Tarantino movie because it contains references to film history. Some of the samples in hip hop blow my mind. the 93 to Infinity sample is from like 3 seconds of a very long jazz song. For Kanye's part, his sampling on Yeezus was insane. Also, some of his best songs are actually not sampled (Ultralight Beam) which is rare for hip hop.

“It’s Important For Me To Get Hoover Out Because In An Alternate Universe, I Am Him” – Kanye West

Can you imagine for a moment if Barack Obama had hosted a nationally televised Oval Office meeting with a rapper in which said rapper advocated the release of Larry Hoover — a founder of one of Chicago’s most deadly street gangs?

Ronald Safer (who put away Hoover), Former federal prosecutor, claims: “Larry Hoover ran the largest monolithic gang that’s ever existed in our country,” Safer said. “It was a gang that was responsible for over $100 million in drug sales in Illinois alone and operated in 28 states. It was single-handedly responsible for hundreds of murders in the city of Chicago,” and is more influential than ever.

http://thesource.com/2018/10/12/kanye-west-larry-hoover/

“I just want to talk about mind control, you know when people try to influence you through social media, and try to tell you what to do. If you post something that is like positive on Instagram and it gets taken down, if it’s not part of a bigger agenda, you know that’s mind control, that’s the echo chamber that’s trying to control you.”

” You’ve got to just question when people who get on tv shows, who all are they doing business with? What are they connected to? What’s their agenda? We’ve got people holding other people down– it’s a modern day psychological, like Ayn Rand, control thing.”

“I am not worried about any type of blog or social media. You all already saw that it was a lie! Social media told you that Hillary was going to win, and she didn’t win. Social media told you that people don’t like me, but everyone loves me. Everybody loves Ye, but if you read social media it makes you think something different. Un-program your minds and open up your heart, let the Spirit guide you.“

https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1051253667687526400

Who? Last week after seeing him on news I asked my wife what he does. Is he a musician? Actor? I honestly don't know. She didn't either. I think he is/was married to a Kardashian. Does that make him famous?

I love lamp.

Music is one of those things that are subjective.. just because something is on the top charts doesnt mean its the best it just means its more popular which doesnt always correlate. there are exceptions though some music really is less than dog crap and hardly music but your professor should stick to facts instead of spreading opinions as facts.

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