When it comes to smoking weed I am self-taught.
He is one, though.... it takes a lot of talent to take samples and consistently turn them into catchy, unique beats while establishing your own personal style, tbh.... and even beyond being a producer, Kanye's one of the few decent mainstream rappers in the game, it ain't like Dr. Dre whose beats were far better than his rhymes.... show some respect to a true genius, B....
Faker.
to be fair, rap did originate from jamaican immigrants. roots brah.
I guess musical genius is a throwaway term now and it doesn't mean much.
Let's say he is a genius to you- but not even close to being a genius to me- and agree to disagree.
Musical genius to me is a musician who can write original material, words and music, play several instruments and be great at all of them, sing like nobody's business, arrange, produce, play in a band that can play great in the studio -- and live, etc....
Stevie Wonder= musical genius
Kanye West= gtfo
Michael Jackson = Musical genius
Kanye West = seriously?
Why do you assume Kanye can't play several instruments? I am not a fan of his but that is a really silly assumption. He can obviously play keyboards/synthesizer, program an 808, and I also believe he can also play drums.
When was it ever?Snoop Dogg said he's not completely retiring from hip-hop but is "tired" of the genre because it is no longer challenging.
He might.
He might play one of those midi programmers...which is basically pushing a button that plays a beat that real musicians recorded by playing real instruments.
Not the same as actually learning an instrument and mastering it.
He can't sing. He doesn't write good melodies. On and On and On...
Would that make him a musical genius? IMO ...No.
You do realize your stance is identical to traditionalists when people started plugging in to play, right? And just as ridiculous? BTW, Flavor Flav is proficient with 15 instruments. He began playing piano at age 5. You wouldn't guess looking at him.
Last edited by leemajors; 08-02-2012 at 11:17 AM.
Maybe.
In the interest of diplomacy I will say that I am probably judging musicality by traditional music standards and I am unqualified to judge today's musical standards.
So, Kanye would not qualify based on those standards. Maybe being a musical genius in today's music is different- I don't really know.
Maybe today's music will be proven to be just as good as yesterday's music in time.
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