Kanye West

I shouldn't be giving him anymore attention than he already has; and by following through with this post I am taking part in the taboo ritual we call "hating", but I must continue.


What a pretentious douche.


I say this with the utmost respect for his work, up until his most recent album. Graduation had some of the best production I've heard in the last 5 years; innovative and inspiring. It made me jealous, the sounds he was able to make. What a perfect blend of pop and rap! His two prior to Graduation were solid efforts, notably "Jesus Walks" from The College Dropout, because of the talk box and break beat style he threw together. Genius!

His work he did for Scarface, Mobb Deep (Throw Ya Handz Up off of Amerikaz Nightmare), Jay-Z and others were always a treat. If it said produced by Kanye West, I usually got excited. "This should be good," was my initial thought.

Okay, it's important for me to make my issues clear, right off the bat. What better way than to explain what auto tune is.

Auto-tune is a software that was made to edit vocal preformances in the studio. For example, say an artist could not hita certain note, the auto tune comes in and correct this, a slight pitch bend, if you will.

T-Pain debuted by taking this software and abusing it: he made the effect sound obvious, and it inspired a trend. I have respect for him because of this. He was a pioneer, and he did something cool, for hip-hop.

Then, Kanye West takes this same sound that he heard from T-Pain (with Pain's approval), and uses it for his album.

But Kanye goes a step further

Instead of applying this sound to hip hop and r&b, West takes the auto-tune and applies it to arty pop sound scapes. This would have been fine, if he hadn't COMPARED HIMSELF TO THE BEATLES.

The reason why T-Pain gets a pass if because he was the first to use it in that way, and because he doesn't act like he's Aretha Franklin.

Kanye gets nothing but disdain. COMING FROM A GUY who made solid pieces of music with painstaking effort, he gives us this McDonalds fast food bull shit and acts like he's the next Marvin Gaye.

If you can't sing, don't subsititute it for something else. Take the time; learn the craft and then try comparing yourself to establish musicians who spent YEARS of hard work honing their sound. Kanye did this shit in like...what, a year? The release dates between Graduation and 808's are close.

And his reasoning for using it, taken from wikipedia (which was taken from another article):

He considers the technology (auto-tune) "the funnest thing to use" and compared the situation to when he was a child and thought the color pink was cool until someone told him "it was gay." He went on to state how the views of society can rob people of their confidence and self-esteem.

No, you see, the reason why you're getting flac for this because you suck now. Lick your wounds and shut up.


this was a terrible post, I'm sorry



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