More stupidity from Kandyass West. Beyonce has many dues to pay before she can catch up to Ms. Turner. Tina has endured different eras and different styles of music. If B can stay in the business long enough and show versatility, she has a shot at least as good as TT if not greater.

17dayz said:

Damn rights!!

Tina

IAintTheOne said:

I'm out this bitch!

No one should take anything Kanye West says seriously. He just loves attention.

i agree with kanye, i never saw anything special in tina turner.her and aretha franklin are the most over rated female artists imo, but at least aretha have the accomplishments to go along with her hype, i just dont think tina turner has left the kind of musical legacy to warrant the pedastal people put her on

lowkey said:

Kanye didn't say all that now...

KidaDynamite said:

He ain't THAT crazy.

curioso said:

except the other two didn't see her as a lead singer...
Her father Mathew 'Golden Parachute' Knowles saw her as the lead singer

Shango said:

A bitch gotta do what she gotta do.

Uh...it's a little obvious he's gonna fawn over his boss's wife.

Duh.

SCNDLS said:

lowkey said:

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I see your smoking the same crack as Kayne.
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KidaDynamite said:

bboy87 said:

I don't agree with her being bigger than Tina, but I think she has potential to become a legend though songs like Diva will not help that at all.

VinnyM27 said:

she does?

laurarichardson said:

so because i dont share your opinion that tina turner is some great artist i must be smoking something?

lowkey said:

Basically. Yes.


Tina Turner is God. Damn it.

curioso said:

You and your broken ears.

Better singer? Since when is hystrionic wailing deemed better than a voice that can knock an audience on its ass?
Better songs? To the left, to the left... Oh, sheer genius.

I'm not a huge fan of either Tina or Beyonce but I gotta chime in here. If you look at the totality of Tina's catalog it's not overwhelmingly fantastic. She's recorded an awful lot of mediocre music. Yes, she obviously has many high points but if you consider everything that she recorded a lot of it was pretty poor. Now, Beyonce has recorded a lot less than Tina but I would argue that her music has been a bit more consistently good than Tina's. As of right now I think that on balance Beyonce's music, taken altogether, is "better" than Tina's music, taken altogether. To be fair to Tina the market today is vastly different than it was during the '60s-'80s when Tina was at her peak. In the '60s Tina was churning out multiple albums every year. Compare that to Beyonce who must be averaging one album every two years. So Beyonce's quality control is much higher than Tina's was. The question is will Beyonce maintain the same standard of quality over the course of her career.

what, ya'll just got the memo?



silly kanye, crack is for crackheads

rialb said:

there was a period of time where tina turner was a 'what ever happened to', i think her making that big comeback at her age with private dancer coupled with the book and movie about her abusive life had alot to do with people's awe of her, she wasnt that great imo

Beyonce is still not in the league of Tina Turner, whether Tina is overrated or whatever people think, she still isnt close to tina. Beyonce has hit a wall, she has not progressed musically since her Destinys child days, the songs, the tone, the angle, its all been the same through her DC days and now all over solo records. She needs to do a 360, and that DOESNT mean this fake ass SASHA crap. I mean Mariah called herself MIMI and yet the music was the same old bullshit.

lowkey said:

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Yes

rialb said:

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But Tina in her day could sing and dance her ass off. The best material in world is not going to raise Beyonce voice to Tina's level.

laurarichardson said:

diana ross,gladys knight, aretha, chaka,patti,donna summer>>>>>tina turner

lastdecember said:

You bring up a good point.Many of these modern-day female "divas" don't know how to grow and evolve! They do the same,dull album over and over.Beyonce thinks that coming up with a stupid alter ego is "reinventing herself" Both her and Mariah need to get out of their shit hop comfort zones and make some INTERESTING music for a change...you know,a REAL reinvention for a change.

SCNDLS said:

I wondered the same thing but for some reason he's just as bad if not worse than before. Humility will strike Kanye when he least expects it.

uPtoWnNY said:

After having seen Tina in concert earlier this month, I'd hope she'd kick Kayne in the balls with those stilletos. She put on such an incredible show so to hear Kayne say that shows how much he has for those who are real, legitmate legends as opposed to fake-ass wanna-be's like Beyonce and Kanye himself. Kanye needs to sit his sorry ass DOWN.