goodlookingmofo said:

Very true. Prince, Michael, Madonna, Mariah, Eminem are very big headed...and they have the right to be. I mean Kanye hasnt had his 10 year solo rap staple yet however..he knows his craft well and has produced constant fab albums...he defines and challenges his genere of music and you can't fault him on that. Even with the samples, he does them in a way that is thoughful..not copy and paste like uffy's past career movement.

Kanye is also someone who KNOWS he is egotistic. He never said he wasnt. Either you love him or you hate him

SCNDLS said:

that's my secret plan

kenlacam said:

of course I'm serious. I totally love to listen to his voice.

graecophilos said:

...when it's autotuned, right?

paisleypark4 said:

but don't you think he's smarter as people think? What he says is not dumb.

Btw, what was this President Bush does not care about black people mess?

Was Austin Power next to him shocked? He gulps and looks shocked and yet sad at Kanye??

graecophilos said:

Well Bush was apparently (and I can believe this) TOO slow to get his folks to get the New Orleans residents out fast enough during Hurricane Katrina. And Kanye felt like saying it. But hey everybody else said the same thing.

But you know what was odd about that? Kanye looked scared than a mug.

Timmy84 said:

yeah, I agree. And I don't think he was too wrong with what he was sayin (although it has to be said that Bush did a lot for the HIV infected/AIDS sick people in Africa!)

but I wanna know about Austin. He seemed totally uncomfortable. Did he commend the thing sooner or later?

Like earlier mentioned by others, creative ideas, image & style. All power to him for that.

I remember him stating somewhere that he done it "all" creatively and that after him nothing else can follow up by anyone, period. Next thing you see him performing on a tv-show (@ one of Kimmel's episodes if i recall), while singing with autotune badly.
Yeah right , nothing better can be done after him and "ALL good artists have HUGE egos" ? ... can we leave the "good" on his singing part which has to be pimped up with autotune and even then it still sounds bad when performing live ? What a joke

Timmy84 said:

I'm not a fan into his Heartless voice, but on other ongs of 808s it was not that heavily autotuned.

But I like the way his voice sounds when he's rapping. I like the sound of his voice when he's giving interviews. I wish I would have his accent.

Is it really a Chicago accent? Are there similarities with Obama's?

Does his accent sound cool or dumb?

I gotta know, I'll try to adept it.

graecophilos said:

He sounds dumb, lol. And no, I wouldn't compare him to Obama, no way.

Timmy84 said:

neither would i. Obama is a piece of shit. Kanye is a good man.

goodlookingmofo said:

come on.

Timmy, for real? He sounds dumb? Unfortunately I'm not into American accents and know what sounds good or not (in German I could easily tell you which accents sound dumb or smart, normal etc).

I think Kanye has a strange way of talking... But I'm in love with it.

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graecophilos said:

Because he knew what he was about to say would be a BIG statement..it was very very bold. I halfway applause him for it...but in a way it was kind of embarassing to put it as a race thing...although every black person had said that 1000 times already...you dont put street talk on tv.



Thats cool. being from New York the move to Minnesota was horrendous for black people with Chicago accents. I HATED IT. I could hardly understand them they sounded so country to me.

I still don't think it's cute now however like his tone and his voice. He sounds sure of himself and confident.

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Timmy84 said:

and would you say Kanye sounds typical for his area?

graecophilos said:

Well him and Common made a perfect match. Although Kanye has more of an accent than he does. I'd say not too much of it because the people in South Side chicago are even worse with it.

I can describe it as somewhat country but they have a type of mid western twang to it...like how he says "again" and "in" 'agayyyn' and '[ee]in'. There is somewhat of an extra emphasis on the e in i.

Not even close!

graecophilos said:

OK, maybe NOT DUMB, I should've said he talks funny.

Timmy84 said:

okay, now I agree.

paisleypark4 said:

and how he says "now" sounds like nah.

Somehow I can't get into his second album. I dislike most of the songs. Was it his try to manifest his success?

he is not even close to the best rapper. he to me is CRAP!!!

nosajd said:

and why? technically, or don't you like his rhymes? do you like his musique at all?

anyway, i just nam madly in love with his latest album. i don't wanna start ANOTHER Kanye thread, does anyone know if there'll be another album this year=