Now it's not like people need to defend Kanye West on the Internet. No matter what anyone says, Kanye's going to keep being Kanye and that's that.
But this is besides that!
It's the principle of the matter!
I don't know what is in me... actually, I'm lying I do know what it is in me. I'm a musician with strong opinions and sometimes I just won't stand for things.
If you know me, you know I'm a Kanye fan. A huge Kanye fan. But this rant isn't one centering around the fact that people hate Kanye. I literally cannot care about other people's opinions on stuff I like. Or, at least, I won't held them against having their opinions.
What really gets me are people's inability to judge music.
I'll totally understand you're distaste of an artist if you present a perfectly logical reason why you don't. Or you can even present a perfectly illogical reason why you don't.
WHAT YOU CANNOT DO, is give me an inaccurate reason for liking something. If you say Kanye is talentless because he's not that good of a freestyle rapper, then you are wrong. Very wrong.
We all know (well if you consider yourself to be in the know) that Kanye is NOT the best rapper alive. That's very much given. Also, if you consider yourself to be a fan of hip hop, I would hope that you would know that Kanye's music profile is really based on his success as a producer/rapper and not just a rapper.
What I really want is to have an intelligent conversation about music. "Oh you don't like so and so? Well, I do but I want to know why you don't like so and so. No, I'm not trying to convince you to like so and so, I just think it's good to hear why you don't like so and so."
But when you rebuttal my assertion that Kanye's real talent lies in his production with the fact that all he does is sample melodies from songs that are already, speeds them up, loops them and puts a beat over it, well then I must say it's not fucking 2007 anymore.
I'm not here to say that I know everything. But when I do take a strong opinion on something, I do my research about it. There's not much worse than having a strong, ignorant opinion.
So if you want to debate something and pretend to know "all about the rap game" at least do some research about the "music game."
Hip-hop is more than just the rap lyrics. We wouldn't be where we are today without J. Dilla.
And it's not because his verses were whack.
