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Why do alot of people hate kanye?

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Kentpaul

When keepin it real goes wrong. Very, very wrong.
His face alone is pretty annoying

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Vicetrailia

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pickle said:
Yes, you can. Are you able to comprehend that there is nothing special about him as a rapper to me?
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In general, if one judges something before they understand it, then yes, it'll be difficult to comprehend. Not saying that's what you are doing, but there has to be some weight.
 
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Infinite

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pickle said:
Yes, you can. Are you able to comprehend that there is nothing special about him as a rapper to me?
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It just sounds like you're being a contrarian for the sake of being a contrarian. Like you just called dude something he isn't without any justification at all.
 
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daniels

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cdyhybrid said:
Couldn't be because they like his music, right?
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Ehh let's agree to disagree in my opinion he is boring, creates shitty boring music that sounds like any other shitty boring rap and his puplic "personality" is fake as fuck. So thats why i was wondering why some people like him but whatever to each his own.
 
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cdyhybrid

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daniels said:
Ehh let's agree to disagree in my opinion he is boring, creates shitty boring music that sounds like any other shitty boring rap and his puplic "personality" is fake as fuck. So thats why i was wondering why some people like him but whatever to each his own.
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That's your opinion. Not everyone shares your opinion. That's why people like him.
 
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ZaCH3000

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There are many reasons to dislike Kanye. His personality isn't likable to start. He comes off as a guy that would scream in your face for accidentally bumping into him, shoulder to shoulder in the street after apologizing.

Its easier to like him if you can relate to the music he makes. I can't even dance to it. Some songs are good but the majority of what he makes is too pop mainstream for me. I'm not discounting his talent, however. I know it takes tremendous talent to produce music and he is as talented as they come. However, he produces music I don't like.
 
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Infinite

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pickle said:
I can rattle off plenty of reasons for my opinion.
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It's fine if you think his material is not to your liking and I definitely won't demonize you for that. However you called him prototype pop/rap. what does that even mean? Saying that implies that you think being pop is an inherent negative which is silly.
 
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captainnapalm

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He takes samples (ie other people's music) and raps over it. And this somehow gives him the most incredible delusions of grandeur. Not much to like there.
 
highrider

highrider

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Infinite said:
It's fine if you think his material is not to your liking and I definitely won't demonize you for that. However you called him prototype pop/rap. what does that even mean? Saying that implies that you think being pop is an inherent negative which is silly.
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His personality and antics are front and center, music is secondary. That is the epitome of a pop rapper to me. Pop rap is negative to me, because they usually can't pull anything off live, and tend to have more radio ready music.
 
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Tim the Wiz

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It's the fact that he's an unabashedly provocative person. I can see the argument about the hate he receives being disproportionate, and being so in part due to the racial conditioning which surrounds the spectre of the angry black man, but that's the heart of it: He's unafraid to be open and real, and speak his mind. This makes people uncomfortable. Sadly, sometimes more uncomfortable, and more passionate in their dislike, than guys like Chris Brown, who do legit awful things like beat women. Especially when you add in his presence as a pop icon, which is unprecedented in certain ways for a rapper, or at least someone who started out in that genre. And all this coinciding within the age of social media. You have to remember, we look back at the antics of punk and pre-90s rock bands with a heavy dose of nostalgia; they certainly never faced the kind of scrutiny today's celebrities undergo.
 
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waypoetic

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Soler said:
Cause he makes great music and he's a talented artist
Has alot of passion and puts his heart into his music
except cruel summer
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So you like his music.. We don't like his personality. And for the record i think his music is shit, he's not a good rapper and he's doing the same thing as Jay-Z - rapping in a awkward monotone style, it's just not good rapping (or the lyricism for that matter)!
 
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Blearth

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ZaCH3000 said:
There are many reasons to dislike Kanye. His personality isn't likable to start. He comes off as a guy that would scream in your face for accidentally bumping into him, shoulder to shoulder in the street after apologizing.
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So you dislike him because of something that only exists in your imagination?
 
Dude Abides

Dude Abides

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His fans just get so worked up if you point out that he's not much more than a decent pop artist. Like Bieber fans, but instead of teenage girls they're ostensibly grown men.
 
Grinchy

Grinchy

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Even apart from his purposely over-the-top statements that me makes at the convenient time of whenever a new album is coming out, he genuinely seems to think much too highly of himself. And his little fans eat it up. KanyeGAF is like PopGAF.
 
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Brera

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I don't like the dude but respect that he has talent.

My problem is that the image he tries to project isn't sincere and it is obvious that he is probably a nice guy trying too hard to be a badass and he comes across as a jackass.
 
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Misterinenja

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I watched a video of one of his new songs and it was like a bad Nine Inch Nails parody.

It's cool that he's trying out weird stuff I guess.
 
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Blearth

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Grinchy said:
Even apart from his purposely over-the-top statements that me makes at the convenient time of whenever a new album is coming out, he genuinely seems to think much too highly of himself. And his little fans eat it up. KanyeGAF is like PopGAF.
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The entire world is KanyeGAF, dude.

The College Dropout (2004)

The College Dropout was voted as the best album of the year by Rolling Stone and in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics poll.[70][71] Spin ranked it number one on its list of 40 Best Albums of the Year.[72] Comedian Chris Rock has attested to listening to The College Dropout while writing his material.[73] In 2005, Pitchfork Media named it #50 in their best albums of 2000–2004.[74] In 2006, the album was named by Time as one of the 100 best albums of all time.[75] In its retrospective 2007 issue, XXL awarded it a perfect "XXL" rating, which had previously been given to only sixteen other albums.[76] In its July 4, 2008 issue, Entertainment Weekly listed College Dropout as the fourth best album of the past 25 years.[77] The magazine later listed it as the best album of the decade.[78] Newsweek placed The College Dropout among its Best Albums of the Decade list at number 3.[79] Rhapsody named it the seventh best album of the decade and the fourth best hip hop album of the decade.[80][81] Rolling Stone ranked it number 10 on its list of the 100 Best Albums of the Decade and stated, "Kanye expanded the musical and emotional language of hip-hop ... he challenged all the rules, dancing across boundaries others were too afraid to even acknowledge".[82] In 2012 Complex named the album one of the classic albums of the last decade,[83] and the 20th best hip hop debut album ever.[84] The same year Rolling Stone ranked The College Dropout number 298 on its list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time,[85] and 19th on their list of debut records.[86]
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Late Registration (2005)

Late Registration topped numerous music critic polls and was called the best album of the year by numerous publications, including USA Today, Spin, and Time.[35][68][69] Rolling Stone awarded the second effort the highest position on their end of the year record list and hailed it as a "sweepingly generous, absurdly virtuosic hip-hop classic."[70] In the 2005 Village Voice Pazz & Jop poll of 795 pop critics, Late Registration finished at number one by a wide margin over any of the other album nominees. This was the second year in a row that West topped the nationwide critic poll, a feat that had occurred only one other time over twenty years ago by The Clash.[71] Pitchfork Media cited Late Registration as the second best album of 2005, saying, "Co-producer Jon Brion lent West an expansively ecstatic lift that West had never had before, and West lent Brion a genially self-important strut that Brion had never had. Together, they crafted a cathedral of sonic details — a gorgeous, tangled, heartfelt strings-and-samples masterpiece."[72] PopMatters listed Late Registration as the eighteenth best album of the year, writing, "His rhyming style is unique for how intuitive it seems. It might not be technically perfect, but it jibes perfectly with the lyrical diversity of his songs, the way he goes from boasting and joking to crying and reminiscing in a heartbeat. It's an album that dares to be stupid and smart, angry and silly, painful and joyous. The rhymes are further elevated by a layered, carefully crafted sound of melodic, atmospheric soul. Guest vocalists sing with yearning; strings and horns blend with samples of old soul and blues songs; MCs from disparate backgrounds make show-stopping appearances and disappear. Boundaries smoothly slide into each other, and everyday music is built." [73] Late Registration stands as West's second consecutive studio release to be rated XXL by XXL, the magazine's highest rank, which has been awarded to only sixteen other hip-hop albums.[74]
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My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy (2010)

Many critics and publications named it the best album of the year,[148] including Billboard,[152] Time,[153] Slant Magazine,[154] Pitchfork Media,[155] Rolling Stone,[156] and Spin. The magazine's Charles Aaron wrote that it "is 2010's album of the year because Kanye dramatizes ... with a budget-averse musical imagination that's ominous, symphonic, heartsick, riff-ravaged, and driven by the most technically legit rapping he's ever managed".[157] The A.V. Club ranked the album at the top of its year-end list and commented on its significance, stating "Fantasy is an idiot-savant smash, an example of a musician overreaching, yet triumphing through dumb bravado and an imagination gloriously unfettered by logic. Kanye actually set out to make the album of the year when nobody listens to albums anymore".[158] My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy was voted best album in The Village Voice's Pazz & Jop critics' poll for 2010,[159] winning by the largest margin in the poll's history.[160] The singles "Power", "Runaway", and "Monster" were voted in the top-10 of the Pazz & Jop's singles list.[160] Metacritic, which collates reviews of music albums, named it the best-reviewed album of 2010.[147]

In 2012, Rolling Stone ranked the album number 353 on its list of the 500 greatest albums of all time,[161] and Complex included it in their list of "25 Rap Albums From the Past Decade That Deserve Classic Status".[162]
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Ken Masters

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Soler said:
He apologized, he was drunk, she accepted it, get over it
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In the nytimes article he says he does not apologize for that event


But I should add that I don't find that event a big deal at all, it was Taylor swift who ended up milking that for her own gain
 
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Jak140

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I don't get the it either. Dude is talented and hilarious. Sure he's got a big ego, but unlike most people, at least he has a sense of humor about it:

"I'm the rap version of Dave Chappelle. I'm not sayin' I'm nearly as talented as Chappelle when it comes to political and social commentary, but like him, I'm laughing to keep from crying." — Rolling Stone, April, 2004

"Earlier today I said a lot of things but those cocky-sounding statements just look better in black and white. That's why they always use them. And I always give it to them. That's why my interviews are so valued. That's why I should get paid." — Guardian, August, 2005

"If I was to say that I hadn't already done all of that, then I'd be on some fake Hollywood bullshit modesty, and that's just plain stupid." — Rolling Stone, February, 2006

"Really good people like me are scared of falling off. I'm totally scared of falling off. Just imagine it. Just imagine if I woke up one day and I was wack. What would I do then?" — Guardian, August, 2005

"And what if I didn't back it up? How exciting would that be, also? It's like I'm walking on this tightrope. It's like the reason why you go to a circus - it's more entertaining. It's like, damn, what if he falls? And if I do make it, it's like, damn, he made it! But either way you're saying 'damn'. Everybody else is just walking on the ground." — Guardian, August, 2005

"There can be a point where your records don't sell as much, or you're not as popular as you used to be. The best thing that any of the Backstreet Boys could have had was a really good woman in their life. I'm sure they had a lot of good pussy, but good pussy is fleeting. What's another word for 'good pussy' that's less vulgar?" — Rolling Stone, September, 2007

"As a celebrity, as soon as you become a star, as soon as it pops off for you? At that point, you stop growing. As soon as you don't have to wash your own dishes any more. I was like trying to get somebody to jog for me the other day." — Hot 97, November 2010

"If you read books — which I don't, none at all — about how to become a billionaire, they always say, 'You learn more from your mistakes.' So if you learn from your mistakes, then I'm a fucking genius." — Rolling Stone, September, 2007

"I will tell you mad shit about porn, I don't go into depth about me and my fiancée's relationship. 'Fuck you, this is my life.' I dedicate a lot of my time to make music and provide something for the fans that they'll enjoy, but my relationship isn't for the fans to like and enjoy. It's for me to like and enjoy." — Rolling Stone, September, 2007

"What I feel like — 'cause I wanna be married, of course — I feel like the type of girl I would be with is a fellow superhero. So we get that 'already flying and now we're just flying together' thing." — Details, February, 2009

[In regard to a life-size poster of himself] "I put me on the wall because I was the only person that had me on the wall at that time. And now that a lot of people have me on their wall, I don't really need to do that anymore." — Rolling Stone, April, 2004
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http://www.vulture.com/2013/06/kanye-west-best-quotes.html
 
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talisayNon

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he's insecure, a jackass, compensating and arrogant.

stop sucking jay z's dick bro.

i used to like him then i realized how much of a tool he is.
 
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Yado

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It's odd to me how strongly people react to his antics, mostly because I find them amusing. He's extremely talented and he makes great music. That's all I need from him.
 
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itxaka

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He is a clown as a person. He is playing a character but has chosen a really stupid one.

Can't complain about his music, it's kind of good.
 
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Moral Panic

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Yado said:
It's odd to me how strongly people react to his antics, mostly because I find them amusing. He's extremely talented and he makes great music. That's all I need from him.
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Same. Guy takes majour L's in real life but as long as we get another MBDTF level album out of him it'll be worth it.
 
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BoomBap

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His beats are fire.I always love his choice of samples. The way he just tucks them away on his tracks. But.. I wish he would stick to the production and leave the mic alone.

Dude has a real problem handling celebrity me thinks. Even his fanboys have to see this c'mon! Still pumped for Yeezus.
 
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Into

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Because that is his gimmick, he is basically a wrestling heel. He cannot pull off other gimmicks, like being tough or having any significant gang affiliations like some rappers before him. Its a good gimmick as it sets him apart, but still just a gimmick. Bush hates black people, Taylor Swift, etc etc is all just a way to get people to talk about him, likely because he himself is not that interesting of a person. The whole Kim Kardashian thing and the religious overtones he brings just further makes average people who might not follow music that much hate him.

He is very good producer and his deliver is also very good. You just have to look past the attention grabbing side of him and you will find a pretty good artist. Through the Wire is one of the best hip hop songs of all time, not a single weak line in that whole song
 
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Soler

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Grinchy said:
Even apart from his purposely over-the-top statements that me makes at the convenient time of whenever a new album is coming out, he genuinely seems to think much too highly of himself. And his little fans eat it up. KanyeGAF is like PopGAF.
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Lol idk what I'm reading
What is this
 
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