Why do you like kanye west

Not to mention, Kanye has never had a critically bad album. No album by him has scored lower than a 7. The genius and talent of Kanye West is undeniable, regardless of whether or not people like him. He checks off every box and is the best artist of this century and one of the best of all time. Nobody else really comes close. By Holly Gaskill. By Mer Fenton. Share Share Tweet Mail Print. Music and Def Jam Recordings following Kanye's first large-scale listening event inside Atlanta's Mercedes Benz Stadium, but then the project experienced multiple delays.

Named after the rapper's mom who died in , Donda comes nearly two years after his ninth studio album, Jesus Is King , which debuted at No. But fans seemed most excited about West reinstating Jay-Z's verse on "Jail," which featured a different verse by DaBaby at Ye's third listening event in Chicago.

Thank you God," a fan tweeted. At press time, West added a 27th track to Donda titled Jail pt 2," but the song is apparently being held up because of clearance issues from DaBaby, according to an Instagram post by West on Sunday.

Search term. Billboard Pro Subscribe Sign In. Top Artists. One of my motivators, Jari Sarasvuo , a Finnish entrepreneur and business guru once introduced me to this idea:. Think about it, you'll never have something that everyone will approve of but as long as people keep saying no to it, the idea will spread. We live in a time and age where the combination of having talent and building hype is golden -- pure talent is rarely enough nowadays.

Just look at someone like Mr. Trump , the thing Trump is more talented at than any other of the presidential candidates is building hype. If someone is able to create hype and then back it up with talent, sure shot success will follow. Yeezy is and has been on the top of the PR game for years.

Generating hate is a big and essential part of it. Kanye changed how rappers dress. The first Yeezy sneaker was actually a collaboration between Nike and Kanye. Nike has been calling the shots on the sneaker market for years and has such big slice of the pie that it will continue to dominate the market for years. Or actually Nike doesn't have a slice of the pie, Nike has the whole pie. Kanye moved from Nike to Adidas in Long gone are the days when rappers like Dr.

The uniform of mainstream hip hop has changed. West has spent the last three years being a staunch defender of President Donald Trump, a move that goes beyond being a publicity-seeking annoyance. His album, Y e , for instance, was a cacophony of sophomoric lyrics and a creative wasteland.

His latest album, Jesus is King , is an outgrowth of his recent fervent religiosity. The shows are supposed to mirror the aesthetic of churches, playing mashups of gospel songs and secular music. Meanwhile, West maintains his support for the president even as he performs at the historically black Howard University and the black megachurch New Birth Missionary Baptist in Atlanta — a church that rejected his donation due to his support for Trump, and instead sent the money to Morris Brown College, a historically black school where his mother, Donda West, previously taught.