I'm sorry, but Mr. West is such an insufferable ass that I can't bring myself to read this.
Right on!
Kanye West On Creativity
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#42When I meet someone at a party or a random event, I find that I hit it off most with those who genuinely want to create things with love, passion, and stubbornness and share them with people. Even if they are amateurish. I ride the train every day and I see so many people just consuming content. Be it whatever they do on their Blackberry or iPhone or book or the local paper. I always smile when I see someone crocheti…
Thanks for the Extra Video and read.
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#43Who the f- is Kanye West?!
Are you under the impression that you look sophisticated and cultured when you pretend to not know who he is?
No, he's making fun of Kanye's response to Colbert's attempt to have his Christmas album beat Kanye's music on iTunes.
http://www.rollingstone.com/blogs/smokingsection/2008/12/ste...
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#44what exactly is impressive about kanye west vs every other pop "artist"? does anyone have any examples?
He's probably the only male in the hip-hop world that makes music with a lot of personal, emotional content. Also he has a pretty good ear for hooks, and is widely regarded as a good producer. Not a big fan myself, but I think that's basically why he's well liked. Then again, maybe it's the shutter shades.
I think Eminem covers a lot of his own, personal issues. Eminem does hooks well too...
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#45Since this is HN I should point out a lack of any alt tag or longdesc. Stevie Wonder will not be reading this.
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#46Earlier quoted context omitted.
He, essentially, wrote and performed a bunch of love songs and ballads on 808s and Heartbreak. Sure, they're Auto-Tuned out of their gourds, but they're heartfelt love songs, all about a girl who left him. On some, he's angry at her, and on some, he's doing his standard "I'm awesome" thing. But, as you can imagine, most rappers don't do a concept album all about the girl who broke his heart.
The additional point that maxklein made was this was coming off one of the best softcore, pop rap albums of all time. It sold something like a million in a week, and then was huge worldwide. He could have made another album like Graduation and sold 10 times the records 808 did. If you want to gain some respect for Kanye, go download the Graduation album and listen to it start to finish. Not only is it great, but it i…
Absolutely - the dude's not the best rapper, but he's easily the best lyricist of this generation.
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#47Earlier quoted context omitted.
The additional point that maxklein made was this was coming off one of the best softcore, pop rap albums of all time. It sold something like a million in a week, and then was huge worldwide. He could have made another album like Graduation and sold 10 times the records 808 did. If you want to gain some respect for Kanye, go download the Graduation album and listen to it start to finish. Not only is it great, but it i…
Absolutely - the dude's not the best rapper, but he's easily the best lyricist of this generation.
indeed
How could you be so Dr. Evil
You're bringing out a side of me that I don't know
I decided we weren't gonna speak so why we up 3 a.m. on the phone
Why does she be so mad at me for, homie I don't know she's hot and cold
I won't stop, won't mess my groove up cause I already know how this thing goes,
You run and tell your friends that you're leavin' me
They say that they don't see what you see in me
You wait a couple months then you gon' see,
You'll never find nobody better than me
It's pure poetry. Never matched or surpassed. He's truly the Bob Dylan of our times.
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#48I can't believe this is on HN. Leave this stuff to Yahoo or one of the other pop-news aggregates. Come on Paul, a little more filtering please.
http://ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
On-Topic: Anything that good hackers would find interesting. That includes more than hacking and startups. If you had to reduce it to a sentence, the answer might be: anything that gratifies one's intellectual curiosity.
What is creativity? Where does it come from?
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#49Who the f- is Kanye West?!
Are you under the impression that you look sophisticated and cultured when you pretend to not know who he is?
Sometimes I do this when I tell people that I don't watch TV. I really don't watch much TV, but I rarely say so without feeling a little smug, and thus a little asinine.
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#50Nobody, even Kanye himself, would disagree the guy is a bit of a dick sometimes, but it's nice to see someone that wears his (he)art on his sleeve and strives for the best. He's the Steve Jobs of Hip Hop.
I disagree. Jay-Z, Tupac or Notorious BIG are the "Steve Jobs" (eg: consistently raising the bar) of Hip Hop