[MrGaryy]

Originally Posted by Shaun

What good has Kanye actually done? Through the Wire samples another song. Golddigger samples another song. Touch The Sky samples another song. Stronger samples another song. Every other of his hits relies on featuring artists.

He is the entire embodiment of everything that's wrong with modern music production - it's lazy, it's unoriginal, it relies on endless 'featuring artists' and 'remixes' and 'samples' and it's consequentially repetitive.

His rapping isn't that brilliant. For that reason, Eminem wins.

That's his whole thing, recycling music via samples, every single track on his first three album uses a sample. It was his gimmick, it was what set him aside on the first three records. I don't see how many of his singles rely on featuring artists what so ever. Golddigger would have been just as big of a hit without John Legend, Touch the Sky's success was not due to Lupe Fiasco. Good Life does not rely upon T Pain. They just happen to be there but they have had little or not effect on the success.

Aside from that 808s and Heartbreaks is a totally revolutionary record in the hip hop world. For a rapper with his repertoire to come out with a record like that was a big thing and has influenced a lot of rappers we see today like BoB and Kid Cudi. I would never describe Kanye as unoriginal.