oth songs were enormous successes, partly so because of West's trademark beatmaking style, which was largely sample-based -- in these brilliant cases the former track appropriating snippets of the Doors' "Five to One," the latter the Jackson 5's "I Want You Back."
So he's a musical parasite. BFD.
He did use a few samples as far as his hip-hop is concerned. He can't flow at all.
The music he produces originally is top-notch. That's spoken as a music fan, not a West fan. I don't agree with Prince on anything politically, but he's my all-time favorite.
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"So he's a musical parasite. BFD."
I know nothing about Kanye, but it's SOP in the hip hop production milieu to sample music. It's tied in with the art of DJ'ing. Early hip hop DJ's/producers used to sample Kraftwerk's "Numbers" and "Tour de France", among others.