Kanye West's Biography

VH1 ^ | August 21, 2005 | VH1

[mikemikemikecubed]

Since Kanye West made a silly remark about the president, I have been asked by some in Yahoo Chat about Mr. West. I figure some freereepers want to know his story too.

[Bones75]

He's like quite a few rappers. Musically and lyrically very talented, but political half-wits who always seems to miss their big chance to STFU.

[louie2]

Perhaps he had stage fright or something, but the remarks he made during the fund raiser were almost unintelligible -stumbling, poor grammar, not well thought out, and almost illiterate. How is it possible he is considered "quick" and "smart" and an "intelligent" rapper?

[Asfarastheeastisfromthewest...]

I signed on to a Mike Myers fan club the other night because I wanted to see if he had repudiated West's statements (he hadn't). Anyway, I ended up in a rather heated 'discussion' with Krista the moderator of the club who supported West's statements - I see she has now deleted the comments. Great fun argueing with libs on occasion.

[RightResponse]

BECAUSE RELATIVELY SPEAKING, HE IS

[mikemikemikecubed]

Maybe he was emotional.

[ArrogantBustard]

Some "story"...

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.

[HitmanLV]

For one, he was witty, coming up with off-the-wall lyrics like "She's got a light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson/Got a dark-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson"

That's razor sharp wit, I tell you.

[popdonnelly]

Why make apologies for stupidity?

[operation clinton cleanup]

"She's got a light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson/Got a dark-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson" that were smart and funny at the same time,

Funny? barely. Smart? Cant see it.

[One Proud Dad]

Just another moroninc, uneducated, loser capitalizing on race-baiting and stupidity that leeches like Jesse Jackson and orthers depend on to get their funding and concubines.

[PositiveCogins]

Kanye West. Is that the guy that said the President hates
black people? So he's a so called "Rapper". Takes a lot of talent to be a Rapper. Just seal, I mean sample a loop slow it down if ya want to screw it. Then talk a bunch of crap about shootin cops and beatin ho's. Na this "Rapper" is just another Shehan, ignore and move on.

[rdb3]

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.

If you want a Google GMail account, FReepmail me.

[SixStringSlinger]

HitmanNY wrote:
For one, he was witty, coming up with off-the-wall lyrics like "She's got a light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson/Got a dark-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson"
That's razor sharp wit, I tell you.

Well, *my* sides are splitting. ;-)

[IronJack]

witty ... off-the-wall lyrics like "She's got a light-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson/Got a dark-skinned friend look like Michael Jackson" that were smart and funny at the same time

That's what constitutes "witty ... smart ... and funny" in their book???? For this, I'm supposed to think this guy is anything but a car wash trainee??? Man, the bar must be set awfully low in the "rappin'" bizness.

[avenir]

"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.

[PositiveCogins]

"Man, the bar must be set awfully low in the "rappin'"
bizness."
Lower than you think. Try 3 flights below the sewer.

[MikefromOhio]

he was a virtual unknown beforehand and after a couple weeks worth of run here, he will go back into obscurity.

This guy isn't Eminem. He will eventually go away.

[csvset]

One of the few truly unique hip-hop artists

Just another a-hole.

[Clemenza]

I would agree with you about Prince although I still find it hard to forget the disgusting sight of him performing in a purple speedo.