You need someone to explain the difference in technical difficulty of playing the trumpet at the highest level/composing complex Jazz music and spitting what others wrote for you?
This shyt right here is why Iggy can be considered for a hip hop grammy, we don't even respect our own genre. Just call it all hip pop if we're not going to care how it comes together when talking about individual merit.
There's no difference between composing complex jazz music and composing complex hip hop music. "spitting what others wrote for you" isn't what's signified by a bunch of people receiving writing credits.
You can continue to be in denial and operate under the assumption that Kanye is a puppet propped up by other people's work, or you can accept reality. It's not like what goes on in the studio is a secret, there's a ton of shyt you can read and watch with people talking about recording with Ye.
Anthony Kilhoffer: "I'm in It" started out with a different sample and melody. Then Kanye removed the sample, and it lived as a six-minute arrangement for a while. Then
Rick Rubingot ahold of it and structured it to flow as a three-minute piece. Oftentimes, songs start out at six minutes, then they get whittled down to the best parts over the course of months.
Mike Dean: We're all trying to push things to be weirder. I sometimes push for stuff to be more musical, and then Kanye pulls it back to hip-hop. "I'm In It", for instance, had these crazy guitar parts and all this stadium stuff, and then Rick, Noah, and Kanye pulled it back. I wasn't very happy with that at first, but it came out really well.
Evian Christ: That track is obviously very overtly sexual, and the production mirrors that. When I first sent it, I had some breathy sex sounds laid on the snares, and by the time Kanye was rapping over it, it definitely went into overdrive as far as emphasizing the sexuality. The first time I heard it with Kanye's vocals, I had to do a double-take on a couple of the lines. But if you’re gonna do a song like that, you may as well go all the way; if you’re gonna do a sex song, you may as well talk about fisting. To me, it was very
definite-- he absolutely knew what he wanted to do on that track.
Noah Goldstein: Kanye figured out all those reggae voices on the album. Everything is him, to be real. Regardless of who additionally produced things, it's his curation. And this idea that he's not as hands-on in the studio now is bullshyt. He is the consummate producer.
http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9157-the-yeezus-sessions/
Wouldn't all of the people that you think do all the work for Kanye be mad about it? Instead of heap praise upon him at every opporunity? You either have a personal grudge against him or you have absolutely no clue how music is created. Or both.
