People seem to think if you're not rapping about struggle, you're not rapping about anything deep at all. MBDTF talks about the trappings of fame, money, power, sex etc. but largely removes it of the glamour. Runaway is the perfect example of this. Runaway, Hell of a Life, Blame Game are about real topics but because (ironically in the case of this thread) it can be reduced to "simping on chicks" it has no real content according to the-coli.
May the Lord forgive us, may the Gods be with us
In that magic hour I seen good Christians
Make rash decisions, oh she do it
What happened to religion? Oh, she lose it
She putting on her make up, she casually allure
This is real shyt. All that "MBDTF wasn't about anything" is BS to me. I largely don't consider it a valid criticism. ]
So for me, when people talk about a Kanye fall off they must be talking about post MBDTF which has been stunting, balling, party & bullshyt records with horrible lyrics. And those are for collaboration and compilation albums. I'd wait for a Kanye solo album with all of that before I felt he has really fallen off.
Furthermore, as a fan I don't like the music him and Hit-Boy create together. They don't make the sonic backdrop that Kanye fans (and stans) like him for. No ID in recent years has kept Kanye grounded in the boom-bap/soulful element. So Appalled knocks but not in a nikkas in Paris way. The drums in Runaway are some classic hip-hop shyt. With Hit-Boy the music is simply for the clubs and that's never been Kanye's element.