Kanye, deconstructed: The human voice as the ultimate instrument
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- Kanye West's music orbits around the power and flexibility of the human voice.
Special thanks to Martin Connor. More of his hip hop analysis can be found here: www.rapanalysis.com/
A crisp and clear vocal performance is a vital component of all genres of popular music. So when Kanye West recorded his debut single, "Through the Wire," with his jaw completely wired shut after a car accident, he was taking a huge risk.
When you listen to "Through the Wire," you immediately hear that Kanye "chipmunk soul" in his pitched-up sample of Chaka Khan's "Through the Fire." But you also hear Kanye riff: Yo, Gee, they can’t stop me from rapping, can they? Can they, Hop?
His voice is muffled and lispy. It's not clear at all. But that vocal performance illustrates something unique about his work as a producer and artist: His greatest instrument has always been the human voice.
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Update, December 2022: Kanye West, now known as Ye, is not the artist we used to know. From conspiracy theories to dining with white supremacists to praising Hilter’s Nazi regime, we have to ask: How did Ye get here?
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"Kanye West, now known as Ye, is not the artist we used to know."
Stop it. Stop it with this false narrative that Kanye only became this now and that he was different before. No. Kanye West has always been suffering from some kind of illness of the mind and he has put that on full display dozens of times over the years. The problem is him becoming rich and famous made it possible for him to ever avoid being properly diagnosed and receive help because his fans and especially those that worked for and with him over the years made excuses for his behavior and downplayed his past actions. The article you linked to mentions only some of those past actions which means you are aware of this. So why continue to downplay his history to make it seem as if he was never the person that we are seeing now? Kanye West's illness of the mind has been in everyone's face for as long as the public has known of Kanye West.
@@DaRunningMan Donda Dying really threw him over the edge, he has completly deviated from his ATCQ an Dilla roots
damage control huh vox 😭
💀💀💀
Had a feeling y'all would give us an update. Ye has lost the plot at this point. I'm hoping things change though.
You can bash Kanye as a person but not as an artist that's for sure
+ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ ΛΙΑΡΟΣ what is it then?
don't know your background,but calling Kanye West's,Tribe Called Quest's and Biggie's art noise doesn't make you a really smart person.
true!
+ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ ΛΙΑΡΟΣ thanks for telling us o great one. You have changed the world, after all your opinion is fact
Don't care him guys, he is just making...noise.
"He's still looking for the edge of where he can push the human voice"
Kanye: Grrrat-gat-gat-gat-gat
😂😂😂😂
lord shine your light on me save me please
@@alexandersaiko Stay strong!
GRRRARARAAT GWUH GWUWUW WOOOOO
GAT GAT GAT
Who edits Vox’s videos? They’re always so aesthetically pleasing.
Probably some poor unpaid intern.
Estelle Caswell and Joe Posner
irishfestgeek what? No, editing of this quality takes a lot of time and practice to get. They’re probably paying the editor good money
that’s the only reason i like vox lol
Exactly
"If you're a fan of Kanye West, you're not a fan of my music. You're a fan of yourself. I'm just the espresso"- Kanye West (2013)
I agree.
cause auto-tune is music?
Ahmad alwazzan Yes auto tune is beautiful when its correctly use, auro tune is just an instrument like guitar
@@Anthonydu01630 good to know.
*expresso
@@gabstract461 **espresso
I would have never thought that one of my comments would be featured on a video from a channel with over a million subscribers. Hopefully this video will get more people into Kanye.
True
No One Ever KUZGUN?
"Hey guys, have you heard of that underground artist Kanye?"
"Yeah, hope he gets traction with the mainstream media."
Sceyef I wasn't saying that more people need to know who Kanye is, everyone already knows him, but so many people hate him and mostly for ignorant reasons (his ego) when they don't realize how talented he is.
ihavevocaloid It's too late for that, it would take widespread media coverage in a completely positive light to do that.
And that won't happen, because it's not profitable for news outlets.
Ultra light Beam is such a beautiful song.
Drunken Master II true
I cry every time I hear it
no cap
@@cams.3287 what is no cap?
Please check out KOTA The Friend on it!🔥
Man, Kanye was so ahead of its time that I forgot that MJ was still alive during his early years.
@Gean Draige bruh, Jordan is still alive today. Def Jackson
School spirit. Alpha stamp. Omega stamp. 8th grade field trip I listened to him all day.
Ah yes mikasa Ackerman
@@briancruz3551 he was talking about Michael Jackson I'm assuming
@@theboat7548 he was joking
I wish they made this after the release of Daytona, Ye, KSG and Nasir. The Kanye production on these albums is on point. He truely is a musical genius.
Tangai Madambi don't forget teyana taylor's record, which was produced by kanye as well
The beat selection on Nasir is questionable.
@@MrCHI2cool for which one? I think some of the Nasir beats would have worked better on ye but its still pretty great imo
@@druemarino Nasir.
@@MrCHI2cool Still better than a lot of beats NaS has used in the past. I mean, the "Children's Story" looped sample for the "Cops Shot the Kid" beat alone was lit af, and also serves as yet another great example of how Kanye takes the human voice and uses it as part of an instrumental for a hip hop track. Very unconventional but still works beautifully. It honestly kind of annoyed me at first, like the entirety of Yeezus, but it grew on me to the point that it's some of my favorite from Kanye's repertoire.
I used to not be able to stand Kanye when I was younger. But then I grew older and learned a few things about life and realized what he was about.
If you a fan of Kanye west you a fan of yourself
- Kanye West
Enlighten us
Yes!
Yeah you know what a person is about even though you've never met them.
k
People will hate on Ye no matter what
In a way it gives him a lot of freedom. Free to be you since people will always have something to say regardless lol
I feel you, if you know people are gonna hate you anyway you don't have to please them
to be fair, he doesn't make it hard for people to hate him
"soon as they like you, make 'em unlike you".
People will hate on anyone no matter what, it doesn't really matter
Fun fact: Michael Jackson loves 808s & Heartbreak so much, he plays it to his children a lot.
CheesecakeLasagna Fun Fact: Kanye sang on 808s because Michael Jackson liked his singing on Good Life
Fun fact: Michael Jackson is actually dead
Bowie Ziehm Ouch man, mood killer
@@bowieziehm6407 I would not exactly call it a 'fun' fact :3
@Claudia Solomon My reply was to Bowie Ziehm because he was talking about death and death can't be 'fun' fact, it is just a fact
kanye really is a genius of music and more than a just a rapper so when people call him talentless they really haven’t listened to his art
Art is subjective. So is genius. The average would consider him genius.
yeah people who call him talentless are just irrational it’s like how everyone hates tom brady but gotta respect the people
@@reveirg9 some geniuses call him genius man
@- Cdawgg - elon wrote an entire article on why he's a great too
Kanye IS a musical genius... and he knows it. That's his problem.
Recognizing your own genius is considered contemptuous and selfish. Modesty is far more appreciated in celebrities.
There's a difference between realizing your ability and egotism. Kanye West is egocentric. In the end, his egotism might be a good marketing tactic.
How is it a problem? A song made by someone who is confident that their music is good and wants to keep the title of a musical genius will usually make better songs than someone who isn't as confident with their music.
Nah a lot of the best artists even outside of music are narcissistic. It’s a personality that in art can really make someone fail terrible or succeed the greatest. You need to have a big ego to go against the trend established by other artists and say your way is better than theirs when everyone around you may have doubt.
His musical genius makes him think he's also a genius thinker, writer, humanitarian, etc. If only he didn't.
This is such a damn great video Vox, well done.
Agreed.
This is rare for them
+Conor Andrich nah
+Conor Andrich They make many good videos
they should analyze every (big) musical artists
Kanye is an icon! The man's music elevated my self esteem. I can't thank him enough.
Even princesses need a level up
this did not age well
@bullpup1337 how about now😂
I remember listening to Heartless not even knowing who Kanye was. Heartless was my fav song for a couple of years.
i think heartless or gold digger is one of the first songs i heard from kanye when i was a kid. started listening to him a year ago and it changed my life. Ye is the GOAT
I love Kanye more than Kanye loves Kanye
Lmao
I'm sorry but it's not true
you'd have to sacrifice your whole family to prove that
I miss the old Kanye...
LOL
MBDTF is one of the most perfect albums of all time. Not only in hip hop but in general.
hattorihanzo agreed. I grew up listening to classic rock and thrash metal, but as soon as I heard that album, I knew that Kanye has true artistic ability and can create some of the greatest music of this generation.
hattorihanzo W
It really is. So many amazing moments. I still get goosebumps with devil in a new dress. Some of the best lyrics.
hattorihanzo an album I played to death until I realised why....that it is as you have perfectly said, a masterpiece
hattorihanzo personally I don't understand the appeal, to me it just sounds like the greatest average album of all time
The beginning of GoodLife is actually the chorus of Michael Jackson's PYT not just synth. They construct the beat live when he performs, and its truly incredible.
Say what you want about him now but he’s a musical genius no debating that
Bro he said he likes hitler
@@Noidontknow. we know
@@Noidontknow. that dosen't change his genius songwriting
Unfortunately, you are very much correct
@@Noidontknow. He can say whatever he wants, doesn’t hurt you. Quit pretending like you’re mad.
Hip Hop is the most complex and diverse music genre, I can't believe there are people who don't like it. It has something for virtually everybody.
i wouldnt say most complex but def a genre that can b complex
U can literally say any genre is complex and diverse. If it truly had something for everyone, no one would ever listen to anything else because there would be no need to. No need to innovate. No need to explore past works of music.
It really doesn't
+Mark Blue Can't really say country music is complex and/or diverse 😉
Yes, you can if you listen to the entirity of country. Right now, country sounds to be in a slump, but you've got legends such as Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings etc. I'm not a big proponent of the genre, but country has some good artists.
Idk why but CZcams keeps suggesting this to me and this is my ninth time watching this
11th now
I'm on my thrid
I lost count of how many times I have watched this
L1amo9 same
it's amazing everytime
his last couple albums that he just released really verifys this analysis. vox called it and they were right , u guys should do an update because literally these last 3 albums he produced is the epitome of this video
Pretty sure they're not going to be doing an update cuz. Think for a second.
Thank you Kanye, very cool!
Ah. I see what you did there.
The only people who don't like Kanye are those who haven't listened to him
yeetmaster 123 no soundvloud rappers and the ones that listen respect tf out of him . People that don't like him.usually go off of media rather than what he is known.for
Wrong wrong and yep, wrong
Yeah, his new song "I love it" with Lil Pump is great
Old Kanye was good...new Kanye is garbage.
Just listen to that RoBlox song with little pump.
Jorge Padilla oh yeah and also listen to his entire ye album aswell as his other album kids see ghosts with kid cudi those are good too
really dgaf about ye's personal life, but he is for real the most important producer of the 21st century
music artist*
Imani Alexander THE*
we dont know that yet
The century barley started relax 😂
@@xxdevin007 your right but for the past 2 decades he has been. only 8 more decades to go and he has influenced a lot of rappers and completely changed the game. I’m sure in the future people will continue to be inspired by him and those people will inspire the next generation of rappers. But him being one of the most influential artist of the 21st century is not something hard to believe. But only time can tell there could be someone far more musically gifted then him
2:55 synthesized vocals section actually belongs to Michael Jackson's P.Y.T, sampled and edited by Kanye West. I wish more facts like these were included.
i was thinking the same thing
true
I need a 30min version of this video, going through a dozen more songs
Listen to the second season of the podcast Dissect. They go through almost all of his songs, breaking it down bit by bit
Name one genius that aint craaazy
Steven Hawking
+Ben Henocq but he was. scientists considered him crazy for alot of his theories beforehand. genuises are outcasts. because theyre not in the mold, thinks outside of the box. thats why they are considered crazy
+Ben Henocq That'll do Ben. That'll do.
Stephen Hawking
And from what I see Elon Musk isn't quite crazy. Could be missing something though
Kanye is a person I have the most arguments about, because people refuse to believe me when I tell them he can be a jackass AND a musical genius at the same time.
Robert Markoš most smart people (genius) don't have time for your feelings lol. They say what it is in direct form. I work with kids with Asperger's syndrome, brilliant but also cutthroat lol
It's like, I hate him for who he is, but I gotta respect what he does.
Liking someone's work doesn't mean you have to like them as a person.
See: Kanye West, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Jordan, etc.
Feel free to add on to this list of artists who have spoken positively about Kanye West's work.
Lou Reed
Michael Jackson
Bruce Springsteen
Paul McCartney
Noel Gallagher
Elton John
Jack White
Mick Jagger
Herbie Hancock
Adele
Bono
Trent Renzor
Axel Rose
Madonna
Randy Newman
Drake
Nate Dogg
Chris Martin
Adam Levine
Sam Smith
Beck
Genius
Kanye is hardly an ass hole the media just boost whenever he does something lmao
When I heard the beginning of Runaway, I instantly came to tears. To me it's the most beautiful song ever made.
This is my favorite video. I love how the video was made, the examples and the sounds. I never get tired of seeing this
The last 5 minutes of Runaway is some of the most beautiful pieces of musical composition I've ever heard, the way Kanye digitally modifies his voice to make it sound raspy, robotic and sort of like an electric guitar is a work of art. Kanye is a musical genius
Its called a Vocoder. Its pretty standard stuff.
David Kover Show me evidence of another person using it
Really guy? You cant google search something simple like (famous songs featuring a vocoder) id love to sit here and entertain your need to know. But i think you can figure this out yourself.
It's about the principle of your statement.
And i guess you know nothing about musical equipment if you dont know what a vocoder is. So please sit down and be quiet and go learn your self some knowledge.
Like it or not Kanye's ones of the greatest of all time
uhh no, i beg the differ
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
true
riskbuisn3ss Give us you reason
truuueeeeee
2024, he returned to chimpunk soul by featuring alvin and the chimpunks lol
Visualization of that 808 beat is so satisfying!
love yourself more than kanye loves kanye
that's impossible
+teehundeart Steve Jobs disagrees
deep😂
more like just as much no one loves themself like kanye loves kanye
Impossible
yeezy yeezy, wus good??
It's your boy max b
+KWL whats going on, just checking in on you!
30 hourssssss
keep it loopy man
We gonna make a big tsunami up in the joint
My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy is by far the greatest most complete hip hop album of all time. It’s an absolute masterpiece.
Agree with you
Hideika it will always be my number one. He will never be able to top it.
Not even Kanye’s best
Nope not even close. Not even a top 3 ye album let alone greatest of all time
illmatic is the greatest
name a musician who's always reinventing himself. Some people drop the same albums all lifetime long. Always sounding more or less the same. This is art. Kanye, the greatest musician in the 21st century.
I remember when I first started listening to Kanye at 10-11 years old. I would sit in the bathroom of my studio apartment when my mom was asleep, just blasting "Through The Wire" on my mp3 player ..and whenever we went to the mall I'd go into Barnes and Noble and look for the new Kanye album, and just blast that "Jesus Walks" sample over and over again. I don't know what it was that made me love his music from such a young age without really understanding the underlying message in his music, but to this day he is my favorite artist of all time. I remember paying an arm and a leg to get a close up seat during his TLOP tour, and as he exited he passed within 20 feet of me, and I saw him up close, and I can remember how numb I felt. I know it sounds crazy, but his music truly changed my life, he has saved me countless times, and I don't care how "crazy" he is, he will forever be a musical genius ...thank you Kanye for the music you make, and never stop.
that's dope
Literally me
BLESS BRO. I feel u on that. I was listening to Kanye West even before I knew who he was. My dad had played him all the time but I didn't know who he was until like maybe 7th or 8th grade, when I was like 12 or 13, and throughout time I listened more and more to him and I just grew to love him and his music. Every song is an absolute masterpiece, and I love it all no matter what people say or whatever. He is an open thinker and he really wants the best for the people and the world. People need to stop seeing him as the "bad guy" or the "crazy guy" and start seeing him as a guy who has gone through a lot of troubles and hardships just like everyone has and that has done his very best to do what he does.
Well said. Amen.
vibes bro
do a video about Harambe, the legend, the God himself
yes, they can talk about memes in general.
Stop.
this wasn't funny at all. just stop.
harambe is a perfect representation of how humans dominate all parts the world and don't value anything above themselves
We love Harambe, because he first loved us. Who was born without sins but died for ours.
It's alright, fam. Harambe's not dead. He's with us always, to the end of the age.
Peace, yall
idk why but this has to be one of my favourite videos on youtube cause i keep coming back to it every year. thank you vox and estelle for creating this 🖤
MBDTF as a whole, is one of my personal Top Ten albums of All Time/Genres
This is a fact.
The only reason I don't call Kanye the best rapper of all time is because calling him a rapper is an insult to his work
EXACTLY! Thank you! because Rap is not the same anymore. "Rappers" are not even rapping anymore. I.E - Future/2Chains
+Mo Mentum But yet kanye collabs with them.
And because lyrically, he's not the GOAT. Just call him one of the greatest artists of all time...
Mo Mentum they do rap. but they switched to a new and more simplistic style.
good because he's not the best rapper of all time.
It's crazy how so much of the world has no idea how talented this man is. How can u not hear his genius.
media ruined his image its pretty sad tbh cus Kanye's the most innovative hip hop artist alive
@@dexterrain8661
No .he ruined it by himself.
set fire on commet section how ?
@@sarcasm1015 He can’t help it. His bipolar is bad, and no one attempts to intervene.
It’s crazy how he does this. Just think about Power. Power has the whole tribal chant in the background throughout the entire song and it fits so well. Then think about Stronger. The beat he is sampling is literally human voices singing. Same with All of the Lights. The thing that helps make the song so memorable is the beginning “all of the lights!” This dude is phenomenal.
A few years ago this video was the reason why i started listening to Ye, as of today i have listened all of his albumns and there isn't a single week when i don't listen to kanye
vox's editing is world class, so inspiring for my videos
great
I get angry as the video gets closer to the end lol
Hi Siraj !
And they have millions in fundings
I would really love to achieve this level of mastery.
This is why i laugh whenever people call him talentless. Every album has had such a different feel and unique mixes with different styles of rapping. His lyrics might not always be the most thoughtful but when you look at everything together he truly is one of the greatest artists ever.
x2ceyez he actually has some lyrically strong songs
x2ceyez he is the best musician of all time
alex N college dropout was full of em
He wouldn't have so many naysayers if he'd learn to just shut up about it. No need to *make* everyone think you're the greatest, just let the work speak for itself.
That said, as with anything, not everyone's going to like an artist's voice and/or style. To each their own. Period.
have you heard him sing bohemian rhapsody
I absolutely LOVE the visuals of this video. It's so satysfying when your imagination always worked like that and you see how someone else visualise songs in charts, comparisons like you. I love the artist who's behind this!
My thing that I love about Kanye is the fact that every single album is so different than the last in the one that will come after that you never know what to expect. Whether that’s good or bad it’s not my say but there’s always an interest for me in what boundaries he will push next. A lot of artists will stick to what they’re good at Kanye will not
This video makes Kanye West seem like the greatest artist that ever lived. That's how great a well done analysis can be. Actually made me appreciate him when he still recorded with his mount wired shut.
Well you're easily impressed then. The video makes him seem like a very creative and ambitious artist trying and succeeding in pushing hip hop forward, which is pretty much what he is.
Francisco Farias Kanye got the best discography in hip hop ever and also is one of the most influential hip hop artists ever. Kanye is all up in that GOAT conversation
+Nishina loves cake all facts
Nishina loves cake he's great but i don't think he's the goat, but he is really good
Living Kansur_v2 Pac is the goat, Kanye is top 3 tho
i saw him live last night he sweat on me it was too lit i moshed i cried ugh
wtf ew
+Sylvanas Windrunner honestly u weren't there
AYYY TORONTO REPRESENT. The mosh pit was insane
mosh pit was sooo crazy bro...i was the brown guy in the jays jersey lmao
Saw him when he was in Buffalo! The best time of my life.
I discovered him through his drama with Taylor Swift long ago (I'm a fan of her music) but it wasn't until last year that I tried listening to TLOP and my mind is blown away. I'm now slowly completing his discography!
The visual of this video is on point I love it makes you really feel the sounds
Can we get Kanyethony Hatetano to see this??
not enough death grips. light 6/10
6/10 never forget
you do realize he gave BDTF an 8 right? And everyone agrees that's his best album, so a 4 on Yeezus was kind of what it deserved and a 6 on TLOP... WAIT! SCREW HIM!
+Christian Shen no he game bdtf a 6 bro
0/10 not carly rae jepsen
this video gave me a whole new appreciation for Kanye’s work. i always regarded him as a lunatic who put himself on a pedestal, but i never analyzed his stuff like Vox has done here. great video, very enjoyable indeed.
You know what they say, go with your first instinct. It's usually the correct answer.
He is in fact a lunatic who put his self on a pedestal that he thought was so high he could barely see regular people and that he should be considered with the likes of Einstein, Walt Disney, Picasso, Warhol, Shakespeare and may other actual geniuses.
Robert D he is on their level tho
@@gabrielonibudo5710 how?
@@collinsigbiks9701 by being a cultural icon, and one of the most important innovators in his field
collins igbiks did you not watch the video? He’s obviously a musical genius one of the most influential artists since the likes of Mozart and Beethoven
6:08-I'm Hungarian and hearing that retro hungarian song from Omega was really not something I expected to hear in this video🤣.
I going to go listen to Kanye now, looks like I need to educate myself.
if you dont like kanye's music, you just havent heard any
Faxxx
Honestly true. I would barely listen to Ye and say that he's trash, until Donda. Now I have basically listened to every Kanye song ever released. Including Donda Deluxe.
@@ntokozofakude9399 literally same haha, when donda released I gave him a shot and that might be one of the best decisions of my life fr fr
@@ntokozofakude9399 donda went 25/27, goat
Nothing short of a genius, we are lucky to have him around...
If you actually believe that you're an idiot.
You are so terrible
+NateHigerrz Hey, not everyone's depth of perception is deep enough to acknowledge that we are living in the same time span as a musical revolutionary...
It's time to stop, Kanye, we know it's you.
+NateHigerrz Please elaborate.
This sheds some great perspective on the journey of Kanye West's contribution to hip-hop and music in general.
Translation: this was really good
Haha well yeah
+tango1986 those guys are no where near a top 10 list. No one cares about them
Perspective?
This video was put together so well!
Ok this really means a lot of artist got to step there game up like the creativity with his music is just 🔥
Best hiphop artist of all time. Changed the game with every single album, and MBDTF is still the best hiphop album of all time.
Okaaay........I mean your wrong completely....but okaaay
+This one's on me! And I say you're wrong for saying he's wrong. What you gon do bout it
+This one's on me! And I say you're wrong for saying he's wrong. What you gon do bout it
best new school rap artist. best album of all time cannot be answered. for wxample, i love ATCQ but maybe you don't.
+llCasualDudell people do it all the time for rakim, nas, Dr dre, biggie ect
I'm not a fan of Kanye's music, but this video makes me want to download all of his songs and just listen to them all day long to hear all of this for myself.
please do, download My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasty right this minute, listen through every single track and tell me you're not a Kanye fan after
Love his music up until Yeezus.
You don't like the new album at all? Try Real Friends, No More Parties in LA, and 30 Hours. Trust Me.
The new album has maybe 2 or 3 good songs, but overall it's no where near the quality of his first 5 classics. I feel like his fashion thing really has messed with his music. He's said in interviews before that Yeezus was basically his state of mind at the time, how he wasn't in a good place (because of being "rejected" by the fashion industry), and wanted to convey that through his music.
Kanye's moved away from pop music and into music as high art. Yeezus is a narrative. Pablo is a narrative. The individual tracks are like chapters in a story. This has a huge impact on the music. Before, the job of the individual track was to be as dope as possible. Jesus Walks and All Falls Down and Through the Wire were just great individual tracks. But on Yeezus, each track is adding to the story. So I Am a God is supposed to foreshadow the emotional breakdown we get on New Slaves that leads to the sad person we see on Hold My Liquor through Guilt Trip. All the bravado on On Sight, Black Skinhead, and I Am a God was only to hide the pain this character really felt. Setting up Bound 2, where there's now hope for love, compassion, companionship, an end to the loneliness, fear, and pain. Pablo is the same way. Freestyle 4 might seem like a weird track, but it has a job: to embody the sexual cravings this character feels, the ones that have caused the character to cheat on his wife time and again and potentially lose his wife and marriage. It's the nadir of the album. Is it a great, individual track in the way of Gold Digger? No. But it's meaningful in the context of the album. And leads to the reflection on I Love Kanye, the talk of rebirth on Waves, and then the struggle to change and become a better person on FML.
808s was my soundtrack for about 2 years. Late Registration was second. I used to be obsessed with this man. I do love his music. Oh yeah Life of Pablo is slept on.
I love Kanye and this really just made me appreciate him so much more. He is my favourite musician; his versatility and his beats are almost incomparable. He's one artist that can make jam out to him flexing his money, then turn around and have me just filled with emotions with tracks like family business. Truly underrated.
Would be kewl if there was a video like this about Kendrick Lamar
but kendrick hasnt done anything as monumental as Kanye
Xxblacksteel xX and he wont. Kendrick doesnt produce his songs so he cant change the way people arrange songs directly, only through his producers. Kendricks flow has fallen off since Section .80 and though his lyrics are more provoking, he has a choppy, un aesthetically pleasing flow that doesnt fit well on most tracks. Take for example No More Parties in LA where kendrick cant seem to ever catch the flow and some argue that the beat was off putting and hard to flow on but Kanye comes in flawlessly and actually beats Kendrick at his own game.
Oscar Urquiaga I was thinking more of like accomplishments instead of style. Kendrick has achieved as many Grammy nominations as Michael Jackson, he's one of the leaders who are making rap political again, ya dig? The things he's achieved are making a statement in the hip- hop industry.
Xxblacksteel xX im just clearing the air
Belen Swan and he may push boundaries as to what the content is consisted of, but those powers have their limits. The entire reason we have trap music, vox rap, cloud rap, electronic rap, hell even some gospel music is because kanye pushed sounds that far. No one was doing things like him.
If there's any kanye haters here. Please watch that video with an open mind
I'm definitely a Kanye hater. I was one going in (I still clicked on the video btw) and I'm still one coming out. I've loved a lot of his music and I think he IS a creative genius but he has a very megalomaniac, egocentric personality and really bad anger management issues. Not a guy I'd want to hang out with...
Gianni Quilici "I'm definitely a Kanye hater. "
"I've loved a lot of his music and I think he IS a creative genius but he has a very megalomaniac, egocentric personality and really bad anger management issues. Not a guy I'd want to hang out with..."
Hoenstly, not the kind of hater I was talking to. You have a valid opinion and you're not unnecessarily hating on him.
+Gianni Quilici you'll never have to hang out with him. We live in an era where everything a famous person tweets or says is news and becomes synonymous with whether or not to like the person. At the end of it all, all that will be left is the music
+Gianni Quilici that's fine bro, nearly everyone feels the same way. As long as you don't deny he's a musical genius BECAUSE you don't like his personality we'll love you
I suppose I am one. Not because of his music, since I've never really listened to it because Hip Hop and Rap aren't on my things-i-listen-to list. Having watched this video I can see why people call him a 'genius'. His style is interesting. My issues about Kanye stem from the fact that he is a very shitty person with an ego so large, that he has enough for everybody alive.
Ultralight beam is one if not the most underrated song. First time I listened to it, I had goosebumps and was in tears. Especially when Chance comes up there 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
Absolutely adore this video. It is easily my favorite video. Thank you
Kanye is a modern day musical genius
according to Kanye
HA! You only deserve one laugh of mockery at that statement
He really is...
lol
na, according to a lot of people, and me. take that L in ur name and hold it
New respect for Kanye! And I'll listen to him now
Can I recommend some songs of his? Because most of his new stuff isn't that good
+KaizerMan Yeah I agree about the new stuff. Please recomend me some songs and records
Shad Sylla Yeah I agree with Natalie. Just listen to anything from his albums College Dropout, Late Registration, Graduation or My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Those are his best albums. He has a couple more albums but they're all experimental and a lot of people took a while to adjust to and to begin to like it
+Shad Sylla "His new stuff isn't that great !" back then that's what they said about 808's and Heartbreak, so don't be too quick to judge, just give it a try. Personally I like all his albums, because each one reveals a new dimension to the listener. If you ever feel like the whole world is out to get you and you feel helpless, listen to "Yeezus", It will show you that your not the only one that feels like it, and it will motivate you to fight back !
Red/white just don't listen to any of his new music because it's trash
The end of runaway is absolutely beautiful
I never understood why but that part brought me to tears many times.
chance in ultralight beam really looked like he was never gonna fail 😔
Thank you Kanye
FRANKWHITE1996 I just wanted to say THANK YOU KANYE!
WOO!
WOO!
THANKS TO KANYE'S WORKOUT PLAN, I'M THE ENVY OF ALL MY FREINDS
+Ned Gold 😂😂😂😂😂
Ned Gold bro. you just killed me and brought me back to. headed to gym right now too. looks like college dropout is about to get its one millionth spin in my ears
Thank you Kanye, for shaping the rap game today. Always ahead of the game.
Ned Gold 😭😭😭
Most people know him through Kim's family or his crazy attitude, but Kanye is actually really talented both as a musician and entrepreneur. Name one genius that ain't crazy
Well Steve jobs is a genius of technology and industry and he wore black turtle necks, the most blandest of clothing items possible, he's certainly not crazy...so there's one
+This one's on me! Did you know people hated him and thought he was crazy while he was alive? Weird how people feel threatened by genius when it is fully aware of itself
+This one's on me! Well, Kanye is more of a stylish musical businessman so there's nothing wrong with eccentric persona and both Steve and Kanye revolutionize and influence each of their own profession. There are people like him or despise him
Kanye was a globally known superstar long before Kim so "Most people know him through Kim's family" is wrong
ayy your last sentence is his lyrics to a song forgot which one 🤔
kids see ghosts deserves an 8-minute vox video all on its own, that album is similar to literally nothing else
Honestly the best and most truthful video I’ve seen
5:03 travis scott does the same and you can tell travis is incredibly inspired by cudi and kanye
He is the so called Kanye protege
His voice and flow really reminds me of Cudi
Travis got Scott in his name because of Kid Cudis real name Scott Mescudi
It’s crazy to think that they are in the same family now
Jade Rey
Cudi and Travis got matching tattoos. Travis is really living the dream
IDGAF what anyone says. This man is a genius. A tortured, beautiful, misunderstood genius.
Patricia Sheck facts
Patricia Sheck IDK about beautiful but misunderstood, yes.
Patricia Sheck he is the goat
People who don't respect Kanye's talents don't know his music.
I mean you can not like the guy but he is great at what he does.
Plus a lot of geniuses are messed up.
KA Suverkrubbe I say this all the time. People say they don't like his music but its everywhere, lots of ur fave artists were produced by him, you bought products off commercials using his songs, they are in movies, t.v. shows, at football games, I could go on and on and on. If you say you're not a fan you are a liar and a hater. The man has revolutionized sound. He is creative and innovative. He creates emotion and mood with his sounds and that's why he is still banking checks regularly. And more is to come...
I still think about this video a lot
I watched this on Facebook when it came out seven years ago. And I love all the visuals and the breakdown of the music. I didn’t think I could find it but I’m really glad I found this video again.
3:25 helped me realise I was wearing my headphones the wrong way around
Anuja Ariyaratne e
Anuja Ariyaratne I'm wearing mine correctly and it was still wrong lol
Brianna Docherty I think some headphone distribute sound differently
Kanye is the most rockstar-like hip hop artist out there today. He just does what HE wants to do, and he doesn't care if people hate him because he loves himself enough to make up for all of them.
Kanye knows how to make us tingle!
His music is a pure ASMR
Being creative and not being scared on taking risks making hit records that also have that classic feel to them and on top of that..having a real message is what makes kanye west a genius. Not many artist in music history have 10 classic albums 7 of his own and 3 as a producer for the rappers albums below..
Jay z - the blueprint
Common - Be
Pusha T - Daytona
kanye has 84 platinum songs out of 184 songs
75 Grammy nominations.. the 4th most ever kanye won 24 Grammy's in total.
Classics 🎖
Mainstream success 🎖
Critically acclaimed 🎖
All huge achievements it's super rare and kanye has influenced pretty much everyone we listen to. You can hate the man but you can't deny his one of a kind legendary career.
You guys are wrong. At 2:53 when saying that Kanye uses a vocal-like synth, its not a synth. It's a sample of "PYT" by Michael Jackson.
Brian A i thought i was going crazy. i was thinking of PYT
omg you are right!
This
lol no he didnt... you can go to any VST and pitch up PYT and it will sound exactly the same.
There's a video of it live where pyt blends into the song
the real artists are always the crazy ones
Not really. Kendrick isn't crazy. Stevie Wonder isn't crazy.
ChrisJ Fox you dont know that
tomasv26 😂😂😂 ok
michael jones “name one genius that ain’t crazy”
Crazy cuz they have so many random and amazing ideas all over the place
I found this video like 2/3 years ago. This is like my 15th viewing since. Inspiration. 🙏🏽💯
please publish more about kanye west. MORE of this analysis on his genius. thank you
I liked this video until....
"Almost nobody would put him on the list of best rapper alive"
Maybe not best rapper, but definitely at the top of the list of best artists, living or dead.
Facts
no sane person would put him as the greatest artist of all time either. maybe one of the, or the, greatest artist today. but no way in hell is he the best ever
No, definitely not that either
He has ghost writers. Therefore he ain't on the list
are u dumb
I still remember the first time I heard Through The Wire. I was in middle school. My best friend had stayed the night, we were up watching MTV at 4 or 5 in the morning when it came on and I was totally entranced. The only other song that had a bigger impression on me back then was the 2Pac/Biggie song Runnin' (Dying to Live). Man... I'm about to go listen to that right now.
Kanye west is the reason I gave rap a chance, although I discovered him quite late. like when I was 25 or something
I was one of those ROCK ONLY MAN!!! MUH BEARD guys
and then Kanye came along... and I've loved every version of him since, and I'm not the same person since
+Raghav Mandava thats crazy
+Reshard Watson
It is! I actually cried the first time I listened to it.
+Raghav Mandava
lol I understand the *only rock music* sentiment, I used to be the same way. Kanye was pretty instrumental for me as well. Nowadays I like to keep an open mind to all genres.
***** yup. All genres is best genre, be it death grips or Madonna
Thank You so much for this beautiful video
Drake/40 definitely heavily influenced their music from kanye
Also bad artists
+sodapop8 you can't say 40 is a bad producer. Have you listened to the beats in Tuscan Leather ?
yup, but drake fans still want to ignore that and say that drake is better smh
You can Drake is trash but never say 40 is trash. 40 is one of the best producers of the new school era.
Kanye is the GOAT bruh. Drizzy and Ye are my two favorites atm tho 🙌
We need more deconstructed videos this is amazing I've seen this one and the other one so many times
Yo these videos are actually kind of educational feel like I’m taking a hip hop course imma upcoming artist I’m pretty good but watching these two video felt like it just elevated my game so much higher 💪🏾💪🏾🔥 thanks
This man made me who i am today,
Thank you ye
antisemite?