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Originally Posted by jimmycooper
I googled it verbatim and all I found was something about how he ripped off some guy named Aphex Twin on one of his songs. Big deal. Did you actually Google it yourself or did you just assume that the results would support your preconceived stereotype?
Paul's Boutique is one of my favorite albums of all time. I pretty much wore the tape out listening to it again and again and again when it was released. When I bought a record player a few years ago, I immediately bought 10-15 albums. Paul's Boutique was one of them along with Abbey Road, The White Album, Exile On Main Street, Enter The Wu Tang, A Low End Theory by Tribe Called Quest, Rumours by Fleetwood Mac, The Bends and Kid A by Radiohead, Back To Black by Amy Winehouse, Stop Making Sense by Talking Heads, Superfly, a few others, and My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West. I listened all of them repeatedly until going to buy my next batch a couple months later. In terms of quality, there was no drop off when listening to Twisted Fantasy. It fit right in with the others and much like Pauls Boutique, it was not a commercial success when it was released and it gets better with time.
Also, on Yeezus, Kanye brought in a lot of producers to make it where it was more of a collaborative effort than he had in the past. Rick Rubin, who produced the first Beastie Boys album, was there as was Rza.
Kanye is not just 'another rapper', he is a musician and a damn good one at that.
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I gave it a listen and you are right, and I stand corrected. It is an interesting album and deserves the praise. James Brown once sued David Bowie over "stealing" his music but one would never say that Bowie was just a rip off of Brown or anyone else's music and I won't be saying that about Kanye now either and admit that my opinion before was based on hearsay. My bad and I thank you for opening my mind and setting me straight.
Footnote to Paul's Boutique... I turned Yawk onto shrooms and the lectures of Huxley, McKenna, and some other psychedelic inspired geniuses. (Try listening to the full Tim Leary speech that produced "tune in, turn on, and drop out" sometime). Always felt I helped make a small contribution to that record in my own special way, including that Jerry Garcia riff on Johnny Royale since I turned my buddy onto the Dead and he turned me onto hip hop.
The original release had me in the "thanks to" print.