01-05-2015, 08:56 PM
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Originally Posted by DamageX
OK, you may be right. But again, aside from the Taylor Swift incident I still had no idea who the fuck he was. I don't listen to his music either, that genre isn't my cup of tea.
But regardless, comparing him to McCartney/The Beatles is kinda way off. The chances of Kanye having the same influence on music and leaving a similar legacy to Paul are slim to none.
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Well, maybe not popular music as a whole, but he's already had a significant influence in hip hop. A positive influence. Check this out.
West's third studio album, Graduation, garnered major publicity when its release date pitted West in a sales competition against rapper 50 Cent's Curtis.[60] Upon their September 2007 releases, Graduation outsold Curtis by a large margin, debuting at number one on the US Billboard 200 chart and selling 957,000 copies in its first week.[61] Graduation once again continued the string of critical and commercial successes by West, and the album's lead single, "Stronger", garnered the rapper his third number-one hit.[62] "Stronger", which samples French house duo Daft Punk, has been accredited to not only encouraging other hip-hop artists to incorporate house and electronica elements into their music, but also for playing a part in the revival of disco and electro-infused music in the late 2000s.[63] Ben Detrick of XXL cited the outcome of the sales competition between 50 Cent's Curtis and West's Graduation as being responsible for altering the direction of hip-hop and paving the way for new rappers who didn't follow the hardcore-gangster mold, writing, "If there was ever a watershed moment to indicate hip-hop's changing direction, it may have come when 50 Cent competed with Kanye in 2007 to see whose album would claim superior sales.
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