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Poll: Is Kanye West the most over-rated artist on ATRL?
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yes!
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One of them. But I think the Disney girls take the cake on this one.
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Originally posted by Arking
Why is it when any hard-working, visionary artist who get (deservedly) praised here on ATRL, some bitter children need to crawl out of the woodwork and call that artist overrated, all the while having the nerve to gas up their producer-puppet trend-hopping models-with-record-deal faves.
I realize that Kanye is a polarizing figure due his personality and ego, but when we say he's a great artist, we're talking about his work, not his celebrity presence.
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 Thank you. 99% of people in this thread calling Kanye overrated stan for artists way less talented and more overrated than him. Speaking of which...
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Originally posted by KSmith011
What makes him a musical genius? Honestly, I want to know. Please enlighten me...use examples, I don't care. I literally want to know what everyone sees.
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His music is all over the internet honey, go look for it yourself. If you can't see it for yourself, then no one can make you see it. What I will say is that the lyrical content of his songs alone blow away any and everything your faves have ever done, and you don't even need to dig deep to find that. Go listen to "Jesus Walks" or "When It All Falls Down".
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Originally posted by Chill Bill
Let me know when people start comparing him to MJ or referring to his songs as 'hymns', and then we can talk.
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Just take a look at any thread in the music news about Kanye.
People were having orgasms over his album cover, it's just a piece of red tape. 
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Lana Del Ray takes the cake for that title. Kanye is overrated in ATRL and in real life though.
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No. And I have to agree, Beyonce is - but clearly in a negative way, which I don't get. Overrated in a sense of people running up and down this forum negatively talking about her is just embarrassing.
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Originally posted by Genocide
No. And I have to agree, Beyonce is - but clearly in a negative way, which I don't get. Overrated in a sense of people running up and down this forum negatively talking about her is just embarrassing.
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True she does get dragged more often than she deserves, but the Hive gets a little crazed sometimes and won't let up that they think she's the best artist on here. It makes people a little defensive and lash out at Bey.
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To be fair, without Kanye, this new crop of rappers (Drake, J.Cole, Wale, Kendrick etc.) wouldnt have a style to run with, Common and John Legend would still be underground, and Kid Cudi wouldnt have been put on. But all of his "innovation" stopped after album 3.
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Originally posted by staracademy1990
Yeezus is coming, stop sinning |
And I will cop it as soon as it is on Pirate Bay before this ***** gets in my pocket. I gotta hear it first before I drop my money on that lol.
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As a pop artist? He's not any more overrated that the pop-girls and Disney kids here. But he is, as a 'genius, God-like' artist like how the media hyped him.
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Originally posted by Big Smoke
To be fair, without Kanye, this new crop of rappers (Drake, J.Cole, Wale, Kendrick etc.) wouldnt have a style to run with, Common and John Legend would still be underground, and Kid Cudi wouldnt have been put on. But all of his "innovation" stopped after album 3.
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The truth.
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Nope.But he rather always over compliment to me
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Yes, there are rappers way better than him.
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No Gaga is
If she at least were as creative and talentedas Kanye then I'd get it but she isn't
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Quote:
Originally posted by Arking
Why is it when any hard-working, visionary artist who get (deservedly) praised here on ATRL, some bitter children need to crawl out of the woodwork and call that artist overrated, all the while having the nerve to gas up their producer-puppet trend-hopping models-with-record-deal faves.
I realize that Kanye is a polarizing figure due his personality and ego, but when we say he's a great artist, we're talking about his work, not his celebrity presence.
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What kind of flawless read?
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In a pop music forum where our faves are Britney, Beyoncé, Gaga, Rihanna, I dooooooon't think so.
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Originally posted by Chill Bill
Let me know when people start comparing him to MJ or referring to his songs as 'hymns', and then we can talk.
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He's far superior than MJ.
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Originally posted by Big Smoke
Kanye is overrated, period.
his last 2 albums were wack as hell.
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We clearly haven't heard the same albums. Like... for real? MBDTF and 808's are masterpieces! The nerve...! 
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