Originally posted by Dman93
Well Michael Jackson was great before he died, Elvis was massive before he died, and lyrically 2pac was a genius maybe not as big as he is in death. But then again neither was Big L or Biggie. Whitney Houston on the other hand never wrote any of her own songs she preformed and fair enough she has a good voice if that your cup of tea. But 2pac, Elvis and Mj shouldn't even be compared to Kanye.. The other 3 are people who revolutionized there genre and made them big. Kenye on the other hand, hasn't really done much for music recently apart from put out a few lackluster songs like "nigg*s in paris" like cmon..Like jesus walks, all falls down and gold digger where good, actually I have 2 of his first albums and they are good, nothing like te crap he produces nowadays.
Yeah but none of that really got noticed till they died. I'm not taking anything away from them, all I'm saying is people unfairly react to judgement when you title someone the best, simply because they're not dead or really old.
Kanye's first 3 albums were genius, 808s and Heartbreak was more of a venting album for himself, MBDTF was amazing! Now while I admit I like his Graduation style better, he's still changing up his game every year, and still making hot tracks. In terms of lyrics and beats, he's got about 90% of hip hop watching the throne.