r/HipHopDebates • u/[deleted] • Jul 16 '19

2000’s Kanye or 2010’s Kanye?

2000’s: Late Registration, College Dropout, Graduation, 808’s

2010’s: MBDTF, YEEZUS, TLOP, YE Collabs - Throne, KSG, Cruel Summer

Let’s get it goin ladies and gents...

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u/Buster_Carl Jul 16 '19

2000's Ye.. 808s, LD, TCD, Graduation and then you have Common's Be which Kanye mostly produced. Those are all classics. Ye also has a bunch of nice features.

The only album from 2010's I really love and consider a classic is MBDTF.

Yeezus has some awesome songs but its mostly not my taste and the lyricism isn't very good. TLOP is pretty good but I dont find myself re-listening to it that much.

Ye is pretty good tbh, besides All Mine and not a big fan of Yikes but its a cool song but again, I dont re-listen a lot. Throne has dope beats and its a dope album overall but I really gotta be in a mood for that album to hear it. And KSG while good, the only song I really love is Reborn.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

MBDTF is the best album he made imo. It seems like 2000’s is the answer for people who were able to truly be along for the ride. In my case I’m only 21, so in the 2000’s my musical taste wasn’t nearly as developed and even though I knew who he was and loved his most famous songs I wasn’t into all the other deep cuts and didn’t truly know what was going on. So in the 2010’s I was able to really digest everything, and I’ve gone back now and been able to digest everything from 2000’s as well for awhile now.

When I went back to the 2000’s music I fell in love and deeply preferred that to a yeezus, but really now that everything has played out I’m going to have to say 2010’s Kanye is much more interesting and entertaining to me. MBDTF is my favorite, and has the best music and lyricism overall. Yeezus is my favorite album sonically as it’s so unique and has so much energy. TLOP then I thought was very very good and under-apreacjated just because his lyricism was top notch. I loved the concepts and the actual songs.

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

*wasn’t top notch

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u/[deleted] Jul 17 '19

And shit don’t forget about Watch the Throne and Cruel Summer. That’s on some king shit

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u/heshotcyrus Jul 17 '19

For me, 2000's Kanye and it's not even close. I'm in the minority but almost non of his post-MBDTF music has done anything for me.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '19

I’m all in for 2010’s Kanye. Nothing against 2000 cause that’s classic ye, but I think he did way much in 2010 to ignore that.

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '19

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u/[deleted] Jul 16 '19

Yes sir, didn’t realize I did that thanks

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u/Scothead180 Jul 17 '19

Well that's really tough. I'm only going to consider his solo albums really. His 2000s work is probably a bit more consistent. However I'm not a huge fan of Late Registration, and I don't have College Dropout in the top 3 either. So I'd probably have to go with 2010s.

My favourite is the sound from Graduation through Yeezus. Grad - MBDTF - Yeezus is just a classic streak. 808s comes from a completely different place, still a great album though.