Culled from his five solo studio albums… More to the point, though, what do you think are Kanye’s best songs?
I will play.
1. “All Falls Down” 2. “Blame Game” 3. “Gone” 4. “Can’t Tell Me Nothing” 5. “See You In My Nightmares” 6. “Last Call” 7. “Power” 8. “Flashing Lights” 9. ”Amazing” 10. “Barry Bonds”
Obviously this is a game of favorites and not any sort of empirical distinction. The list would look a lot different if guestappearances and remixes and demos and mixtapes were part of the discussion. It would, however, look about the same if Watch The Throne was included.
Here is my ballot for the Village Voice Pazz & Jop awards which is like the Grammys except for people who can read. The site keeps scrambling the order of my albums list for some reason so if my #1 pick isn’t Kendrick Lamar then you might want to refresh it.
Is Mase the most influential rapper of his generation?
Who is the father of his style? And don’t give me that Big L shit either because you damn well know that Lamont never rapped like his mouth was filled with peanut butter and gauze.
Proof once and for all that a pointed message with a Mase slow flow is vastly superior to lyrically lyrical Lyricist Lounge cipher rat gymnastics. It must’ve been like crossing a picket line when Yeezy switched styles on this circle.
That being said, it’d be nice to hear just one song from THE THRONE about how deep their metaphors are and what they intend to do to wack emcees.
