Kanye, deconstructed: The human voice as the ultimate instrument 

"Kanye West, now known as Ye, is not the artist we used to know." Stop it. Stop it with this false narrative that Kanye only became this now and that he was different before. No. Kanye West has always been suffering from some kind of illness of the mind and he has put that on full display dozens of times over the years. The problem is him becoming rich and famous made it possible for him to ever avoid being properly diagnosed and receive help because his fans and especially those that worked for and with him over the years made excuses for his behavior and downplayed his past actions. The article you linked to mentions only some of those past actions which means you are aware of this. So why continue to downplay his history to make it seem as if he was never the person that we are seeing now? Kanye West's illness of the mind has been in everyone's face for as long as the public has known of Kanye West.

@@DaRunningMan Donda Dying really threw him over the edge, he has completly deviated from his ATCQ an Dilla roots

damage control huh vox 😭

💀💀💀

Had a feeling y'all would give us an update. Ye has lost the plot at this point. I'm hoping things change though.

+ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ ΛΙΑΡΟΣ what is it then?

don't know your background,but calling Kanye West's,Tribe Called Quest's and Biggie's art noise doesn't make you a really smart person.

true!

+ΙΩΑΝΝΗΣ ΛΙΑΡΟΣ thanks for telling us o great one. You have changed the world, after all your opinion is fact

Don't care him guys, he is just making...noise.

cause auto-tune is music?

Ahmad alwazzan Yes auto tune is beautiful when its correctly use, auro tune is just an instrument like guitar

@@Anthonydu01630 good to know.

*expresso

@@gabstract461 **espresso

Probably some poor unpaid intern.

Estelle Caswell and Joe Posner

irishfestgeek what? No, editing of this quality takes a lot of time and practice to get. They’re probably paying the editor good money

that’s the only reason i like vox lol

Exactly

😂😂😂😂

lord shine your light on me save me please

@@alexandersaiko Stay strong!

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Recognizing your own genius is considered contemptuous and selfish. Modesty is far more appreciated in celebrities.

There's a difference between realizing your ability and egotism. Kanye West is egocentric. In the end, his egotism might be a good marketing tactic.

How is it a problem? A song made by someone who is confident that their music is good and wants to keep the title of a musical genius will usually make better songs than someone who isn't as confident with their music.

Nah a lot of the best artists even outside of music are narcissistic. It’s a personality that in art can really make someone fail terrible or succeed the greatest. You need to have a big ego to go against the trend established by other artists and say your way is better than theirs when everyone around you may have doubt.

His musical genius makes him think he's also a genius thinker, writer, humanitarian, etc. If only he didn't.

In a way it gives him a lot of freedom. Free to be you since people will always have something to say regardless lol

I feel you, if you know people are gonna hate you anyway you don't have to please them

to be fair, he doesn't make it hard for people to hate him

"soon as they like you, make 'em unlike you".

People will hate on anyone no matter what, it doesn't really matter

Drunken Master II true

I cry every time I hear it

no cap

@@cams.3287 what is no cap?

Please check out KOTA The Friend on it!🔥

@Gean Draige bruh, Jordan is still alive today. Def Jackson

School spirit. Alpha stamp. Omega stamp. 8th grade field trip I listened to him all day.

Ah yes mikasa Ackerman

@@briancruz3551 he was talking about Michael Jackson I'm assuming

@@theboat7548 he was joking

True

No One Ever KUZGUN?

"Hey guys, have you heard of that underground artist Kanye?" "Yeah, hope he gets traction with the mainstream media."

Sceyef I wasn't saying that more people need to know who Kanye is, everyone already knows him, but so many people hate him and mostly for ignorant reasons (his ego) when they don't realize how talented he is.

ihavevocaloid It's too late for that, it would take widespread media coverage in a completely positive light to do that. And that won't happen, because it's not profitable for news outlets.

If you a fan of Kanye west you a fan of yourself - Kanye West

Enlighten us

Yes!

Yeah you know what a person is about even though you've never met them.

k

Tangai Madambi don't forget teyana taylor's record, which was produced by kanye as well

The beat selection on Nasir is questionable.

@@MrCHI2cool for which one? I think some of the Nasir beats would have worked better on ye but its still pretty great imo

@@druemarino Nasir.

@@MrCHI2cool Still better than a lot of beats NaS has used in the past. I mean, the "Children's Story" looped sample for the "Cops Shot the Kid" beat alone was lit af, and also serves as yet another great example of how Kanye takes the human voice and uses it as part of an instrumental for a hip hop track. Very unconventional but still works beautifully. It honestly kind of annoyed me at first, like the entirety of Yeezus, but it grew on me to the point that it's some of my favorite from Kanye's repertoire.

CheesecakeLasagna Fun Fact: Kanye sang on 808s because Michael Jackson liked his singing on Good Life

Fun fact: Michael Jackson is actually dead

Bowie Ziehm Ouch man, mood killer

@@bowieziehm6407 I would not exactly call it a 'fun' fact :3

@Claudia Solomon My reply was to Bowie Ziehm because he was talking about death and death can't be 'fun' fact, it is just a fact

Agreed.

This is rare for them

+Conor Andrich nah

+Conor Andrich They make many good videos

they should analyze every (big) musical artists

uhh no, i beg the differ

¯\_(ツ)_/¯

true

riskbuisn3ss Give us you reason

truuueeeeee

Art is subjective. So is genius. The average would consider him genius.

yeah people who call him talentless are just irrational it’s like how everyone hates tom brady but gotta respect the people

@@reveirg9 some geniuses call him genius man

@- Cdawgg - elon wrote an entire article on why he's a great too

Even princesses need a level up

this did not age well

​@bullpup1337 how about now😂

11th now

I'm on my thrid

I lost count of how many times I have watched this

L1amo9 same

it's amazing everytime

Lmao

I'm sorry but it's not true

you'd have to sacrifice your whole family to prove that

I miss the old Kanye...

LOL

i think heartless or gold digger is one of the first songs i heard from kanye when i was a kid. started listening to him a year ago and it changed my life. Ye is the GOAT

Its called a Vocoder. Its pretty standard stuff.

David Kover Show me evidence of another person using it

Really guy? You cant google search something simple like (famous songs featuring a vocoder) id love to sit here and entertain your need to know. But i think you can figure this out yourself.

It's about the principle of your statement.

And i guess you know nothing about musical equipment if you dont know what a vocoder is. So please sit down and be quiet and go learn your self some knowledge.

hattorihanzo agreed. I grew up listening to classic rock and thrash metal, but as soon as I heard that album, I knew that Kanye has true artistic ability and can create some of the greatest music of this generation.

hattorihanzo W

It really is. So many amazing moments. I still get goosebumps with devil in a new dress. Some of the best lyrics.

hattorihanzo an album I played to death until I realised why....that it is as you have perfectly said, a masterpiece

hattorihanzo personally I don't understand the appeal, to me it just sounds like the greatest average album of all time

Bro he said he likes hitler

@@Noidontknow. we know

@@Noidontknow. that dosen't change his genius songwriting

Unfortunately, you are very much correct

@@Noidontknow. He can say whatever he wants, doesn’t hurt you. Quit pretending like you’re mad.

Ah. I see what you did there.

that's impossible

+teehundeart Steve Jobs disagrees

deep😂

more like just as much no one loves themself like kanye loves kanye

Impossible

i wouldnt say most complex but def a genre that can b complex

U can literally say any genre is complex and diverse. If it truly had something for everyone, no one would ever listen to anything else because there would be no need to. No need to innovate. No need to explore past works of music.

It really doesn't

+Mark Blue Can't really say country music is complex and/or diverse 😉

Yes, you can if you listen to the entirity of country. Right now, country sounds to be in a slump, but you've got legends such as Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings etc. I'm not a big proponent of the genre, but country has some good artists.

Pretty sure they're not going to be doing an update cuz. Think for a second.

music artist*

Imani Alexander THE*

we dont know that yet

The century barley started relax 😂

@@xxdevin007 your right but for the past 2 decades he has been. only 8 more decades to go and he has influenced a lot of rappers and completely changed the game. I’m sure in the future people will continue to be inspired by him and those people will inspire the next generation of rappers. But him being one of the most influential artist of the 21st century is not something hard to believe. But only time can tell there could be someone far more musically gifted then him

Robert Markoš most smart people (genius) don't have time for your feelings lol. They say what it is in direct form. I work with kids with Asperger's syndrome, brilliant but also cutthroat lol

It's like, I hate him for who he is, but I gotta respect what he does.

Liking someone's work doesn't mean you have to like them as a person. See: Kanye West, Quentin Tarantino, Michael Jordan, etc.

Feel free to add on to this list of artists who have spoken positively about Kanye West's work. Lou Reed Michael Jackson Bruce Springsteen Paul McCartney Noel Gallagher Elton John Jack White Mick Jagger Herbie Hancock Adele Bono Trent Renzor Axel Rose Madonna Randy Newman Drake Nate Dogg Chris Martin Adam Levine Sam Smith Beck Genius

Kanye is hardly an ass hole the media just boost whenever he does something lmao

i was thinking the same thing

true

yeetmaster 123 no soundvloud rappers and the ones that listen respect tf out of him . People that don't like him.usually go off of media rather than what he is known.for

Wrong wrong and yep, wrong

Yeah, his new song "I love it" with Lil Pump is great

Old Kanye was good...new Kanye is garbage. Just listen to that RoBlox song with little pump.

Jorge Padilla oh yeah and also listen to his entire ye album aswell as his other album kids see ghosts with kid cudi those are good too

great

I get angry as the video gets closer to the end lol

Hi Siraj !

And they have millions in fundings

I would really love to achieve this level of mastery.

Agree with you

Hideika it will always be my number one. He will never be able to top it.

Not even Kanye’s best

Nope not even close. Not even a top 3 ye album let alone greatest of all time

illmatic is the greatest

Listen to the second season of the podcast Dissect. They go through almost all of his songs, breaking it down bit by bit

that's dope

Literally me

BLESS BRO. I feel u on that. I was listening to Kanye West even before I knew who he was. My dad had played him all the time but I didn't know who he was until like maybe 7th or 8th grade, when I was like 12 or 13, and throughout time I listened more and more to him and I just grew to love him and his music. Every song is an absolute masterpiece, and I love it all no matter what people say or whatever. He is an open thinker and he really wants the best for the people and the world. People need to stop seeing him as the "bad guy" or the "crazy guy" and start seeing him as a guy who has gone through a lot of troubles and hardships just like everyone has and that has done his very best to do what he does.

Well said. Amen.

vibes bro

Well you're easily impressed then. The video makes him seem like a very creative and ambitious artist trying and succeeding in pushing hip hop forward, which is pretty much what he is.

Francisco Farias Kanye got the best discography in hip hop ever and also is one of the most influential hip hop artists ever. Kanye is all up in that GOAT conversation

+Nishina loves cake all facts

Nishina loves cake he's great but i don't think he's the goat, but he is really good

Living Kansur_v2 Pac is the goat, Kanye is top 3 tho

This is a fact.

Steven Hawking

+Ben Henocq but he was. scientists considered him crazy for alot of his theories beforehand. genuises are outcasts. because theyre not in the mold, thinks outside of the box. thats why they are considered crazy

+Ben Henocq That'll do Ben. That'll do.

Stephen Hawking

And from what I see Elon Musk isn't quite crazy. Could be missing something though

yes, they can talk about memes in general.

Stop.

this wasn't funny at all. just stop.

harambe is a perfect representation of how humans dominate all parts the world and don't value anything above themselves

We love Harambe, because he first loved us. Who was born without sins but died for ours. It's alright, fam. Harambe's not dead. He's with us always, to the end of the age. Peace, yall

media ruined his image its pretty sad tbh cus Kanye's the most innovative hip hop artist alive

@@dexterrain8661 No .he ruined it by himself.

set fire on commet section how ?

@@sarcasm1015 He can’t help it. His bipolar is bad, and no one attempts to intervene.

x2ceyez he actually has some lyrically strong songs

x2ceyez he is the best musician of all time

alex N college dropout was full of em

He wouldn't have so many naysayers if he'd learn to just shut up about it. No need to *make* everyone think you're the greatest, just let the work speak for itself. That said, as with anything, not everyone's going to like an artist's voice and/or style. To each their own. Period.

have you heard him sing bohemian rhapsody

It's your boy max b

+KWL whats going on, just checking in on you!

30 hourssssss

keep it loopy man

We gonna make a big tsunami up in the joint

wtf ew

+Sylvanas Windrunner honestly u weren't there

AYYY TORONTO REPRESENT. The mosh pit was insane

mosh pit was sooo crazy bro...i was the brown guy in the jays jersey lmao

Saw him when he was in Buffalo! The best time of my life.

EXACTLY! Thank you! because Rap is not the same anymore. "Rappers" are not even rapping anymore. I.E - Future/2Chains

+Mo Mentum But yet kanye collabs with them.

And because lyrically, he's not the GOAT. Just call him one of the greatest artists of all time...

Mo Mentum they do rap. but they switched to a new and more simplistic style.

good because he's not the best rapper of all time.

not enough death grips. light 6/10

6/10 never forget

you do realize he gave BDTF an 8 right? And everyone agrees that's his best album, so a 4 on Yeezus was kind of what it deserved and a 6 on TLOP... WAIT! SCREW HIM!

+Christian Shen no he game bdtf a 6 bro

0/10 not carly rae jepsen

You know what they say, go with your first instinct. It's usually the correct answer. He is in fact a lunatic who put his self on a pedestal that he thought was so high he could barely see regular people and that he should be considered with the likes of Einstein, Walt Disney, Picasso, Warhol, Shakespeare and may other actual geniuses.

Robert D he is on their level tho

@@gabrielonibudo5710 how?

@@collinsigbiks9701 by being a cultural icon, and one of the most important innovators in his field

collins igbiks did you not watch the video? He’s obviously a musical genius one of the most influential artists since the likes of Mozart and Beethoven

FRANKWHITE1996 I just wanted to say THANK YOU KANYE! WOO! WOO! THANKS TO KANYE'S WORKOUT PLAN, I'M THE ENVY OF ALL MY FREINDS

+Ned Gold 😂😂😂😂😂

Ned Gold bro. you just killed me and brought me back to. headed to gym right now too. looks like college dropout is about to get its one millionth spin in my ears

Thank you Kanye, for shaping the rap game today. Always ahead of the game.

Ned Gold 😭😭😭

according to Kanye

HA! You only deserve one laugh of mockery at that statement

He really is...

lol

na, according to a lot of people, and me. take that L in ur name and hold it

If you actually believe that you're an idiot.

You are so terrible

+NateHigerrz Hey, not everyone's depth of perception is deep enough to acknowledge that we are living in the same time span as a musical revolutionary...

It's time to stop, Kanye, we know it's you.

+NateHigerrz Please elaborate.

Faxxx

Honestly true. I would barely listen to Ye and say that he's trash, until Donda. Now I have basically listened to every Kanye song ever released. Including Donda Deluxe.

@@ntokozofakude9399 literally same haha, when donda released I gave him a shot and that might be one of the best decisions of my life fr fr

@@ntokozofakude9399 donda went 25/27, goat

Can I recommend some songs of his? Because most of his new stuff isn't that good

+KaizerMan Yeah I agree about the new stuff. Please recomend me some songs and records

Shad Sylla Yeah I agree with Natalie. Just listen to anything from his albums College Dropout, Late Registration, Graduation or My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Those are his best albums. He has a couple more albums but they're all experimental and a lot of people took a while to adjust to and to begin to like it

+Shad Sylla "His new stuff isn't that great !" back then that's what they said about 808's and Heartbreak, so don't be too quick to judge, just give it a try. Personally I like all his albums, because each one reveals a new dimension to the listener. If you ever feel like the whole world is out to get you and you feel helpless, listen to "Yeezus", It will show you that your not the only one that feels like it, and it will motivate you to fight back !

Red/white just don't listen to any of his new music because it's trash

I'm definitely a Kanye hater. I was one going in (I still clicked on the video btw) and I'm still one coming out. I've loved a lot of his music and I think he IS a creative genius but he has a very megalomaniac, egocentric personality and really bad anger management issues. Not a guy I'd want to hang out with...

Gianni Quilici "I'm definitely a Kanye hater. " "I've loved a lot of his music and I think he IS a creative genius but he has a very megalomaniac, egocentric personality and really bad anger management issues. Not a guy I'd want to hang out with..." Hoenstly, not the kind of hater I was talking to. You have a valid opinion and you're not unnecessarily hating on him.

+Gianni Quilici you'll never have to hang out with him. We live in an era where everything a famous person tweets or says is news and becomes synonymous with whether or not to like the person. At the end of it all, all that will be left is the music

+Gianni Quilici that's fine bro, nearly everyone feels the same way. As long as you don't deny he's a musical genius BECAUSE you don't like his personality we'll love you

I suppose I am one. Not because of his music, since I've never really listened to it because Hip Hop and Rap aren't on my things-i-listen-to list. Having watched this video I can see why people call him a 'genius'. His style is interesting. My issues about Kanye stem from the fact that he is a very shitty person with an ego so large, that he has enough for everybody alive.

I never understood why but that part brought me to tears many times.

please do, download My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasty right this minute, listen through every single track and tell me you're not a Kanye fan after

Love his music up until Yeezus.

You don't like the new album at all? Try Real Friends, No More Parties in LA, and 30 Hours. Trust Me.

The new album has maybe 2 or 3 good songs, but overall it's no where near the quality of his first 5 classics. I feel like his fashion thing really has messed with his music. He's said in interviews before that Yeezus was basically his state of mind at the time, how he wasn't in a good place (because of being "rejected" by the fashion industry), and wanted to convey that through his music.

Kanye's moved away from pop music and into music as high art. Yeezus is a narrative. Pablo is a narrative. The individual tracks are like chapters in a story. This has a huge impact on the music. Before, the job of the individual track was to be as dope as possible. Jesus Walks and All Falls Down and Through the Wire were just great individual tracks. But on Yeezus, each track is adding to the story. So I Am a God is supposed to foreshadow the emotional breakdown we get on New Slaves that leads to the sad person we see on Hold My Liquor through Guilt Trip. All the bravado on On Sight, Black Skinhead, and I Am a God was only to hide the pain this character really felt. Setting up Bound 2, where there's now hope for love, compassion, companionship, an end to the loneliness, fear, and pain. Pablo is the same way. Freestyle 4 might seem like a weird track, but it has a job: to embody the sexual cravings this character feels, the ones that have caused the character to cheat on his wife time and again and potentially lose his wife and marriage. It's the nadir of the album. Is it a great, individual track in the way of Gold Digger? No. But it's meaningful in the context of the album. And leads to the reflection on I Love Kanye, the talk of rebirth on Waves, and then the struggle to change and become a better person on FML.

Translation: this was really good

Haha well yeah

+tango1986 those guys are no where near a top 10 list. No one cares about them

Perspective?

antisemite?

but kendrick hasnt done anything as monumental as Kanye

Xxblacksteel xX and he wont. Kendrick doesnt produce his songs so he cant change the way people arrange songs directly, only through his producers. Kendricks flow has fallen off since Section .80 and though his lyrics are more provoking, he has a choppy, un aesthetically pleasing flow that doesnt fit well on most tracks. Take for example No More Parties in LA where kendrick cant seem to ever catch the flow and some argue that the beat was off putting and hard to flow on but Kanye comes in flawlessly and actually beats Kendrick at his own game.

Oscar Urquiaga I was thinking more of like accomplishments instead of style. Kendrick has achieved as many Grammy nominations as Michael Jackson, he's one of the leaders who are making rap political again, ya dig? The things he's achieved are making a statement in the hip- hop industry.

Xxblacksteel xX im just clearing the air

Belen Swan and he may push boundaries as to what the content is consisted of, but those powers have their limits. The entire reason we have trap music, vox rap, cloud rap, electronic rap, hell even some gospel music is because kanye pushed sounds that far. No one was doing things like him.

Okaaay........I mean your wrong completely....but okaaay

+This one's on me! And I say you're wrong for saying he's wrong. What you gon do bout it

+This one's on me! And I say you're wrong for saying he's wrong. What you gon do bout it

best new school rap artist. best album of all time cannot be answered. for wxample, i love ATCQ but maybe you don't.

+llCasualDudell people do it all the time for rakim, nas, Dr dre, biggie ect

dollasignash He’s trash

Well Steve jobs is a genius of technology and industry and he wore black turtle necks, the most blandest of clothing items possible, he's certainly not crazy...so there's one

+This one's on me! Did you know people hated him and thought he was crazy while he was alive? Weird how people feel threatened by genius when it is fully aware of itself

+This one's on me! Well, Kanye is more of a stylish musical businessman so there's nothing wrong with eccentric persona and both Steve and Kanye revolutionize and influence each of their own profession. There are people like him or despise him

Kanye was a globally known superstar long before Kim so "Most people know him through Kim's family" is wrong

ayy your last sentence is his lyrics to a song forgot which one 🤔

Patricia Sheck facts

Patricia Sheck IDK about beautiful but misunderstood, yes.

Patricia Sheck he is the goat

People who don't respect Kanye's talents don't know his music. I mean you can not like the guy but he is great at what he does. Plus a lot of geniuses are messed up.

KA Suverkrubbe I say this all the time. People say they don't like his music but its everywhere, lots of ur fave artists were produced by him, you bought products off commercials using his songs, they are in movies, t.v. shows, at football games, I could go on and on and on. If you say you're not a fan you are a liar and a hater. The man has revolutionized sound. He is creative and innovative. He creates emotion and mood with his sounds and that's why he is still banking checks regularly. And more is to come...

He is the so called Kanye protege

His voice and flow really reminds me of Cudi

Travis got Scott in his name because of Kid Cudis real name Scott Mescudi

It’s crazy to think that they are in the same family now

Jade Rey Cudi and Travis got matching tattoos. Travis is really living the dream

Not really. Kendrick isn't crazy. Stevie Wonder isn't crazy.

ChrisJ Fox you dont know that

tomasv26 😂😂😂 ok

michael jones “name one genius that ain’t crazy”

Crazy cuz they have so many random and amazing ideas all over the place

Anuja Ariyaratne e

Anuja Ariyaratne I'm wearing mine correctly and it was still wrong lol

Brianna Docherty I think some headphone distribute sound differently

Did u like it Andy?

Best since yeezus

Brian A i thought i was going crazy. i was thinking of PYT

omg you are right!

This

lol no he didnt... you can go to any VST and pitch up PYT and it will sound exactly the same.

There's a video of it live where pyt blends into the song

Facts

no sane person would put him as the greatest artist of all time either. maybe one of the, or the, greatest artist today. but no way in hell is he the best ever

No, definitely not that either

He has ghost writers. Therefore he ain't on the list

are u dumb

Jordan Sullivan What does the class consist of? His lyrics? His impact and influence?

Mostly his lyricism, influence on music, and some interviews.

*****​ I like Kanyes music a lot but I fail to understand why would a university teach Kanye West in class, I mean, there are no other important topics in curriculum?

It's a student led class that can be taken for credit.

***** Oh, well that makes more sense.

Mark Rubin Yeah in a universe where underrated meant massive ly popular

Mayank Choudhary lmao was thinking the same thing

Kanye is the second biggest rapper of all time

Mark Rubin one of the biggest names in hip hop since early 2000s is "underrated" you sound stupid for that

Mark Rubin But critically acclaimed

Are you sure ? I thought it was LR CD Then G

she talked about hey mama and then went to graduation

college dropout is definitely his first album, the Late registration, Graduation, 808s and Heartbreak, MBDTF, Yeesuz, TLOP.