January 12, 2005
Ban Kanye West From the Grammys
The reasons are a little bit convoluted to go into here, but basically he's a jackass and someone else ghostwrote his biggest hit. You can read the details and sign the petition at the same time here. More importantly, though, you can visit Byron Crawford's new site, solely dedicated to destroying the career of a single man (quick, someone look up 'Quixotic' in the dictionary for me). This is one of the funniest jags of hateration Byron's been on in a while, so it's a great chance to jump on board and absorb his brilliance in a focused form - Hey, that kind of rhymed!
Oh, shit, there's Kanye West at the door with a check! I'm rich, bitch!
Well that just sucks. I'm disappointed to hear this about Kanye. I have nothing against cover songs (particularly when they're done that well), but part of my respect for Kanye was based on the mistaken assumption that he wrote all those songs. Still, unless he didn't write any of the ones on College Dropout, I still think he's a very good artist.
But is he "as great as Michael Jackson," as he has claimed repeatedly?
I would like to add. As it has been stated before, the song is CO-WRITTEN. As in him and another person wrote it. I don't know why everybody hates on Kanye. Dre just replaces his samples. He doesn't actually write most of his beats.