Yeezy: I'm bigger than Michael Jackson was

[twinklEE]

Kanye is just another rapper.

 

[Aquarius]

One of his advisor should tell him to stop talking about Michael. His words are only screaming jealousy and ignorance. Michael was not only a musician. He was an innovator, a spiritual person and the best humanitarian in the world. And to top it, Michael was super sexy. And Kanye can't beat that.

 

[HIStoric]

He is idiot to even dare to thing music today is fluenced by him and that is anything betrer than Michael Jackson. Your damn right Kanye West you are not Michael Jackson, while Michael let others praise him this fool is singing praises of himself.

Uhh, you do realise that music today is actually influenced by Kanye... right ? His album 808s & Heartbreak has had a very significant effect on hip hop music, as you can read here, as well as having influenced many major artists today such as, but not limited to, Frank Ocean, The Weeknd and Drake. This is just one of his albums. He's had more of a influence then you think and you can read up about it more on his main article, as well as other places on the internet. He's certainly not as influential as Michael, but music today certainly is influenced by him whether you like it or not.

Also, when exactly did he say he was better than Michael Jackson ? If you're talking about the 'glass ceiling' thing that this thread originated from, many posters in this thread have pointed out that he had been misinterpreted. If you go back a few pages, you'll see.

The latest from Kanye, full interview here as I only copied MJ part:
http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/kanye-w...ck-lamar-and-tyler-the-creator-news.7888.html
On advice from others & MJ comparisons:

I stay in a room in Kris Jenner’s house so I sit down with Oprah and heads of studios. I’m not gonna mention they names. Everybody got some advice for me and say like ‘Michael Jackson didn’t do it like this. But I aint Michael Jackson, I’m not just a musician. I’m a christian, revolutionary, visionary, products person.
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Is he seriously suggesting that Michael was just a musician, but not christian, visionary, revolutionary, products person as he describes himself? If so, he needs to have some history lessons of Michael

I think what he is trying to say is that the Head of Studios advice him to do things, claiming that "Michael Jackson didn't do it like this". Kanye then goes on to say "But I ain't Michael Jackson". I don't think Kanye was implying Michael is 'just' a musician because he has gone on in the past about how revolutionary Michael was. Hell, he's even worked with Michael Jackson. He's actually seen the man work his magic. No doubt they had many deep conversations.

Kanye was talking about in a recent interview with Jimmy Kimmel about how hard it is to break into other markets (such as the fashion industry), and often people don't take him seriously because he's just 'a rapper', nothing more than a 'musician'. That's why he says that "[Kanye is] not just a musician. I'm a christian, revolutionary, visionary, products person". I don't think he was saying Michael Jackson wasn't revolutionary or anything, when he said "I'm not just a musician", he had moved on from MJ and was now focusing on himself. In the Kimmel interview, ge goes on about "what I did in music, I wanna apply [it] to product, I wanna apply [it] to education". He's been incredibly successful in music so far, so now he wants to apply it to product, aka fashion.

I can definitely see how that can be misinterpreted it at first glance, but thinking about what he actually said, who Kanye really is as a person, his actual opinions/thoughts and what he is going through at the moment, that is what I believe he intended. Out of context, it can be misinterpreted to sound like he thinks that Michael Jackson was just nothing more than a musician, but it's quite obvious from past interviews that he thinks quite highly of MJ and his music and knows fully well that Michael was quite revolutionary.

He sorta rambles on about the struggle in this video (starts around... 1.20 ?). You'll get more of an understanding if you just watch the entire interview because it's sorta spread out over the interview.
Hell, at 2.20 he even mentions the struggle MJ went through to properly break onto MTV. The way he says "This is MICHAEL JACKSON" shows that he obviously thinks of him in a high regard. Ultimately his point in the whole interview is about how it's a struggle to go from being a respected rapper to a respected fashion designer, and how he has to fight to do so. That's why he compares himself to MJ, because MJ also struggled and had to also fight to properly break into the music video industry and get his videos shown.
[video=youtube;8hiEJxqvm0g]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8hiEJxqvm0g[/video]
Maybe in terms of public perception he isn't respected but as fans of Michael Jackson, we all know that public perception isn't always right. Within the music industry itself, he is certainly respected.

 

[AtlasAir]

I like that someone else gets where he's coming from in general here.
He's very eccentric, too.

Oh yeah, and I always thought his remix of Billie Jean on Thriller 25 was really good (compared to the other remixes).
He took the concept of taking a song and revamping it and it served it's purpose. Not supposed to be as good as the original, but a different take. My only critique was that he didn't do a guest rap on it, but instead did some UH HUH's on it. I almost feel like he maybe felt obligated to at least do that, just do emphasize that he was remixing it.

 

[HIStoric]

I like that someone else gets where he's coming from in general here.
He's very eccentric, too.

Oh yeah, and I always thought his remix of Billie Jean on Thriller 25 was really good (compared to the other remixes).
He took the concept of taking a song and revamping it and it served it's purpose. Not supposed to be as good as the original, but a different take. My only critique was that he didn't do a guest rap on it, but instead did some UH HUH's on it. I almost feel like he maybe felt obligated to at least do that, just do emphasize that he was remixing it.

Thanks. Yeah, I too wish that he appeared as guest rapper ! Regardless, it's still my favourite of the Thriller 25 remixes ^_^

 

[MjsLovelyOne88]

Kanye West needs to understand what humility is first! Michael knew what that was........and in that respect Kanye West is nowhere near the legend that was Michael Jackson.

Yeah he does need to. He can't go around dissing people just because he thinks he's the brightest star out there, ppff. One thing is having confidence and show it through his music and videos, perhaps during interviews being bold (like Christina Aguilera or even Lady Gaga) but another very different thing is disrespecting what he thinks is below his damn league, as if... :doh:.. that fake Michelle Obama letter sure sums it up, she should've done something like that but I guess class is everything.

 

[Selling_Out_Souls]

Oh.

These ninjas swear they about that life tho. I can only imagine what Michael probably had to say about the Yeezy's of da whirl.