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Old 09-21-2014, 06:20 PM   #61
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Originally Posted by Matata View Post
If you don't think Kanye is a towering genius, then you don't understand music production. The mans body of work defines an era, he's constantly developed his sound to keep himself on the forefront of hip hop music production for a decade. Music production is an insanely competitive field, where genius is required just to have a prayer of making a career out of it. Kanye has far outclassed what the average genius in his field is capable of.
This is what usually turns me off of music debates. I love music, always have, play many instruments. I always think music debates will be interesting and exciting, but it seems too often that statement gets made and just makes the discussion/debate stupid.

Music is subjective, more so than almost anything on earth. And while many aspects of music are quantifiable in some ways, it just annoys the hell out of me that you almost always end up seeing "If you believe/don't believe X then you don't understand music", in every debate.

That's a checkout comment for me, every time. Music smugness, bleh!
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