Kanye Mad At 40 For “Borrowing” Sound

Rae and Ghost aren’t the only ones that don’t like a shark biter. Drake’s producer, Noah “40” Shebib tells VIBE in the Aug/Sept. issue that Ye cursed him out for “borrowing” his sound.

“I can’t even be mad at him,” says 40 [short for working 40 Days and 40 Nights…Noah’s ark, get it?) “Because the last CD I listened to before I started working on So Far Gone was 808s & Heartbreak.”

Ah, that explains it. But Yeezy doesn’t have to worry about 40 stepping on his toes. He’s only interested in working with two artists.

“At this point in time, the only rappers I have any interest in working with outside of Drake are Wayne and Jay,” 40 says flatly. “I think Drake has been so instrumental in creating that sound that I have a commitment to him. If he doesn’t want me to give it away, I won’t.”

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  1. Can says:

    I mean, Kanye’s production on 808’s was pretty much a genre all its own (and also he’s just, in general, been the most pervasively influential rapper/producer of the past decade.) so it’s only natural that people would splinter off from it. I really enjoy 40’s production. So yeah, Kanye made it, 40 took it, Kanye cursed him out for it, and now everyone can keep making fantastic music.

  2. Nkozi says:

    That’s it?!? No quotes, no nothing??? C’mon son!

  3. yepANDnope says:

    meh. Imitation is the best form of flattery or something like that?

    Kanye’s ego getting in his own way again.

    How can you get mad at someone for “borrowing” when the MAJOR PART of your career is based on sampling and borrowing? Everyone remember the “Cheers to the Roc” joint at the end of “College Dropout” where he blatantly describes how his whole “borrowing” from Dre was INSTRUMENTAL (see what i did there) in sparking his success.

    I love you Ye, but PLEEEAASE pull your head out of your own ass, before you make a mistake that no one will be able to forgive you for.

  4. crack yo girls jawbone says:

    wow… Kanye doesn’t want a nigga stealing his spotlight.. hmmmm.. VMAs ring a bell???? get the fuck outta here nigga!!!!!

    Everybody borrow from everybody.. damn Ye’s signature sound comes from using soul samples.. for the dummies to follow..

    SAMPLES=OTHER PEOPLES MUSIC so is he STEALING THEIR SOUND too???

    NO HONOR AMONG THIEVES I GUESS.. lol

  5. Big moe says:

    How kanye flash on dude when he admitted tryna jack eminems drums n snares bk n the day dude a cry baby

  6. HORUS says:

    40 IS JACKING YE… DRAKE IS JACKING YEEZY + WEEZY… WHAT A BUNCH OF BIIIIIIIIIITCHES !!!!

    DRAKE’S MOTHER IS A TV PRODUCER, THAT’S THE REASON WHY EVEN IF HE IS WACK AC
    T ACTING HE PLAYED THE WHEELCHAIRMAN IN THIS FAG TV SHOW!!!!

    DRAKE’S FATHER USED TO WORK IN THE MUSIC INDUSTRY. HE WAS JERRY LEWIS’ DRUMMER THAT’S THE REASON WHY EVEN IF THIS BUM IS WACK AT BOTH SINGING & RAPPING, HE GOT A RECORD DEAL!!!

    HE IS USING HIS PARENTS’ CONNECTS IN ORDER TO BRAINWASH PEOPLE WITH HIS WACKNESS. DO NOT SUPPORT THIS FUCKERY.

    THANK GOD OVER FLOPPED, MISS ME IS FLOPPING, FANCY IS FAILING & TML FLOPPED & DIDN’T EVEN WENT GOLD THE FIRST WEEK.

    DRAKE IS FAIL, DRAKE IS A MESS, DRAKE IS A BIIIIIIIIITCH.

    ★★★

    HORUS IS THE TRUTH✔

  7. Kidd Rapp says:

    lol @HORUS for being a closet Drake fan… That nigga is the biggest stan on this board.. Who the fuck else knows all these facts lmao

    faggot groupie

  8. c.o. says:

    Fuck u horus..ur just jealous

  9. Nathaniel says:

    “yo on the real… i don’t want no nigga soundin like me, on no record. i’ma approach a nigga” – ghost face

    “nigga be bitin maaad styles” – raekwon

    Shark Niggas.

  10. Donn says:

    Lol ego? All the ppl on this site who leave a comment like their opinion is the only fact. Gtfoh Lmao. And say wat you want but your album collection is not complete unless you have a Kanye song or beat. FACT

  11. QuantumMusik says:

    Funny how Kanye Says he’s biting sounds.. when the TR-808 (The Instrument They Use to make those type of techno-fuse-hip-hop beats), Was originally made in the 80’s and used in Fuse-Pop-Songs back then.

  12. Maseo says:

    KanYe >

    let the man do what he wants he deserves it

  13. RyanM15 says:

    Horus is a bitch lol, yall know the dude has a Drake shrine in his room and wacks off to him every night.

    Pussy bitch

  14. Yerp! says:

    Em fell off after his first 3 Albums. That brotha is corn Pops.
    Jay last true record was American Gangster. BP3 had 5 joints the rest TRASH.
    Kanye is the most consistent artist EVER.
    College Dropout=Classic, Late Registration=Historicly Classic!, Graduation=Commercially Classic!, 808s&Heartbreak=Genre Defying Creationally Classic!.
    That’s why my top 5:
    Pac
    Jay
    Kanye
    BIG
    Em

  15. Maseo says:

    if you didnt think so far gone was jocking 808s & hb

    your delusional period

  16. NICKEY BLACK says:

    Im thru with Kanye

  17. slimshady says:

    @ YERP, CO SIGN.

  18. HORUS says:

    Kidd Rappc.o.RyanM15?

    A BUNCH OF BIIIIIIIIITCHASS SENSITIVE SHRAKE’S GROUPIES.

    DRAKE IS STILL THE DEFINITION OF WACKNESS.

    DRAKE IS FAIL, DRAKE IS A MESS, DRAKE IS A BIIIIIIIIITCH.

    ★★★

    HORUS IS THE TRUTH✔

  19. Yerp! says:

    There’s. Certain magic about Kanyes TRUE production I.e. Diamonds, Through the wire, gone, Overnight celebrity, stronger, good life, say you will etc. It’s too magnificent to defy. So ofcourse you’d want to imitate it. Thing is that’s why kanyes upset, you can’t! Ittl just hurt you in the long run. Plus he feels alil
    threatened cuz he doesn’t know if he still has that anymore. I mean Power is dope but let’s be real it was an S1 beat that kanye flipped. The chants and guitar make
    that track.

  20. itsawrizzie2010sheeeeiiiitt says:

    why not curse drake out instead of 40 kanye where ya balls at

  21. CantGetRight says:

    Last week,kanye called Swizz the best rap producer of all time after listening to Drake’s “fancy”. Im guessing kanye made that statement after listening to the 2nd part of that beat(the best part of that weak song) and he thought Swizz made the whole track. But 40 actually did that 2nd part. So shouldnt Ye be giving some type of props to this 40 dude now? lol

  22. flawda says:

    LOL @ imitation being the best form of flatery

    Biting is forbidden in hiphop, cues Missy and Timbalands “beat biters”. Have some damn creativity and stop jacking the next man shit, and mf wonder why everything on the radio and tv sound alike.

  23. HOOD says:

    tell Kanye to go FUCK HIMSELF….. FUCK 40 TOO FAGGOT ASS NIGGAZ

  24. RyanM15 says:

    Ayo Horus i know you wacking off to him now bruhbruh

  25. Can says:

    uh, sampling a record is not the same thing as stealing other people’s music. people who sample have distinct styles- like Dilla flipping a sample and Kanye flipping a sample are completely different. it’s still its own distinct form of expression, kanye used those samples to make his own style. 40 copping ye’s (non-soul loop) production style is different from ye using some drums to make a new style.

    but again, who cares. kanye checked him, he didn’t have someone beat him up or call him out in public. it was a private discussion (which we do;ot even really know the contents of) 40 decided to make public.

  26. flawda says:

    Kanye is a great artist too, but he is a average ass rapper. Yall should be ashamed of yourself to put him in the same category as legit mcs, who can outrhyme and outflow is ass 99 out of a 100 times.

  27. Yerp! says:

    @cantgetitright
    all 40 did was crossfade the beat. Everything but the drums had there ‘Highs’ and ‘Mids’ lowered. Producers know what I’m talking about. 40s signature is to just mute the beat and add reverb and echo his shit is saucy. Boi 1nda is the true beat maker. 40 will need to reinvent himself soon or he will saturate his sound. Although it worked for Swizzy cuz all his early shit sounded the same lol.

  28. killacrack says:

    Rap is based off of stealing, How can you get mad for doing what HIP HOP is based off of. Sorry i do agree that KAYNE is GREAT — but 808 didnt even listen to it. Why would i support a R&B album with a nigg@ that cant sing. SORRY but for real Dont pass off a R&B album and say its rap to me. Kayne i once thought of as a rap God but that POWER joint & the track with OFFICER ROSS LIVE FAST DIE YOUNG — WERE GARBAGE!

  29. RyanM15 says:

    I want this full version of All of the lights Kayne and Drake son

  30. killacrack says:

    Drake stole BIG SEANS FLOW & 40 stole KANYE beat style put it together you have a industry made rapper with the system behind HIM.

  31. PTownWah says:

    40 & Boi1da are overrated!!!!

    Jake One >>>
    Frank Dukes >>>
    Justice League >>>
    Sean C & LV >>>

  32. yay says:

    WHO CARES?!??! people dying from cancer and poverty right now and we arguing over beats you people are fuckin stupid

  33. mmkayy says:

    was this new n improved kanye or the one w/ ego?

  34. Yerp! says:

    @flawda
    shut yo a** up^ lol. In this day in age it’s not about OUTFLOWING or OUTRHYMING it’s the subject matter the lyrics the EMOTION.
    If that was the case lil Wayne would be on the same level as Big Daddy Kane and Rakim cuz he can flow and rhyme with the best of em but HE AINT TALKIN BOUT SHIT. And they never progress. Kanye has taken the game to a whole mother level. Everytime he has dropped a record last decade THE WHOLE MUSIC INDUSTRY SHIFTED to HIS style.
    College Dropout era-2 years NOTHIN BUT SOUL production and records from every artist
    Late Registration era-Same Except on steroids with orchestral and modern implementations
    Graduation era- 3 years of ELECTRONICA And 80s influences with a progressive more custom sound
    808s&Heartbreak era- overlapped by Graduation era but it ALSO CREATED A GENRE in ITSELF!

    Production and Lyrically Together Kanye is unmatched when it comes to just Music.
    Dude is THE true definition of an artist.
    Style, Production, Lyrics, Emotion, Influence. Dude is incredible.

  35. crack yo girls jawbone says:

    yerp is a bitch… damn you dick ridin Kanye more then Amber.. how you figure that LR was historically important?? nigga you drinkin the kool aid big time.. and Graduation was trash.. there was more filler on that album then you get in a twinkie nigga.. and the nigga used auto tune.. which T-PAIN popularized again.. for the whole album biting off that niggaz plate.

    Yall are to damn emotional about this dude you can’t see straight.. he a dope producer but thats it.. he ain’t Moses.. nigga ain’t even Dre.. Be real.. he’s albums have consistently went down.. College Dropout was the illest.. the next.. alittle less.. the next.. even worse.. on.. on..

    Don’t care what any of yall niggas say.. “POWER”.. is trash.. yall niggas in love with the NIGGA.. and not the MUSIC… nigga could make a beat using a kazoo and cowbell and yall niggas would be claiming it was the best beat ever.

    Watch this album gonna come out and be sub par.. and yall niggas still gonna nut looking through the liner notes..

  36. crack yo girls jawbone says:

    think EM won the Oscar for original score for a song he wrote and produced.. “lose yourself”..

    where Ye’s at??

    lol

  37. DARKAQUA says:

    I DON’T GIVE A DAMN WHAT YEEZY DOES OR SAYS…JUST GIVE ME THA MUSIC!!! 😉

  38. flawda says:

    @ YERP

    Nigga, are you a women or a faggot, wtf are you talking about emotion, this shit aint r and b dude. This is hiphop, and mcing, it’s about saying the flyest shit in the most lyrical way, i’m sick of you neo soul niggas and your soft ass emo ways.

    It’s about balance, it’s about flow, lyrics, emotions, delivery, etc. You can’t overlook all aspects, your lyrics are your weapons as a mc. If you aint a dope lyricist, you pretty much is a spoken word artist to me. Go do Def Poetry Jam or some shit.

    Kanye wouldn’t even be able to sit at the same table as Nas,Jay,Pun,Pac,Andre 3000,etc. He aint a mc, Kanye is more of a artist than a mc.

  39. crack yo girls jawbone says:

    THINGS THAT ARE AS OVERRATED AS KANYE’S MUSIC

    1) NICKI MINAJ’S LOOKS

    2) SHYNE’S PLACE IN HIP-HOP

    3) EVERYTHING RICK ROSS DOES

    4) BUN B’S LYRICAL ABILITY

    5) WYCLEF’S CHANCES OF BEIN PRESIDENT

    6) LOTTERY TICKET

    7) DRAKE’S FLOW

    8) DRAKES SINGING

    9) DRAKE’S BLACKBERRY FREESTYLES.. lol

    10) MEMPHIS BLEEKS CHANCES OF GETTIN OFF JAYS DICK

    11) WALE’S ABILITY TO SELL A 100K ALBUMS “TOTAL”

    12) WAYNE’S ABILITY TO BE TALL ENOUGH TO RIDE THE TEACUPS AT DISNEY WORLD

    13) “POWER”

    14) “POWER” VIDEO

    15) RAPRADAR STAFF

    16) YN’S OPINION

    17) OBIE TRICE’S CAREER WITHOUT EM

    18) IPHONE 4

    19) ANY MUSIC THAT PILL RECORDS

    20) GOOD MUSIC’S ABILITY TO ACTUALLY MAKE GOOD MUSIC

  40. Black Shady says:

    LMAO @ Crack ya girls jawbone.

  41. slimshady says:

    @ YERP CO-SIGN.

    Flawda you playing yourself fool. I fail to understand why niggas slot 3 stacks amongst rappers like pac, nas and big. He’s good not that great. @ Crack yo girls (?), yeah, according to you graduation was “trash”, despite being critically acclaimed, best rap album, album of the year etc etc, it was “trash”, GTFO here nigga. Graduation ain’t his best work but it was damn near perfect. Starting with the artwork onto the music, whatever Ye does is always unconventional, every nigga hop on his dick for a beat or a feature. Fact.

  42. crack yo girls jawbone says:

    21) GUCCI MANE’S CAREER.. BBBUURRR

    22) LEBRON JAMES IN THE NBA

    23) FAT JOE’S ABILITY TO SELL MORE ALBUMS THEN CALORIES HE EATS IN A DAY

    24) WACKA FLOCKAS ABILITY TO WRITE ONE COHERENT VERSE

    25) EVERYTHING RAEKWON HAS RECORDED SINCE THE ORIGINAL OBFCL

    26) SWIZZ BEATZ.. BEATS

    27) YELAWOLF…

    28) 5 MICS IN THE SOURCE

    29) ANYTHING THAT BABY SAYS

    30) RAP RADAR COMMENTERS OPINIONS..

  43. crack yo girls jawbone says:

    31) ^ THAT GUY PRETENDING TO BE SHADY

    32) GROWN MEN WHO USING OTHER “GROWN” MEN’S NAMES.

  44. Word says:

    Oh my God, some of you Kanye fans are just as disgusting as that white boys fans…is it okay to stan for Kanye but when you stan for Jay or Em its bad? Donn’s comment was some of the worse case of dick riding-itis i ever seen. Kanye cool, but yall just letting yall somewhat disturbing love of Kanye make your comments seem bias. As a non bias commenter, Kanye is a good producer, average rapper.

  45. crack yo girls jawbone says:

    33) NIGGAS OPINIONS WHO THINK THAT GRADUATION WAS EVEN A “GOOD” ALBUM

    34) KANYE’S MOM’S PLASTIC SURGEON

    35) CHANCES OF ANYONE IN G-UNIT GOING PLAT AGAIN

    36) NIGGAS WHO WEAR SKINNY JEANS

    37) ANY NIGGA IN THE WEST NAMED GAME

    38) ICE TEA’S WIFE COCO

    39) OBAMA’S B-BALL GAME

    40) MICHELLE OBAMAS LOOKS..

  46. crack yo girls jawbone says:

    COSIGN @ WORD

    LIKE I SAID.. THESE NIGGAS IN LOVE WITH THE “NIGGA”…. NOT THE MUSIC. EMOTIONAL LIKE BITCHES

  47. slimshady says:

    @crack yo girls, you got WAYYYYYYY too much time on your hands to make that list dood. SMFH.

  48. crack yo girls jawbone says:

    41) NIGGAS IN ATLANTA THAT “ACTUALLY NEEDED” HOUSING THAT WERE AT THE RIOT

    42) TIGER WOODS TASTE IN WOMEN

    43) RON ARTESTS SONG “CHAMPION”

    44) MYSTICAL’S ABILITY TO EVER MAKE IT ON RADIO AGAIN. TAPE THAT NIGGA.

    45) INCEPTION

  49. crack yo girls jawbone says:

    46) NIGGAS WHO SAY I HAVE TO MUCH TIME ON MY HANDS TO TYPE A LIST BUT HAVE PLENTY OF TIME TO READ MY LISTS.

  50. slimshady says:

    47) NIGGAS WHO NAME THEMSELVES AFTER A JAWBONE WHILE SUCKING ON HOMIES DICK.

  51. crack yo girls jawbone says:

    47) SN “SLIM SHADY’S” TRUST IN HIS GIRL SINCE I CRACKED HER JAWBONE.

  52. crack yo girls jawbone says:

    48) NIGGAS WHO LOVE OTHER GROWN NIGGAS SO MUCH THEY USE THEIR NAME LIKE A LITTLE BITCH

  53. crack yo girls jawbone says:

    49) NIGGAS WHO HATE LISTS BUT KEEP ON REFRESHING AND HANGING ON MY EVERY WORD

  54. crack yo girls jawbone says:

    50) NIGGAS WHO THINK OTHER NIGGAS ON RAPRADAR WANT TO HEAR THEIR TECHNICAL BREAK DOWN OF KANYE’S MUSIC.

  55. crack yo girls jawbone says:

    51) THE NUMBER OF BLACK PEOPLE ACTUALLY LOOKING FOR JOBS.. LOL.. NIGGAS AT THE CRIB CHILLIN.. GETTIN UNEMPLOYMENT.

  56. crack yo girls jawbone says:

    52) BLACKOUT COLUMN… SHIT CHANGES LIKE ONCE A MONTH IF THAT.

  57. Dem says:

    Kanye is an idiot, period. As talented and original as he is when it comes to music things like this make me shake my head in disbelief that this dude’s labelled a genius.

  58. mac OIL says:

    KANYE IS WACK RAPPER SUCKS !!!
    HE CAN’T FUCK WITH EMINEM OR JAY-Z
    STILL WORK WITH JUSTIN BIEBER !!!!!
    DONT HATE ON MY OPINION !!!!!!!!!!!!!

  59. ak says:

    ok clearly HORUS.. hates b/c he’s is a no one .. for hating him so much you know a lot about Drake.. lol …i think you need a life my friend ..

  60. ak says:

    crack yo girls jawbone … best post on this site,, LMFAO

  61. Nathaniel says:

    lmao this nigga crack yo girls jawbone got me in stitches. lmao

  62. Yerp! says:

    Y’all suckas are comical. Kanye changed hiphop and music. If you don’t understand what Kanye has done to music and the culture of hiphop then your not worth a mention. “Scared of the future while I hop in the delorean”

  63. sb says:

    most of drakes beats sound alike…. so what does it matter?….. oh yeah Kanye said it so its a issues lol

  64. Citylivin' says:

    message to Drake dude fans……..y’all panties showing! stop bitchin

  65. Word says:

    How did he change hip hop? Wasnt it the worst its been in years just a couple years ago? And its better this year, but is that cuz of Kanye? Fuck no, its all artist…yall give this man sooo much credit for doing nothing but putting out good music. But he hasnt changed the dynamic of hip hop..he just added to it, like every artist does

  66. Chink Money says:

    Hey… Inception was raw lol

  67. mac DIESEL says:

    LOOK LIKE KANYE WAS HITTIN’ THAT HENNESSY AGAIN!!!! HA!!!! BITIN’ IS AT AN ALL-TIME HIGH!!!! NIGGAS NEED TO CUT THAT SHIT OUT!!!! FIND YA OWN LANE!!!! LAZY FUCKS!!!!

    DON’T HATE ON MY OPINION!!!!

  68. the grime says:

    get off your knees young man

  69. It's over Kanye says:

    I don’t have any respect for Kanye anymore! His ego is out of control! So Kanye didn’t you rip off Just Blazes sound when you first came out bitch!

  70. John says:

    @ Word, shit, you leave me no choice homie. I used too think you were unbiased, but you’re a fucking R-Tard right now. Kanye changed the game just as much as others? Iight, usually, someone saying something stupid gets a facepalm from me and I keep moving on, but I ain’t got shit else too do, fuck all ya’ll haters, I’m goin in –

    Kanye is brilliant. Easily the most consistent MC in the game. He’s an artist you could write days about. From the game changing CD, to the undeniable classic that is LR, to the pop-culture classic Graduation (Stronger? Flashing Lights? Good Life? Good Morning? + beating out sales moster 50 in the beef everyone remembers), all the way down to 808’s and Heartbreak (give or take, but critically acclaimed and commercially successful, pretty amazing for a respected rapper going all auto-tune and making a pop album featuring nothing but singing, as said by Kanye himself).

    He’s the guy who’s never satisfied. There’s people at the top, but I feel Kanye is the guy looking at the top, and finding the best way to break the glass and reach even higher than before. Look at how different each one of his albums were.

    His impact is second to none in this decade. Without him, Drake, Cudi, Lupe, all wouldn’t have been signed. Do you people forget the impact made by Kanye repping gay people and when everyone started saying Kanye gay? And no not like ‘ya Gay people are cool’, but calling out other rappers and sh-t? He was the first non-gangster, that’s why he wouldn’t get signed. Once he got his chance, he proved everyone wrong. He broke down HUGE barriers in Rap.

    Or the IMPACT made by wearing a pink polo with a LV bag? He single handidly changed fashion in Hip-Hop, and that’s just an addition on the impact his albums have made (the content + beats on them).

    Add that to his production which is brilliant (many say he brought back soul sampling, and you can argue it), but the fact that he made these harmless beats on CD and stuff popular is phenomenal. He produced classic albums like The Blueprint, and Commons Be, and is STILL sh-tting out number 1 hits for artists (Drake’s biggest hit off his new album? Kanye produced, AND KANYE WROTE IT). So even though he has the skill the hit the top of the charts and play it safe, he chooses not too because he just feels the need to do more.

    Add that to the fact that he’s been real 100% in this game. Remember when he threw a fit when he didn’t win best debut artist? Or he upstaged Justice when he didn’t win best video for Touch The Sky? Now when he was even more fans, and more to lost (nearing his fifth album), dude is still pulling those stunts. Call him childish, or whatever you want, but he’s always been real to himself in this game. Still the guy in the same clothes, same personality, same lyrics and representation, still that underdog who’s not stopping.

    Add that to the fact he’s hit platinum a sh-t load of times, has got a billion hits, and produced a billion hits, more Grammy’s than ANY other rapper ever, and is placed seventh in most Grammy’s won by one artist, and he’s only been in this damn game for 6 years, (and more secondary awards as well). An album of the decade critique by EW, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, and called The Most Influential Artist of the Decade by many places as well, both just named months ago, like wtf should I go on? His collabo’s with Coldplay, John Mayer, and his affection for Rock and Art that he posts on his blog. Everything about him is unique. Oh rap likes baggy clothes? Well I’ll wear my clothes tight! Oh rap doesn’t like soul beats? I’ll make my beats so good you’ll have to like em’. Oh, rap doesn’t like non-gangsters? Well I got the skill to make your life so exciting (fade away like in power). Like he CHANGED the game. His business statements (shoes with Nike and LV) like c’mon son! What other rapper can MAKE an album like 808’s and have two HUGE singles off it and a platinum selling record that critiqued super well? Kanye West, that’s who. He has his own label with superstars and platinum selling artists on it. I could go on and on and on.

    He’s f-king killed Nas on a track, he’s killed Jay on a track, he’s killed Wayne on tracks, the man is a monster right now. He’s been improving his lyrics and he’s been killing it ever since. He still was number 1 for me with his above average lyrics, because it was about more than lyrics for me, but now it’s like he’s unstoppable.

    That’s not even including his tours which are considered legendary. May I take you guys back to 2007/2008 when his latest creation, the Glow In The Dark tour came out? It’s known as one of the most CREATIVE tours in ever, and grossed I believe the MOST money that year out of concert sales.

    He unlike most artist actually adds his own background vocals, and plays LIVE instruments for his beats (piano’s, guitars) that he creates on his own, and he even instructs an ENTIRE orchestra (he does this live a lot, and changes the original sound of songs), here’s a video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ImKfG8equzY

    Co-signed by artists like Talib Kweli, Mos Def, Consequence, all the way down to T-Pain, Jay-Z, Wayne, etc.. Like wtf?! Like he said “Whether you call him Kwali or Kweli I put him on tracks with Jay-Z, I’m the Gap like Banana Republic and Old Navy”. He’s almost like a backpack mainstream rapper. He’s still talking about conscious sh-t, while in his number 1 hits, who the f-k else does that?! Obviously he does other stuff too, but that’s just rapper sh-t, and those are still dope as hell!

    He doesn’t get caught up in drugs, or half the other sh!t celebrities and ESPECIALLY rappers are getting themselves getting into with guns and stuff. So he got drunk and rushed a stage, compare it to half the stuff Hollywood does and it’s fking nothing. Get over it, jeez. Other than those few times, he promotes a GOOD lifestyle, loving and accepting, look at the stuff he stands up for. His best friend is ELLEN DEGENEROUS FOR CRYING OUT LOUD.

    This literally took my like 5 minutes to write. I just started going, like I said, his feats are undeniable. He’s is a genius. What this man and his music has done for my life is incredible.

    Hate on the man and his music all you want, but don’t deny his undeniable impact on Rap and even music.

    Basically, at the end of the day, GOD DAMMIT HE’S KILLING THIS SH-T!

  71. we_HATE_hard says:

    yo ye shut the fuck up nd make tht album. Stop drinkng lupe pills, signing emo artists, makng emo music, nd jst plain being emo. Get of ths bieber, see me now nd 40/ drake shit. Get fresh jay nd nas versus 4 th power remix. Nd giv us th album every1’s bn waitng 4 ,bt slowly ‘detoxng’ out their system coz of th b.s uve keep pullng.

  72. SayAHHHHH says:

    i wouldn’t take shit from a nigga as GAY as Kanye west

  73. K-Lam says:

    Yerp how do you call Relapse and Recovery Wack?

    Encore horrible but still had amazing songs on it…….Relapse to this date is his most lyrical and multisyllabic rhyming ever put together in one day..and Recovery was an amazing album (easily as good as The Eminem Show or better) and started putting Hip-Hop back to being dominant. Kanye has only one GREAT album which is Late Registration. Graduation was tight, I liked that he matured a lot on that album (Big Brother was my fav) but it still wasn’t as good as Late Registration. And 808 I threw in the trash, I played all the songs maybe 2 or 3 times and couldn’t stand it. IMO the dude has one great album, An pretty damn good one, and then a one click, one play album.

  74. slimshady says:

    ^^^^^ wtf? you honestly thought recovery was dope? cmon son, i know its your opinion but that album WAS FUCKING TRASH, PURE POP. relapse was 100000000% better and that’s not saying much. eminem can still smack it on the mic, but as far as making quality, classic albums, he lost it since the eminem show dropped. KANYE’S 4/4 CLASSICS. FUCK YALL.

  75. Espio says:

    Hahaha hilarious. Just like Kanye “borrowing” all those samples for pretty much everything he did and the autotune thing.

  76. WhatsUpSon says:

    The Passion of Kanye West. Lol

  77. Belize says:

    @ crack yo girls jawbone: co-sign *DEAD*
    Kanye, what’s to steal? Ye’s beats are average, and he don’t have any projects other than Gayne, Grake and Jay-Z cuz they the ones makin the most $$$. no one want to “steal” his beats!!!

  78. Belize says:

    it’s the money they want!

  79. Oh shit!! This is crazy lol lol KANYE WHO THE FUCK DO YOU THINK YOU ARE CUSSIN OUT PEOPLE???

  80. K-Lam says:

    @slimshady

    kid your worse than stan. Recovery was a fuckin’ dope album concept and will win album of the year. Eminem has 2 classics under his belt, Kanye has none. end of story. Recovery easily topples anything Kanye has done.

  81. That Dude says:

    53) NIGGAS WHO WRITE ESSAYS IN THE COMMENT SECTION OF RAP RADAR LIKE ANYONE READS THE SHIT AND DON’T JUST MOVE ON TO THE NEXT ONE LINE COMMENT. HA

    54) MICHAEL JACKSON’S IMPACT IN THE INDUSTRY AFTER 94

    55) DJ “COW”LED..

    56) SHAQ’S BASKETBALL SKILL.

    57) SKIP BAYLESS POINT OF VIEW

    58) TYRA BANKS POST MODELING LOOK

  82. slimshady says:

    WOOOOOOOOOOOOW K-LAM YOU ARE A FUCKING DUMBASS SON. SO HOLD ON. IDIOT, YOU’RE TELLING ME RECOVERY> 808’S?,,, RECOVERY> COLLEGE DROPOUT??????????? RECOVERY> LATE REGISTRATION???????????????? WTF??????????? FUCK OUTTA HERE DUMBASS GET OFF SLIMS DICK. RECOVERY IS A FUCKING POS.
    PUSSY BOY.

  83. slimshady says:

    AND P.S IT MIGHT WIN ALBUM OF THE YEAR ONLY AND ONLY CAUSE OF SALES. SIR LUCIOUS LEFT FOOT SHOULD WIN PURELY BASED ON HOW FUCKING DOPE THAT ALBUM WAS.

    BET YOU THINK THAT ALBUM WAS SHIT, OR RECOVERY>SLLF?

    FUCK OUTTA HERE PANTY BOY.

  84. slimshady says:

    MY BAD BOUT THE SPAZZ BUT K-LAM’S THE BIGGEST FUCKING RETARD ON THIS SITE. YN GET THIS PUSSY OFF OF HERE.

  85. ok says:

    ‘Successful’ is greater than any song on 808’s and heartbreak…… kanye is salty because he knows that.

  86. NeCee Baby says:

    I honestly don’t see how 40’s sound and Kanye’s sound relates….but Noah is right, Drake and him have there own sound they possess and it really fits Drake to a tee

  87. K-Lam says:

    I need to get off his dick? Buddy you are riding on Kanye’s Dick harder then ever. Stay away from the capital letters, just makes you look more like an ass. You are the kind of people who can’t justify why something is bad, you just think it’s bad and try and crucify other peoples’ opinions. Don’t take your period out on me you bitch.

  88. D!A!E says:

    Borrowing what sound??? A Song? Or…What???? I don’t get this post really?

  89. mmkayy says:

    @crack yo girls jawbone lmfao wow that shit is all true……ay YN put a character limit on this ma’fcka ppl in here writin essays…

  90. slimshady says:

    my period??? fuck you faggot.

  91. slimshady says:

    your dumbass thinks recovery> illmatic, so shut the fuck up hoe ass nigga

  92. slimshady says:

    oh and 60% reviews for recovery, not just me, dumbass

  93. […] clarifies his comment/tweet he made about Kanye West, in which he explains was a response to Kanye’s claims of 40 borrowing and swagger-jacking his sound. Props […]

  94. […] lyrics, but for his overall sound as well. Back in August, Drake’s main producer, Noah “40″ Shebib, relayed a story about Kanye West cursing him out for using his production style. Add to that mix […]

  95. […] lyrics, but for his overall sound as well. Back in August, Drake’s main producer, Noah “40″ Shebib, relayed a story about Kanye West cursing him out for using his production style. Add to that mix […]

  96. […] lyrics, but for his overall sound as well. Back in August, Drake’s main producer, Noah “40″ Shebib, relayed a story about Kanye West cursing him out for using his production style. Add to that mix […]

  97. […] lyrics, but for his overall sound as well. Back in August, Drake’s main producer, Noah “40″ Shebib, relayed a story about Kanye West cursing him out for using his production style. Add to that mix […]

  98. […] lyrics, but for his overall sound as well. Back in August, Drake’s main producer, Noah “40″ Shebib, relayed a story about Kanye West cursing him out for using his production style. Add to that mix […]

  99. […] lyrics, but for his overall sound as well. Back in August, Drake’s main producer, Noah “40″ Shebib, relayed a story about Kanye West cursing him out for using his production style. Add to that mix […]

  100. […] lyrics, but for his overall sound as well. Back in August, Drake’s main producer, Noah “40″ Shebib, relayed a story about Kanye West cursing him out for using his production style. Add to that mix […]

  101. […] his overall sound as well. Back in August, Drake’s main producer, Noah “40″ Shebib, relayed a story about Kanye West cursing him out […]

  102. […] lyrics, but for his overall sound as well. Back in August, Drake’s main producer, Noah “40″ Shebib, relayed a story about Kanye West cursing him out for using his production style. Add to that mix […]

  103. […] lyrics, but for his overall sound as well. Back in August, Drake’s main producer, Noah “40″ Shebib, relayed a story about Kanye West cursing him out for using his production style. Add to that mix […]

  104. […] lyrics, but for his overall sound as well. Back in August, Drake’s main producer, Noah “40″ Shebib, relayed a story about Kanye West cursing him out for using his production style. Add to that mix […]

  105. John says:

    The truth is Ye is on every top 20 producers list I’ve ever seen, so Shebib and Boi-1da shouldn’t feel their sorry asses. Fuck, they look up to Ye coz that nigga has got power and was the force behind the sampling we enjoy.

    Fuck all you random haters who saying shit bout Ye.
    “And everybody want to run to me for their single
    It’s funny how these wack niggas need my help
    Wasn’t around when I couldn’t feed myself
    Dog, If I was you, I wouldn’t feel myself
    Dog, If I was you, I’d kill myself
    Made a mill myself, and I’m still myself”

    Ye, the fucking greatest with that and West doesn’t know music theory and 40 and 1da do so fuck ’em. So he samples some old shit and makes it real shit.

  106. 6" sub says:

    Shane mosely ass nigha go pick some cotton

  107. YelaWolfGangSwag says:

    Name one other rapper who has released 5 albums in a row that were all heat. You can’t do it. Hov the closest one but none of his “Vol.’s” come close to any of Kanye’s shit.

  108. Make Beats says:

    its been nice reading your weblog and basically thought I would say thanks and wished I could write like that.

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  110. […] couple years ago, 40 said Ye got at him over biting his style. “I can’t even be mad at him,” says 40 [short for working 40 Days and 40 […]

  111. […] couple years ago, 40 said Ye got at him over biting his style. “I can’t even be mad at him,” says 40 [short for working 40 Days and 40 […]

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