[mickilennial]

[EyeKanFly]

[mickilennial]

Even in the alternative crowd? I didn't see much excitement over The College Dropout personally among that crowd. But maybe I'm not the internet savant I think I am either. 😜

[Guest]

Yeezus seems to get an "experimental" tag thrown at it from a lot of people (e.g. RYM lists it as solely being "experimental hip hop", while MBDTF is listed as being "hip hop" and "pop rap"). I fail to see where the experiments are to be found. If there's something experimental about Kanye's rapping and lyrics that doesn't fit into mainstream music, I'd like to know. Sounds like his usual stuff to me

As for the beats, they are more distorted than on his previous stuff, but ain't that exactly a mainstream thing right now? I think his beats has a brostep influence, which is definitely a mainstream thing currently. I saw a Rihanna concert last week at a festival, and there were lots of passages with hard and distorted beats. And Chase & Status, who probably gathered the festival's biggest crowd, essentially plays pop music with distorted beats (at least they did live, don't really know their recorded stuff). Many mainstream artists seems to incorporate these kinds of beats into their music right now, and Kanye West follows this mainstream trend (Kanye's beats aren't downright brostep, but I definitely hear the influence). Most of the songs off Yeezus also has conventional pop structures and catchy hooks. To me, Yeezus is simply a (damn good) modern pop album, and definitely mainstream