[@SleepingSilence] I like Kanye's productions and his lyrics. Not every one of his songs is on point but when he's firing on all cylinders he's ace. He'll never be the top of the lyrical charts but he's creative and clever with his zingers and lyrics.


Examples:


'Golly, more of that bullshit ice rap / I got to 'pologize to Mos and Kweli (probably) / But is it cool to rap about gold / If I told the world I copped it from Ghana and Mali?'

' Swear I should be locked up for stupid shit that I did / But I'm a champion, so I turned tragedy to triumph / Make music that's fire, spit my soul through the wire'

'Ain't nobody expect Kanye to end up on top / They expected that College Dropout to drop and then flop / Then maybe he stop savin' all the good beats for himself / Roc-A-Fella's only niggaz that help / My money was thinner than Sean Paul's goatee hair / Now Jean Paul Gaultier cologne fill the air, here'

' How we stop the Black Panthers? / Ronald Reagan cooked up an answer / You hear that? / What Gil Scott was hearin' / When our heroes and heroines got hooked on heroin'

'I embody every characteristic of the egotistic / He knows, he so fuckin' gifted / I just needed time alone, with my own thoughts / Got treasures in my mind but couldn't open up my own vault / My child-like creativity, purity and honesty is honestly being crowded by these grown thoughts / Reality is catching up with me, taking my inner child, I'm fighting for custody / With these responsibilities that they entrust in me / As I look down at my diamond encrusted piece thinkin'...'

'On a bathroom wall I wrote / "I'd rather argue with you than to be with someone else" / I took a piss and dismiss it and went and found somebody else / Arguing harvesting the feelings, I'd rather be by my fucking self / Till about 2am and I call back and I hang up and start to blame myself / Somebody help'

'Inter century anthems based off inner city tantrums
Based off the way we was branded
Face it, Jerome get more time than Brandon
And at the airport they check all through my bag
And tell me that it’s random'

'Crack, raised the murder rate in D.C. and Maryland
We, invested in that, it’s like we got Merrill Lynched
And we been hangin from the same tree, ever since'

'My freshman year I was going through hella problems
‘Til I, built up the nerve to drop my ass up out of college
My teacher said I'se a loser, I told her why don’t you kill me
I give a fuck if you feel me'

'I went to the malls and I balled too hard
“Oh my god, is that a black card?”
I turned around and replied, “Why yes
But I prefer the term African American Express”'

'I could do this all day, boy, I'm finna turn this bitch out
They need that Ye in the streets, boy, there's been a mothafuckin' drought'

'You see it's broke nigga racism
That's that "Don't touch anything in the store"
And it's rich nigga racism
That's that "Come in, please buy more"
"What you want, a Bentley? Fur coat? A diamond chain?
All you blacks want all the same things"'

'Killin' y'all niggas on that lyrical shit. Mayonnaise colored Benz, I push Miracle Whips'

'I know that people wouldn’t usually rap this
But I got the facts to back this
Just last year, Chicago had over 600 caskets
Man, killing’s some wack shit
Oh, I forgot, ‘cept for when niggas is rapping
Do you know what it feel like when people is passing
He got changed over his chains, a block off Ashland
I need to talk to somebody, pastor
The church want tithe, so I can’t afford to pay
Pink slip on my door, cause I can’t afford to stay
My fifteen seconds up, but I got more to say
That’s enough Mr. West, please no more today'


Kanye can go in when he has to, and a lot of his songs are about concepts and ideas above himself. He's egotistical, yes, but he knows how to make a song say something.