I really don't care about critical or populist consensus. I am responding to the music as an individual.Quoting DavidSeven (view post)
Not every Kanye song is bad. When you stack him up against anyone who gives a shit about making real hip hop though... Tribe, De La, Kweli, Mos Def, Blue Sky Black Death, Cunninlynguists, Clear Soul Forces, People Under the Stairs, The Roots, Sage Francis, Shad etc and so forth he's just of no interest to me and never has been. I would agree that My Beautiful is probably his best album but again imo it's not a very good one. There's two or three solid tracks on that. Power is maybe the only one that I ever actually listen to for my own enjoyment.
Eminem hasn't made good music since The Marshall Mathers LP. The Beastie Boys are a different beast, see The In Sound from Way Out for example.