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Just because of his music. And... like it or not... he has been at the forefront of almost every good innovation in hip hop over the last 15 years. He isn't the best rapper, far from it, and he isn't the best producer (though he is pretty great). But from his first albums to his pop rap albums to his more experimental post-MBDTF albums, each of them ushered in a new wave of artists clearly influenced by Kanye's styles.

Also I'll never understand the people who are against modern Kanye's music but massive fans of his old stuff. The College Dropout is my favorite album of his too, but Yeezus, outside of maybe Bound 2 as a closer, was fantastic, and Life of Pablo, despite being a mess of an album, had some really genius ideas underlying a decent amount of the tracks. Also I'm not personally a fan of his most recent album, but the other 2018 albums he worked heavily on (Kids See Ghosts and Pusha T's album) both had some fantastic production imo.

But yeah, I don't think anyone is claiming he is a genius outside of music and self-branding, and if they are they are kidding themselves.
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