Kanye was the most thoughtful rapper alive, until he became the least thoughtful. Wayne built his career on releasing everything he recorded, until he got eaten by the machine. Wayne was a rapper’s rapper who lived only to make music - the more head-spinning the better - and Kanye strove to convince a world behind on the times that hip-hop could be high art. Now, a tumultuous decade later, it feels like that era is ending.Īt their best, Wayne and Kanye deconstructed the rapper into two distinct, iconoclastic archetypes. Two albums, two generational talents, both reaching their commercial pinnacles - these were coronations, and an era of rap at its peak. A year later, Lil Wayne’s Tha Carter III sold over a million. Kanye West’s third studio album, Graduation, sold 957,000 copies in its first week in 2007.
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