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Blood on the Leaves ftw.

Yeezus is boring pop-rap. The New Pornographers are awesome. Kanye will probably win anyway because fuck that shit. That's all there is to it.

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Yeezus is boring pop-rap? You must be white if you didn't feel like new slaves resonated with you at all! And blood on the leaves is a generally great song.
And that's just the album Yeezus! Go past that, and you have the greatest hip-hop career of all time. I just can't even fathom such nonsensical bs!

i bet a rap-only music tourney would be hella hype

Set it up PE!

after this one finishes, i don't wanna steal traffic

NP is just a collection of individuals. I mean are they actually a band? They spend more time doing their own stuff.

I almost feel like we just skip to the end and crown yeezus, but I guess it'll be cool to see who comes second and so forth, wins the other categories.

I dunno what to say. He's fun to listen to occasionally, but he doesn't really do anything special for me.

A sampling of The New Pornographers, though I can already tell I'm fighting a pretty pointless battle:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWQFX3VhVWM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XBAUQaj6EJo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lYKPFiWo3cI

And a few more if you want to keep listening:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_KZANuDcRO4
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yvlniBo1whY
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRzaOjVEvIE

@Putin, they most certainly are. It's definitely all of Newman's best work, and probably all of Bejar's too, and Neko's songwriting is honestly pretty hit and miss on her own.

We have one spot for Jack White and every band he's been in. I don't see how NP are at all unreasonable to have.

Pornos aren't even the best band with Dan Bejar in it.

some more Kanye:

Lost In The World: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofaRvNOV4SI

if only I could find that + Who Will Survive in one video... sigh

np aren't bad... they just aren't ye

But he's creativity! Experimenting! One second he's dropping graduation, next second he goes 808s, then he drops mbdtf (one of the most critically acclaimed rap albums of all time) and watch the throne, and just when you think he's back to 'normal' rapping he drops yeezus. He paved the way for lesser artists such as drake to 'rap' more about feelings etc., all whilst making songs that relate to the struggle and alienation of people in society today (all falls down, new slaves etc.). I just, I'll leave it, but he's got an album for almost everyone.

"probably all of Bejar's too,"

What? Streethawk and Destroyer's Rubies are his best work.

You seem to be quite the Bejar fan. Given that this is his only representation in the tournament, you should probably vote for him.

I would but Kanye is the best hip hop artist ever. I can't justify the vote.

I'm getting newfound respect for the members of this forum today.

Because the chances of any given person liking Kanye are so low?

Black Sabbath is terrible. I can't believe they're even on this list.

This will come out wrong, but I've always assumed that the members of this forum aren't generally speaking that close to members of the general public, and the people I stereotypically assume are in the forum are not, stereotypically, big on hip-hop.

"Black Sabbath is terrible. I can't believe they're even on this list."

http://i.imgur.com/sEmZSGe.gif

tbh kanye has a lot of appeal across basically all demographic categories except white people over about 45 or so

Yeah. I seem to be the only person voting against him and I'd probably be voting for him over a lot of others on the list.

PE, i thought most of the forum was white men over 45. I thought you get your angry draugnars, somewhat quieter but still middle aged white men (can't name any now, don't want to risk insulting random people), student-aged white guys (you), and me. Assumed the site was basically 1/3, 1/3, 1/3 for the first three groups, maybe 1/5, 2/5, 2/5.

ah, I figured we had a lot of 35 and under actually, but thinking about it more i think the latter split probably fits