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Originally Posted by noisereductions
Amazing and Nightmares are my fav on 808.
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Nightmare's pretty low on my list. It's a good song, but Wayne's "you are Mrs. Pee-yew" line comes close to ruining it all.
"Amazing" was I think the first Kanye song that made me go, "Wow." Not that I'd listened to him much before that chance encounter, assuming he was just Diddy version 2.0, despite all the evidence to the contrary. But that was the song that planted the seed for the fandom you all have to endure today.
It sounded like a chain-gang worksong. It sounded so ...
weird. I heard it and who it was on an online forum. The response was basically, "Uuuuhhhh... it's
Kanye West you unbelievable moron" about a thousand times over. And I was so shocked that the insults didn't even really register. I could believe that
this weird, dark, brilliant, song was buy the most popular figure in music.
It was a while before the full extent of Kanye's unquestionable prowess really hit me, but that was the epiphanic moment where I realized that I had indeed been an unbelievable moron by avoiding music just because it was popular.