I understand he was a producer before he was a rapper. I'm not knocking him for that (and I think he was damn good at it too). He didn't create all his own beats, though, and if you're gonna call Kanye a good hip-hop artist for being a good producer, then Rick Rubin is an AMAZING hip-hop artist. Never mind the fact that he's an overweight, middle aged white man with less emceeing skills than my deaf grandfather.
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