Also, the sneak peek of the soundproof box. Perhaps the dumbest idea he's ever brought to life and it was incredible.

Unfair to not include Teti who gets at least a B+

Is this an episode of Blue Turtlin'? Are you poppin' my stones, bro???

Bringing Hey QT into this is really interesting, because it a blatant attempt at creating ephemeral pop music. And whose Cruel? St. Vincent's? If so, it and Billie Jean are in many ways (arrangement, progression) more musically complex, but not notably more structurally complex than Hey QT. If we are classifying an…

That "1 idea each" line screams someone who has not listened to a sizeable proportion of Kanye's catalog, MBDTF and Yeezus in particular. Each of those has as many shape-shifting, prog-rap opuses as any OutKast album (you threw BOB out there as the peak of rap, and it is, but you must know that OutKast makes their own…

You could argue that the success of Drake and similar rappers has perhaps forced that reevaluation as much if not more than MBDTF, but MBDTF definitely pushed him from just influential to genius.

Do I have an absolute treat for you: