I know discussion has (rightfully) moved on, but christ, any of you kanye supporters, please watch this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S78tT_YxF_c#t=0 and tell me he isn't an unadulterated simpleton.
also, sev, using the critics argument can no longer cut it in the 21st century, for better or worse. them supporting him unanimously, likely on the back of pitchfork riding him like a fucking donkey, has made them ripe for indictment as a joke of an industry. as above attests, he is stupid, a deluded, infantile fuckwit whose head is so far up his own arse as to completely eschew the entire rest of the world from his considerations.
not going to get into the talent debate, because if someone like kanye west can be deemed high art then the matter is blatantly subjective.