Kanye is a blip on pop music radar. none of his songs will ever become pop standards, which is the EPITOME of pop greatness.
In this respect he is the same as Sonic Youth. If you love 'em yu love 'em, but if you don;t it doesn't matter one bit. Both are severe outliers in pop music, like Public Enemy, a collective that made 4 straight amazing records (like you say Kanye did) and yet it is now 2017 and no one in "pop" music gives a fuck about them.
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