and it should be the standard: he's simply good and he really works on his music (has the right samples, from vintage artists and albums that meant something in their days, no cheap things or bleeps and bloings) really, if you hear some of his songs, other r&b artists are simply very boring and irritating and annoying.
quite astonishing that he doesn't need to be agressive in his use of language and still you can feel the agressiveness.
check it out

some absolutely belting tracks, but filled with random pointless "tracks" that are just speech and pretty dreadful, get it for tunes such as "heard em say" "touch the sky" "golddigger" and "diamonds from sierra leone"

Yes Kanye west has give us an good album. he is my favourite artist. Come on buy the album now.