Less of West

Kanye, Kanye, Kanye...What the hell has happened to you? Only a few years ago he was one of the few hip hop artists that actually had something lyrical to say. It wasn't all cars and women (some of it was of course) but at his height it was poems put to beats. An artist after my own heart. I still put Never Let Me Down, Hey Mama, and Roses on my playlists, so I'm clearly a fan, I have respect for his talent. However, I cannot for the life of me figure how he took such a turn for the worst.
The clothes, the hair, the poor attempt at singing...It's embarrassing to watch. A special on VH1 recently aired called Storytellers. Musicians perform a sample of their songs and inbetween explain the inspiration behind them; a genius program that I wish would air more often. Kanye did this show once before and it was fantastic...This time not so much. His "explantions of inspirations" were just incoherent self-righteous rants. He seemed to go into hideous free-styles where even the audience seemed unsure how to react.
He's always been a character of sorts, always seemed to think of himself as a player bigger than life in the game. He's always spared no expense and was never one to err on the side of caution when it came to what he said out loud, but he's become a persona too campy too exploited too contrived to even laugh at. He's a caricature.
Jay-Z needs to take him aside and slap some sense into his Roc-a-fella protege. I think Kanye needs to stick to what he knows and go back to school.