Professor Skye Still Loves Kanye..

[@professorskye]

…’s Music…Professor Skye Still Loves Kanye’s music! ❤

[@RapLatte]

🎵

[@dysonspheretxi]

😂😂😂

[@TriA...]

That includes Vultures? '-')

[@satyarthsingh2276]

@@TriA...Vultures 1, he did a pretty great vid on that. do watch it!

[@tjdeuceosix]

Kanye still needs love

[@professorskye]

Dang, did I miss the premier!?! Well, thanks for having me on. Sorry for the mic quality!

[@demitasse22]

AVAA!!!!!!!

[@yaelcarrasquillo1675]

AVAA ❤

[@hildeone]

Drake is art’s Mr. Brainwash in rap.

[@windy6587]

professor skye jumpscare

[@jackcasey9486]

I love y’all’s content it means a lot that y’all go to the lengths to which y’all do.

[@Jayvo_Of_Jamrock]

Please have Skye back on. He adds so much random but relevant context to every discussion he's a part of. Great video as always!

[@Trixiethegoldenwitch]

"He's introduced noise in the relationship between me and his music" is a brilliant quote

[@Met_One]

you guys are killing it with the guests 🙏

[@CandC3199]

Maybe change the title into something less clickbaity? Having the guest make that correction in the comments is not ideal...

[@a19enemy]

this for real

[@ShirleyTimple]

They gotta push the agenda that it's ok for black folk to be notsees so long as they make you shake that ass Hypocrisy at it's finest.

[@TuchNGoh]

If toure ain’t on the next culture united somebody’s gettin added to the opp list

[@michaelmiddleton551]

Lmaooo

[@NOK42]

King Green too!! Love his takes

[@dysonspheretxi]

Truuuuuuu

[@ossiejon-nwakalo8644]

Ultimate win

[@theartofbeingstupid8539]

please never stop doing these convos, this is amazing!

[@marjoe32]

Time+Tragedy= Kanye

[@melodyjoi5]

Great conversation with Toure’, Green and Prof. Skye!

[@CarterKeither]

Love hearing Skye talk about Carti even tho he does a lot. I've been thinking recently Carti embodies feeling over sound in music. Traditional structure and lyricism is meant to evoke strong feelings, but Carti cuts out the middle man and gets right to the baseline feelings and emotions

[@johns41]

Amazing guest! Great episode

[@sK0pe-d9b]

This was a great conversation. Exploring rap as art without explaining it is what we should continue to do.

[@daliciously]

I still love YE too 😂😂

[@bluecolt5860]

Great video. You all three together are a great combo

[@daphnelavigne7238]

Listened to y’all a couple times now and have really enjoyed it. Great conversation today.

[@javionblade21]

Top quality great video yall

[@dylantaylor6228]

Great conversation as usual guys

[@AaraliRam]

Diabolicial titling

[@OfteninLondon]

This was an amazing episode. I really enjoyed this

[@BrentRusk]

Excellent conversation! 🔥🔥🔥

[@leavecowsalone]

Yay! I have been loving your guest series!!! Now it’s Prof Skye, love his content too! I’m excited to listen.

[@RachelB.Jackson]

People really aren't discussing the depth of drake's similarities to the red pill/incel groups enough. Glad to hear it here

[@everythingetc.7784]

Not even close as someone who loves to meme saying someone’s Eliot Rodgers or something Andrew Tate would say as a joke drake Paints his nails Has a lot off sex Has a lot of confidence Has a lot of progressive views Idk what drake your talking about

[@Insouciant_Lyfê]

​@everythingetc.7784 Bro Drake is literally a documented and well known incel and misogynist. He has aligned himself with XQC and Adin Ross and just Kick's culture in general. All these things and people are right wing cesspools. He doesn't have one progressive view, and whatever "progressiveness" you think he has (the things you listed for example), I bet bro doesn't even think of it in that manner.

[@Evie1983]

KANYE I LOVE YOU.......

[@smdboy13]

39:40 "When shit hit the fan, is you still a fan?" Loved the video. Such a great year for hip hop, I enjoyed listening to y'all's discussions.

[@ess-pee-arr]

My new year's resolution is to tell 10 new people about this channel every day. Anything less than 100k subscribers is unacceptable. This content is too good to go unnoticed.

[@RapLatte]

Appreciate it.

[@emilymitchell6823]

As someone with a similar background to the Prof's, I am beyond thrilled that we are finally, after years, having these high level, thoughtful conversations about Hip Hop. Amazing stuff

[@unology1]

high level? you dont think the culture has had high level conversations until this guy came?

[@emilymitchell6823]

@@unology1 Course it has, yeah. I should be more clear: Since the rap beef, high level conversations seem to have been more publicly placed at the fore overall. Now I'm having friends come up to me to talk about this sorta stuff, rather than me boring them all the time with these conversations!

[@KTJ_1]

I'll never stop listening to Ye because the music is so good. Unfortunately, he either never believed the things he wrote about or he's become a different person as he became more influential, powerful, and siloed. I'm not really sure which one is better. His evolution is more disappointing because he was beacon for so many young black kids, and it feels like he turned his back on us all.

[@ShirleyTimple]

You're a hypocrite. Do you support Andrew Schultz for his buck breaking? According to you, that's not a problem because people think he is funny. The double standard is LOUD

[@joebags40]

Skye has officially confirmed to me tht when i saw carti it wasn’t him. I went to the exact same tour in a different city and the set up was the exact same and the only time Carti talked was when he screamed. RIP MF DOOM

[@Jayvo_Of_Jamrock]

IAM is on Spotify BTW. I definitely hear the Wu tang elements... like immediately.

[@Coffeewiththegods]

I’m American but bruh! I love French hip hop!

[@nahomie]

Loved this episode

[@swervenights]

beg forgiveness is ty dolla$ shining moment, that is the highlight of vultures 1

[@nocturnalanimal6815]

I’d put Jazz over rap in terms of most influential music movement of all time

[@marcoantonio.42]

Indeed

[@wahoo4uva]

🎯🎯🎯💯

[@TaoWest]

Great conversation

[@itsonlyMash]

Found this channel because of FD. Loving all the conversations since. Edit: how do we get these longer

[@terrootti]

A) Americans barely accept UK and Canada rap music B) even us of the diaspora who grew up abroad (US, Europe) are sometimes called white or European back home. C) we often conflate different Feelings. As a Nigerian, I can say that Ghaneens, Cameroonians, Haitians, Jamaicans, African-american, Afro-brazilans, etc sare all my siblings some closer than others. And like siblings, we fight all the time for serious and futile things but no matter what we're the same family.

[@Charmane72]

This was a really good ass interview

[@finalbreath15]

This an important point. We do support everything we disagree with just be being human and breathing air or using the internet. That's why you should always realize you are living off borrowed time. This is the world, and we are all responsible for ourselves and the resources we use, and we can always try to be more conscious. Being alive should require a level of work and responsibility. Those who cant improve physically should focus on spiritual growth.

[@GeronFletcher]

Ye!

[@pedestal5767]

who else here on 2025 🙋🏽‍♂

[@retromike1]

Put this on the Podcast feed!

[@DecaturQue]

I really liked Jesus is King and Donda and Kids See Ghosts, Ye. For some reason I didn’t give Carnival much of a chance, but I’m going to check it out again soon.

[@barryorchestra]

The last good top to bottom album by kanye for me was dark fantasy, and even that hasn’t aged well because of the content. Kanye once said he didn’t care about his legacy. His actions have certainly proved that. Give me the first three albums and I’m good at this point.

[@PharaohDom]

Big facts!

[@barnabyrow288]

Nah first three worst three (apart from Vultures 1/2 and Donda 2)

[@xamp_exclammark]

I'll be real,if it wasnt for the vultures album,jesus is king and Donda 2 , MBDTF would be his worst for me.

[@PalhacoCapitalista]

Great great talk, thank you!

[@nieznanipatroni]

I love the old Kanye, College Dropout is 10/10, the next two are also masterpieces. Charismatic, but he hasn't been consumed by pride yet. I also love the new Kanye, TLOP, Ye and Kid See Ghosts are true masterpieces. He proved on them that he is indeed the God of rap, the Creator of new genres. And he also gives us a very insightful picture of his mental state. So yes, I love the new Kanye, but I don't love the post-Kanye: destroyed by divorce, radicalizing and finally changing with the help of hydrogen into a literal wreck of a man, drowning in porn addiction, who has lost touch with reality. He can't rap because he replaced his teeth with a fucking metal bar. Since Donda we have been observing the gradual decline of man. It is even sadder looking at the tone of Ye and KSG (I have various problems, but I am aware of them and I am becoming a better person). I miss Kanye.

[@prometain]

My favourite guys are together!)

[@NewOldHeadsPodcast]

Great talk 🗣️

[@tampear]

Loving all these guests. Can we please get a woman in the line up?

[@RapLatte]

Suggestions please ?

[@RapLatte]

We have a couple Lined up but suggestions

[@cmgoodell]

Olayemi Olurin!

[@tampear]

@@RapLatte @absafcknlutely and Nedeska from Rap Life Review

[@tampear]

@@RapLatte Nedeska from Rap Life Review and @absafcknlutely are both great!

[@s.d.2621]

What if, Drake did at some point reflect the culture (or at least a section of the culture), and the question we should be asking is, what does that say about the culture and society. It’s easy for me to correlate the ills of our society in the mid-2010’s, the growth of social media, and observe how a segment of the the society started to live online and blissfully or intentionally unaware of the real world. While at the same time a different section of society is using social media as a lens’s to communicate out to the world what is happening in the real world (BLM, Arab Spring, etc.). This way you can see how different artists would represent two distinct and unfortunately separated parts of society and culture. Therefore we end up with albums like IYRITL, Views, and More Life, along with, TPAB, Untitled Unmastered, and DAMN. Two side of society, Two sides of the culture Only one way forward.

[@jenkinsluvjones]

Doechii Doechii Doechii

[@tjdeuceosix]

Did the Rap Latte hosts enjoy TLOP? Cuz Vultures 1 is just the 2024 version of that album.

[@frankingstien6275]

Love it, Green Man, agree

[@Phished123]

I cant remember if it was on twitter or youtube and it sucks i cant remember, but i saw someone making the argument against GNX not being a 'full album' (and that something else was coming) because GNX didnt have a theme by saying the theme of the album was clearly "(G)angsters &(N) Christ(X)" . This idea has been implanted in my brain and i really think it makes so much sense, Godlyness is all over this album, and its roll out. The "Jesus Saves Gangsters Too" sign enforces this idea, obviously Reincarnated, he also directly calls himself 'the Black Noah'. A lot of aggressive, gangster features not from established artists, but from more independent, lesser known rappers who are more likely to still potentially be active because they havent been able to fully get away from that life yet. Obviously Kendrick hits this tone when appropriate also, I just think this really does feel like a theme that really ties the whole album up in a bow.

[@rmeddy]

I like the thesis name Like The Three Christs of Ypsilanti His point on why hiphop is global is also poignant I like that he loves french rap , I used to listen to Menelik back in the day

[@Evie1983]

Professor your the king!!!

[@b-boycastertroy]

Prof. Sky ❤'s Yedolf Spitler 🫂

[@lindsaylor]

As far as artists go, I'd say Drake is Thomas Kinkade-- talented but soulless. Great video and an excellent discussion regarding 'Death of the Artist'!

[@demitasse22]

What a great convo. Really appreciate the mutual respect and diversity of opinion and perspective

[@LA-ji5oj]

Bon, bah je vais ré écouter cet album d'IAM lol je ne me souviens même plus de quelles chansons sont dessus.

[@kristinalfc5846]

Wait didn't Prof Skye say in his GNX review that the year was so good GNX might not even be top 5?😅 Vaild either way lol

[@professorskye]

I did say that, then I kept listening. :)

[@joakrimmcguitar6347]

What are the french recomendations that professor Skye makes?

[@bonkknob3240]

IAM - L’école du micro d’argent

[@quincyartt]

Insightful

[@blaquehealer5484]

Thank you, Professor Skye; he is NOT well! I know it's a slippery slope because that's not your professional and this is the internet! He has Bipolar Disorder and he is actively not treating it! Like most artists/celebrities, his POV should always be in that! context and as someone with a documented history of SMI/severe mental illness! Toure his worldview is very much affected by his brain disorder! I think yall need to be more versed on mental illness! I'm not a Kanye apologist but CONTEXT is very important.

[@ShirleyTimple]

You're totally a kanye apologist. You're saying that if Hitler had the right diagnosis, he couldn't be held accountable and that's ok with you. It's pathetic the lengths you will go to defend your own

[@blaquehealer5484]

@ShirleyTimple okay. The country l live in voted for the Orange Man, so I could care less about a dead fascist!

[@wahoo4uva]

@@ShirleyTimplethe comment *does not* say *anywhere* that kanye should not be held accountable. it *does* say his mental illness shapes his worldview. that is *not* a lack of accountability or an apology. it *is context* for the behavior and actions. regarding hitler: same thing. that man was mentally ill like kanye. maybe a different diagnosis but *clearly* he and his mind were unwell. that does *not excuse* what he did. it is an influence and a contributing factor to his abominable being. the reading comprehension decline…that’s almost pathetic.

[@Artsyjjc]

Coca-Cola took me out lmao. His reasoning was actually sound too

[@TheArtunism]

I will say, Prince put out a lot of bad music intentionally. I feel like I can call that music bad while being a fan of Prince's music. Similarly a lot of rappers in the 80/90s were making really bad music in the 00s-10s, to keep up with trends. We praise the last LL Cool J album but the one before that was straight trash

[@santiagobracho5964]

Amazing video, love all your channels. At 37:05 thank you Toure for speaking truth to these 2 serial Ye Glazzers.

[@superdudeusa3]

Skye has some goofy opinions sometimes

[@CharleneWithrow]

Way before the 1970s

[@Quandryification]

there's still social political commentary in hiphop its just non mainstream. I hate this continued narrative that there aren't any MC's speaking on the issues that plague us all. Drake at one point spoke to the interraction with women from a male point of view. but its changed to the redpill narcassistic hurboy mumbo jumbo...not to mention he keeps stealing from up can coming artists.

[@marjoe32]

38:43 YES

[@timy9197]

Your loss

[@irishfox98]

I'd say Drake is like Norman Rockwell. He serves as propaganda for modern life. He checks off all the aesthetics of success with none of the substance. He doesn't make art that challenges us, just paints a picture of a reality that doesn't exist.

[@irishfox98]

I guess it's reality to a degree but purposely lacks context. It frames exactly what he wants to show without involving problems larger than himself. Any conflict revolves around himself so he doesn't have to speak on more decisive topics

[@goreyfantod5213]

32:19 Margaret Keane. She was the artist who painted the, "big eye," paintings. Huge commercial success, emotive, sterile, context-free, technically skilled but bland & lacking soul. Alternatively, Drake's music serves the same function as corporate art & the identity of the actual creator(s) is similarly unimportant. A facsimile of Warhol's factory process, wherein even the individuality of the creator is subsumed into anonymity.

[@xamp_exclammark]

Yeah you don't listen to Drake at all

[@telcomachine2334]

Avaa

[@akaizn]

VULTURES 1 IS GREAT. FOH

[@blaquehealer5484]

Yes, Kendrick believes he is fighting a righteous war and he is actually talking to God before battle (in 6:16). This is an album, a complete conceptual body of work. He is in his "villain"/antagonist era. His through line is "yall had me fucked up, I have worked hard, i deserve it all because the crown is heavy; I am the reigning king."

[@PharaohDom]

Bingo. Just because it isn't a concept albums doesn't mean there isn't consistent themeing and narrative.

[@Thewstend]

Fire convo 🔥🔥

[@EricEdgerton]

This is the problem with Hip Hop. The fans refuse to hold Hip Hop artists responsible according to Google 79 rappers were murdered by gun violence, RICO charges, P Diddy after parties. P Diddy wasn't by himself. When are we going to acknowledge the truth about the genre.

[@ShirleyTimple]

It's not a genre thing, it's a race solidarity thing. There, I said it.

[@satyarthsingh2276]

Kanye has not committed a "crime".

[@freddie5ive]

2024 one of the all time worst years for nonhiphop people working their way to the front

[@demitasse22]

31:28 JEFF KOONS!!!!!! Omfg I’m LIVING FOR THIS

[@jonas5970]

AVAA

[@Charmane72]

Once again, you guys are proving why this is the best hip hop podcast. Touré doesn’t want to give Drake the credit because he wasn’t deliberate in his message.

[@Dan21278]

Drake is Jeff Koons WOW

[@vinnievineyardandtheviciou9937]

Avaa