And who cares if Kanye fills stadiums and sells platinum records (that's irrelevant); so did Milli Vanilli? The most talented musical artists are generally the obscure ones that are not on the public awareness radar. The types that play in coffee houses and other small venues. Generally, the bigger, more fashionable something is these days, the greater the joke it is. If we use popularity as the metric to define greatness, than Miley Cyrus must be one of the greatest artists of all time. Apparently, The Hangover is the highest grossing comedy movie ever, but anyone with common sense would recognize that their is a complete absence of clever, witty jokes. Anyone with standards and an appreciation for creatvity would know that such a movie doesn't hold a candle to something like Caddyshack or Vacation.