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[Marty1]

You can excel at certain things and still be an idiot in many other respects. I wouldn't measure intelligence by the amount of money one makes. I can't believe I even have to explain this.

I agree people can say idiotic things but I’d also suggest that there is a correlation between high earners and intellect (not to be confused with ego or eccentricities).

I think to label Kanye as an idiot is an example of reductivism.

 

[Edie]

No he isn't, he's a bubblegum rapper. Hip-hop for people who aren't into hip-hop.

That’s me then

 

[Edie]

would that make somebody unsuccessful less intelligent?

Doesn’t necessarily follow I don’t think no.

 

[klang]

No he isn't, he's a bubblegum rapper. Hip-hop for people who aren't into hip-hop. I don't care how many people buy his records, Westlife have sold over twice as many and they're shit too.

it's difficult to argue about talent as personal tastes comes into it. How a person uses their success and subsequent influence says more about the person behind the product.

 

[lefteri]

Heard his attempts at rapping maybe?

he used to be a decent enough rapper, college dropout is a very good hip hop album

 

[klang]

Doesn’t necessarily follow I don’t think no.

so successful people are intelligent, whilst some unsuccessful people are intelligent, some are stupid....

 

[bimble]

there is a correlation between high earners and intellect

This is proven to be not true. It’s quite interesting but can’t be doing the google to show you right now.

 

[Edie]

so successful people are intelligent, whilst some unsuccessful people are intelligent, some are stupid....

That is kind of how the world works I thought yes. This comes as a surprise to you?

 

[klang]

That is kind of how the world works I thought yes. This comes as a surprise to you?

it does. experience taught me that rich people can be as thick as poor people.

 

[Reno]

And my point Reno is that I bet they’re intelligent

That's not how the world works, it's how lowest common denominator perception of the world works. Using money as a yardstick for success and intelligence implies that nurses and other care workers are fools while stockbrokers are geniuses.

 

[Edie]

it does. experience taught me that rich people can be as thick as poor people.

I didn’t say rich tho. I said successful. The two aren’t synonymous.

 

[killer b]

Kanye West is a very talented record producer, an ok rapper and an absolute whopper of a human being, just to clear things up.

 

[Edie]

That's not how the world works, it's how lowest common denominator perception of the world works. Using money as a yardstick for success and intelligence implies that nurses and other care workers are fools while stockbrokers are geniuses.

You can have successful nurses y’know Reno. You can have nurses who are leaders in their fields.

 

[Flavour]

there is a correlation between high earners and intellect

Poor people are thick. The rich deserve to be rich.

 

[Humberto]

I'm sure the publicity is just a nice bonus.

 

[Flavour]

Kanye is maybe not thick but he's definitely a cunt

 

[Edie]

Kanye West is a very talented record producer, an ok rapper and an absolute whopper of a human being, just to clear things up.

I heart you

 

[JimW]

"There'll never be a sillier twat than Trump in the Whitehouse."
"Hold my beer."

 

[Edie]

I love this place I really do. It’s always makes me piss myself laughing.

 

[Marty1]

Poor people are thick. The rich deserve to be rich.

 

[Treacle Toes]

This was Trumps idea. I'm sure of it.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Kanye is maybe not thick but he's definitely a cunt

He's clearly mentally ill if you ask me, and surrounded by opportunistic yes men.

 

[maomao]

there is a correlation between high earners and intellect

Not sure that's true. Definite correlation with being an arsehole though.

And by your own logic (not mine) what do you do for a living again?

 

[Flavour]

He's clearly mentally ill if you ask me, and surrounded by opportunistic yes men.

Who? Trump, West or Biden? Lol

 

[Reno]

You can have successful nurses y’know Reno. You can have nurses who are leaders in their fields.

Y'know Edie, that was exactly my point.

 

[AmateurAgitator]

Who? Trump, West or Biden? Lol

Good point but I meant Kanye West

 

[Marty1]

Not sure that's true. Definite correlation with being an arsehole though.

You must be worth a small fortune

 

[D'wards]

A really talented artist too, whether you like him or not

His first album is great but he's no Kendrick Lamar

 

[Edie]

Y'know Edie, that was exactly my point.

And my point Reno is that I bet they’re intelligent

 

[lefteri]

Kanye West is a very talented record producer, an ok rapper and an absolute whopper of a human being, just to clear things up.

the fact that he’s such a huge melt makes people who know very little about the music in question diss his recorded output wholesale, whereas the reason he blew up as an artist and producer was a least partly due to the fact that he had talent; this is deliberately in the past tense as he has seemingly lost his ability to rap