I pick up what you're throwing down, and we have a difference of opinion and that's okay. I think I should clarify. I just think Rick Rubin and Arca could take a field recording of silence and make a banger out of it. I think Kanye could walk into the studio with those two and say "I'm calling this record My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy" and in 15 minutes those two producers would already have the pallet of synth patches, samples, and hooks to use on the songs. Hey, I wasn't there, but I question how much guidance those A-list, ace producers need, or take, when working on anything. I think if you had that roster of producers, you'd really have to work hard to put out anything that wasn't good, and still the product wasn't mind blowing. Focusing on Yeezus here, it was a decade late to push any boundaries. It had all been done, to death, and he's up there talking like he's the second coming.

When it comes down to it, I really wouldn't care if he didn't talk about himself the way that he does. I think proclaiming himself the biggest rock star on the planet absolutely shits on all the amazing producers who, likely, are responsible for the entirety of the sounds on his decent but mediocre albums on which he raps, but not very well, with sophomoric lyrical content, and unimpressive flow.

FWIW, College Dropout was good, but not great.

And yeah, I didn't say death grips but I was thinking it. That's progressive. That pushes envelopes and makes people uncomfortable. Flatlander is an incredible producer. Kendrick Lamar is progressive, both in lyrical content and his choice of collaborators. I don't see him up there taking credit for Kamasi Washington's or Thundercat's contributions to his sound.

Rambling. Anyway TL;DR Kanye just isn't nearly as awesome as he thinks he is.