![]() In West’s world, each success is overshadowed by a disappointment imagined larger than it actually is, and every artistic breakthrough is only a stepping stone to something even more coherent, polished and universal. From the very beginning he has shown an utter disdain for running victory laps or patting himself on the back. ![]() If such an instant of self-congratulation has existed for West, though, we’ll probably never know about it. Date it early (the out-of-nowhere ubiquity of The College Dropout) or late ( Graduation’s dominance of 50 Cent’s Curtis during the first-week sales showdown of last fall) at some point West has to have rested on his Luis Vuitton-labeled laurels for at least a millisecond and savored the fact that his singular styles of production and emceeing, not to mention dressing, have left irreplaceable impressions on hip-hop as well as the culture at large. There must have been a moment when Kanye West was actually content with being the most potent and essential personality in hip-hop.
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