Checking in as someone who heard TCD day it was released or thereabouts. I grew up with a way older HHH brother and a mom who was attached to a record player and I pretty much fell asleep to either his 90s rap shit or her 60s/70s/80s every night growing up

TCD (which my brother force-fed) quite literally made me who I am today but I was super young and took the roundabout way back to Ye. Like I didn't even hear LR then went crazy for Graduation, didn't hear 808s, then lost myself in MBDTF and that was it til Yeezus.

And I was pretty horrified by it tbh... I called it rage music and wasn't impressed with him all after TCD, Grad and MBDTF but I was all into the indie scene at the time and basically a pretentious basic bitch. Like I actually dickrode Fantano for like a good two years so you get the picture

When I finally heard (like really HEARD) Yeezus that's when everything changed for me and I became obsessed with Ye. It's like he took all of my music snob and put me in my place. Yeezus gave me an outlet to channel my personal rage while humbling me and making me more confident...that's where my life changed

After that I went back to everything I'd missed, TLOP came and r/kanye came, I found an family like my own plus my best friends in the entire world, and my discovery and appreciation has only grown since. Like I almost died to 808s days after it saved my best friend after his best friend died then it came back to save me. That's a lot to wrap a mind around but that's the power of Ye

So many years ago I saw Kanye West as a guy who changed hiphop, a guy who rapped through a wire and loved his family enough to sing about it. Today he's someone I hold in such a high and untouchable regard to the point SPT only feels like a dream, like I was with God that night and that probably sounds corny af to anyone other than a diehard Ye stan but that's how I feel. He's my constant amongst so many amazing rappers I sometimes lose myself in... he's like home.

Hopefully that answers your question