Nikki Sixx, Michael McDonald Blast Kanye West’s Grammy Actions
by Nick DeRiso February 10, 2015 10:19 PM
The hits keep coming for Kanye West, and not the Billboard kind.
Nikki Sixx has taken the hip-hop star to task on the issue of respecting artistry, a key element of West’s controversial Grammy-night complaints about Beck‘s best-album win, while
Doobie Brothers star Michael McDonald is questioning whether West has any talent in the first place.
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I don’t think it even really bears too much thought”, McDonald tells Dan Le Batard. “
It’s pretty obvious what Kanye’s problem is. When Kanye gets to a point where he can actually put a couple of notes together either vocally or two bars of valid music playing an instrument, then he might have a right to criticize somebody else. Until then, I think he’s just talking to hear the sound of his own voice.”
Sixx, meanwhile, has reposted a opinion piece from Variety with the headline “
No, Kanye, It’s You Who Needs to ‘Respect Artistry’” to Facebook — and added the comment, “I couldn’t agree more.”
McDonald also dragged out the age-old is-rap-real-music debate, one that’s been around since the genre emerged in the late ’70s, before going on to praise Beck. “
The whole kinda cut-and-paste thing is a certain kind of artform all by itself”, McDonald adds. “
I don’t know if I call it songwriting from a musician’s standpoint. … Beck is obviously a consummate musician. He plays instruments, many instruments. He can make his own record without having a fleet of computer operators onboard.”
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