It's what he says in his songs that are wrong. He describes how he was brought up in a rough area, when he is really talking bollox, pretending to have been a deprived black person. I see what you mean laura, but look at rap as a genre. No point beating around the bush, it's a mainly black populated genre, very homophobic, born on the rough street corners of New York, listened to and performed by poor working class black people with such exceptions such as Eminem. When i said Kanye West couldn't be a rapper i meant, he doesn't fit into what people class as a 'rapper'. Many people who don't like rap slate the typical rapper, but think there is different rules for people like Kanye West because they like what he says. He's the voice of the upper class trying to have a go rap. Yes he is musical gifted and is a rapper but it is the same people who slate rap and what rappers stand for that then call him a rapper when he is nothing like what rap is all about.