not "idol" wise (personally) but musically, he's definitely an idol of mines. Late Orchestration played a part into what got me into arranging/composing live instruments behind my songs. (in a way, his music is a small reason why I could do s*** like write a whole 9 piece show last year)
but you gotta also remember ye was probably the last like urban global figurehead.
he was the definition of "cool" to alot of people born between the late 80s and mid 90s.
the fact that s*** like this was a SIGNIFICANT number of now famous people's moodboards alone says ALOT. Cause I was there when ignorant niggas (I'm "niggas") was clowning s*** like this and the infamous kilt picture ) 
ye had a pulse on a lot of things in different avenues besides music that...while I make jabs in this thread at niggas putting him on a pedestal, I earnestly understand why.
...but this is why idol worship is dangerous. cause niggas shoulda let him go after the red hat lol.
All true and then it goes beyond that like he still has this same kind of weight for people like me that were born in the early 2000s and his work in the 2010s
This man made me who I am more than anyone save for my father
Kanye started fw him on some misguided old nigga s***
Like when Cole did that interview with Pump thinking the kids would rock it
Cole wasn't trying to appeal to kids he was genuinely trying to reach through to Lil Pump and understand s*** from his perspective
Cole doesn't do s*** to appeal to anyone he is not a gimmick artist like some people.
When you go down the actual niggas in the pic they lowkey made the future. Denma from Balenciaga, Taz with the snapbacks/TISA, Virgil…all came from the school of Ye/Pastelle/DONDA/etc
Dude had it all legacy wise and f***ed it because he thinks making good product aint enough to keep our interest lol. Nigga is the worst. But lowkey i felt like he was off when he was spazzing on Sway for telling him to essentially make his own Bape or Supreme instead of begging the white man.
he was always off from the jump.
the people that kept him grounded in the midst of it no longer exist (donda) or are around/pushed away (kim)
is he cooking
that love hoodies on sale tweet is the nastiest one today imo which is saying something, but he followed it up with the jack off tweet so were gonna bypass it
He came up posting captions for shaderoom posting type women on instagram.
Ye started linking with him years after his relevance died because he thought he was tapped in to a certain part of black culture
lmao i was assuming he was at least a podcaster. getting that far off IG captions is crazy
Cole wasn't trying to appeal to kids he was genuinely trying to reach through to Lil Pump and understand s*** from his perspective
Cole doesn't do s*** to appeal to anyone he is not a gimmick artist like some people.
Tf he need lil pump’s perspective for
is he cooking
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1888453046319141224mf’s go to vegas once and come out like this
HOODRATHOODRATHOODRATHOODRAT
is he cooking
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1888453046319141224Even a broke clock is right twice a day
I did my "mourning" in 2016 but yeah.
that one yeezus interview (everyone knows the one) was like hope fuel for a lot of weird/alt black kids.
but as one man once said
!https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvFDXV0VBg4&ab_channel=Dreamville
growing up sucks lol

He slowly going left wing??
is he cooking
https://twitter.com/kanyewest/status/1888453046319141224I remember when @Gulpin got arrested for hiring one