He had a lot of talent as a producer, and had an incredible ability to pull in a wide array of other musicians and samples and make it work in a rap or pop banger. He changed styles pretty quickly over the course of his career and still managed to maintain mass appeal. His lyrics had such a fun easy swagger.

He has a contrarian brain full of whirling artistic aesthetics, hence the dumpster fire whenever he’s doing literally anything that isn’t music. He’s also a very sick person and both him and the world would be much better off if we never heard a peep from him again.