ha ha. yeah they were probably being nice. i actually like kanye's production and a few of his joints. like with any of my hip hop likes, i prefer posse tracks because i get bored of 3 16 bars from one person (with the exception of a few, Murs, Mos Def etc.). but yeah kanye can definitely produce some good beats, and lucky from him he rolls with some good spitters cudi, pusha t, big sean, common, 88 keys, consequence, glc. so he ends up with some aiight tracks. in fact most of his best is when he produces for people outside of his label like the joints he did for the teriyaki boys. as usual with all artists who make it big his best songs are the ones that don't get released. but i think he has broken away from a major label so he might be able to release whatever he wants now.