Question: What overabundance of themes did Kanye criticize early in his career?

Is Rosie Swash of The Guardian viewed the sales competition as a historical moment in hip-hop, because it "highlighted the diverging facets of hip-hop in the last decade; the former was gangsta rap for the noughties, while West was the thinking man's alternative." a good answer to this question?

Choose your answer from: a). yes; b). no;
b).