Mark Ronson has offered his vocal support to Kanye West in the great Kanye vs Fiddy debate that, as you know, is raging right now in planet pop. Ronson told NME.com: "He's the true artist. 50 Cent makes great commercial records but Kanye West is somebody that we're going to be talking about and listening to his albums in 20 years".
On the first week sales of West's 'Graduation' (which outsold Fiddy's 'Curtis' by a long way), Ronson continues: "I was absolutely surprised and blown away by how wide the discrepancy has been. No one buys albums anymore so the fact that Kanye sold 930,000 in one week, that must be the most since Norah Jones' second album came out".
Aside from participating in pop wars, Ronson is keeping himself busy remixing Bob Dylan. As previously reported, he's been reworking Dylan's 'Subterranean Home Sick Blues' for this year's career best-of, with the finished product reportedly described by Dylan himself as, erm, "not crap" (or words to that effect). On Dylan's response, Ronson commented: "He approved it, which is all I could have hoped for. He said it didn't suck. You can imagine he'd be quite particular about what he likes so the fact that he didn't say 'this sucks' I should just be happy".
With such, erm, high praise from a master like Dylan, Ronson admits that he is considering hanging up his remix boots soon, concluding: "I should just quit while I'm ahead".