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As of this morning, voting for the Triple J Hottest 100 of the Decade has finally closed, which means that the powerful puppeteers at our youth public broadcaster radio station already know who has won it.

Not that the public didn’t know either.

Despite never winning a Hottest 100 due to the ‘one-hit-wonder factor’ that has seen the likes of Macklemore, Mumford and Sons and Gotye clean up early last decade, Kanye West is quite clearly the winner.

After only just scraping into the past decade by a couple months, his triple platinum single ‘Runaway’ is quite literally the runaway winner.

‘Runaway’ is remembered as the break out hit from Kanye West’s 2010 album My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy, which is also arguably the greatest rap album of all time.

Complete with a sparse, isolated sounding piano melody, as well as an array of different instruments and production tools – the song also features a timeless gangsta rap interlude by close Kanye associate, Pusha T.

It should be no surprise that this song will definitely win the Hottest 100 Of The Decade.

But that hasn’t stopped a couple of alternative music fans from trying in vein to sway public sentiment towards the greatest ever song of the last ten years.

A local media employee from Betoota’s Old City District has today wasted her time voting in the Hottest 100 of the decade for a handful of songs that aren’t track #9 from Kanye West’s fifth studio album.

Delilah (24), has only voted for indie artists that appear on the third line of the Laneway line-ups, and is quite honestly of the opinion that everyone else has voted that way as well.

In fact, whenever she is wrong about the popularity of rap music in Australia, she is quick to trivialise the genre by pointing out how often African Americans say the word bitch.

This happened in both 2017 and 2019 when American rappers pipped bands like ‘Tones and I’ to the top of the charts.

When asked who else she thinks might be an outside chance, Delilah really takes the piss.

“I’m really feeling that new Mac De Marco shit” she says.

“Please tell me you’ve heard Mac De Marco”