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]At another wedding Gregg Kaminsky and his partner wore matching Burberry ties. They tied a Burberry scarf around their dog, a Jack Russell terrier, and sent him racing up the aisle with their wedding rings.

Have you seen the Stronger video? It's like a throwback to 1998, but in an era where no one watches MTV any more.

This album sucks, Kanye got on the synth bandwagon too late and hasn't figured them out yet. He's trying to replace the old retro-soul-vibe with this hamfisted future aesthetic (those idiotic glasses!) but cannot pull it off. I blame new friends and the addiction to that drug... uh, I guess he said fame in that mixtape, so nm.

P.S. Did I hurt you guyses feelings?

-- Gavin, Sunday, September 2, 2007 10:35 PM (55 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

I agree that Kanye's synth work on the album could be better and it's kind of a weird aesthetic fit for him, and that the 'futuristic' videos/clothes are cheesy and he's letting A-Trak or whoever turn him onto some wack hipster shit. But, as a great man once said: "No hard feelings. You just sound like a chump."

i dont think his synth work is that bad at all. its not like hes trying to sound like say, jeezys producers. hes just trying to combine it with his own thing.

i like those glasses

my dad used to have a pair like that in red

This is by far his best album, imo, but that's coming from someone who liked about 75% of his first one, maybe 50% of his second and, despite thinking he's an awesome producer, I've never liked his flow, or most of his lyrics.

Suffice it to say, the production, lyrics and flow on this album are by far his most solid. He's not just doing that fuckin' annoying thing where he rhymes the same sounding thing over and over ("She was supposed to get TYco with the money, she went and got LYpo with the money, she should've got insured GEico with your money" ... ugh).

He's still not the greatest rapper, but this is definitely a solid album. "Drunk and Hot girls" was a grower, but I love that track now. And "Everything I Am" with the primo scratches is awesome.

Much like with the new Arcade Fire, an artist who I found to have an overrated album / persona came back with an album that actually justified their hype, proving that I'm not always an elitist asshole who hates popular music.

He's not just doing that fuckin' annoying thing where he rhymes the same sounding thing over and over ("She was supposed to get TYco with the money, she went and got LYpo with the money, she should've got insured GEico with your money" ... ugh).

you mean "rhyming"?

i have totally been on the nuts of 'good life' all day today. thanks emoti-kanye.

He's not just doing that fuckin' annoying thing where he rhymes the same sounding thing over and over ("She was supposed to get TYco with the money, she went and got LYpo with the money, she should've got insured GEico with your money" ... ugh).

Don't ever fix your lips like collagen
then say something where you gon end up apologin
Let me know if it's a problem then
aight man holla then

obviously max otm.

yeah totally, i like those verses, not annoying to me.

i know i was being sarcastic but i cant parse the sentence "that... thing where he rhymes the same sounding thing over and over" any other way

He uses the 'word' "apologin"!!

From what i've heard, "Good Life" is easily the best track, and I attribute 65% of its awesomeness to T. Pain's contribution...30% to the beat (Go PYT sample!)...5% to Kanye's verses (obv. Kanye's production belongs in that 95% chunk...I love how he treates T. Pain as an instrument rather than as some quirky guest vocalist)

Actually, 65% is a bit high. Give more to the beat.

if "champion" doesn't end up being a single i'll probably end up liking it the best a year from now as one of those tracks on his albums that are as good as the singles but since it isn't a single you don't get tired of hearing it ("spaceship," get 'em high," "drive slow," "gone" etc.)

altho i guess drive slow was a single (or had a video) but it didn't do shit so it doesn't really count.

"A-Trak is a part of our whole scene. He plays everything across the board. He just loves music. I know he introduced Kanye to a lot of things, one thing in particular was the movie Anchorman (laughs). And now Kayne quotes the movie in his songs all the time and you can hear it."

Let me know if it's a problem then
aight man holla then

-- Tape Store, Tuesday, September 4, 2007 4:44 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link

oh man, the long long pause between those two lines is infuriating. also "they say I talk with so much emphasis..................ooh they so sensitive!"

I don't think anyone should want to take credit for 'introducing' Kanye to <i>Anchorman</i>, I mean he was quoting shit like <i>Happy Gilmore</i> well before that anyway. Kanye is like a walking Snorg shirt.

A-Trak understands the importance of the dress.

the problem with kanye

for example these two lines:
Let me know if it's a problem then
aight man holla then

that second one is completely extraneous

this seems to be the case for almost 25% of his lyrics
if my calculations are correct

I just cannot get into this album. I loved his first, this is my least favourite of his albums

Does "Stronger" sound any different from the single version on anyone's copy of the album? Kanye said in a few recent interviews that he had Timbaland re-do the drums for the LP version of the song at the last minute, but it sounds exactly the same as it did before on the copy I downloaded. Maybe it'll be the new version on the retail CD next week, though?

Why does "Drunk and Hot Girls" completely steal the vocal melody from a Can song? ("Sing Swan Song")

It takes a lot more than that, if you'd listen further or read more upthread.

Huh, I always thought Donald Fagen was saying "Italian," not "champion."

Does "Stronger" sound any different from the single version on anyone's copy of the album? Kanye said in a few recent interviews that he had Timbaland re-do the drums for the LP version of the song at the last minute, but it sounds exactly the same as it did before on the copy I downloaded. Maybe it'll be the new version on the retail CD next week, though?

-- Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 16:46 (2 hours ago) Link

my version of stronger sounds the same, too.

Huh, I always thought Donald Fagen was saying "Italian," not "champion."

-- jaymc, Tuesday, September 4, 2007 7:00 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

lol @ "did you realize you were Italian in their eyes." paging Passantino...

i just spent like 30 seconds trying to figure out what 'raging passantino' meant

-- and what (ooo), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:57 (10 months ago) Link

lol

yeah, i don't think 'stronger's sounds any different either. BUT it is different to me in that i heard it out the other night and it suddenly made total trashtalking dickhead/way insecure drunken sense, like how the way the sample's so big and confident and clumsily executed with all the "god put you in front of me / so how the hell could you front on me" stuff

still not good sober, mind.

i feel the same way about cant tell me nothin

pretty happy with the album really. i think the thing with kanye is he always treads that very fine line wrt him being a completey annoying arsehole, and it's the very small things that validate that stuff in your head; i wz kinda dreading another overblown 'late registration' epic (even though that was still great at the time) as much as i feared a shiny jap hipster dinky toy horror like where 'stronger' and the mixtape suggested he was at, and so even though you do still get all of that stuff in this one the presence of the simpler oldskool roc type stuff leaves you with the impression of the dorky likeable kanye from 03 you like to think still exists somewhere, or ever existed even. haha like smiling/shaking yr head to that "buy any jeans necessary" line for instance.

xp 4real i never got that irl chance with 'nothing' but i can totally imagine the same thing happening, yeah

hearing t-pain and kanye together is really satisfying too, i always kinda thought when t-pain came out it was like a rnb kanye in that same really talented outsider dork vibe

and you know t-pain's next album is probly gonna be some ridiculously overambitious carcrash too

Oh and why the fuck isn't Mos Def rapping anymore i swear that man needs a slap to make him stop making films and doing odd singing and get back to writing fantastic lyrics. Wanker.

rtc totally otm

like, point by point

I'm not sure if this has gone unmentioned because it's blindingly obvious or if I really am the only one to notice, but: "Big Brother" is a MIDI "Dead Presidents."

"I Wonder" is fuckin great.

He uses the 'word' "apologin"!!

a rapper NOT USING THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH??

my stars! i passed out with the vapors on my fainting couch when i heard the news..luckily my butler stepped in to loosen my cravat! however, this news weighed heavy on my mind, i was scarcely able to enjoy rigoletto that night at the opera.

it's not that he used a gramatically incorrect slang word, it's that he dropped a syllable out of a word to force a stupid fucking rhyme.

I'm better than my competa, you mean competitor, whadeva!

omg, i'm fighting off a gang o lols; ilm's gonna get me kicked outta the public library wtf

^^^fennessey??

don't you wish, ethan!

oh wait, did you mean "are you, beatrix kiddo, laughing at all the sean jokes? or the ye dialectic?" it's the former, i promise.

it's not that he used a gramatically incorrect slang word, it's that he dropped a syllable out of a word to force a stupid fucking rhyme.

EXACTLY!

I'm totally behind Umbrella ('cause that extra syllable is for a good cause)

fuck yall kweli haters he just dropped a gem with styles

http://www.zshare.net/audio/33132426817093/

my mistake, it ain't