kanye west graduation

The last third of this doesn't please meh. : (

(xps) Okay, this is where I get all deej and go zzzz.

this record is making me reconsider saying that producers need to flip the beat more... all these gay lil beatless violin/piano breaks in the middle of a joint make me wanna listen to nothing but south bronx all day

"Good Life" would actually be better w/o T-Pain. Like, if they removed his vocals and left everything else exactly the same, that would be better. Kanye's asides in the first verse crack me up.

cant tell me nothin is dope, period

-- and what, Tuesday, September 11, 2007 11:57 AM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark Link

the beat is at any rate

alex in baltimore otm
wtf sounds slum village about toomp beat

i like t-pain on it too

"X sounds like a y b-side" is becoming has done been a dull criticism.

i dont give blanket approval to every toomp beat, good life just sounds like trash to me

xp AIGHT THEN IT SOUNDS LIKE A REGULAR ALBUM CUT SLUM VILLAGE DILLA THROWAWAY WITH PITCHED UP DROWNED OUT WEIRD DRUMS CUT-UP BULLSHIT

I don't give blanket approval to every Toomp beat, "Can't Tell Me Nothin" just sounds like trash to me. Different strokes, I guess.

"The Glory" is an inferior "Never Change" (Jay-Z).

good life consensus makes me feel like im taking crazy pills... i havent been able to get through a full listen of it yet

cant tell me nothin wouldve been better if like p$c was on it but whatever

cant tell me nothin wouldve been better if like p$c was on it but whatever

^ True.

"Can't Tell Me Nothing", "Barry Bonds", & "Drunk & Hot Girls" form this nice, dark, weird little core of the album, though.

lol 'played a role in chicago like queen latifah'

i forgot, 'barry bonds' prob has the best beat

The giant fuzz-bass that drops on the title = fuck yeah.

barry bonds is boring

nottz is my favorite producer tho that snoop/kells beat was the shit

That was some pleasure cruise pimpin' shit, foreal.

ok im feeling "everything i am" despite serious thugz mansion vibes

its also the only track i dont wish had non-kanye rappers on it

ARGH @ packaging. Okay, yes, the cartoons are cute, but this is going to be scratched all to hell in no time.

its weird that no one can agree on album standouts

fwiw i like all of the songs discussed above except i wonder which its fucking terrible

if genocide had a sound it would sound like i wonder

i hate that it even exists

"I Wonder" is fuckin great.

-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, September 5, 2007 7:25 AM (6 days ago) Bookmark Link

:(

its weird that no one can agree on album standouts

That's generally a good sign.

except its not like "oh theyre all i good but i couldnt possibly choose which one i love the most!" its like "these ones are great and those ones suck"

kanye has a better voice for rapping than p diddy!

you know i hate "i wonder" but i think "everything i am" sucks even worse

except its not like "oh theyre all i good but i couldnt possibly choose which one i love the most!" its like "these ones are great and those ones suck"

I realize that. The point still stands.

lol @ the good life video ripping off the cartoony letters from the d.a.n.c.e. video

everything i am sounds like a mediocre college dropout song.

'divisive'

t/s ys vs. graduation

ys?

LOCK THREAD.

Oh, I'm slow. I thought ys was an abbreviation for something. I have no interest in hearing Ys. That was not an endorsement.

ys >>>>>>> graduation, i realize that ethan will call me gay, but its true

i realize that ethaneveryone will call me gay, but its true

http://www.falcom.com/licence/character/image/ys_logo.jpg

deadanimalhat.jpg

i also thought ys was an abbreviation but 4 fear of a clowning i didn't ask
can't enjoy ys sober, personally.

i'm often pleased by deadanimalhat.jpeg

i wonder how much he paid Takashi Murakami for the sleeve? he doesn't come cheap.

ha ha

Oh well.

Kanye's album outsells 50 Cent's by 200,000 on day one
September 12, 2007 04:59pm

50 Cent said he'd hang up his mic if Kanye West's new album outsold his. He might have spoken too soon.

Critics are raving about West's Graduation - and its already sold 200,000 more units than Fiddy's Curtis since yesterday's same-day release in the US.

The hip-hop egomaniacs were pitted against each other when, last month, Fiddy said on <i>sohh.com: </i>

"If Kanye West sells more records than 50 Cent on September 11, I'll no longer (perform) music. I'll write music and work with my other artists but I won't put out any more solo albums."

Associated Press said on the strength of the albums, West could claim a "landslide victory."

"... Graduation still sound like a logical step forward. Yet Curtis sounds like Fiddy is standing in place ... Fiddy's outsized cockiness sounds like a comfortable artist repeating himself, afraid to tinker with his winning formulas."

Ryan Dombal, from Pitchfork, gave Fiddy just 4.9 stars out of 10.

"in direct opposition to Kanye's fearless, risk-taking, Graduation, 50's new album is a blatant rehash - a bottom-line sequel that insults the same audience it mildlessly panders to."

Respected sie HiphopDX said: "50 cent may be a superstar, but Curtis is pedestrian."

But critics heaped praise on West's Graduation.

Rolling Stone gave the album 4.5 stars out of five, saying: "This is an album that you first like, then love."

HiphopDX echoed the sentiment.

"Kanye has created another must-have album that will continuously bump on your CD players and mp3's for months to come."

http://www.news.com.au/entertainment/story/0,23663,22406293-10388,00.html

sweet jesus the ass on the girl in the good life vid

lol @ the good life video ripping off the cartoony letters from the d.a.n.c.e. video

-- Jordan Sargent, Wednesday, 12 September 2007 03:41 (9 hours ago) Link

is it still 'ripping off' if it's the same director?

rtc OTM re: ass

idve preferred a more logical boob tho, wtf