Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy

there are plenty of artists i've cared about and actively followed for years and years but man i really just can't give a damn about Kanye anymore, haven't even heard half those songs. i feel like he's this new Bob Dylan-level critical sacred cow and this album will be hailed as a classic even if down the road people realize oh it's whatever.

i can see that

people going apeshit over "lost in the world" and I'm kind of like "eh...."

i'm more interested in the aftermath of this album, 808s is kind of responsible for Kid Cudi/Drake/et al.

Kanye has Jay working with Madlib & Pete Rock, Nas w/ RZA, etc. so maybe he can kickstart the whole 90s/boom-bap revivalism w/ modern touch that's bound to happen

there are plenty of artists i've cared about and actively followed for years and years but man i really just can't give a damn about Kanye anymore, haven't even heard half those songs. i feel like he's this new Bob Dylan-level critical sacred cow and this album will be hailed as a classic even if down the road people realize oh it's whatever.

― algernod shiplies (some dude), Wednesday, 29 September 2010 21:24 (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

^^^^^^^

yeah that post is otm

i feel like since 808s was generally critically well liked (outside of hardhead rap circles), people feel like ye is immune to putting out a bad album, even tho he hasn't been rapping well in like 2 years

i dunno, i feel like most of his verses on these joints are fine. he's always had the (more than occasional clunker) and as far as his recent guest verses go, his guest verses have always sucked.

maybe he can kickstart the whole 90s/boom-bap revivalism w/ modern touch that's bound to happen

― Pitchfork.com, a music recommendation Web site (The Brainwasher), Wednesday, Suggest Ban Permalink

seemed apparent was the whole musical tack he was taking here from the time that unfinished version of "so appalled" leaked?

i think he's gone from having a lame pun here & there having verses full of lame puns

really, the only song (of his own) he's put out this year that I've actively disliked is "power" (and its remix)

oh and that beyonce joint that i forgot existed until right this very. bleh.

he's good enough as an 'artist' to overcome his current failings as a rapper to the point where none of these songs are 'bad' but i think only one of them is actually 'great'

like i can't imagine that this album is gonna be more than 3.5 out of 5/7 out of 10

man, fuck a dude making a 7/10 album

huh

joshing

ugh, wtf. i hate that word.

http://www.xxlmag.com/online/?p=92797

lolwtf

i think he's gone from having a lame pun here & there having verses full of lame puns

Ahh... welcome to the grocery bag era.

yeah, graduation really is the big bang of the grocery bag era, i'm sad to say

To read the rest of Kanye West’s self-penned cover story and his 40-page package, be sure to pick up the October 2010 issue of XXL, which is on nationwide newsstands now!

yeah... no

smh

OH NOES KANYE CANCELLED GOOD FRIDAYS OH NOES

http://cdn.2dopeboyz.com/m.php/2010/09/20100929-KANYE2.jpg

http://cdn.2dopeboyz.com/m.php/2010/09/20100929-KANYE1.jpg
( http://usershare.net/YoungFire/mx3vl4d6ykqo )

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UnAbszcy3bs

boom bap 'revival' is here

saw yela & wiz tonite & the dj was all YALL FEELIN MAC MILLER?? ***subdued applause***

who is organizing 'the jets'??

When wasn't boom bap revival here?

good fridays has genuinely been making my week more enjoyable, so appalled the first thing on my headphones every time i leave the house, so that kinda sucks.

When wasn't boom bap revival here?

― altered boners (rennavate), Thursday, September 30, 2010 7:38 AM (4 hours ago)

I meant in the mainstream, obviously there have always been revivalists/people stuck in "golden age" but obv kanye is a trendsetter in that whatever he does tends to set the stage for the next year or so so if/when Kanye is successful in this whole "bringing it back" sound then other notable people will follow suit maybe

so far most of this new stuff has the same kinda drums as Kanye's stuff 5-10 years ago and that stuff was not boom bap

this is a classic

http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_l9ksfpYXng1qzfh4ho1_500.jpg

XD

i had to google 50 tyson and was not disappointed

when is Weird Forest putting out his record?

once sage francis bites him

I would love to hear that song.

haha 50 tyson!

also he's from my hometown!

is it that hard to put a still from a Fellini movie in the background of that fake cover

lazy meme-mongering right there

I liked those SNL performances

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X81PAlsbXhY&feature=player_embedded

can we never play drogba again? :(

classy finish but ffs

ha rong thread

SNL performance of "Power" was top fucking notch excellent.

can't believe people are into that song. some dude's post more or less represents how I feel about this project too

Kanye's current campaign feels like if HIStory didn't tack a greatest hits disc onto the new weirdass paranoid emotional problems one but was still promoted the same way.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c93o05SrWzE

okay this second verse during the "power" performance isn't on the remix either -- it's totally new & seriously way better

is that walter white introducing pusha t? cute

lol

holy s--t i didn't realize runaway was (a) kanye west and (b) on a not-yet-released album. i heard it a few days ago, on how-to-dress-well's mixtape on the dis magazine website, and assumed it was cee-lo green (that opening still sounds like cee-lo's voice to me).

Really? I don't think it sounds anything like Mr. Green.

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