Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy

ew who let kanye listen to sleigh bells?

haha

could you even imagine

you know what? i hate pictures of other people kids
i hate plastic couches in other people cribs
i hate when other people cribs smell like shit
i hate when leaving smell like the crib
i said, what's the cause of the poor smell?
she said, baby i just cleaned up i can't tell
why every ghetto bitch gotta smell like [?]
or that goddam cucumber bath and body works
i can still smell the sweat that shit hardly works
what about cool water? that shit probly worse
this here's classic like the la-di da-di verse

yeah, maybe not

amazing track though. and the cover's great. yeah, like 2nd-tier SST, but funny!

less said about the rapping the better of course

i would like to point out etc

i hate when leaving smell like the crib
i said, what's the cause of the poor smell?
she said, baby i just cleaned up i can't tell

this is c/p'd from the salem fader fort thread tho right?

WHEN THE LAST TIME > GRINDING
HEY PLAYA > 9X OUTTA 10
SOMETHING ELSE > ONE FOR THE TEAM
MY OPINION > YR OPINION

i don't think kanye's about to give us an equiv of "hey playa" tho :(

or that goddam cucumber bath and body works

Real talk, that is one of the worst smells in the world.

it really does smell like spit

One of my students told me a little while ago that his girlfriend dropped a "eucalyptus" pill into his shower so that its "fumes" could help him with his cold.

wait, everyone doesn't do that?

wit dat smelly cucumba body wash
biiiiiish u alooooownnne

i said, what's the cause of the poor smell?

this is like the greatest thing ever imo

when you have to stop in the middle of song to announce "we got good music in the house" it is not really a good sign imho

lol

that's the name of his label -- G.O.O.D. Music

oh damn I'm pretty slow. yeah I guess that makes it... a little better.

as for the song: I mean the beat's... not intolerable... but hardly great either. still haven't heard anything to dispel my suspicions that this whole thing is on some self-indulgent coked-out-rockstar bullshit (astonishing new heights of egomania, 6-minute-long trainwrecks, keyboard solos)

(astonishing new heights of egomania, 6-minute-long trainwrecks, keyboard solos)

really, this is pretty much what i want from kanye right now

^^^ cosign

like his news-cycle moments tend to annoy me but once he's expressing that shit musically it tends to get the damn job done

he really should not be rapping at this point -- feel like he should just be doing 'concepts' and productions & picking random collaborators

or he should get rhymefest to ghostwrite again

yeah, that's fairly otm

I dunno y'all I just don't find the songs compelling (or even listenable) -- it's like he's writing for an imaginary audience that has approximately zero overlap with anything people in the real world enjoy about music

but again, "dark twisted fantasy" and all that so who knows

(I should also add that I didn't totally lose faith until I heard his verse on "Erase Me", which is an astonishing bar-lowering moment in the history of bad rapping)

I dunno y'all I just don't find the songs compelling (or even listenable) -- it's like he's writing for an imaginary audience that has approximately zero overlap with anything people in the real world enjoy about music

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i feel the same way except trust me there are millions upon millions of people who either worship everything Kanye does and treat every new song like an unprecedented masterpiece or are just so into the whole aesthetic he's been building the last few years that this stuff really does sound amazing to them. funny thing is my favorite album of his is Late Registration, which some people disliked for the same reasons (bloated, overproduced, random, etc.), but to me Kanye was rapping as well as he ever has on that album and was still writing songs about actual topics instead of just grandstanding/pop culture reference/pun Kanye mad libs.

i 100% subscribe to everything said in this post ^^

ho man that 'millions upon millions' sentence is some thunderdome shit.

but i guess it must be true. i always forget that i really liked 808s

i wish any of these good friday leaks were even BAD enough to be interesting - when kanye's actual output is just boringly adequate it makes it a lot harder to care about what crazy thing he's done on twitter today

also people need to stop retweeting him! seriously!

yeah i hate when i see some totally mundane or eye-rolling thing "retweeted by so-and-so and 100+ others"

but yeah i don't know if you guys are seriously doubting me or what, but trust me, Kanye's fanbase is HUGE right now, probably bigger than it's ever been

I admit that I doubt that, I feel like its been on a bit of a decline lately. The amount of media oversaturation has gone way up, but I feel like I know quite a few people that used to love that have jumped off the crazy train.

"used to love him"

do not underestimate America's ability to be infatuated with people making fools out of themselves

http://www.hipsterrunoff.com/sites/default/files/imagecache/600/kanye_art_0.jpg

*sigh*

Goddamnit Kanye, I just might have to unfollow you after today's ego stroking. I want to read the crazy shit that leaks out of your brain, not a bajillion retweets of people quoting your lines.

so.....

http://rapradar.files.wordpress.com/2010/10/kanye-cover-2.png

wait, really?

okay, that would be a funny -- if confusing -- album cover.

Skinny girls with mustaches = dark and twisted, I guess.

i think it's real, dan, or at least it came from elliot wilson/rap radar's twitter

omg please let that be the final cover

is that gallagher?

Seems that Kanye covering "I Yam What I Yam" makes perfect sense, so.

if that's real, all is forgiven

Pitchfork's reporting that there'll be five different covers

hm maybe I didn't read that on Pitchfork

http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1650328/20101019/west_kanye.jhtml