Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy

i dunno, obviously Kanye is often a great producer but that's not necessarily about a skill set that involves a lot of raw talent -- especially since a lot of his best production decisions involve samples and how he deploys them. i think of him as someone without a lot of natural musical gifts who's climbed his way to the top by sheer will

kanye knows how to write hooks, often vocal ones, that have nothing to do w/ samples

but he doesn't know when to stop, he just runs the damn things into the ground

little black balls for you and me

xp

you mean like saying "WHEN OJ HAD ISOTONERS" 50 times in one song?

^^^ he was actually punning on my name

I like the mellencamp comparison

guy was pegged as a meathead rocker but he wanted to tilt at the serious artist crown, he got respect for trying, def became part of the pop culture milieu, but not with the impact of dylan or springsteen

kanye's bristles against his own limitations but it's frequently NAGL, I'm not so concerned about his self-obsessiveness - in a genre where shouting out yr own name every couple of minutes is de rigueur it's like so what - but rapping about yr own talent and creativity comes off like some high school ish, show don't tell

i mean the guy has three #1 singles, four other top ten singles, four top twenty singles... it's just a crazy argument

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, November 23, 2010 11:26 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark

going back to yesterday, but since j0rdan was busting my chops here, kanye's only had two pop #1s that i'm aware of (i know: lol "only"), one quite brief. "golddigger" was HUGE, no argument, but in that it towers over any other single he's had. and it was half a decade ago. like circa andre 3000's career. six top 10s over six years is nothing to sneeze at, but i'm not saying he's trivial, a non-star. i'm saying that the rush to compare him to mj/prince and crown him the most important recording artist of his era is at least a little weird. i mean, michael jackson had 10 #1s, 20 top 10s by 1988, 7 top 10 singles off thriller alone. he'd had a 15 year pop career by that point, fine, but prince put up comparable numbers during a five year period in the 80s. like 14 top 10 hits.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5LcnE_SM6x0

I smell a bonus track for the deluxe deluxe edition!

notable moment, when he compares his public response to his interviews to the triumph an abuse survivor might feel if their abusers assaulted them in public

lol also he complains that Taylor Swift never came to his defense

he can call it "Geppetto Story"

o_O omg the abuse mention

lol "PLAY THE CHORDS LOWER"

also love when he unexpectedly plays captain save-a-gwb

wait, is he now going to bat for GWB

xpost!

holy hell this dude

OMG "they exploited my popularity to make you think GWB is stupid"

Dunno if this had been linked yet:

http://bullybloggers.wordpress.com/2010/11/24/touch-the-junk/

dunno about late reg vs. thriller, but it still stands as the best thing kanye's done by a huge margin

― phish in your sleazebag (contenderizer), Wednesday, November 24, 2010 11:03 AM (38 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

lol you 'dunno' about that, really??

I mainly want Kanye to say outright "being unimaginably wealthy & immensely famous is much, much worse than being torn apart by wolves and left to die on a freezing mountainside"

I'm not so concerned about his self-obsessiveness

I am ready to retract this statement

haaa

lol you 'dunno' about that, really??

yeah, i 'dunno' that it is not an insanely stupid comparison

when do we get to the part when he takes off all his clothes and runs around in public

oh wait

WE SOLD OUT THE BEST BUY ON 14TH STREET

^^"The New York State Throughway is cloooosed, maaaan"

he needs wavy gravy up there

oh my fucking god this is getting insane

on tonight's episode of "Cocaine Thoughts with Kanye West"....

WE SOLD OUT THE BEST BUY ON 14TH STREET

ILE board description imo

EVERY board description

am i the only one who's not crazy here?

THE SHIT THAT PPL WRITE ON A BLOGS IS A PROJECTION OF WHAT PPL IS SCARED ABT IN THEMSELVES

^think about it

we are mere surfaces of the energies they are projecting on us!

the sermon on the mount of blow

EVERY board description

you have the power

No I don't! Not anymore!

do we need to call you retired justice perry now

retired justice p, you gotta use your influence here

WE SOLD OUT THE BEST BUY ON 14TH STREET

you know the right thing to do

we should call north korea's bluff and send kanye in as our new diplomatic envoy

you wanna act all crazy, we'll show you crazy

you know, it sort of makes sense that he identifies so intensely with george bush, what with the unprecedented levels of public loathing, the stresses of elected office and national leadership, the dazzling mountains of pure white snow, etc.

ummm...

and that rant makes a nice cliff's notes version of this record, which was almost certainly composed and performed out from under the influence of cocaine mountain (deej was saying something about this yesterday)

did you guys see the daily show bit about the kanye/bush beef

@ 5:15

http://www.thedailyshow.com/watch/thu-november-11-2010/the-decider-returns

god or maybe just have a separate thread for every song & internet rant

on tonight's episode of "Cocaine Thoughts with Kanye West"....

otm ^^

next year's rant: "if i wasn't coked off my face i would've been on stage shorter"

the media always takes his cocaine use out of context

blog enemies amassing on the southern border

next kanye album's gonna sound like the flowers of romance

well this one smells like a lump of shit

MATT LAUER'S NOT A BAD GUY I'M SURE