Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy

maybe he means "users of the internet"

yeah, that would make sense. though it's notable that ilm is so broadly out of step with that (a step ahead obv).

Nicki Minaj on Monster ...damn. This album is good imo, but not the second coming some users seem to think it is.

the "Use Your Illusion" comparisons upthread are really otm (tho there were alot more good songs on those albums)

mmmmaybe, but the ratio's in kanye's favor

still haven't heard a note of this, every time I try to find a dl copy of it the file's been removed. lord knows I'm not giving Kanye any of my fucking money (Ghostface is another matter)

also can someone explain why something that is supposed to be so HUGE is not on MTV, like, at all?

youtube is the new mtv.

eh I hate listening to shit on my computers speakers

youtube is the new mtv.

― irish xmas caek, get that marzipan inta ya (a hoy hoy), Thursday, December 23, 2010 2:31 PM (3 hours ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Oh yeah, tell that to ubiquitous number one single "Fuck You" by Cee-Lo

bad romance has 322,826,092 views on YouTube

"Fuck You" does not, but that is not YouTube's fault

Oh yeah, tell that to ubiquitous number one single "Fuck You" by Cee-Lo

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was a #1 hit?

no

oh sorry forgot america is the world. was a top ten hit.

Oh yeah, tell that to ubiquitous number one single "Fuck You" by Cee-Lo

haha i had no idea whiney intended for this to be sarcastic cuz it kinda WAS a ubiquitous no 1 hit

yeah, the point being is that "YouTube sensation" doesn't always have a direct correlation with sales.

Also Kanye's on MTV all the time even if this album doesn't have a traditional "high rotation" video. At this point MTV needs Kanye more than Kanye needs MTV, tbh

jesus christ 'i genuinely thought when i first joined that he was the admin (ilxor)', if i ever get my hands on you i will goddamn choke you out with the nicki minaj verse on repeat.

kinky

lol you called me by my full name O_O

Unemployment line, credit card declined
did I not mention I was about to lose my mind?
(my mind, my mind, my mind)
and also was about to do that line

Address me as your highness, high as united
Thirty thousand feet up and you are not invited
niggas be writin bullshit like they gotta work
niggas is goin through real shit man they outta work
That's why another goddamn dance track gotta hurt

Go harder than a n-gga for a n-gga go figure
told me "keep my own money" if we ever did split up
how can somethin' so gangsta be so pretty in pictures?
with jeans and a blazer and some Louboutin slippers
uh, Picasso was alive he woulda made her
thats right n-gga Mona Lisa can't fade her
I mean Marilyn Monroe, she's quite nice
but why all the pretty icons always all white
back to my Beyonces

I've never heard anything so horrifying in rap music. Really.

it's probably a good thing that you don't listen to rap music then

Listening to this in my new Sennheiser HD555 surround-sound audiophine headphones that I got for xmas and all I can say is

((((d-_-b))))

i'm lost in the world

Good 5 U

'so appalled' is the first track on this that I kinda like. smdh.

this album repulses a certain sensibility I have - it's too content to find bombast and maximalist profundity through extremely basic and overstuffed tropes which aren't even original or sophisticated, just exaggerated

and y'all buying it

basically,

so appalled >>>>>> runaway > the first half of monster before it goes on too long >>> hell of a life >>>>>>>>>>>>> the rest >>>>>>>> gay dad >>>>>>>> blame game

and so appalled is nothing more than a decent song

peace, this was always gonna have to happen at some point, out of our system now

the first half of monster before it goes on too long

WRONG HALF

okok minaj's bit is cool. needed editing down tho so it was basically 2 mins of kanye + 2 mins of her and then over

not repping for Ross on 'Monster' is like instant SB in goontown

yeah whatta couplet

lj i don't know who you are getting angry at here, most ilxors, esp. the goons, don't like this or just think its ok.

it's too content to find bombast and maximalist profundity through extremely basic and overstuffed tropes which aren't even original or sophisticated, just exaggerated

don't you listen to like Opeth?

lj could not have gotten that any ronger

Opeth are usually wayyyyy too plodding and unimaginative for my tastes tbf, a coupla good songs

Am not angry, really - just frustrated at the ever-blinkered critical hivemind, and maybe a LITTLE at ILX - check the number of posts in this thread, and the number of posts in the Third Eye Foundation thread. And that's an album that ILX has actually deigned to discuss!

as much as i wish albums i liked from this year would get attention instead of kanye, i wouldn't wish this particular thread on any of em

wait ppl rep for the ross verse on monster? even though he rhymes "sample" with "sample"

i thought he was rhyming "sample" with "example"

he does rhyme "sample" with "example"

i deny you, lj, for not getting the hugeness of "power" and "lost in the world", or for thinking that it's the wrong kind of hugeness or whatever. not gonna try to say that it's a great album overall, cuz it ain't, but shit man, "so appalled" is hardly the scale attained. no more drugs for me, pussy and religion is all i need.

Billboard article about the album's big drop down the charts (but doesn't make the obvious connection about the lack of huge singles previous Kanye albums had): http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/industry/retail/why-have-sales-of-kanye-west-s-my-beautiful-1004137168.story

i don't need yo' pussy bitch i'm on my OWN DICK

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hYgIp06nFh4#t=01m33s

1:33

surround sound audiophile headphones lol

"monster" video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sKTtfwYqyd4

so nearly amazing but not quite there. feels way too static. as with the song the nicki section's all you really need, that actually is a bit whoa, though it really should've ended with her beheading herself or something a bit more dramatic

2:27 in that video there's a picture of a cloudy sky + moon + GETTY IMAGES logo??

i wonder if this is the final cut -- i doubt at least that kanye is putting out a video where one shot has a getty images watermark on it

yeah exactly

assuming this is pretty much the real thing it's not amazing or anything but i'm glad that someone is doing something on the "put your hands where my eyes can see" tip

nicki's part is great tho

i imagine jay showing up to this shoot and being all

http://i42.tinypic.com/zoezyx.jpg

jay-z looks like he just randomly wandered onto the set