Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy

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

i'm guessing the getty images moon shots are just placeholders

the THOUSANDS OF YOUNG SINGLES IN YOUR AREA youtube popup is pretty jarring juxtaposed w/hanging models

otoh maybe the watermarked part is meant to be ironic commentary on how phoned-in the jay-z intro is

def think kanye is on track by world premiering his newest video via his yHiTz3 youtube account

getty images perfectly sums up how i feel about yeezy in 2010 :)

<3 nicki, feel like i should download more by her.

is this nsfw or

no titties, just lots of dead womenz

and gettyimagez

so basically yeah

god that rick ross part is disgusting and stupid

my beautiful dark twisted stock fantasy

still think the ross line ends with something like "kanye west sample/here's one for you to sample", but the alternative "kanye west sample/here's an example" isn't really that much better

true, but it's still the latter

"here's one for example"

this video looks like shit, you guys seriously can't wait for someone besides yHITZ3 to drop something decent looking, fuck

the das racist flash video game was way cooler than this

like seriously

the das racist flash video game

m@tt you my og but...

haha it was kinda funny tho! this kanye video just blows

the das racist flash video game was about as good as the burger king xbox games that cost like $5

damn, caramanica dropping truth bombs:

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/03/arts/music/03kanye.html?_r=1

haha feel like caramanica was just like"smh, gotta use my position to fight for good, and not evil"

well he said it's his #3 album so i don't think he's really coming at it as a total crusader, just trying to talk some sense

yeah - his point about institutions needing to give this a perfect score is sort of what I have been arguing since the beginning

eh i like caramanica but hey dude it's your third favorite album, you're part of the problem, stfu

“My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” (Roc-A-Fella/Def Jam) remains, six weeks after its release, a phenomenal album, third on my own year-end list, textured enough to still be revealing new crannies upon repeated listens, and alluring enough still to warrant those repeated listens.

PART OF THE PROBLEM

yup