Kanye West -- The Life Of Pablo (he'll probably change it several times after it's released too)

Have you heard McCartney sing lately?

Have you heard Kanye sing lately?

Generation Migos has no other priorities besides taking the Beatles down a peg

Anyway, you don't go to Paul McCartney for his production skills, his singing, his lyrics, his stage presence or his persona. You go because you want to try and cement your credibility with a certain type of listener.

Xp A noble pursuit
Also gonna stop saying mille and start saying generation migos thank you

Millenials *

Lol kanye cant sing for shit

Anyway, you don't go to Paul McCartney for his production skills, his singing, his lyrics, his stage presence or his persona. You go because you want to try and cement your credibility with a certain type of listener.

Or ... if you're Kanye West and you decide you want to incorporate some rock into what you're doing, you don't go to pull in session musicians or Radiohead or whatever. You pull in a fucking Beatle because only the best is good enough for Ye.

intrigued by the idea of kanye's ram

Kanye Migos - better producer than mccartney, better singer tHan mccartney, better lyricist than mccartney, better performer than mccartney, more interesting person than mccartney. Other than that I'm sure 72 year old person will add so much to this record

― the fuckin catalina wine mixer (sleepingbag), Sunday, January 25, 2015 10:25 AM Bookmark

anyway i kinda like "fourfiveseconds"

Lol kanye cant sing for shit

and his lyrics are all like "golden diamonds coming out my dick come have a splash" which is hardly like the beatles

Be funny if it was just a Kanye record with old Macca singing all the hooks, sped up or no.

it's uh better than that piano tinkle released a few weeks ago, and it's a novelty to hear Rihanna in a spare setting. Other than that, not much to say.

intrigued by the idea of kanye's ram

― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson)

wasn't that My Boring Dull Twaddle Fantasies?

Lyrically I think they're on par/a good match tbh. I predict a lot of poorly formed semi-nonsensical metaphors.

I'm imagining the awesomeness of "Press" with Kanye producing it.

"FourFiveSeconds" is fucking terrible, "jaunty" in the worst way possible. The fact that it's apparently going to be on both Rihanna's and Kanye's albums is depressing

In a way this is the most audience trolling thing Kanye could do, kinda awesome

Maybe they just like each other, I could see that

this song is dope, rihanna sounds great after the first note

also unlike "only one" this is actually, like, a written song

but then you hear the lyrics of this song

also rihanna has done some acoustic songs before, many of which have been good, so this doesn't seem as purposefully left field as "only one"

it's maybe lowkey for her first official single in a 18 months or whatever but it's don't think it would be insane to have heard this song done by stargate or whatever instead of paul mccartney

kanye's parts are inane and this would be better w/o him but i think the chorus lyrics really work

i like the idea of kanye hanging up his villain hat. it's time. this isn't to say that the music that comes out of this move isn't going to be extremely boring

i'm most interested in who wrote this hook, because it feels a bi too pop for kanye and rihanna doesn't work without superstar writers anyway

i guess it was dallas austin if he was listed in the itunes credits but it doesn't seem like anyone has reported that as fact yet

not ty $?

"Update: According to Rolling Stone, a rep for West says McCartney did not co-produce all of West’s album."

so much for that

not ty $?

― r|t|c, Sunday, January 25, 2015 6:52 PM (22 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah true

i got the sense from his interview about the song that he just did vocals but maybe! that would be cool

Is this song actually streaming ANYWHERE online right now? Can't find it.

YouTube has it.

It this thing even definitely for Kanye's record though? I keep seeing it credited as Rihanna f. Kanye & Macca, was just wondering.

Nevermind, no it's not there anymore. Just a bunch of fake Beatles loops tagged as it.

rip thred, u were about four five seconds from mattering

Time for a Yeezus Grey Album.

ever since this collaboration started i've fantasized about Kanye and Paul bonding over a mutual hatred of The Grey Album

the total lack of percussion on either of these songs is the most interesting thing about them to me in that they so painfully sound like they're missing a rhythm track. a bunch of rando soundcloud producers have thrown drums on "Only One" and one of the R&B stations in D.C. is now playing one of those remixes as if it's the real song, with the most embarrassingly on-the-nose College Dropout-era Kanye drums, it's irritating but also more enjoyable than the original. can't see "FourFiveSeconds" really doing much unless there's a version with drums.

I don't care about the Beatles but saying McCartney is a worse singer than Kanye is just wrong.

Probably right about the rest.

not sure if i can believe sir paul has done a whole album with kanye, though id be interested to hear it (only one should never have been released though - i have only heard it once, but it was painful to listen to - it should be heard Only Once, ho ho). i dont know if this is kanye hanging up his villain hat - to me, its half him doing an MJ and trying to please critics/the establishment ('i want in', 'i'm legit', etc), but its also him daring haters/detractors by saying, 'look i can get a beatle! look at me now!' like, it was cool that jay-z worked with jack white (on boring music) and linkin park and whoever else, but kanye went back and got a BEATLE. if elvis was alive, im pretty sure kanye would have his sights set on him too.

4 5 seconds is great.

"woke up an optimist" - such a great verse opening.

we only got 4 5 seconds to save the world!

did Jay-Z and Jack White actually release anything together? i just remember reports they were working together and then JW saying that Jay didn't like it and they probably wouldn't release it

the total lack of percussion on either of these songs is the most interesting thing about them to me in that they so painfully sound like they're missing a rhythm track... can't see "FourFiveSeconds" really doing much unless there's a version with drums.

― diddybops 67 (120.2)(source field mix) (some dude), Sunday, January 25, 2015 8:05 PM (Yesterday)

version of "4 5 seconds" floating around has to be a demo, though, right? a deliberately slight deep cut at most.

Paul McCartney not esp. renowned for his productions skills?

those Wings songs are often nothing BUT production skillz

Maybe the thread title should be changed if every other post is gonna be about Paul producing the album when that announcement has already been corrected

I was thinking that myself but then I remembered how the supposed release date of Yeezus was first denied and then turned out to be accurate, so who the fuck knows. I'll edit it a bit, though.

kanye HAS to realize these songs are unsalable as pop in 2015, right? i was shocked when he was actually crestfallen that yeezus had no real hit singles...but here he has to realize the whole world isn't goign to be singing "four five seconds." right?

Real Friends/30 Hours/No More Parties/Fade would have been my favorite EP of the year.

ts: "bleached her asshole" vs "sweet & sour sauce"

as a result of this thread revive my plan was to listen to this all day while working but i forgot and instead played some schoenberg xmas music bcz how the fuck did schoenberg write xmas music

The Twelve Tones of Christmas

The caps really make it

a lot of great music/art is made through specific intersections of bad taste and good taste. imo this album is kanye yelling bullshit over some decent incomplete collages

i am (evidently) quite alright with horseshit speculative gilding of rubbish music it's just that this is literally the most basic unimaginative example you could possibly apply it to. kanye kulture is abysmal and ur all headass drear hoes of the apocalypse

ranking the Kanye albums I like:

1. 808s & Heartbreaks
2. The Life of Pablo
3. The College Dropout

Good tracks across Late Registration, Graduation, MBDTF and Yeezus, but I've never enjoyed listening to them as albums

But anyway I'm grateful to see people itt explain how I don't know what I like and also thanks for suggesting I have any sympathy for Kanye's public persona or the hyperbole surrounding MBDTF and anything Kanye-related

I get dissociating public persona from on-record art to an extent but I don't get how that's possible with this album, which is entirely about and filtered through that public persona, and pretty much requires the listener to empathise with it (or "find it interesting")

I like that Kanye has enough juice to get "Fade" on the radio, it's generally welcome there as a respite from all-Drake-all-the-time. No use for the album or interest in the ongoing Kanye drama apart from that.

I think it's an enjoyable record, musically. Don't find the lyrics amazing, but they work within the context of the album and I am not too offended by the persona - kinda like how I feel abt Drake.

I know what would've really pissed me off years ago would be the shameless samples, just reusing popular hooks without much creative input, but for some reason I've been desensitized to this.

Also, it's perhaps a bit of a letdown that with all the studio money and input from other artists that Kanye wasn't able to make a 'great' record, maybe it's even a bit offensive, wasted opportunities, but again, I can't truly be bothered, I enjoy the record (okay there's a few tracks I skip, but I've seen other posters say they like those)

the only people I know who haven't been thoroughly turned off by Kanye for damn near the past decade are music critics. obviously there are communities that still have love for him, my own cohort of friends/colleagues is hardly representative of America as a whole, but it's still been a weird disconnect. little wonder that he gets (mostly jokingly) likened to Trump, they both manage to be simultaneously widely hated and yet "popular."

it's weird was talking with a young guy at work and i forget that i think of kanye as the great roc-a-fella rap producer who's gotten kinda goofy in recent years, but now there's a whole bunch of kids who don't know anything but kanye the "outrageous" "controversial" dude (basically post 808s)

i (tried to) listen to 808s yesterday and while it may be in many ways the most influential rap album of the last decade what a fucking dismal slog that is to listen to now, especially as many of its stylistic autotune quirks are now lingua franca of the hip hop industry

yeah I was a huge Kanye stan for the first few albums but 808s is where he started to lose me. I've liked scattered songs/appearances since then but nothing more.

I'm grateful to see people itt explain how I don't know what I like and also thanks for suggesting I have any sympathy for Kanye's public persona or the hyperbole surrounding MBDTF and anything Kanye-related

around here it seems like anyone who likes any post-808s Kanye is seen as a hype-dupe

ha, I've long thought I came off as a crusty old curmudgeon for feeling the opposite.

i loved 808s but despair at its influence via drake resulting in shit like gnash

guess who just walked into trump tower

pablo

Donald Trump?

I hope kanye doesn't get a cabinet position. Not because he'd be worse than the clowns that Trump has already picked but because if kanye joined the administration I really wouldn't be able to keep defending him

There's a line. And that's the line.

wow there's a line!

a solid blue baseball cap, backwards. there's a line.

http://m.tmz.com/2016/12/13/donald-trump-kanye-west-trump-tower/

red baseball caps have a history of being appropriated by douchebags

does this mean he is performing at the inauguration ?

well, he didn't say no

I think at this point we can all agree that black dudes who aren't named Sisqo should stop bleaching their hair

https://twitter.com/DennisThePerrin/status/808723085818036224

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1dTQSON9dSk

I think at this point we can all agree that black dudes who aren't named Sisqo should stop bleaching their hair

― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, December 13, 2016 3:16 PM (seven hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's possible he's transitioning to be a Trump body double, in the vein of Saddam Hussein or Liberace

the hair is fine. my issue is that it looks like trump is setting him up to be his new celebrity surrogate. (1:35 - an uncharacteristically warm trump says "you take care of yourself, i'll see you soon.")

I think at this point we can all agree that black dudes who aren't named Sisqo should stop bleaching their hair

― ¶ (DJP), Tuesday, December 13, 2016 3:16 PM (seven hours ago)

i appreciate the sisqo exception this dude was ok imo

kayne's the only celeb I can think of not already associated with the right wing who's voiced pro-Trump sentiments so of course Trump invited him over to discuss bleach problems

wish kanye would go full simon phoenix with this look

http://carboncostume.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/simonphoenix.jpg

is bleached hair not common among black US sports stars?

or did dennis rodman ruin it for everyone else

It's not uncommon. Odell Beckham Jr. has bleached hair

So I guess Donald Trump cares about black people?

Donald Trump cares about rich people.

tom

otm

otm

Killer Mike said in 2006, "George Bush don't care about poor people, black or white," and that was probably closer to the mark than Kanye's famous quote.

think this is some reddit project or something, can't find too much info on it , i quite like it tho

https://thepablocollective.bandcamp.com/releases