He's not just doing that fuckin' annoying thing where he rhymes the same sounding thing over and over ("She was supposed to get TYco with the money, she went and got LYpo with the money, she should've got insured GEico with your money" ... ugh).
you mean "rhyming"?
― max, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 04:26 (sixteen years ago) link
i have totally been on the nuts of 'good life' all day today. thanks emoti-kanye.
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 04:35 (sixteen years ago) link
Don't ever fix your lips like collagen then say something where you gon end up apologin Let me know if it's a problem then aight man holla then
― Tape Store, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 04:44 (sixteen years ago) link
obviously max otm.
― Jordan Sargent, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 04:47 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah totally, i like those verses, not annoying to me.
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 04:48 (sixteen years ago) link
i know i was being sarcastic but i cant parse the sentence "that... thing where he rhymes the same sounding thing over and over" any other way
― max, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 04:49 (sixteen years ago) link
He uses the 'word' "apologin"!!
From what i've heard, "Good Life" is easily the best track, and I attribute 65% of its awesomeness to T. Pain's contribution...30% to the beat (Go PYT sample!)...5% to Kanye's verses (obv. Kanye's production belongs in that 95% chunk...I love how he treates T. Pain as an instrument rather than as some quirky guest vocalist)
― Tape Store, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 04:54 (sixteen years ago) link
Actually, 65% is a bit high. Give more to the beat.
― Tape Store, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 04:55 (sixteen years ago) link
if "champion" doesn't end up being a single i'll probably end up liking it the best a year from now as one of those tracks on his albums that are as good as the singles but since it isn't a single you don't get tired of hearing it ("spaceship," get 'em high," "drive slow," "gone" etc.)
― Jordan Sargent, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 04:58 (sixteen years ago) link
altho i guess drive slow was a single (or had a video) but it didn't do shit so it doesn't really count.
― Jordan Sargent, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 05:02 (sixteen years ago) link
"A-Trak is a part of our whole scene. He plays everything across the board. He just loves music. I know he introduced Kanye to a lot of things, one thing in particular was the movie Anchorman (laughs). And now Kayne quotes the movie in his songs all the time and you can hear it."
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 14:07 (sixteen years ago) link
Let me know if it's a problem then aight man holla then
-- Tape Store, Tuesday, September 4, 2007 4:44 AM (9 hours ago) Bookmark Link
oh man, the long long pause between those two lines is infuriating. also "they say I talk with so much emphasis..................ooh they so sensitive!"
I don't think anyone should want to take credit for 'introducing' Kanye to <i>Anchorman</i>, I mean he was quoting shit like <i>Happy Gilmore</i> well before that anyway. Kanye is like a walking Snorg shirt.
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 14:18 (sixteen years ago) link
A-Trak understands the importance of the dress.
― mh, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 15:26 (sixteen years ago) link
the problem with kanye
for example these two lines: Let me know if it's a problem then aight man holla then
that second one is completely extraneous
this seems to be the case for almost 25% of his lyrics if my calculations are correct
― kl0pper, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 16:39 (sixteen years ago) link
I just cannot get into this album. I loved his first, this is my least favourite of his albums
― Rowlando, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 16:41 (sixteen years ago) link
Does "Stronger" sound any different from the single version on anyone's copy of the album? Kanye said in a few recent interviews that he had Timbaland re-do the drums for the LP version of the song at the last minute, but it sounds exactly the same as it did before on the copy I downloaded. Maybe it'll be the new version on the retail CD next week, though?
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 16:46 (sixteen years ago) link
Why does "Drunk and Hot Girls" completely steal the vocal melody from a Can song? ("Sing Swan Song")
― rockapads, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 18:28 (sixteen years ago) link
It takes a lot more than that, if you'd listen further or read more upthread.
― mh, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 18:36 (sixteen years ago) link
Huh, I always thought Donald Fagen was saying "Italian," not "champion."
― jaymc, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
-- Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 16:46 (2 hours ago) Link
my version of stronger sounds the same, too.
― Jordan Sargent, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 19:00 (sixteen years ago) link
-- jaymc, Tuesday, September 4, 2007 7:00 PM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark Link
lol @ "did you realize you were Italian in their eyes." paging Passantino...
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 19:14 (sixteen years ago) link
i just spent like 30 seconds trying to figure out what 'raging passantino' meant
-- and what (ooo), Friday, 27 October 2006 16:57 (10 months ago) Link
― deej, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 19:38 (sixteen years ago) link
lol
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 19:46 (sixteen years ago) link
yeah, i don't think 'stronger's sounds any different either. BUT it is different to me in that i heard it out the other night and it suddenly made total trashtalking dickhead/way insecure drunken sense, like how the way the sample's so big and confident and clumsily executed with all the "god put you in front of me / so how the hell could you front on me" stuff
still not good sober, mind.
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 20:34 (sixteen years ago) link
i feel the same way about cant tell me nothin
― and what, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 20:44 (sixteen years ago) link
pretty happy with the album really. i think the thing with kanye is he always treads that very fine line wrt him being a completey annoying arsehole, and it's the very small things that validate that stuff in your head; i wz kinda dreading another overblown 'late registration' epic (even though that was still great at the time) as much as i feared a shiny jap hipster dinky toy horror like where 'stronger' and the mixtape suggested he was at, and so even though you do still get all of that stuff in this one the presence of the simpler oldskool roc type stuff leaves you with the impression of the dorky likeable kanye from 03 you like to think still exists somewhere, or ever existed even. haha like smiling/shaking yr head to that "buy any jeans necessary" line for instance.
xp 4real i never got that irl chance with 'nothing' but i can totally imagine the same thing happening, yeah
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 20:52 (sixteen years ago) link
hearing t-pain and kanye together is really satisfying too, i always kinda thought when t-pain came out it was like a rnb kanye in that same really talented outsider dork vibe
and you know t-pain's next album is probly gonna be some ridiculously overambitious carcrash too
― r|t|c, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 20:59 (sixteen years ago) link
Oh and why the fuck isn't Mos Def rapping anymore i swear that man needs a slap to make him stop making films and doing odd singing and get back to writing fantastic lyrics. Wanker.
― Rowlando, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 21:23 (sixteen years ago) link
rtc totally otm
― deej, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 21:32 (sixteen years ago) link
like, point by point
I'm not sure if this has gone unmentioned because it's blindingly obvious or if I really am the only one to notice, but: "Big Brother" is a MIDI "Dead Presidents."
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 23:14 (sixteen years ago) link
"I Wonder" is fuckin great.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 07:25 (sixteen years ago) link
a rapper NOT USING THE QUEEN'S ENGLISH??
my stars! i passed out with the vapors on my fainting couch when i heard the news..luckily my butler stepped in to loosen my cravat! however, this news weighed heavy on my mind, i was scarcely able to enjoy rigoletto that night at the opera.
― M@tt He1ges0n, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 15:44 (sixteen years ago) link
it's not that he used a gramatically incorrect slang word, it's that he dropped a syllable out of a word to force a stupid fucking rhyme.
― Alex in Baltimore, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 15:50 (sixteen years ago) link
I'm better than my competa, you mean competitor, whadeva!
― Gavin, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 17:33 (sixteen years ago) link
omg, i'm fighting off a gang o lols; ilm's gonna get me kicked outta the public library wtf
― Beatrix Kiddo, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 22:13 (sixteen years ago) link
^^^fennessey??
― and what, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 22:19 (sixteen years ago) link
don't you wish, ethan!
― Beatrix Kiddo, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 22:25 (sixteen years ago) link
oh wait, did you mean "are you, beatrix kiddo, laughing at all the sean jokes? or the ye dialectic?" it's the former, i promise.
― Beatrix Kiddo, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 22:26 (sixteen years ago) link
EXACTLY!
I'm totally behind Umbrella ('cause that extra syllable is for a good cause)
― Tape Store, Thursday, 6 September 2007 04:46 (sixteen years ago) link
fuck yall kweli haters he just dropped a gem with styles
― luriqua, Thursday, 6 September 2007 05:03 (sixteen years ago) link
http://www.zshare.net/audio/33132426817093/
my mistake, it ain't
― luriqua, Thursday, 6 September 2007 05:05 (sixteen years ago) link
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h62/freshcrunkjuice/03/01/SSNCOVER.jpg
― and what, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:38 (sixteen years ago) link
david banner will kill em both
― kl0pper, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:40 (sixteen years ago) link
chris martin singing about fireworks at lake michigan makes me roffle.
― gr8080, Friday, 7 September 2007 03:33 (sixteen years ago) link
kenny chesney wins.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 September 2007 03:41 (sixteen years ago) link
she feels booze like she bombed at the apollo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 9 September 2007 00:27 (sixteen years ago) link
whipped it out, she said "i never seen snakes on a plane"
― ciderpress, Sunday, 9 September 2007 01:01 (sixteen years ago) link
i like 'good morning'
― and what, Sunday, 9 September 2007 23:48 (sixteen years ago) link
I absolutely loved Late Registration all the way through, but I've always hated College Dropout and what I've heard from the new one sounds pretty bad too. And by pretty bad I mean absolutely terrible. Maybe I'm just weird.
Kanye a Can fan though? That's pretty cool and somewhat of a surprise.
― Reatards Unite, Monday, 10 September 2007 04:52 (sixteen years ago) link