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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
Huh, I always thought Donald Fagen was saying "Italian," not "champion."
― jaymc, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 19:00 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
lol
― Alex in Baltimore, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 19:46 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
i feel the same way about cant tell me nothin
― and what, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 20:44 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
rtc totally otm
― deej, Tuesday, 4 September 2007 21:32 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
"I Wonder" is fuckin great.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 07:25 (seventeen years ago) link
He uses the 'word' "apologin"!!
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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
I'm better than my competa, you mean competitor, whadeva!
― Gavin, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 17:33 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
^^^fennessey??
― and what, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 22:19 (seventeen years ago) link
don't you wish, ethan!
― Beatrix Kiddo, Wednesday, 5 September 2007 22:25 (seventeen 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 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
fuck yall kweli haters he just dropped a gem with styles
― luriqua, Thursday, 6 September 2007 05:03 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.zshare.net/audio/33132426817093/
my mistake, it ain't
― luriqua, Thursday, 6 September 2007 05:05 (seventeen years ago) link
http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h62/freshcrunkjuice/03/01/SSNCOVER.jpg
― and what, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:38 (seventeen years ago) link
david banner will kill em both
― kl0pper, Thursday, 6 September 2007 18:40 (seventeen years ago) link
chris martin singing about fireworks at lake michigan makes me roffle.
― gr8080, Friday, 7 September 2007 03:33 (seventeen years ago) link
kenny chesney wins.
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Friday, 7 September 2007 03:41 (seventeen years ago) link
she feels booze like she bombed at the apollo
― BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Sunday, 9 September 2007 00:27 (seventeen years ago) link
whipped it out, she said "i never seen snakes on a plane"
― ciderpress, Sunday, 9 September 2007 01:01 (seventeen years ago) link
i like 'good morning'
― and what, Sunday, 9 September 2007 23:48 (seventeen 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 (seventeen years ago) link
i hated this on first listen but now it pleases meh.
― gr8080, Monday, 10 September 2007 07:43 (seventeen years ago) link
the totem/scrotum line rhyme is mindblowing even by his standards.
― Jordan Sargent, Monday, 10 September 2007 18:00 (seventeen years ago) link
kanye is the zima to my book club.
― TynanTynan, Monday, 10 September 2007 22:17 (seventeen years ago) link
easily my favorite kanye album. I love it in kind of an embarrassing, drooly way.
― kenan, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 01:45 (seventeen years ago) link
-- TynanTynan, Monday, September 10, 2007 6:17 PM (4 hours ago)
^ip check?
― am0n, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 02:26 (seventeen years ago) link
hi krl0pper kaknye west is dead to me forever for ruining sing swan song; i listened to it like one half-minute and i felt the tremor of damo suzuki's large and frail body collapsing somewhere on the other side of the earth
― sleepingbag, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 03:22 (seventeen years ago) link
i like "drunk hot girls" mostly because all the can lames hate it
― max, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 03:26 (seventeen years ago) link
'everything i am' has the weakest cardboardest drums of anything premos name was ever on - sounds like that john mayer joint
― and what, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 12:12 (seventeen years ago) link
The packaging opens from the left.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:47 (seventeen years ago) link
Halfway through, and I am fucking impressed.
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 16:12 (seventeen years ago) link
-- BIG HOOS aka the steendriver, Wednesday, September 5, 2007 12:25 AM (Wednesday, September 5, 2007 12:25 AM) Bookmark Link
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 16:13 (seventeen years ago) link
-- The Reverend, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 15:47 (34 minutes ago) Link
kanye reaches out to the hebrews?
― Jordan Sargent, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 16:23 (seventeen years ago) link
"Common passed on this beat/ I made it to a jam"
Common otm
― The Reverend, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 16:36 (seventeen years ago) link
'i wonder' is dogshit
if youre feeling this, stop listening to rap music
― and what, Tuesday, 11 September 2007 16:47 (seventeen years ago) link