Kanye West - Dark Twisted Fantasy

i hope there's a second disc with all these jams

he said the album version of runaway is going to be 8 minutes long

let's have a toast for the doooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo-

i mean i would expect nothing less

i hope there's a second disc with all these jams

^^^^^^^^

it seems at this point like this album almost has to be a double CD, unless they leave a lot of these leaks off the album or only have them on a 'deluxe edition'

i can't wait for the pitchfork OMG WTF CRAZY COVER EVERY1 news story

looooooooooooool

http://pitchfork.com/news/40428-kanyes-banned-itwisted-fantasyi-cover

I like how the homepage had the article title w/ the NSFW in it, yet right above it there was a cropped picture of the album cover where you could still see a lot of the stuff that makes the cover NSFW-worthy

that's actually not as funny as i was expecting -- it didn't even have a capitalized internet abbreviation in the subhead a la the weezer stories

yeah i dont really see whats so looool abt that, theyre pretty much just reporting it?

I like how the homepage had the article title w/ the NSFW in it, yet right above it there was a cropped picture of the album cover where you could still see a lot of the stuff that makes the cover NSFW-worthy

wonder if anyone was like "holy cow, if there's already tit and ass-crack in this preview, what's waiting for me once I click through??"

haaaa

when Breihan wrote a PF news thing about the "Power" single cover being sooo crazy i taunted him about it a bit on Twitter because, seriously, stuff like that (and most of the other artwork/videos/TV appearances involved in this album so far) just looks to me like "yeah, that's definitely what Kanye stuff looks like these days, big fuckin deal." i mean the College Dropout cover was vaguely ballsy and WTF at the time because it wasn't really clear yet what level he was operating on and how much he'd conform to expectations, but now it's all just like yeah yeah Kanye being cuh-razy, whatever.

well circa college dropout he also had more on his mind than the failure of pussy buffets to fill the mom-shaped hole in his heart

hmmm....album cover looks like some third tier SST band cover from like 89

one for the team is nice...like the weird rick wakeman keyb solo at the end, geir would be so proud

hmmm....album cover looks like some third tier SST band cover from like 89

^ this

it's a cover that longs to be in a dollar bin, it's just got that feel

so fuckin extra boring how everyone automatically spazzes out over the big minimal abrasive track every predictable time... cut out and keep this handy guide you lames

WHEN THE LAST TIME > GRINDING
HEY PLAYA > 9X OUTTA 10
SOMETHING ELSE > ONE FOR THE TEAM
MY OPINION > YR OPINION

'do you know' > 'hey playa' > '9x outta 10'

ew who let kanye listen to sleigh bells?

haha

could you even imagine

you know what? i hate pictures of other people kids
i hate plastic couches in other people cribs
i hate when other people cribs smell like shit
i hate when leaving smell like the crib
i said, what's the cause of the poor smell?
she said, baby i just cleaned up i can't tell
why every ghetto bitch gotta smell like [?]
or that goddam cucumber bath and body works
i can still smell the sweat that shit hardly works
what about cool water? that shit probly worse
this here's classic like the la-di da-di verse

yeah, maybe not

amazing track though. and the cover's great. yeah, like 2nd-tier SST, but funny!

less said about the rapping the better of course

i would like to point out etc

i hate when leaving smell like the crib
i said, what's the cause of the poor smell?
she said, baby i just cleaned up i can't tell

this is c/p'd from the salem fader fort thread tho right?

WHEN THE LAST TIME > GRINDING
HEY PLAYA > 9X OUTTA 10
SOMETHING ELSE > ONE FOR THE TEAM
MY OPINION > YR OPINION

i don't think kanye's about to give us an equiv of "hey playa" tho :(

or that goddam cucumber bath and body works

Real talk, that is one of the worst smells in the world.

it really does smell like spit

One of my students told me a little while ago that his girlfriend dropped a "eucalyptus" pill into his shower so that its "fumes" could help him with his cold.

wait, everyone doesn't do that?

wit dat smelly cucumba body wash
biiiiiish u alooooownnne

i said, what's the cause of the poor smell?

this is like the greatest thing ever imo

when you have to stop in the middle of song to announce "we got good music in the house" it is not really a good sign imho

lol

that's the name of his label -- G.O.O.D. Music

oh damn I'm pretty slow. yeah I guess that makes it... a little better.

as for the song: I mean the beat's... not intolerable... but hardly great either. still haven't heard anything to dispel my suspicions that this whole thing is on some self-indulgent coked-out-rockstar bullshit (astonishing new heights of egomania, 6-minute-long trainwrecks, keyboard solos)

(astonishing new heights of egomania, 6-minute-long trainwrecks, keyboard solos)

really, this is pretty much what i want from kanye right now

^^^ cosign

like his news-cycle moments tend to annoy me but once he's expressing that shit musically it tends to get the damn job done

he really should not be rapping at this point -- feel like he should just be doing 'concepts' and productions & picking random collaborators

or he should get rhymefest to ghostwrite again

yeah, that's fairly otm

I dunno y'all I just don't find the songs compelling (or even listenable) -- it's like he's writing for an imaginary audience that has approximately zero overlap with anything people in the real world enjoy about music

but again, "dark twisted fantasy" and all that so who knows

(I should also add that I didn't totally lose faith until I heard his verse on "Erase Me", which is an astonishing bar-lowering moment in the history of bad rapping)

I dunno y'all I just don't find the songs compelling (or even listenable) -- it's like he's writing for an imaginary audience that has approximately zero overlap with anything people in the real world enjoy about music

― Our society and culture has put rock music on the backburner (bernard snowy), Tuesday, October 19, 2010 2:33 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i feel the same way except trust me there are millions upon millions of people who either worship everything Kanye does and treat every new song like an unprecedented masterpiece or are just so into the whole aesthetic he's been building the last few years that this stuff really does sound amazing to them. funny thing is my favorite album of his is Late Registration, which some people disliked for the same reasons (bloated, overproduced, random, etc.), but to me Kanye was rapping as well as he ever has on that album and was still writing songs about actual topics instead of just grandstanding/pop culture reference/pun Kanye mad libs.

i 100% subscribe to everything said in this post ^^

ho man that 'millions upon millions' sentence is some thunderdome shit.

but i guess it must be true. i always forget that i really liked 808s

i wish any of these good friday leaks were even BAD enough to be interesting - when kanye's actual output is just boringly adequate it makes it a lot harder to care about what crazy thing he's done on twitter today

also people need to stop retweeting him! seriously!