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"power"

this one felt hella minor to me but once it started getting radio play it started to sound pretty massive -- the rapping here is patchy as all fuck but i'll just vibe out to the production for 5 minutes def

"all of the lights (interlude)"

strings & piano echoing the melody of the hook in the actual "all of the lights" -- this is pretty

"all of the lights" ft the clive davis grammy's after party guest list

i really dig this song -- feels like this if anything delivers on the promise of kanye being able to be an 'adventurous' pop star, not to mention i think the hook is just great -- folding 20 artists into it works w/in the theme of the song too so it doesn't feel like a "thing"

that song sounded totally horrible the one time i listened to it

really i was almost hoping that at the last minute this would end up being a double album just so it wouldn't be all the songs that i already heard and wasn't thrilled with + like 3 'new' songs

"monster"

this beat on this is really dope, it's too bad about this guest list -- they should've let ross go for more than 4 bars or w/e he gets cuz he's legit the best rapper in 2010 on this joint (bon iver excepted of course) -- jay's verse on here is prob one of the worst things of the year -- refresher course: everyone wanna know what my achilles heal is/ LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOVVV" -- fuck man back in 2004 this would've had freeway & beanie on it -- nicki really does massacre everyone on here -- the edited version of this is hella lol -- there's an extended outro on this w/ bon iver singing i think, or maybe i never listened to the leaked version all the way thru -- in any event, "monster"

that song sounded totally horrible the one time i listened to it

― deej otm (some dude), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 2:28 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

lol i knew you'd hate this -- rihanna hook!

fuck man back in 2004 this would've had freeway & beanie on it -

kind of puts some things in perspective

"i'm so appalled"

more dope production on this -- b/w "monster" & this song & "devil in a new dress" the middle of this album has a really dark, brooding but still sort of swaggering feel, but there's just a bunch of superfluous bad rap verses which kind of ruin how dope this stuff could really be -- it's kind of fucked up to hear jay on two straight tracks, but surrounded by nicki minaj, cyhi da prynce and bon iver -- this song kind of really drags coming after "monster"

you think i kneejerk hate Rihanna's voice?

i don't get the bfd about the "Monster" beat, it's kinda threadbare and simple without knocking very hard, sounds good when Nicki or some good mixtape rapper's on it but for the most part it's just there.

the original leaked "Monster" had a pretty long Bon Iver outro, but yeah pretty much every DJ cuts it after Nicki or maybe after a couple lines of the outro.

"devil in a new dress" ft. rick ross

i guess they tacked a ross verse on here? color me excited -- this was probably the best leak, bink really killed the sample on this -- damn this gets really good in the middle -- electric guitars come in & start echoing the melody of the sample leading into RAWSE -- def the best moment of this album so far -- this is like "late registration" gone more extra and it's super dope -- this sounds like a ross album, opulent live instrumentation but the sample still going beneath it -- ((((d-_-b))))

^^really delivers

re "monster" beat

idk it just seems like a good cypher sort of beat to me -- it's not like O_O production or anything but for a threadbare beat i think it gathers good momentum -- just good head nodding shit

ross' verse on that is really good "had ciphers with yeezy before his mouth wire /before his jaw shattered,climbing up the lord's ladder".. love the added instrumentation as well

kind of wish the beat would ride out like a minute longer (!!!) after ross tho

yeah that's the first real O_O moment on this

otm xxxp

it's more "this is a good beat for rapping on" than "this is an amazing beat itself"

bink outshined kanye on his own album

THE NINE MINUTE VERSION OF RUNAWAY

there's no extended intro or anything, just starts off as the single version of the song -- i dig this song on some 808s shit but it's not SINGLE OF THE YEAR or w/e -- i think maybe kanye threw a new verse on here after pusha's verse? idk i never really listened to this song that intently -- man i hope these last four minutes are not some spoken word nonsense, but here we go -- it would be lol if he just played the whole song back, he should do that on his next album -- the piano plinks from the intro come in, strings, intelligible harmonizing thru the intercom deal here, sounds like a broken radio tbh -- so this doesn't really live up to its potential at all, kinda just mumbly for no reason

WHO'S GONNA DO CUDI!?!?!?

am i the only one who thinks the "devil in a new dress" beat is just kinda whatever on some "oh yeah...i heard this shit is '02" shit?

"hell of a life"

first song w/o a guest since the first song - more brooding distortion shit -- beat here is kinda nine inch nails or something, or at least what i imagine nine inch nails to sound like -- kanye sings on the chorus w/ no autotune, it's not bad -- i stopped paying attention for a bit cuz i can't find my phone -- i think he raps about wanting to get fucked in the ass? this is getting kinda dope here in the second verse -- re ass fucking "she wanna role play/ till i roll over" -- idk how to read that necessarily -- some wanky keyboard play on here in the outro leading into some choir -- this song is all about marrying a porn star btw

well it's very 02 but it's dope 02 shit imo

"Runaway" is just a serious piece of shit imo -- like it almost could be good but he decided not to work on the chorus anymore after one half-assed try, and the 'vamping' bridge is so painful it makes me miss the autotune

haha do we need to have a Madonna-style inquiry on exactly how much Nine Inch Nails j0rdan has or hasn't heard

this whole album & "hell of a life" esp pretty much is like kanye has some really awesome & interesting ideas as a musician and maybe even a "composer" or w/e but he's kind of letting himself down w/ the rapping

i have not heard very much nine inch nails at all

I love the last minute of "hell of a life" w/ the breathing

btw "hell of a life" ends w/ what i think is a "do me, baby" style post-orgasm heavy breathing kinda deal

j0rdan has heard prince! color me surprised.

loool

"blame game" ft john legend

alright the eight minute song w/ john legend, strap me in -- this song is kind of not very good -- OH HERE'S THE SPOKEN WORD -- i knew it was inevitable w/ all these long ass track lengths -- alright i'm not gonna listen to this whole thing cuz i need to go eat lunch or something -- i skipped forward and i think he's cutting up a chris rock stand up bit and answering his questions w/ "yeezy taught me" -- this is kind of funny the first time

"lost in the world"

i guess this is the one that samples the bon iver autotone song -- i know this leaked but i never listened to it -- alright this doesn't sound very good either, i want to listen to the ross part again before i search for my phone & eat

i think i'm more curious about j0rdan's phone than the album at this point

"kanye raps about being lost in the world, much like my phone is right now"

i think i just left it downstairs when i went to go eat cereal last night tbh

phew

lol

1000TimesYes
Clean version leak! Can't wait to run home and hear "let's have a toast for the _______shbags, let's have a toast to the __________sooooles"

both rae & ross's verses on this are really awesome fwiw

i could see this album sneaking into my top 10 cuz i never can really pinpoint how i end up feeling about ye albums over time -- there's def some really good shit -- the real issue here is whether "monster"/"so appalled" actually become more than tolerable over time & if the final two tracks actually suck

"dark fantasy", "gorgeous", "all of the lights", "devil in a new dress" (yes yes yes), "hell of a life" are all great tho

wasn't there a really old pre-college dropout kanye song called "gorgeous"

i used to love that song. "one look and muuuurder she wrote"

here's my 1000timesyes review of this album

Kanye West/My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: Late Registration post-30 Seconds to Mars phase & with no pop songs.#7

Adding that chick on "Dark Fantasy" is bad, bad, bad fucking move. The sampled vocals were enough, damnit.

btw i think i have the first ilx mentions of drake & waka

― J0rdan S., Tuesday, November 9, 2010 2:04 PM (1 hour ago) Bookmark

very 'deej' post

j0rdan has heard prince! color me surprised.

― sister soulja boy (The Reverend), Tuesday, November 9, 2010 3:00 PM (27 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

hes a the-dream stan -- needed the-dream context

wasn't there a really old pre-college dropout kanye song called "gorgeous"

i used to love that song. "one look and muuuurder she wrote"

― surfboard dudes get wiped out, totally, Tuesday, November 9, 2010 4:15 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

oh yeah, "Drop Dead Gorgeous". RIP Murphy Lee's career!

what the hook 'gon be >>>> every song on this album

murphy lee was awesome

btw here's the first mention of waka from what i can tell

butthurt (deej) wrote this on thread letz talk abt gucci mane on board I Love Music on Jul 23, 2009

wocka is awful