kanye west graduation

ctrl + f has failed me :(

yeah I added a "y", sorry.

Is that Chris Martin playing the barrelhouse pianner? If so, I want him doing session work.

anyway I agree that "Big Brother" is kinda lumbering and is probably gonna end up really overrated. but in the context of the album it really does cut through all the vague 'universal' stadium rock lyrics on the rest of the album. (xp)

translate espanol no way jose

big brother actually sounded awesome on 106 the other day. his voice was all hoarse and then he brought out jay and the crowd started to riot.

Yeah I guess it should've been obvious what was gonna happen when he started performing that song, but it was kind of exciting and unexpected when the DJ threw on "Encore" and Jay ran out.

lol @ "konichiwa bitches"...if it's a Robyn reference.

Oh for fuck's sake

i thought it was a gza ref

basically if youre jammin this album but dont watch dave chappelle you kinda fucked up homie

I would say it's obviously a Chappelle's Show/Wu Tang reference if it was any other rapper, but with Kanye these days you have to assume he'll leave no Eurohipster stone unturned.

A-Trak: Man, I introduced Kanye to Daft Punk, and, like, that movie Anchorman, you know, the singer Robyn, those Keffiyeh scarves, Asian girlfriends, and this dope messageboard called "I Love Music".

I wish Kanye still posted here :(

you could also email him at the address he used on those old posts, i think it was jur✧✧✧@gm✧✧✧.c✧✧

nu ilm ruined joke :((((

Learn some humility/no sufjan no credibility

guys, he's gonna rap about 20 Jazz Funk Greats blog now

People who think Kanye is pandering to indie people with Daft Punk/PB&J samples as opposed to just absorbing things that are ubiquitous in the places he hangs out in = Not OTM

i dont think hes pandering to 'indie people',hes just a walking snorg tee (c) shipley

eh, although I called him "Euro-pandering" in another thread just now I do agree, but I think it kinda goes without saying. i mean it's not like there's a huge built-in audience for Daft Punk/Peanut Butter & Jelly that's there to cash in on. if anything he's going after the big white folks money with the Adam Levine/Chris Martin collabs.

(xpost lol what he said)

I'm pretty sure Peanut Butter & Jelly is even more popular than Coldplay.

I thought for a second he meant Kanye sampled Peanut Butter Jelly Time.

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the "good life" video is prob. not going to help kanye's indie-pandering image

It's Peter Bjorn & John time.

you shouldnt underrate the influence of catchdubs blendizzle dudes tho, it may be a small portion of kanye's audience but its one with a direct line to lots of his press/media coverage - rapping over songs from the OC isnt just to get that college rap dough, its a good way to get critics to ignore your other shortcomings

I like the audaciousness of having two of the most popular rnb singers of the moment on "Good Life" to sing one line each.

what the hell, when did everyone forget that Daft Punk is GREAT? Ubiquitous ans snorg are not the only options here.

I had no idea what you were talking about until I looked it up, that's so weird. What lines are Ne-Yo and John Legend singing? I don't remember anything sounding like them on the song at all. (xp)

moreover when did Daft Punk become shorthand for INDIE? I mean they've had gold plaques and videos all over MTV in America, they're not exactly below the mainstream radar.

more like baduation

They come at the end of the second verse, Ne-Yo first, then Legend.

its like when slick rick & q-tip on girls girls girls

And Biz, too!

i like the good life video. is that whole bape color pattern style thing really supposed to be credited to catchdubsizzle dudes? pharell's been rocking this sort of eccentric urban colorforms thing since most of those dudes were in college

the aesthetic runs deeper than 'lol hipsters' i mean, altho its not one i care for regardless

nobody is saying al's boy lacrate invented bape hoodies but kanye nerding it up & rapping over the garden state soundtrack cant hurt him in the corny hipster identification dept

and yeah daft punk is daft punk but its suspect when you make such a huge blendizzle deal out of it instead of just sampling house music on the low

theres definitely something very limited edition vinyl toy about the way kanye is marketed now

well i'm sure what Kanye's doing does appeal to some indie kids, but it probably turns off the hipster rap fan sect that REALLY WANTS to believe that the Clipse and Juelz really do deal.

when all is said and done i'd probably be more down w/ this phase of his career if he chopped Can and Daft Punk samples as well as he used to chop Al Green and Lenny Williams samples.

Kanye never made a big deal out of it, blogs did.

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well, Kanye hasn't featured every artist (or at least people dressed as those artists lol robot suits) he's sampled in the videos for his songs, just Daft Punk.

yeah exactly i think itd be fair to say if for example he did 'through the wire' as featuring chaka khan and had chaka kahn in the video hed be trying to appeal to 80s rnb/quiet storm/jess's mom type ppl

hey, well he did have Chaka come and sing with him at the VMA's that year.

like, thats the difference really - sample black music its just another beat, sample white music and its a 'mash-up' and you get a mtv news segment & 3 posts on the fader blog

So "Doggy Dogg World" was Snoop's attempt to connect to 50-year-old Dramatics fans?

otm

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Yeah, again MTV News and Fader are making a big deal out of it, not Kanye.

Don't think Ye is doing some contrived publicity stunt because rockist dipshits can't wrap their head around that fact that hip-hop's been sampling rock bands for 30 years