Kanye West, Yeezus, 6/18/13 (TBC because who knows anymore)

Start your thinkpieces

― Ned Raggett, Thursday, May 2, 2013

The 20/20 Yeezperience

http://www.theonion.com/articles/fully-validated-kanye-west-retires-to-quiet-farm-i,18724/

actually i was just musing (in lieu of paying attention to 'hold my liquor' wtf is this zzz gash) how funny and kinda absurd it is to devote such reams of thinkpiece script on someone whose real great gift is to catch impulsive intuitive moodboard lightning in a bottle... like as if yeezy knows anything about this album other than it felt like a vibe at the time

i mean i know i guess you could say that about any art but still

kid cudi has like, the worst fucking voice

the song is good though

what the fuck was that

does this actually use "strange fruit" as a metaphor for molly

nice of nas to lend ye his "special" rhyme book for 'im in it'

Keep wanting to call this the brother school to /\/\ /\ Y /\, but the 40% of it I'm through's already killed that analogy dead.

"Spiritual brother school." Maybe.

Chief Keef plays Candy Crush with Ratatat.

deeply resent the first four tracks for luring me into hearing the last six

r|t|c otm

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I think this is the first time Bon Iver's been involved in a song that mentions fisting.

too bad bon iver's track is three years too late to get a mention on das racist's "fake patois"

More projections:
http://www.kanyewest.com/projections/

thought that was going to be a geomap of tenuous music crit

I'VE BEEN SPEAKING SWAGHILI gtfo

12 reviewers in connecticut thought this album's inchoate aggression represented ye's protective primal instinct ahead of impending fatherhood

xp lol yes that is a pearl

really do feel so mbdtf-rolled by this record

like how could i have been so gullible

i blame j0rdan

HURRY UP WITH MAH DAMN MASSAGE

'blood on the leaves' is... something, i'll give ye that

something hideously, pitifully ugly but at least of some artistic value compared to the other five in the back end around it

The 2nd half isn't as immediate as the first, but I sense grower potential.

worst reaction to "i'm in it" ever

I might like the back half a bit more than the first half, mostly because I really dislike Hold My Liquor.

I hereby retract "only ten tracks! He hooked me already." Here come the five-minute-plus meditations on hangovers and sweet n sour sauce.

xp you can't really just bisect the album like that when the end of track 4 is audibly the moment ye's coke dealer locks rick rubin in a cupboard

i meant generally speaking. after the first songs kick things off so fucking hard, i kind of expected that to continue nonstop.

i have no idea how the critics will react but liking this a lot atm

http://i.imgur.com/7RE9qPf.png

This record is annoying.

really do feel so mbdtf-rolled by this record

like how could i have been so gullible

i blame j0rdan

― r|t|c, Friday, June 14, 2013 4:50 PM (26 minutes ago) Bookmark

it's def more MBDTF than i would have liked... like i don't like "hell of a life" at all and a lot of this is in the same vein

but it's also a lot better than that song... even the second half of this is very primal and visceral (i mean, "i'm in it") and i never really got that from a lot of the MBDTF stuff

it sounds more 808s to me than MBF

well it has singing

but the subject matter is pretty far from 808s (a break up album) and much closer to MBDTF where he was, like, rapping about choking women during sex

now he's smothering Asian pussy with sweet n sour sauce. Progress!

Guilt Trip is my favorite of the second half

he cut the "like black kids in chiraq did" line out of "black skinhead" yeah?

but it's also a lot better than that song... even the second half of this is very primal and visceral (i mean, "i'm in it") and i never really got that from a lot of the MBDTF stuff

― J0rdan S., Friday, 14 June 2013 22:19 (7 minutes ago) Bookmark

ya, literally visceral more so than figuratively

that song and most of this album is just as hand-me-down patrick bateman as mbdtf was ("black american psycho" duh)

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"Bound 2" is the aural equivalent of Crash. The Haggis Crash too.

i don't agree with that. i like the integration of discordant samples.

that song and most of this album is just as hand-me-down patrick bateman as mbdtf was ("black american psycho" duh)

― r|t|c, Friday, June 14, 2013 5:29 PM (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

yeah i don't think this is incorrect

so is American Psycho gonna replace Scarface as totem soon?

My favorite moment is at 1'16'' of On Sight and for me, it never gets that good again.

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i.e. the replacement of blood and gore and parvenu advancement with pillar of society boasting a sleek modern patina behind which lurks all kinds of perversions

You're on to something there!

so is American Psycho gonna replace Scarface as totem soon?

― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 14 June 2013 22:36 (3 minutes ago) Bookmark

this happened so long ago that i was actually hoping this would be the album to shake people out of it

iirc even 808s didnt feel like the first to flirt with it