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

"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.

rap game apple maps

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

What's so terrible about Hell of A Life?

girl I know you want Disick

"Hell of a life" is subconsciously his first song about Kim imo

"hell of a life" and "blame game" are two of his worst songs imo

the nursery rhyme chorus on "hell of a life" is so wack

"Blame game" is by faaar my fav song on that album

first four tracks are amazing.
takes a quick nosedive into shitty shit shit territory after that.

Blame Game is high contender for the best album track Kanye ever did

fucking hell

lol

ok that's too far, i wouldn't put it in the top 20 or anything

that isn't as high praise as it sounds, generally like his singles more than his album tracks, but I do stand by it

This place is like backtrack central.

ha admittedly (i do like about half of MBDTF more than consensus around here)

this place is like backpack central

I have no use for a lot of MBDTF but the parts of it I do like are parts I like a lot.

definitely, despite the lows being really low--runaway, so appalled, hell of a life are all pretty horrible (and those first two are also really long)

only thread with a benz and a backpack

"I'm In It" has caused me to make every possible facial expression

including this facial expression

and this

lol Rev

none of it sounds like j-kwon

So, no Awesome/Perfect, huh guys?

Which is sad because I like that song a ton

(And no I haven't heard the leak)

I think the longest-held facial expression was the screwface I made when Justin Vernon's fake or Kid Cudi's real Kid Cudi voice came in

none of it sounds like j-kwon

― dylannn, Friday, June 14, 2013 4:35 PM (1 minute ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

very disappointing

in a french-ass restaurant / hurry up with my damn croissants

i thought "hold my liquor" was going to be the first track i made it all the way through. and the second half of this thing is supposed to be where the quality drops off?

lmao

gotta say that "Black Skinheads" sounds more amazing now than a few weeks ago. Love how it never quite hits a climax.

Skinhead

lyrically, he's covering a lot of the same ground he's covered before, cold sexual hookups and the fucked up desolation of wealth and fucked up relationships that result from it, maybe, and usually i find it compelling and original and he keeps going to the same places here and the problem isn't that i've heard it before but that he's repeating it with less sophistication with lots of awkward turns of phrase and just garbage what the hellllllll lines.

otm

i'm still listening to this so i don't know what i can say about it but "blood on the leaves," man... "strange fruit" played straight then chopped into a horrible bleat, autotune that sounds like a goofy kanye molly joint and then degrades into fucked up amnesiac wobble, turbo grafx dmx howls, stutters, first lyrical coldbloodedness witnessed on here. ---> "guilt trip," where i can wash away the memory of sweet and sour pussy, stupid loveable kanye back on some irv gotti pastoral late90s chillout beats / distorted dancehall and drones.

"rap's Flowers of Romance," a FB friend wrote, meant as a compliment (but not to me).

"bound 2" puts a dumb smile on my face like the first time i heard ghost doing "holla" over an uncut delfonics track smearing himself off beat singing along to the chorus

what you doin in the club on a thursday
she said she only here for her girl birthday
they order champagne but still look thirstay
rock forever 21 but just turned thirtay

"blood on the leaves" / "guilt trip" / "send it up" / "bound 2" is a great second half

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6yvX9l2PfRg

"he done made shit i can step to. i'm an old motherfucker that like to step and this nigga make beats i can step to, so i like that shit"

http://www.hotnewhiphop.com/rick-rubin-speaks-on-recording-process-with-kanye-west-for-yeezus-news.6052.html