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

"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

https://soundcloud.com/felixxxiao/voiceofageneration

A good example would be the song that became “Bound.” When he first played it for me, it was a more middle of the road R&B song, done in an adult contemporary style. Kanye had the idea of combining that track with a cool sample he had found and liked – I removed all of the R&B elements leaving only a single note baseline in the hook which we processed to have a punk edge in the Suicide tradition.

i've never heard suicide but "bound 2" is great because it's kanye on, i guess, according to rick rubin, a "middle of the road r&b song" with limited intervention.

so: did he write all the lyrics this time?

i don't get the sense he ever hasn't, give or take a punchline contributed here or there by rhymefest or pusha or whoever

if he did, he should probably leak some ghostwriter rumors, let cyhi da prynce or rhymefest take some of the blame

production credits

1. "On Sight"
Daft Punk

2. "Black Skinhead"
Daft Punk, Travi$ Scott (co.), Mike Dean (add.)

3. "I Am a God" (featuring Justin Vernon)
Daft Punk, Hudson Mohawke (co.), Kanye West (co.), Travi$ Scott (co.), Mike Dean (add.), Rick Rubin (add.)

4. "New Slaves" (featuring Frank Ocean)
Daft Punk, Travi$ Scott (co.), Hudson Mohawke (co.), Mike Dean (co.), Kanye West (add.)

5. "Hold My Liquor" (featuring Chief Keef and Justin Vernon)
Young Chop, Mike Dean (co.), Arca (add.), Rick Rubin (add.)

6. "I'm in It" (featuring Justin Vernon)
RZA, Travi$ Scott (add.), Mike Dean (add.)

7. "Blood on the Leaves" (featuring Tony Williams)
TNGHT, Kanye West (co.), Mike Dean (add.)

8. "Guilt Trip" (featuring Kid Cudi)
Symbolyc One, Arca (co.), Travi$ Scott (co.), Mike Dean (co.), Ackeejuice Rockers (co.)

9. "Send It Up" (featuring King L & Iamsu!)
Gesaffelstein, Arca (co.), Daft Punk (co.), Hudson Mohawke (add.)

10. "Bound 2" (featuring Charlie Wilson)
Kanye West, No I.D., Symbolyc One (co.) The Heatmakerz (co.), Rick Rubin (add

heatmakerz are like the ghost of roc-a-fella past in this bitch

i can't imagine the circumstances that required the addition of the heatmakerz to that lineup of producers for a barely touched soul sample with almost nonexistent additional drums

little bit suicide, little bit "dipset anthem"

hahaha dylannn

I'm surprised how few tracks he touched himself.

I mean obviously his producer goons got goons, but I still expect him to be the guiding hand behind it all.