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

great review shipz

the most even-keeled yet

"A line referencing Deepak Chopra suggests only the loosest possible understanding of both who Chopra is and how to pronounce his name"

lol

yeah great review!

Yeah, best review on Yeezus I've read!

The Kanye character in the songs comes across like a buffoon or an embarrassing immature jerk as often as he does a transcendent power tripping god figure

we get the gods we deserve, right?

+1 some dude

Great review some dude

the thought of kanye writing half of the album's lyrics in a hurry because he wants to catch a plane means that lyrically, this is probably the most true to himself he's going to get

and by that, I mean that kanye has a fuzzy take on race and misogyny and thinks that it's cool to invoke history and struggle as metaphors in his own life. or just ignore meaning. or he genuinely doesn't think about these things. is he better or worse than lil wayne at this? not that I want to set the bar at that level.

idk, he probably sampled strange fruit out of context before he wrote the lyrics

then again, "300 like the romans"

Yep, that review was great.

oh, should have read some dude's review, I think you've got it covered!

Thanks y'all!

Awesome review.

people sure find transcendent power tripping god figures in the most idiotic places

god is in the tv
-- some guy daft punk helped kanye sample

holy shit @ "I Am A God"

please elaborate on "holy shit" because that's probably my favorite

My first impression is that "I Am A God" is the best thing Kanye has ever released.

that's what I thought when I heard "Black Skinhead" on the album.

The first three songs are so, so, so good.

If the Daft Punk album had sounded like this, I would have LOVED it (and everyone else would probably have hated it, lol)

nah, that was what people were hoping for from DP, I think? or more accurately, something like the live album where all the rough edges of individual tracks are worn down into over-riding grooves with lots of different bits thrown in.

which is really what kanye's m.o. is here, you get a sample, an occasional dancehall verse, some intense beats, and some ott bad lyricism... all in the course of one track!

the first four songs on this are terrific yeah

got the popcorn out for when DJP gets beyond them

okay I just got to "I be speakin' Swaghili" and dude clearly must be stopped

Lol

DJP couldn't like that song more if it was "I AM A GOTH"

okay I just got to "I be speakin' Swaghili" and dude clearly must be stopped

you're welcome

i like how he stresses "am" like he's contradicting someone

DJP couldn't like that song more if it was "I AM A GOTH"

Yeah no kidding! It got to the screaming and I was basically like "OH MY GOD WHERE HAS THIS BEEN ALL MY LIFE"

I am trying to give him the benefit of the doubt on "Blood on the Leaves" because it sounds interesting and he quotes Kendrick in the middle of it but the juxtaposition of the "Strange Fruit" vocal sample is testing my patience

I kind of picture him as a kid in a high chair throwing a tantrum in that song

it makes the croissant reference make sense, too

I feel like he thought the things people liked about "Runaway" and "Blame Game" were the codas and decided to make a song in the same vein that was all coda (re: BOTL)

"i'm speaking swaghili" is the best line on the album

you are everything that is wrong with America

lol

"raplic priest" is actually worst because it doesn't even have meme potential like swaghili, it's just plain bad

vomit on my sweater already, mom's swaghili

I don't even have anything to say about "Guilt Trip", which makes me like "Blood on the Leaves" more in retrospect

I'm glad "Send It Up" is switching up the tonal palette of the album here, I don't think I could make it through another navel-gazing sad-Kanye-is-sad song right now

sarge, you liked his bit in Beyonce's "Party," right?

It's pretty amazing that he's still clearing his rhyme books of swag puns from 2009 though

ha i totally didn't even make the "swagu" connection... no i thought that was really dumb

on spotify the artist field for "I Am God" is listed as "Kanye West, God"

man "Bound 2" is making me grit my teeth something fierce, the sped-up samples without supporting drum programming to make the beat pop gets under my skin so badly

"Have you ever asked your bitch for other bitches?" <--- I really can't say I have, no

ha i totally didn't even make the "swagu" connection... no i thought that was really dumb

how is swagu dumb and swaghili not...like how can you like one and not the other?!

I could see some of the songs on the second half of the album growing on me but MAN is this thing front-loaded

brb gonna play "Black Skinhead"/"I Am A God" on repeat (would include "New Slaves" if I could get Spotify to skip the coda)

how is swagu dumb and swaghili not...like how can you like one and not the other?!

― lex pretend, Tuesday, June 18, 2013 11:30 AM (5 minutes ago) Bookmark

sorry i don't have intellectual consistency when it comes to swag puns. one is funny to me and one is dumb, idk what to tell you.

Has anyone guessed that the coda was the easiest way to fit in a Frank Ocean cameo?

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Are Jews for Jesus?
Are Yous for Yeezus?
40 minutes of "Bless You"
Like an album of Sneezus
-for @kanyewest

do I swag myself? Very well; I swag myself

I want to hit this terrible review over the head with a rolled-up copy of some dude's.

http://thequietus.com/articles/12580-kanye-west-yeezus-review

Revolution requires a spark, and West has chosen to be that spark, albeit one that recalls a virgin-seeking suicide bomber more than a molotov cocktail or gunpowder plot. Not that we’d expect any less from him. Yeezus, then, marks a subversive table turn of the Mandingo mythology, the trembling blackness thrust into Hampton wives as a sort of coup d'etat against the ugly and persistent status quo of culture, status, and race, a problem well-summarized by Gil Scott-Heron on My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy’s finale 'Who Will Survive In America'.

WHAT THE FUCK

i actually kinda thought the MLK tribute was the funniest line...

turns out that's the second time he's quoted that MLK line in a song. first time on "My Way" for more political purposes.

the trembling blackness thrust into Hampton wives

o_0

is that an actual lyric?