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

Somebody should have introduced Kanye to Kevin Martin during the making of this album. Imagine "Send it up" with one of his bass lines!

I don't think it was what m@tt meant, but there WAS a recent picture of, like, Kanye and Nas and Jay and Beyonce all together. Not at a studio but who knows -- if they were recording I bet it was for Jay's album.

al, do you think it hurts quietly nas to see jay still in love?

quietly hurts, i meant.

I think Nas compares his life to Jay's less than other people do

nas on 'blood on the leaves' would have made so much sense.

i'm going to write a blog post, where i suggest dream features for yeezus.

dylan I basically meant that Nas is an actual fucked up weirdo who's attempts to make what he feels are normal records are kinda weirder to me than all of kanye trying so hard to be challenging when he's just a garden variety dick mostly and his personal isn't really that interesting

skews for skeezus

What's so weird about Nas besides his occasional gross sex lyrics, which honestly are not that much more extreme than the stuff on Yeezus?

Nas seems about as detached & awkward as 'ye. Just more stoned

right. we're on the same page. for bizarre sexual imagery, conflicted personality, political issues and conspiracy theorizing and quotidian family matters and neighborhood politics tangled up in a ball of existential angst... buy a nas record. and no one on ilm will ever compare him to beck.

The way his rhyme style has evolved is strange to me just his phrasing & word choices & also his weird shifts between corny sentiment & gangster shit & weirdo lyrical pseudo philosophical shit is just really odd in a distinctive way to me plus a vibe I get that the dude is not right in the head

still not sure who you're talking about tbh

he's talking about nas

Kanye really raps about alimony and women being horrible a lot for a guy who has never been married, to our knowledge has one kid, is in a relationship, and was raised by a single mom who he really loved

he's not weird. i think nas covers a lot of the same ground as kanye but in a more thoughtful way. he has the skills as a writer to illuminate more of his inner life, i guess. so, instead of just casual strange fruit interpolation into snorting mdma off a range rover dash and it all comes off as sort of thoughtless... with nas, you go from what reads as sincere progressive political sloganeering into ultraviolent superthug 2013 surrealism or you've got heartrending here my dear post-divorce nas and then you're staring into an asshole spread open like a wide mouth bass.

but ye is always looking for the good girl, the one like his moms but he keeps fucking it up because he's a dirtbag that's sending hoodrats pictures of his dick or it gets fucked up for him because desolation of fame and fucked up reality of social relationship or the bitches lie to their lawyers about him.

Kanye really raps about alimony and women being horrible a lot for a guy who has never been married, to our knowledge has one kid, is in a relationship, and was raised by a single mom who he really loved

― mh, Wednesday, June 19, 2013 9:56 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i know, right. really jarring after the first album kanye who'd say to his pre-fame girlfriend's dead father "I do plan to marry your daughter, and you know I gotta thank you for the way that she was brought up."

he sounds like an insane person on this album tbh... all over the place and the stuff he says is incoherent, though passionate. i think that is part of the deal with this album?

Kanye really raps about alimony and women being horrible a lot for a guy who has never been married, to our knowledge has one kid, is in a relationship, and was raised by a single mom who he really loved

― mh, Wednesday, June 19, 2013 9:56 AM (2 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

it's almost like people overstate how personal and autobiographical kanye's music is

he does sound really coke-y. kanye. not nas.

i obviously have no idea if he does a lot of coke, but he SOUNDS like someone who does.

if the lyrics about that stuff aren't autobiographical, that just further raises the question of why a guy who hasn't had those kinds of experiences with women seems so preoccupied with it in his writing

exactly!

He's not queer?

what's up with kanye? is he into coke? is he on drugs? is he gay?

What about the voice of Geddy Lee? How did it get so high? I wonder if he speaks like an ordinary guy?

this is where someone asks factcheckincuz to come to the thread but we've done that one before.

he just sounds batty and scattered and messed up. he should be happy. why no happy?

I've never gotten that impression from factcheckincuz's posts.

too bad he doesn't just make music for people. if someone cool were rappin' over this stuff i would like it a lot more. i do like the demented music. i have no doubt that it sounds like hell - sonically - on cd though. most mod cds do sound like hell.

lol Dylannn nice

if the lyrics about that stuff aren't autobiographical, that just further raises the question of why a guy who hasn't had those kinds of experiences with women seems so preoccupied with it in his writing

i just take that as kanye buying into hip-hop's love of asshole behaviour. anything to avoid being seen as 'soft', etc. funny how the guy who said rappers needed to check their homophobia is fine with being misogynistic.

kanye is pro-dick

i just take that as kanye buying into hip-hop's love of asshole behaviour. anything to avoid being seen as 'soft', etc.

― StillAdvance, Wednesday, June 19, 2013 1:07 PM (10 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

nah

Good review, some dude.

I really want to dress up as Yeezus for a Gods and Goddesses themed party I'm attending this weekend. But I don't think I can pull it off. White dude, long hair, and too poor to buy anything that would remotely resemble his more outrageous outfits (jeans and t-shirt w/ chain are not enough).

pick up a leather skirt

where's some dude's review??

http://blogs.citypaper.com/noise/index.php/2013/06/album-review-yeezus-by-kanye-west/

thx!

ha that was the best line from dewey cox some dude, good job

The croissants line is so ridiculous, it could easily have been in a Lonely Island song. Something about the delivery—you can imagine him sitting in a french restaurant with Adam Samberg nodding along.

Nah. I can imagine him sitting in a French restaurant shouting at the croissant for not being a Grammy.

...while across the room the Dixie Chicks and Rick Rubin eat their Grammy croissants together.

i hear a lot of peter gabriel in kanye's production often, especially this album. has he ever mentioned him as an influence at all?

I can't imagine the horror of a "San Jacinto" cover:

I WALK THE LINE (BOOM)

You really can't imagine it if you think that lyric is in "San Jacinto"

Not my fault he's English.

Increasingly, Kanye West’s lyrics feel like the result of a gross misunderstanding of the phrase “the personal is political”: the rampant use of imagery loaded with poignant historical context in service of mainly describing the life of a drugged out, oversexed celebrity.

so otm with this. all that stuff on this album is pretty gross to me.

that said the first four tracks get me pretty amped before "Hold My Liquor" kills the thing dead. never really recovers except for Send It Up.

I like that weird outro at the end of New Slaves ...

most of the quick cuts really work for me (the New Slaves outro, the psychedelic gospel part in "On Sight") but the two different parts of Bound 2 make no sense together