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

yeah you're comment that he could've just stayed in chicago to make this record was kinda true. it also doesn't sound like it needed 30 producers or whatever. which i'm not mad at, i don't really care if there's a bunch of unnecessary expense or effort that you can't actually hear, i just think it's funny.

http://hypetrak.com/2013/06/the-making-of-yeezus-with-kanye-wests-team/

well, let's link the actual thing instead of a shady-ass "extensive excerpt" someone put their own byline on top of: http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9157-the-yeezus-sessions/

i think you can definitely hear the other producers at work

sure, but if you'd told me it was 3 guys and not the dozens they had i wouldn't be the wiser.

irrespective of the lyrical content / sample used, i love the use of tnght on blood on the leaves

Kanye approached the influences on the album as he approaches everything, with the omnivorous intent of a young T.S. Eliot. Kanye quite resembled Eliot's "Jew underneath the lot" the night he heard his first blast of the sound of Europe's cutting edge at a Chanel prêt-à-porter show in 2012-- Kanye truly was "money in furs." As the models filed offstage, including Bhutanese model and Kanye confidante Jigme Drul, Karl Lagerfeld took the stage to the throbbing beat of Paris' most exclusive discothèques. If most hip-hoppers would feel most comfortable courtside at a Miami Heat basketball game, Kanye looked right at home in his Yves St. Laurent fur vest, a personal gift from YSL's helmsman Stefano Pilati. After an unreciprocated wave to Lagerfeld (the slight, which left Kanye fuming, is addressed on the track "Hold My Liquor" on his new album), Kanye reached into his matte black alligator Hermes bag and withdrew his iPhone 5, a personal gift from the late Steve Jobs' personal assistant. Kanye used the Shazam app to identify the producers of the track and immediately placed a phone call to an unnamed Paris music insider. Within a week, cult electrop duo Daft Punk were hashing out the first tracks of Yeezus, comfortably ensconsed in Pierre Jeanneret in his 19th century apartment, which was once home to French screen legend Audrey Tatou (Kanye cites Tatou's classic 2001 film, Amelie, as one of his reasons for coming to the famed City of Lights).

So much to take from that paragraph

Damn, I fell for another parody didn't I?

can only hope

I really want dylannn to keep writing these.

that was incredible

x2

<3 <3 <3 <3 !!!!!!!!!!

so good

we shd poll dk parody posts

Meanwhile, from the man himself

http://gawker.com/i-will-die-for-what-s-in-my-heart-kanye-west-in-his-562700648

Hey, I just looked down and realized how dope my shirt is.

totally lost it here

I hope I am never famous enough that Gawker does that to me.

^ this sentence pops into my head so often it's become like a mantra

"If I heard Graduation and it was made by somebody else, I would go to the bathroom and take a shit, because I would be scared. This record speaks to me so much."

interesting how Rubin's roll in this album seems to have been mostly as editor

role*

didnt know evian christ worked on this

interesting how Rubin's roll in this album seems to have been mostly as editor

teo macero-esque

who was better at taking naps, Rick Rubin or Teo Macero

ha, I said that before I saw this

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/06/26/rick-rubin-on-crashing-kanye-s-album-in-15-days.html

A buddy and I were predicting how we think Jay-Z will eventually die. And we came to the conclusion that he'll go in a way associated with European royalty: he was skiing in Switzerland, went too close to the traffic while riding his bicycle in France, or dies while in Germany.

Kanye, though, will perish by touching the Ark of the Covenant, the discovery of which he'll personally finance and heavily publicize in 2020+

We agreed that Kanye will probably die from one of the many kinds of vaguely sci-fi-ish deaths people thought would do-in Michael Jackson from the mid-80s onwards.

Too bad Johnny Cash didn't live long enough to cover "New Slaves."

oh, if Cash was alive today he'd have enough rap covers for a Love, God, Murder And Molly box set

amazing: http://thetalkhouse.com/reviews/view/lou-reed

this is for real the best piece of music writing i have read in forever - lou's kinda goosebumpin-at-ornette sincerity is always really inspirational & his throw-aways here are really amusing (cf taylor swift). what an awesome piece.

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sorry, not to pull attention from that piece, but this cracked me up

http://www.thedailybeast.com/newsweek/2013/06/26/rick-rubin-on-crashing-kanye-s-album-in-15-days.html

edited for lolz

Kanye called me. I’d just finished working at the studio for about two months on another album, and I was getting ready to go away on vacation for a couple weeks. Then he called up and said, “Can I just come play my album?” And I said, “Sure.” I always like to hear what he’s working on. So he came over to my house in Malibu. We listened. I thought I was going to hear a finished album, but actually we listened to probably three and a half hours of works in progress. Kind of meandering, unfocused, usually without his vocals. I assumed that the album was scheduled to come out next year. So I said, “When are you thinking of finishing up?” And he said, “It’s coming out in five weeks.”

I said, “I have a record coming out in November that’s a lot further along than this.” He said, “Really? What are you doing for the next five days?” I said I was going to go away. Then he said, “Please help me. Would you be open to fixing it and shaping it and finishing it off?”

I remember I wasn’t feeling that well that day, and I was thinking, Is the music making me sick? I don’t feel good about this. We ended up working probably 15 days, 16 days, long hours, no days off, 15 hours a day. I was panicked the whole time.

The idea of making it edgy and minimal and hard was Kanye’s. I’d say, “This song is not so good. Should I start messing with it? Can I make it better?” And he’d say, “Yes, but instead of adding stuff, try taking stuff away.” We talked a lot about minimalism. My house is basically an empty white box. When he walked in, he was like, “My house is an empty white box, too!”

Three days before Kanye had to turn the record in he tells us, “I’m going to Milan tonight.” There are probably five songs that still need vocals at this point. Two still need words! So he says, “I have to go to this baby shower before I go to Milan. I’ll be back at 4 p.m., and from 4 to 6 I’ll do the vocals. Then I have to go.” He didn’t come back until after 4, and we probably didn’t start until after 5. He said, “I have an hour and 10 minutes. Let’s go.” It probably ended up taking two hours. Five vocals. He wrote two lyrics on the spot.

i somehow had this lined up with Bish Bosch on Spotify and for the first scott walker song i was distracted so when Bound 2 segued into See you Don't Bump His Head I thought maybe I had broken through to what Kanye was trying to say, but no. Exciting realization that Ye wants to be Scott Walker though!

Or he says "I'd rather be a dick than a swallower" — but then he does a whole chorus with Frank Ocean. What he says and what he does are often two different things.

and now i see rev posted the dailybeast thing like three days before me, carry on.

so in love with the image of lou on the front row of the cinema on the first day of man of steel

...weeping

http://mimg.ugo.com/201107/4/6/3/202364/cuts/smallville_480_poster.jpg

You know, man, when I was a young man in high school
you believe in or not I wanted to play football for the coach

anyone have any idea what he's referring to in the Superman movie that was so mindblowing or did his recent brush with death cause him to weep in the face of any old crap?

i assume he's referring to the little boy wearing the cape in the levis ad

Lou Reed angling for Lulu 2: Kanye Boogaloo.

if Yeezus is not on the same planet, does it occupy the new solar system Lulu created? makes u think

Yeezus was way cool

the entire "hold my liquor" -> "guilt trip" section is the pits

yeah the more i listen to the album, the more tracks 5-8 feel like a big long ditch

But 1-4 feel more like the aggro crag, and I've been wanting a piece of the rock daily