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

in the middle of a night of mostly hard dancehall + newish rap, it's short and didn't sound particularly out of place, received well. i dunno. why wouldn't you hear that in a club?

also heard that chief keef ring around the rosey song or whatever the fuck

well i mean, the audience that the song was kinda aimed at seems to generally hate the album.

xp

yeah i dunno. i still don't get the lvoe for the first half of the album, the noisy tracks, but i have a lot of time for the last half.

yeah ^^
it still kinda blows my mind that the generica of him over-enunciating I AM A GOD is taken seriously, the second side is p singular though

i always start with side 2 and then go back to the top if i want more

also like to play the "who produced this?" mental game (i.e. "is that an evian christ snare? arca synth part?")

i think of the album less in terms of sides than in terms of 'starts well and ends well, with a trough in the middle'

same

I would probably come around to the second half of the album if I ever played it

iirc the beats in the second half were ok but yeah i never want to play it to come round to it. first four tracks still awesome though

i think of the album less in terms of sides than in terms of 'starts well and ends well, with a trough in the middle'

― some dude, Tuesday, September 10, 2013 9:35 AM Bookmark

yup.

I've heard "Send It Up" at clubs a couple times (once in the middle of a bunch of dancehall and bass music, once in the middle of a bunch of rap) and heard a dj start a set with "New Slaves" but those are the only tracks I've heard out.

I wish he'd done a more normal singles campaign for this album once it was out, feels like a little of a cop out to make a 'challenging your audience' album and then not try to reach that audience through some of the same radio/media channels that he's always reached a huge number of people through

word

cop out is his mo tho

i like the album as a whole goddamnit

realtimetyping this while blood on the leaves in a club

* WAVE BAR GUANGZHOU PARTY PIER 2013-09-13

piano + charlie wilson version of "new slaves"

http://www.gowherehiphop.com/blogs/kanye-west-new-slaves-x-blood-leaves-live-jools-holland

disappointed uncle charlie doesn't go "oowee, blood on the shoobadee-leaves"

Radio 1 interview at the moment is something else.

"We’re seriously in a civil rights moment… Nobody thinks about the names I got called for wearing tight jeans."

haha yeah...the false equivalencies from the Yeezus lyrics advanced as serious arguments

"Why do you think Niggas in Paris is called Niggas in Paris? Because Niggas was in Paris!"

can't argue with that one

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICXdA0sFAkc

does his voice sound weird and different?

he sounded like that on the Kris Jenner interview too

Terrific piece by DL

lol you might want to check that URL

I'll try that again.

Terrific piece by DL

wtf photo is that

wtf is going on with his voice in this interview

does nu-kanye get a diff voice

it is very weird, maybe the gold teeth are part of the issue.

i kinda assume that's how he actually talks and his 'rapper voice' is more of a contrivance tbh

wow his voice is making me feel like i'm on hallucinogens

damn, the hour-long version is a trip.

maybe he's adapting to the interviewer's accent like madonna.

http://instagram.com/p/esxo5oJ2G9/

pass that versayzee

interview is so great

as pure spectacle

it's not cute anymore imo. he's just a guy with no dignity.

can u imagine having to deal w him irl

I love him.

http://i.imgur.com/hg0F21f.jpg

i don't quite know whether i love kanye's ridiculous persona or not. on the one hand it really stops me taking him seriously because it works against what potentially should be taken seriously (cf mariah whose ridiculousness enhances my ability to take her seriously). and i kinda want to take him seriously. but his ridiculousness doesn't quite work on an "embrace it, stupidity and all, in a kind of camp appreciation way" in the way i appreciate britney's persona, for example. all in all it makes me continue to be interested in him but at arm's length.

You guys have me afraid to hear this interview

Dive in. I laughed loud and often. He makes some good points too (or at least half-points), amid the bullshit.