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

I will always support Kanye but I kinda don't need to hear him talk about stuff more than once or twice a year. It's...jarring.

I both love and hate writing about Kanye because within a week I end up disagreeing with at least some aspect what I last wrote. I always feel as if I'm either too critical or not critical enough or critical in the wrong ways, because he keeps pinballing between genius and embarrassment, between sharp insight and addled bullshit.

“I’m standing up, and I’m telling you, I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh.”

Just watched his video with Kim K in it this morning, hilarious btw, wild horses running free as they have sex on a bike, and it makes this even more amusing. He is also such a terrible rapper. He's just better at being P Diddy than P Diddy was.

Always interesting to parse what people actually mean when they say Kanye is a terrible rapper.

i was a teenage tori amos fan, game recognise game

<3

Always interesting to parse what people actually mean when they say Kanye is a terrible rapper.

― tsrobodo, Friday, November 29, 2013 11:22 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

^he matches having nothing to say with an inability to say it...

bit late to this but who exactly is surprised that record nerd kanye knows about bruce springsteen albums??

Who's Bruce Springsteen

Some guy that used to hang out with lou reed

aka the steendriver

tbf i love the guy and will be the first to admit kanye has been Not Good at Rapping for something like a decade now in wildly varying ways

Nebraska was the first rap album.

god bless charlamagne

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Y4LdvAi05s

So weird to see someone get mad at the man next to him, but still take pains to be mad directly into the microphone in front of him rather than to the dude one foot over to this right.

that sounds a lil like "da blow"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ7mjUj2KHA

So weird to see someone get mad at the man next to him, but still take pains to be mad directly into the microphone in front of him rather than to the dude one foot over to this right.

― Josh in Chicago, Monday, December 9, 2013 9:01 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah i wasn't sure if this was a mic thing (his mic appeared to be stationary while sway had the one he could easily hold and turn) or if kanye has some kind of eye contact issue

he seems super skittish

Sway is a big strong dude! And kanye not so much. Plus that charlamagne thing was the same day, think there was some ptsd at play.

yeah i wasn't sure if this was a mic thing (his mic appeared to be stationary while sway had the one he could easily hold and turn) or if kanye has some kind of eye contact issue

i'd be willing to believe you get pretty used to focusing your energy & attention on the mic when you're a rapper

Full interview;

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S78tT_YxF_c

"Guilt Trip" is so easily the worst song on this album. Though I'm guessing the "808s and Heartbreaks" fans are into it.

yeah it's a sore thumb

agreed, it's the one track i always forget about

this is so lovely,

MCQUEEN: I wanted to talk to you about the video for "Bound 2." As you know, my daughter is a huge fan of both yours and Kim's, and I saw that video and thought, "This is great. Okay, interesting, fantastic." And then I heard about all of this controversy that came to surround it, which I had to sort of scratch my head about. I mean, call me silly, but when I saw that video for "Bound 2," I just thought to myself, "It's just a video. It's obviously a sort of romantic video of him and his partner, and it's a bit tongue-in-cheek."

WEST: Yeah. I think all that stuff around it is just that: controversy. I think people are afraid of dreams, and that video is one of the closest things to the way that dreams look and feel, or the way joy looks and feels, with the colors. You know, I think there are rules to fashion, with the all-black everything, and rules to art, with white galleries. There are rules to how a lot of things are: the concrete jungle, stone pavement, brick walls. There are even rules to what a Brooklyn apartment looks like. But this video completely didn't respect any of those rules whatsoever. [laughs] It's a dream, and I think the controversy comes from the fact that I don't think most people are comfortable with their own dreams, so it's hard for them to be comfortable with other people's dreams. I mean, look, it took some time for us to be comfortable with a walking, talking mouse, but that became an icon. So this stuff, what I'm doing now, is the beginning of me throwing out what it means to be a rapper—you know, with the gold chain ...

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/kanye-west

digression about using didactic targeted metaphors also v sweet

i kinda can't imagine having aesthetic problems with kanye's rhetoric, it's so satisfying to get lost in, talking about internet static, saying "I'm like a broadcaster for futurism"

At this point, I don't even need any advice. I just need backing.

new motto

that's amazing

i like guilt trip :(

i have a friend who is friend with jus1n v3rn0n and i guess kanye doesn't know how to use protools and didn't know you could do autotune live until v3rn0n put him on to the helicon
http://www.tc-helicon.com/

that sounds really suspect though? he didn't work with Bonnie Bear until 2010 and i'm pretty sure he did the 808s stuff with AutoTune live.

who knows i'm just spreading unsubstantiated gossip

i could believe Kanye as a straight up MPC head who lets other people do the Protools gruntwork though

any time I hear "this or that very rich producer hasn't kept up with the tech" I believe it tbh

Yeah isn't what the interns are for?

Beyond scoring drugs/pizza I mean

being kanye's intern must be like that puff daddy chapelle show sketch

yeah, why would Kanye ever need to touch Pro Tools, i can see him as a hardware-only dude (samplers/drum machines/synths).

seeing him tonight, no opener, last night in PA he played 40 songs (!!!)

wow

don't know if that's a threat or a promise

2/13/14 - University Park, PA

I AM NOT HOME
On Sight
New Slaves
Send It Up
Mercy
Power
Cold
I Don't Like (Chief Keef cover)
Clique
Black Skinhead
I Am a God
Can't Tell Me Nothing
Coldest Winter
Hold My Liquor
I'm In It
Guilt Trip
Heartless
Blood on the Leaves
Lost in the World
Runaway
Stronger
Through the Wire
Jesus Walks
All Falls Down
Homecoming
Gold Digger
Run This Town (Jay Z cover)
American Boy (Estelle cover)
Spaceship
Get Em High
The New Workout Plan
Heard 'Em Say
Dark Fantasy
Niggas in Paris (Jay-Z & Kanye West cover)
Touch the Sky
Can't Tell Me Nothing
Flashing Lights
All the Lights
Good Life
Bound 2

Run This Town (Jay Z cover)
American Boy (Estelle cover)

If you actually appear on the original song, is it really a "cover"?

was gonna ask the same thing bout paris

and did jayz cover it when he plays it without ye

hey man… take it up with setlist.fm

On Sight
New Slaves
Send It Up
Mercy
Power
Cold
I Don't Like (Chief Keef cover)
Clique
Black Skinhead
I Am a God

^^ this run of the show is seriously spectacular

i think it drags a bit in the middle and then there's some weird cognitive dissonance when he starts performing, like "good life" under purple, blue and green lights

but the first like 20 mins or so are unfuckwithable

"Can't Tell Me Nothing" twice?

i bet that's a misprint... he played it towards the end of the show on the first leg