Now that it's mentioned, it is really Eminem-esque, isn't it?
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 5 January 2015 19:36 (nine years ago) link
maura had good words on the whole thing http://www.bostonglobe.com/arts/television/2015/01/06/kanye-west-paul-mccartney-and-ever-present-past/uHT46Dh1lpDxfaYk4y7GUP/story.html
― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:49 (nine years ago) link
yeah that piece is v good
― emo canon in twee major (BradNelson), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:51 (nine years ago) link
2015 and autotune still sounds like shit.
― Moka, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 21:58 (nine years ago) link
^
― example (crüt), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:02 (nine years ago) link
http://oculos.blog.br/wp-content/uploads/2011/02/t-pain-carrera-safari.gif
― Evan, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:18 (nine years ago) link
I was just under the impression that a lot of the Twitter comments were jokes because I have a hard time believing that there are people out there who listened to that track and thought "Man, that guy playing the piano in the background of this song is going to blow up huge. I'm going to go on Twitter to find out who he is, instead of Googling it". It just doesn't feel like the type of song where his contributions stand out enough to warrant a comment like that sincerely. And do people usually make comments about that for people that are actually unknown? I don't pay enough attention to social media to know if people thought Mr Hudson was going to blow up huge circa 808s and Heartbreaks.
― MarkoP, Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:25 (nine years ago) link
lol i'd wager that most of them were jokes. some were actual young person dumbness im sure, and well, who cares about that. the indignance stemmed from ppl either not getting the jokes or being offended that filthy rap loving millennials were daring to joke about his OBE twatness macca
― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:31 (nine years ago) link
I def had that feeling Kanye was going to blow up huge after 808s and Heartbreaks.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:31 (nine years ago) link
And do people usually make comments about that for people that are actually unknown?
i mean...sometimes? i remember sorta thinking that when lupe fiasco showed up on touch the sky, back when he was fun
― i'm tellin you it was kenard (slothroprhymes), Tuesday, 6 January 2015 22:33 (nine years ago) link
https://vimeo.com/139496933continuing the trend of kanye being the least interesting element of his own music
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 September 2015 13:04 (eight years ago) link
bummer the video is down
― marcos, Thursday, 17 September 2015 14:09 (eight years ago) link
pitchfork was right. kanye is going to brick
― flappy bird, Thursday, 17 September 2015 18:21 (eight years ago) link
yeesh if Post Malone is supposed to be an interesting element
― some dude, Thursday, 17 September 2015 19:22 (eight years ago) link
"wolves" sounded like a not-very-good version of a modern kanye song, this one sounds more to me like something you would write explicitly for a runway show or smoething
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 17 September 2015 19:29 (eight years ago) link
on the bright side "Wolves" has still never been released all these months later so maybe this won't either
― some dude, Thursday, 17 September 2015 19:32 (eight years ago) link
yeah & at least w/ this one they didn't like say which track number it was going to be on his album
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 17 September 2015 19:41 (eight years ago) link
i didn't say i liked the song! only heard it once before it got pulled!but as far as i could tell, the kanye vocals were the least interesting element.
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 17 September 2015 19:44 (eight years ago) link
when is this album suppose to drop anyway
― marcos, Thursday, 17 September 2015 19:46 (eight years ago) link
If Kanye's bringing classic Chicago House back into the mainstream I'm not mad at all.
― longneck, Thursday, 17 September 2015 20:07 (eight years ago) link
oh kanyepaws
https://img.washingtonpost.com/wp-apps/imrs.php?src=https://img.washingtonpost.com/rf/image_908w/2010-2019/Wires/Images/2015-09-16/Getty/488589090.jpg&w=1484
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 17 September 2015 20:44 (eight years ago) link
It's classic New York house, it couldn't be more back in the mainstream, in Britain at least, and Deep Inside in particular seems to be everywhere right now.
― ewar woowar (or something), Thursday, 17 September 2015 23:05 (eight years ago) link
lol i still can't find anywhere to hear this tune, all the sites i found link to the same vimeo takedown page
― marcos, Thursday, 17 September 2015 23:24 (eight years ago) link
https://vimeo.com/29560944cameo from 6:18 so weirdwould love to at some time hear that russell tape...
― niels, Tuesday, 14 August 2018 17:28 (five years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/news/kanye-shares-new-song-xtcy-listen/
really gross
― guardians of the gums: i am tooth (voodoo chili), Thursday, 30 August 2018 16:31 (five years ago) link
well I guess he (braggingly) wrote it on ecstacy, but the rhymes show it, v poor writing: "U GOT A SMART PHONE BUT A DUMB ASS (OMG) I THOUGHTA ALL DIS ON XTCY"
just bad taste, hardly controversial to find your sister(s) in-law attractive
― niels, Thursday, 30 August 2018 17:11 (five years ago) link
stop paying attention to this bozo
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 30 August 2018 17:12 (five years ago) link
thats not nice, bozo brings joy to people
― frogbs, Thursday, 30 August 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
... is he now called Ye ?
the being formally known as Kanye West I am YE— ye (@kanyewest) September 29, 2018
― StanM, Sunday, 30 September 2018 16:27 (five years ago) link
Ye suck
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 30 September 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
Ye? Nay!
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 30 September 2018 16:36 (five years ago) link
Why does it always have to be about Ye? Why can't it be about Me?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6EoRBvdVPQ
― pomenitul, Sunday, 30 September 2018 16:37 (five years ago) link
^interesting new direction
― Screamin' Jay Gould (The Yellow Kid), Sunday, 30 September 2018 16:48 (five years ago) link
I'd also like to read your hypotheses regarding this video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rJfSHnOZeY
― pomenitul, Sunday, 30 September 2018 16:57 (five years ago) link
https://people.com/music/kanye-west-trump-speech-saturday-night-live/
After the show ended, Kanye continued with a song and speech onstage:
Wearing a Make America Great Again hat, he then delivered an unexpected speech in front of SNL performers like Colin Jost and host Adam Driver as some audience members booed. “Actually, blacks weren’t always Democrats,” he started. “It’s like a plan they did to take the fathers out the homes and promote welfare. Does anybody know about that? That’s the Democratic plan.”
After receiving sparse claps, West continued, “And what this shows is we can’t be controlled by monolithic thought. You can’t always have when you have a black subject matter like Cosby that you have to have a black comedian talk about it.”...
Motioning to SNL funnyman Michael Che, West said, “You know what I mean?”
West, who replaced Ariana Grande as the musical guest after she had to drop out, said, “It’s so many times that I talk to a white person about this, and they say, ‘How could you support Trump? He’s racist.’ Well if I was concerned about racism, I would have moved out of America a long time ago. We don’t just make our decisions off of racism. I’ma break it down to you right now: If someone inspires me and I connect with them, I don’t have to believe in all they policies.”
He also grumbled about people saying he was in the sunken place.
Still no new Yandhi album yet too...
― curmudgeon, Sunday, 30 September 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
There’s no fun in saying “told you so” about this guy, is there?
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 30 September 2018 17:49 (five years ago) link
I hope all the idiots who still cared about him after 2014 keep buying his important music I guess. The man’s got to eat
― El Tomboto, Sunday, 30 September 2018 17:52 (five years ago) link
i like the bottle costumes, but that song is complete garbage and I'm shocked that any of this shit is getting airtime.
― akm, Sunday, 30 September 2018 20:52 (five years ago) link
my feelings exactly ^
the life of pablo was a fun, compelling mess. everything since has been embarrassing. five years after Yeezus and he's here. Sucks
― flappy bird, Sunday, 30 September 2018 21:54 (five years ago) link
ghost town is an amazing track
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 30 September 2018 23:10 (five years ago) link
there were moments on ye and the other few albums he produced recently have been good too. i don't think his output has been embarrassing.
re. the trump stuff: it doesn't seem like he understands what he is talking about. he uses his trump support to signal that he's not "controlled" by the pop culture consensus that surrounds him. he doesn't say that he wants to stop immigration or anything like that. not that what he is doing is harmless, just that i have no idea how to interpret it.
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 30 September 2018 23:14 (five years ago) link
i will say that he doesn't seem very happy and his kind of frantic grasping at platitudes -- "choose love," "escape the sunken place" -- are kind of heartbreaking. i doubt many people have embraced trump bc of kanye.
― Trϵϵship, Sunday, 30 September 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
If anything it just enforces the idea that people supporting Trump are morons.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 30 September 2018 23:56 (five years ago) link
just that i have no idea how to interpret it.
it doesn't really require much interpretation, you can take him at his word
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Monday, 1 October 2018 00:40 (five years ago) link
his words are all over the place
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 1 October 2018 00:48 (five years ago) link
sometimes he hits on conservative talking points, but then he goes to generalities about how needs to choose love and escape monolithic thought, and then he talks about the sunken place
he's at the very least an idiosyncratic conservative
― Trϵϵship, Monday, 1 October 2018 00:49 (five years ago) link
stop
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 October 2018 00:52 (five years ago) link
Let's leave the um-ing and er-ing to the click baiters. Digesting the twaddle he's offered since 2010 isn't worth separating from the grotesque political statements, i.e. there is no formalist divide between the fascist apologizer and the third-rate producer.
― The Silky Veils of Alfred (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 1 October 2018 00:54 (five years ago) link