Kanye West

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.

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 def had that feeling Kanye was going to blow up huge after 808s and Heartbreaks.

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

https://vimeo.com/139496933
continuing the trend of kanye being the least interesting element of his own music

bummer the video is down

pitchfork was right. kanye is going to brick

yeesh if Post Malone is supposed to be an interesting element

"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

on the bright side "Wolves" has still never been released all these months later so maybe this won't either

yeah & at least w/ this one they didn't like say which track number it was going to be on his album

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.

when is this album suppose to drop anyway

If Kanye's bringing classic Chicago House back into the mainstream I'm not mad at all.

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

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.

lol i still can't find anywhere to hear this tune, all the sites i found link to the same vimeo takedown page

https://vimeo.com/29560944
cameo from 6:18 so weird
would love to at some time hear that russell tape...

https://pitchfork.com/news/kanye-shares-new-song-xtcy-listen/

really gross

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

stop paying attention to this bozo

thats not nice, bozo brings joy to people

... is he now called Ye ?

the being formally known as Kanye West

I am YE

— ye (@kanyewest) September 29, 2018

Ye suck

Ye? Nay!

Why does it always have to be about Ye? Why can't it be about Me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q6EoRBvdVPQ

^interesting new direction

I'd also like to read your hypotheses regarding this video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5rJfSHnOZeY

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...

There’s no fun in saying “told you so” about this guy, is there?

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

i like the bottle costumes, but that song is complete garbage and I'm shocked that any of this shit is getting airtime.

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

ghost town is an amazing track

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.

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.

If anything it just enforces the idea that people supporting Trump are morons.

just that i have no idea how to interpret it.

it doesn't really require much interpretation, you can take him at his word

his words are all over the place

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

stop

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.

It’s been said a million times, but I don’t think dissecting guy’s behavior will lead to anything worthwhile. Seems apparent at this point that he’s dealing with some sort of mental illness.

if you follow the gleam to the bottom of the sunken place you just find a red hat

i feel bad for him. he made music that was meaningful to me when i was young. he is clearly struggling with something and he never struck me as a bad person but then again i don't know him so who knows.

he just said he wants to abolish the 13th amendment.

idek what to make of the fact that that song is probably going to be his biggest hit in the greater part of the past decade (not counting the weird rihanna/paul mccartney collab). like, it's sticking. i would say there's something ~interesting~ going on with the adele givens clip and how she is presented in its video + i guess the performance but otherwise the song is ass from top to bottom.

i like the video