Kanye West's new 2018 album

I hope it's called 5 Songs and has no songs.

I'm guessing the lyrics will be even more shit than usual, but I'm hoping for productions as insane as on Yeezus.

At this point I'm spending all my hope on the Nas album.

i like all his albums, looking forward to this

The last Nas album was good!

Kanye is kinda the Notary
Morrissey of rap, makes sense this is happening

Lol the Notary Morrissey

Kanye still hasn’t done anything lately that’s as bad as ruining “Father Stretch My Hands Pt 1” with the stupidest verse of his life

— BUM CHILLUPS (@edsbs) April 23, 2018

fuck kanye

he's such a ridiculous person.

Like, it's such a transparent ploy for mentally unstable celebrities these days: "I like trump now! Gimme attention!"

^^^

yeah and it still works, which sucks

7 songs and a june release date makes me think of Yeezus. i feel very good about this

DJTeezus

will kanye ever realize that he's not an individualist genius, he's a vector for his tastes with a knack for plainspoken interiority? (no)

I'm kinda excited for the Nas record, just to have him working with one producer

http://people.com/music/kanye-west-seems-on-edge-hard-to-deal/

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xp who's the producer?

Kanye

whaaat now I'm hyped too!

"Please never use the word erratic to describe a person who is economically and psychologically empowered"

he sure is on drugs :/

You really shouldn’t use the phrase “on drugs” to describe a person who is economically and psychologically empowered

he's bipolar

hey i'm pretty uncomfortable with the cavalier way people are diagnosing kanye in this thread!

but if someone knows something i don't then that's fine too, maybe i'm overreacting

What? Huge celebrity goes on stupid rambling Twitter rant and we're just supposed to send hopes and prayers?

ok i’m overreacting nm

lol kanye makes people say the dumbest shit i swear, mission accomplish ye

Pretty big space between 'hopes and prayers' and diagnosing him as 'bipolar' tbh, but ymmv

Hooboy.

oh, fucking hell

kanye fucking sucks incidentally

Here is a pic of him with a maga hat with some folks apparently throwing neonazi signs ... already seeing this image of his face as an avatar for far right twitter accounts

https://bit.ly/2r0F4fK

cocaine's a hell of a drug

He's always been like this though. This is Kanyeuniversity.com without ever having to pretend like he understands the proleteriat.

pretty sure the source of the speculation is at least as far back as the 5150 from two years ago

Always been chill with white supremacy ...?

Xpost

i don't think lyor cohen is doing a neonazi sign

i think lyor cohen is just lame

Wait that's Lyon Cohen .... my head hurts

Anyways the OK sign is widel recognized as an alt right thing but of course it's possible that this is not the reference, but its proximity to the maga hat ... idk, feels bad man

only when he formally declares that George W. Bush cares about black people will the cycle be complete

Plus a follow-up tweet about meeting with Peter Thiel...

Cheat sheet: This is Lucian Grainge (CEO of Universal Music, biggest music label in the world) and Lyor Cohen (head of music at YouTube, the biggest video site in the world) pic.twitter.com/7VNo8ZtNjH

— Joan E. Solsman (@joan_e) April 25, 2018

"that was some weird shit" - george w. bush, again

His internal struggle with white acceptance is a common theme in his music and life, is it not? Looking at this through a MAGA-world lens, it's not surprising that it reads as more in your face, pro-white supremacy in this context.

no no matter what you say i will not admit that kanye has been like this all along and the context has merely shifted!!!!

xxxxxp

https://assets.vogue.com/photos/59a04db26bc89b160b6f8dd6/master/pass/00-lede-lyor-cohen-sag-harbour-book-party.jpg

i mean i think it's just his 'i'm next to a rapper pose' (which is also y'know suspect)

also don't think widely recognised is the right term for something only recognised by very online people

That's cool. Hope you vote blue!

ok!

Pretty big space between 'hopes and prayers' and diagnosing him as 'bipolar' tbh, but ymmv

i mean i think it's just his 'i'm next to a rapper pose' (which is also y'know suspect)

Elroy Cohen has been standing next to rappers (and helping them get paid by white ppl) since Chance was minus nine years old

cool

he's not the most articulate guy in the world but there's a difference between how he usually is and how he was that day

articulate eh

is "Imma let you finish" how he usually is or nah

yeah

he has trouble expressing himself in the moment and he sometimes makes self-deprecating jokes about it. it's not a crime. and it's also not the same thing as being in the throes of some kind of episode where you make wild connections no one can follow in front of news cameras

maybe he was just inspired by/following the example of our current rectal polyp of a president

i mean, there ins't a parallel there, i'm sorry. kanye's embrace of trump was always super idiosyncratic. he wasn't cynically leveraging racial animus in order to gain political power. he wasn't even attacking others.

he has a lot in common with Trump

obsessed with wealth and status, not particularly bright, overhyped, insecure, out of his depth etc

Trunp is one of the worst human beings on earth, he isn’t “an insecure,” “not too bright” guy who is “out of his depth” and suffers from bipolar disorder.

Kanye has the same flaws many of us do. Trump ix a monster.

what actually happened was he stabilized mentally.

treeship stop

the former is a value judgment, the latter is a set of characteristics - they are not mutually exclusive

xps

I left out that they're also both raging misogynists

he can't wind the clock back. before he could always be "george bush doesn't care about black people" kanye, whatever stupid shit he did, now he's eternally going to be "slavery was a choice" kanye, and no tweet is going to fix that

fwiw I'm not saying they're morally equivalent, just that there's a LOT of commonality there - plenty of subjects where both of them could look at the other and go "hey, that guy's just like ME!"

xp

Kanye is at least self-reflective at times and appears to have a sense of decency, compassion

that's true

Oi mates what is Blexit?

an astro-turfed movement to convince black people to leave the Democratic party

It’s over, man. Kanye’s a liberal. I let him back on 77.

ty xp

godspeed Yexit

Is he still running for President?

"Happy to meet his fans: Kanye poses with a well-wisher"

https://i.dailymail.co.uk/1s/2018/12/12/07/7320574-6484793-image-m-42_1544601371542.jpg

https://i.imgur.com/VsGftWo.jpg