Kanye West's new 2018 album

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

his label was '300'

its more corny than suspect but whatever

kanye's best chart performances in the 2010s have either been collabs ("otis," "paris," "mercy") or songs that involved rihanna ("fourfiveseconds," "all of the lights"). "bound 2" did ok too

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kanye_West_singles_discography#As_lead_artist

the long-term influence of 808s can't be overstated, though, particularly given the way it was derided at the time

anyway this all has been pretty depressing

except for janelle's statement. she's the best

the singles from MBDTF weren't anywhere near as dominant here (i'm Australian, but the US charts tell a similar story) as the hits from his previous albums had been

in 2013 Black Skinhead did feel inescapable here but I think that was just due to it getting a ton of alt radio play, it didn't chart particularly well

If I hear Kanye on the radio it's always Gold digger or Through the Wire or Can't Tell me Nothin

Can't Tell Me Nothin outlasting some of the other Graduation singles seems kind of baffling to me.

anyway this all has been pretty depressing

― maura, Thursday, April 26, 2018 12:02 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

except for janelle's statement. she's the best

― maura, Thursday, April 26, 2018 12:03 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Maura otm

Late Registration is one of my favourite albums, but omg kanye can get fucked

Kim Karadashian West? That must be his wife? Is she in the music biz too?
I went to her Twitter page (60 million followers!), and if anybody is interested,
I guess she has a "$15 Secret for Avoiding Stretch Marks"

Or he could get help, but another thing I realized yesterday is that nobody rich & famous gets good medical care, unless they find themselves in a regular old hospital.

You'll have us waiting then. But, please, hope I'll have my heart blown away?? I just need some rap beats...

Or he could get help, but another thing I realized yesterday is that nobody rich & famous gets good medical care, unless they find themselves in a regular old hospital.

he could get some fentanyl tho, i hear that stuff's great

I wouldn't assume that Kanye hasn't gotten help.

maga hat is a bad look even if you are being a contrarian asshole

― marcos, Wednesday, April 25, 2018

it's a tacky color

Twisted Fantasy?

sold 400,000 less than 808s

― Οὖτις, Wednesday, April 25, 2018

Not a good gauge as most everyone's sales have cratered since the late 2000s.

Is ILX really having an argument about whether Kanye West is popular?

Beyonce's only two top tens this decade as a lead artist are "Formation" and "Drunk in Love"; no one will deny she's "popular" in any sense.

I'd say Kanye West is more popular than CZARFACE but not as popular as Joey Bada$$

But is he as popular as J Cole?

probably not.

Cole kinda cannibalized the audience who missed the old Kanye, the chop-up-the-soul Kanye.

lol

I mean, he was going into a meeting with the head of Universal and the head of YouTube programming, presumably to talk about his upcoming releases, and I can imagine him thinking "What can I do to demonstrate the attention I can get at any moment? What if I get Donald Trump to retweet me while I'm in the meeting?"

It's like when DJ Kahled put out on Snapchat the address of CAA when he was going to meet with them, to demonstrate how he could a mass of people to show up for him.

Cole kinda cannibalized the audience who missed the old Kanye, the chop-up-the-soul Kanye.

― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili)

otm

Not a good gauge as most everyone's sales have cratered since the late 2000s.[

it's true, popular music is not as popular as it used to be!

but there were only 2 years between 808s and Twisted Fantasy, and the gap between 2008 and 2010 w/r/t the music industry doesn't seem as drastic as idk 2001 to 2003 or 2004 to 2007. but numbers don't lie

like hips!

Spotify is a music, podcast, and video streaming service launched on 7 October 2008.

there ya go. and spotify/streams weren't counted by Billboard until fairly recently right? like, within the last 3-4 years?

yeah album-equivalent is a pretty recent post-2010 development

But Spotify didn't launch in the US till 2011.

i was about to make that point

I can only go on the anecdotal examples of my friends and co-workers, who generally are only as racist to the extent all white people are racist, and I feel like they've all hated Kanye for like a decade now. Maybe it's a generational thing, it does feel like a lot of the breathless "Kanye can do no wrong" hypemanning that's been going on online for several years now up until recently has been driven by younger critics.

there's something very gross about a guy like Ben Shapiro (who wrote articles like "Rap is Crap") becoming a Kanye stan overnight

there's something very gross about a guy like Ben Shapiro.

cool that bestselling hiphop has its own Morrissey

new song is up
http://www.kanyewest.com

Straight trollin'

https://genius.com/14432967

The rap genius annotation for his poopy di scoop verse is a sight to behold

has anyone seen kanye and father john misty in the same room at the same time

another new song playing on POWER 106 FM on a loop http://www.power106.com

it's really stupid

Yeah the power 106 fm song is godawful, though it at least sounds like a one-off loosie

The production on Lift Yourself is at least pretty great

Song is freaking hilarious.

Yeah, poopy di scoop has sorta made my day! lol

But sure, the whole thing makes you seriously wonder about his mental health.

i like poopy di scoop makes me think of gertrude stein for some reason

also makes me think of a saying of dave bry's (a kanye fan btw), as ppl have been criticizing kanye's "dumb" lyrics lately:

"If you have a dumb idea, figure out how to make it dumber."

I've stolen this advice from Dave Bry and passed it to everyone I've managed.

— Chris Schonberger (@cschonberger) October 15, 2017

was m@tt saying kayne wasn't as popular as joey badass a joke or what lol

i forgive chance

WTF did I listen to and why

oh, T.I. paws

Something so irksome about seeing white people up in arms cause Chance said black people don't have to be democrats, even in the context of Kanye's bullshit.

He didn't have to apologise because of timing or whatever shit, he had to apologise because the same paternalism that drives that line of thinking, is of the same kind that gives white racists more power over the things that come out of black mouths, than black people.