Kanye West's new 2018 album

coatesism however

I admit that I’m having trouble reconciling “peerless talent who has towered above the competition for the past 20 years” with the dude who rapped “MJ’s gone/Our nigga dead” on one of his 2010 singles

― Embalming is a flirty business (DJP), Tuesday, May 8, 2018 3:04 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

unfortunately not even close to kanye’s worst MJ-related lyric

Yeezus is probably the ultimate litmus test for 'lyrics person' vs 'the voice is just an instrument, I don't hear words' person

(I still love it, it's an incredible collection of producers, and use of them)

Nah you can be that guy and sometimes still balk at lyrics.

I want so badly for Blood on the Leaves to make sense, that beat is incredible. The sentiment of Strange Fruit + the anger in the horns is almost cathartic.

As it plays I can't help but think what kind of vacuous moron takes that of all samples, flips it that well and uses it to make that song?

I think that for me the beats on Yeezus are so incredible that I'll excuse/ignore almost anything. But worse beats on TLOP + even dumber lyrics = can't do it.

the Blood on the Leaves beat is p good (feel like those horn stabs are p rote myself, that pattern's been used to death), the sentiment and lyrics and everything else about it are garbage. thaaaaat's kanye!

Might be forgetting that estimations on ilm of his more recent albums tend to be completely out of sync with the critical consensus and probably even more-so with his fans.

― tsrobodo, Tuesday, May 8, 2018 12:29 AM (sixteen hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

otm

― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Tuesday, May 8, 2018 4:59 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

So, is the ILM consensus more or less positive than these hypothetical salt o' my earth of you ppl everyman fans?

commercial rap stations in my town don't play much kanye and it's probably never that new (save for all day)

there are some great songs on TLOP - Real Friends, 30 Hours, Ultralight Beam, No More Parties in LA, Wolves, Feedback, Fade - and I like the messy double album sprawl feeling of it all. Like I Love Kanye is a track that obviously would never be on a single album, I love weird little bits/castoffs/half-baked ideas like that. Having said all that it's not even close to Yeezus, where the lyrics are wildly offensive, but I think it works as this completely deranged half hour screed. It's just such a thrilling album to listen to.

(feel like those horn stabs are p rote myself, that pattern's been used to death)

At least Hudmo/TNGHT were partly responsible for popularizing it though

Man that Coates piece brought me to the brink of tears multiple times.

xp
Pablo suffers more than anything else from its messiness. A lot of the beat on it would sound better within a thematically consistent album. but I won't argue that there's something of a quality drop off and not enough new ideas to mask it.

the Blood on the Leaves beat is p good (feel like those horn stabs are p rote myself, that pattern's been used to death), the sentiment and lyrics and everything else about it are garbage. thaaaaat's kanye!

The horns by themselves in a vacuum are whatever.

But to me loud angry horn stabs broken up by "...black bodies swinging in the summer breeze" is beyond evocative.

too bad he has to rap about bitches

yeah that contrast is totally undercut by um the things actually being said

........Was that not my entire point ?

My bad it took me that TNC article to truly realize that but boy oh boy isn't Obama a miracle. Talk about about doing well under historical proportions of pressure.

fair point

xp

cool move

Pusha-T revealed in an interview with Angie Martinez, the original artwork for his new album, Daytona, was thrown away at the last minute. Instead, Kanye West, who produced the album, wanted to use a photo that cost $85,000 to license, which he himself offered to pay. “This is what people need to see to go along with this music,” Kanye told Pusha.

The artwork for Daytona has now been revealed and it features a photograph of Whitney Houston’s bathroom. The image dates back to 2006 during which time Houston was at the peak of her drug addiction. The bathroom is littered with drug paraphernalia, including a crack-smoking pipe and spoons covered in white powder.

nice man

super cool

fun to see him getting roasted for these Sketchers ass shoes

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— KANYE WEST (@kanyewest) May 10, 2018

kim’s influence is felt

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

these just look like sneakers to me

those shoes look like a shitty marble slab painting

xpost - for $650 they could be your sneakers!

i'd absolutely buy those for $54.99

Pamplemousse sparkling kicks

gonna be streamed from wyoming via an app

Will probably be a good album tbh #maga

I watched horses and a fire for an hour.

sounds like an improvement over TLOP

This is what we deserve, honestly.

30 hours of that would be an improvement over tlop

All these speakers and farm animals make me think that this album is going to be heavily influenced by the KLF.

I hope the fire is for sacrificing Candace Owens.

Uh. UH.

Big excitement: Mic check

"Check 1, check 2. Not even sure who I'm checking this for. Check 1, check 2. ... feeding back like a motherfucker there. "

Chris Rock introducing it. Big crowd around a campfire. Rock says that the new Kanye opus is titled Ye'.

Not too sure about this. I really like the spastic raw qualities of Yeezus and Pablo. This is more reigned in. Lyrically it feels like a post mid-life crisis album, as though Kanye is trying to write his happy ending.

Oh my god, this awful guitar solo thing "I've been trying to make you love me but everything I try just takes you farther from me"

No. Not feeling this at all.

Last song is the best one. They're starting the album over on the livestream.

is there a free live stream for desktops? i'm not buying an app on my phone to hear this

Don't think so. I tried downloading app through desktop and it said it was an IOS thing. But i'm not very tech savvy.

Liking the second listen better. Still feels like a step backwards.

is poopity scoop on the album?

If it's coming out tonight on streaming services I'd rather listen there, it'd be so much more convenient. I bloody hope a real version of poopity scoop is on it!

midnight MDT / 3AM EST?

No poopity scoop. No blatant MAGA shit. Not as horrible as I was afraid it could be. Sort of sad, it's the first album where it feels as though his edge is lost.

the title seems very mid-life crisis MOR to me

How long is it? 20 min like the Pusha t?

wasn't clocking it, but it's short. Guessing under thirty minutes. The last song is the best one, so right when it feels like things might be getting better it's over.

I find the thought of getting flown in a plane to Wyoming for the purpose of kissing the ass of an apologist for an authoritarian as repulsive and embarrassing as any story I've read since 2016. And for what? To rehearse "provocative" and "controversial" again?

What if you were flown in a catapult?