Kanye West

http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003534982

Do we have a thread for this new record yet?

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I think everything about this dude will age about as well as a gallon of milk. He's like a walking time capsule.

kyla biah, don't listen to'em, you'll age fine.

his real name is: haunted zangs

Darn, the image didn't post. I don't really feel like opening photoshop to change it to a jpeg, so I guess you'll have to use your noggin' to imagine Kanye making an embarrassingly nerdy and almost nearly pretentious fashion statement. The images you'll find on Google search were nearly as bad anyway.

The Carrie Bradshaw of Rap.

^^^ quality revival, dom et al take note

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30949487/

Rapper Kanye West does not read books or respect them but nevertheless he has written one that he would like you to buy and read.

...

His book is 52 pages — some blank, others with just a few words — and offers his optimistic philosophy on life. One two-page section reads, “Life is 5% what happens and 95% how you react!” Another page reads “I hate the word hate!”

His book is 52 pages — some blank, others with just a few words. . .

Why write a book? Just Twitter it.

anyone who buys this deserves it, IMO

I wish I was famous enough to get a publisher to put out 50 pages of gibberish; I could use the extra $$$.

helgo already turned it into a screenname but i still can't get over that "I would never want a book's autograph" quote

i would never want an mp3's autograph

http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3654/3570396089_20b2ab1f28.jpg

loooooooooooooool

“Sometimes people write novels and they just be so wordy and so self-absorbed,” West said. “I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book’s autograph."

This guy should stop while he's (barely) ahead and try to pass this book off as a tribute to e.e. cummings or something.

It's kind of funny how the last few months Kanye's been earnestly admitting he needs to stop being an embarrassing logorrheic trainwreck all the time, but he's clearly incapable of being anything else.

808s was my favorite album of last year but this 52 page "book" sounds like complete and utter shit.

i usually rep for the dude but that sounds awful

what is Kanye West real name?

Rigatoni Loupshank.

What if Kanye West is Retarded?

tl; dr thy name is cracked magazine

kanye says the same thing

i wasn't serious, stuff like i just posted are just little thoughts i come up with, i call them "h3lges0on-isms"

the h3lges0on dialectic.

why does he say hen fap on gold digger?

okay I only watched a little bit of "Paranoid" but it was amazing how unsettling it was; the backstory behind Rihanna/Chris totally makes the video and really casts the song in an unsympathetic light

Sometimes I think Kanye is very, very lucky and sometimes I think he's smarter than everyone realizes.

Kanye kinds deserved this, though the piece itself could've been funnier:

"Whoever said life is an open book probably didn’t have any friends. Sure, he probably liked the people in his book. But did they like him? No. Why? Because they aren’t real."

http://www.newyorker.com/humor/2009/11/09/091109sh_shouts_cowen

KANYE THINKS PILOTPRIEST TRACK IS UNRELEASED DAFT PUNK

On January 28th, hip hop artist Kanye West’s blog posted an unreleased Daft Punk song called “The Crash” and offered it to fans for free download on kanyeuniversecity.com. In actuality, the song was not authored or performed by Daft Punk, but by Calamity Jane Recordings artist Pilotpriest, and its not called "the Crash," its called “Body Double.”

The song can be found on Pilotpriest’s Myspace page, and is the first song on the player. When Pilotpriest heard about Kanye’s post, he commented, “Really, really flattered, but this is just a Myspace rip or Sendspace hack of my track.” Likewise, Dani Deahl, co-owner of Calamity Jane Recordings says, “We love the comparison of our artist’s production to Daft Punk, but the claim simply isn’t true. The song was composed by, and belongs to Pilotpriest”.

The post by Kanye spurred rumors that Daft Punk produced the song for their upcoming project – scoring the remake of Tron. Several commenters on the blog assert it as fact and videos have appeared on youtube.com with combined hits of nearly 30,000 in three days. In the wake of the song’s popularity, Calamity Jane Recordings is rushing release of “Body Double” on iTunes.

Calamity Jane Recordings discovered Toronto-based Pilotpriest in 2007 through his bootleg of Run DMC’s “My Adidas”. Since then, Calamity Jane Recordings has worked with Pilotpriest supporting him in developing a sound that straddles the spectrum between the dance floor and more musical productions. The result has been a string of acclaimed remixes, including re-released Pilotpriest vs. Run DMC: “My Adidas”, a remix for American Idol’s Blake Lewis, and debut single “Zipper”.

Links:
Kanye West Blog Post:
http://www.kanyeuniversecity.com/blog/?em3106=244159_-1__0_~0_-1_1_2010_0_0&em3298=&em3282=&em3281=&em3161=

Pilotpriest Myspace:
http://www.myspace.com/pilotpriest

Calamity Jane Recordings:
http://www.calamityjanerecordings.com

Youtube “Tron” Video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lsex5IKU5LM

Canadians do it better.

Have we talked about this yet?

http://twitter.com/kanyewest

sometimes I push the door close button on people running towards the elevator. I just need my own elevator sometimes, my 7 floor sanctuary
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otm

anyone who doesn't push close on ppl running to the elevator is a disgusting savage

i have done this and then they make it, v. awkward.

haha sometimes i make a big production of fumbling for the door open button in this situation, but i rarely find it in time

why would you run anyway i mean

unless ur in a romantic comedy or something

Don't you hate it when you say bye to someone then yall get on the elevator together and it's like, now what?? Awkwaaard
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In life... Sometimes you gotta just wait for the next elevator
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i am not sympathetic to elevator runnaz here cuz THERE ARE FIVE ELEVATORZ in my building. half the time two more arrive before our doors close.

and don't even get me started on ppl who take the elevator to the 2nd floor!!!!

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/8757510

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L53gjP-TtGE

what the fuck

(admit i may be way late to the party on this one, dunno)

what is "you n***** got jooooooookes" that funny voice?

is it a raaaaandy thing?

his album is called dark twisted fantasy. lol.

facepalm til infinity

21st century shitzoid plan

Friend just posted this on fb and made me lol: "The Kanye/Kardashian thing upsets me because I feel like I was really mislead regarding his thoughts on gold diggers."

p sure Kim does just alright financially w/ or w/out Kanye

to be fair he did do the black kkk hood shit a decade ago too, just it was seen as 'kanye being a provocative dumbass trying to make a very dumb statement' and not 'yet more nazi shit'

If you don't assume that any given black metal act is Nazi Until Proven Otherwise, you haven't been paying attention the last, oh, 30 years.

for another thread but while NSBM is certainly a terrible thing, I believe it's a marginal aspect of the current, thriving black metal scene

that's accurate, the "nazi til proven otherwise" bit is really kinda silly -- anti-fascist black metal bands outnumber nazi ones among active bands by a healthy margin, there's like tons of them, in addition to the countless "we're just trying to make black metal we don't have anything to do with this other shit" bands. black metal is also pretty played out afaic and most of the action for the last decade has been in death metal which has its share of edgelords but hasn't historically had this radicalization pipeline that black metal's had. anyway none of this matters at all because Kanye has made his position quite clear & there's no reason to think he's ref'ing anything other than Burzum, who've always been the BM band du jour for people outside of that subculture, they're the band on the Gummo soundtrack, they're beloved of nazi-sympathetic edgelords around the world.

nazi-sympathetic edgelords of the woooorrrld
unite and take ovverrr

irl lol

Extra apt lol given the person being parodied

for another thread but while NSBM is certainly a terrible thing, I believe it's a marginal aspect of the current, thriving black metal scene

that's accurate, the "nazi til proven otherwise" bit is really kinda silly

this is what i was saying. thank you. it's just as easy to do a google search and learn that it's not 1993 anymore and there are plenty of non-hateful blackmetal musicians.

Stop fucking posting

no

let's just assume the nazi rapper is giving a hat tip to the nazi metaller instead of just being really into german romanticism but metal aesthetics in general still come off as fashy to a lot of people (even when there aren't gratuitous iron crosses and lightning bolts all over the place) and I'm not sure how many non-nazi metalheads actually get this

that's a side thing because nothing should be debatable about that cover (but I'm sure he loves provoking debate about it anyway)

Kanye likes collecting NSBM memorabilia to remind himself how evil Varg is.

Far too often, you will strike nazi gold. If the band itself is not NS in some way, one of its members will have a NS side project, or they'll be on a label with NS affiliations...it's always fucking something.

dude, sure, we can 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon most anyone in metal/industrial/noise to someone in said genres or adjacent genres who is wretched and horrible. I have seen some serious attempts to "connect the dots" that are really a stretch.

That said, it's a very different dynamic with Kanye ...

Burzum, who've always been the BM band du jour for people outside of that subculture, they're the band on the Gummo soundtrack, they're beloved of nazi-sympathetic edgelords around the world.

wait really? I always thought Mayhem and/or Immortal were at least equally "du jour" ... also less-nazi, which definitely has a strong appeal to many people!

at one time the nazism was a selling point for hipsters who were too addled by irony or obama to take anything seriously - burzum was definitely the first BM I heard of

those other bands are only *slightly* less nazi afaict

Kanye likes collecting NSBM memorabilia to remind himself how evil Bowser is

those other bands are only *slightly* less nazi afaict

mayhem, sure. but is there really anything sketchy about immortal?

genuinely asking bc i always liked how they didnt go there, kinda like how they actually have riffs, unlike varg and nsbm more broadly

idk they're degrees of separation from varg like everyone from that generation and I raise my eyebrows at all the cold wind norsemen rising shit and gratuitous use of the word "holocaust"

but I've proven incapable of distinguishing irony and wilful edginess from fascist ideology in that genre, I'm not sure they can be separated since even non-nazi bands that play around with this shit help normalise it and give the fascists cover

fair enough. I would never really blame anyone for not bothering with any of it tbh.

There is certainly a sonic connection between Memphis rap, horrorcore, etc and NSBM— that someone like this guy would take those connections to their logical conclusions isn’t surprising , especially cuz he’s a total antisemite.

for what's its worth Kanye didn't produce "Pussy Print" but go off

Doing the whole Memphis rap/NSBM/RYM incel music route in *2023* is like the least-forward thinking artistic move Kanye's done in like the last 20 years

Is there a cover of National Front Disco?

xp I am not sure he is even doing that, Whiney. The single is just offensive ranting over a mediocre trap beat. He is drawing on Burzum for the Nazi associations alone.

If he wanted to make a blackgaze record that would be cool.... ten years ago. Sort of picking up where Runaway left off, a more abstract, atmsopheric kind of album.

I didn’t listen to the song, I just meant visually

Whiney just never likes to miss a chance to link RYMers with Nazis