rolling donda thread

http://www.highsnobiety.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/kanye-west-entourage-fashion-week-paris.jpg

Not bad!

Lol

The Abstract Mindstate album is pretty good

Trout Mask Replica is finally on spotify. If you need to party with a good album considering Donda didn’t drop.

the idea of a modern kanye album that's 24 tracks does not inspire confidence at all

lol there is apparently a 12 minute track on this

What I liked about the Jesus album continues here, based on the (much better) second listening party: lyrically he gets to move past the tired models + luxury brands + porn-y double entendres. Clean Kanye > Dirty Kanye.

lol apparently his Soldier Field listening part has to end by Chicago ordinance in 36 minutes and he…. still hasn’t shown up. what a grifter.

reading he brought out marilyn manson??? uh wtf

uh yeah, apparently, love* to hear the stans spin this one tomorrow.

* - actually no I won’t at all

also DaBaby, jfc

dababy is one thing but bringing out marilyn manson is an extremely dumbass move even by kanye's terrible standards

oh def Manson is infinitely worse, no denying that, just saying that DaBaby is also an, uh, interesting choice at this particular moment in time

bringing out dababy is like, regular kanye level of dumbass move

Im not disagreeing with you? Just pointing out an additional, if far less reprehensible, bonehead move.

yeah i'm not disagreeing either sorry if that was unclear

LMFAO HAHAHAHAHA😂

Larry Hoover Jr: Please FREE my Dad who was a GD, gang leader. He has ZERO gang affiliations now. I promise 😇

Kanye: * Plays a song that's dedicated to GD gang, where they shout out Larry Hoover & talk about violence * 😈#DONDA #IRONY #HILAROUS #DISCIPLES pic.twitter.com/1QnPGbBMIm

— Pharrell Season (@PharrellSeason) August 27, 2021

^^ Couple minutes on the album of the son of the Gangster Disciples’ leader requesting that his dad be let out of prison. Followed by a full-on Gangster Disciples anthem.

cutting the verse with the line making fun of yr maga hat shit, dropping in dababy and having marilyn manson prominently feature in yr party sends a hell of a rough message

— zack’s Premium Tweets™️ (@yrfriendzack) August 27, 2021

LOL Kanye sampled “I am the globglogabgalab” pic.twitter.com/8GyId7FMMv

— 👾 (@small_follower) August 27, 2021

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3MnrVBKkESI

You know, guys, I just don’t think this album will spawn many think pieces

Having marilyn manson onstage is disgusting.

grifters gonna grift:

Fans are still waiting for the official release of Kanye’s long-awaited album. But without the album, Kanye has already earned millions as expectations continue to rise.

So far, Kanye has already hosted two listening events for the album in Atlanta, and tonight is hosting a third listening event in his hometown of Chicago. According to Billboard last month, about 42,000 fans filled Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium for their first listening event and paid $ 25 to $ 100 for tickets. Two weeks later, another event took place, with sources close to Ye revealing about $ 7 million in face-to-face merchandise sales.

I mean, where have we seen all this before? Touring around to gather the rabid fanbase in the middle of a pandemic to feed his ego, bringing out "shocking" guests to align himself with who he perceives as "victims" instead of the perpetrators they are. Rabid fans that will absolutely excuse every single misstep and unforgiveable fuckup and twist their logic into pretzels about why it's actually "goo:. This dude is exhausting and I wish the Manson thing would put off sites like Pitchfork from furiously reporting on his every move.

Call me crazy, but I have a hunch Kanye burns through piles of money, and the people behind Kanye, Inc. are probably in a constant rush to refill the coffers.

And yes, Kanye's music is indeed goo.

I'm sure he does, renting out an NFL stadium for your mid-life crisis bachelor pad can't be cheap, which is why the grift keeps rolling.

xp - lol

"you'll be my favorite prom queen/even when we're in dad shoes and mom jeans"

"Will you shut up?/I can't hear myself drink"

"we used to do the freak like seven days a week/best collab since Taco Bell and KFC"

real lyrical gems on this

"cussin' at your baby momma/that's why they call it 'custody'"

there’s no way the lyrical content on this album will be anything but inane garbage

― bezos did the dub (voodoo chili), Wednesday, July 21, 2021 8:19 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

(watching a youtube of the show)

his beats are so reliant on like three-chord synth pad patterns over spare boom bap patterns with a lot of altered/filters gospel vocal samples or choirs, so repetitive

the part where he set himself on fire was pretty cool

"cussin' at your baby momma/that's why they call it 'custody'"

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 27 August 2021 14:52 (fifty minutes ago) link

C'mon this is kinda funny

The Manson thing is awful. Kanye thinks he is taking a stand against “cancel culture,” but Manson’s offense isn’t that he said something politically incorrect. He is a serial predator.

He’s such an absolute dumbass.

Having marilyn manson onstage is disgusting.

― treeship., Friday, August 27, 2021 6:49 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

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You said it well

Ah ok. Sorry.

Yeah, it's absolutely fucking gross.

Kanye **might** be potentially getting ahead of a movement of art made as implicit protest to liberal moral panics — like a parallel to the ca. 1984-1991 rap and heavy metal made as implicit protest to conservative moral panics. Time will tell if that's actually going to be a thing (let's all hope not), but if it comes to pass, this will be a pretty prescient moment

I could totally see Kanye getting Roman Polanski to direct a video

And he will say that he is being “Christian” by embracing sinners.

Lee Renaldo from Sonic Youth went to this, posted a photo on Instagram

lol

isn't it just a pic of a tv?

ah might be i was on my phone didn't look closely

still wasn't expecting any overlap there haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5P24B-s7ks

lol nice

Article says 88 Keys got Rundgren involved not Kanye

lol I love that Rundgren played a passive role in this. It reminds of the Paul McCartney Kanye story.

"I had no idea what was going to happen. I didn’t want it to be at his house or my house, because it could be awkward if one of us wanted to leave. So we met on neutral ground -- a cottage at the Beverly Hills Hotel -- and I showed up with a guitar and my roadie, and we had a keyboard and a bass," McCartney recalls, before revealing how West spent some of his time during that session.

"I was sitting around, strumming the guitar -- that’s normally how I start a song -- and Kanye was looking at his iPad, basically scrolling through images of (his wife) Kim (Kardashian West)," McCartney says. "So we were telling stories, and at one point I told him how 'Let It Be' came from a dream about my mother, who had died years before, where she said, 'Don’t worry, just let it be.'"

"He said, 'I’m going to write a song about my mother,' so I sat down at this little Wurlitzer keyboard and started playing some chords, and he started singing," he continues. "I thought, 'Oh, are we going to finish this?' but that was that. And it became 'Only One.'"

McCartney went on to collaborate with West -- and others including Theophilus London and Allan Kingdom -- on "All Day" in 2015. West and McCartney also teamed up with Rihanna for "FourFiveSeconds" the same year. The process of collaborating in that way was new for the former Beatles member, but something he was thrilled to participate in.

"It’s this modern process that I was happy to open myself up to -- you’ve got loads of stuff, and the skill is to distill it. I was sitting around, just strumming a little groove and nobody said, 'Let’s make a song of that,'" he says. "But months later I got a song with Rihanna on it and I said, 'Where am I?' I didn’t recognize it because they changed the key. I thought that record was great."

“Tell Mr. Sinatra it was an honor working with him!”

“Yeah, for him, too. NEXT!”

drake's album was worse, though

it’s funny that the pitchfork score for this is lower than both ‘Jesus is kind’ and ‘ye’ which are both way worse

i guess it depends on what you look for in an album. this is overly long and feels unstructured. but the highs are much higher.

jesus lord would have been really powerful if he removed that self-serving section from larry hoover jr. from the end -- a voicemail of him thanking ye for advocating for his father in the oval office. it just feels like a cheap point -- see? that oval office visiti was good actually! -- and it mars the main subject of the song, which is about feeling lost and needing a source of hope

i feel like his need to publicly talk about his mother, still, is somewhat odd. especially because the way he brings her in is not really about her but about him. and it feels sort of sad, kind of -- like, he is talking about how his mom loved him unconditionally almost as a way of demanding that the american public do that too.

i think sometimes people feel embarrassed for kanye listening to stuff like that which is why they don't like the music.

jesus lord would have been really powerful if he removed that self-serving section from larry hoover jr. from the end

Funny, when I saw there was a “Jesus Lord 2,” I figured that would be a single version without the Hoover part, but nope, there it is again. Love the hook on that song, could listen to it for 10 minutes straight. It could be a new gospel standard if not for the rest. Less a fan of the verses.

Yeah, I know Drake is ridiculous but give me that LP over this one

The best thing about Donda is probably guest verses. Maybe it’d feel different if the production was sharper? But also maybe not

Love the hook on that song, could listen to it for 10 minutes straight.

seems like the direction he's headed

I just had this bizarre vision of this song being performed live with Korn at the Grammies

Sorry: "Hurricane" specifically

ima fix donda:

keep my spirit alive
remote control
ok ok pt2
off the grid
junya pt2
hurricane
moon
pure souls
lord i need you
come to life
jesus lord pt2

“Ye is like this encompassing thing of fashion, bars, beats, production, videos and this..

& then u get Rocky dressing better than me

Tyler better videos

Drake more records

J Cole more backpack

Kendrick better bars

.. So i literally had to go Thanos”

- Kanye West pic.twitter.com/umktDgpD1P

— Hero (@HopHeroes) November 5, 2021

lol is anyone going to dare listen to the deluxe version he just put out which has 5 new tracks and a totally new sequence

“life of the party” is a good song

i dunno if i'm going to listen to the deluxe version of a very long album but i quite like donda.

... So i literally had to go Thanos”

haven’t heard a note of anything on this album but is Kanye saying he fucked a space skeleton?

"go thanos" not "do thanos"

Iirc Thanos was in love with Death, who was in fact a space skeleton

Thanos himself is thicc

I thought he meant Theranos at first

Big show tonight!

more like don'tda

this church choir is incredible, wow

this is awesome so far

ums, please don’t take this as a dig at you because scrolling through Twitter for the last thirty minutes inspired this post before I can and saw yours, but….

*sigh*

It’s all so disappointing, yet entirely fucking predictable, that all he has to do is come out and competently play some old songs and people immediately erase the Trump supporting, the slavery excusing and the giving Marilyn Manson a platform. I mean, for fuck’s sake, he was just giving Manson airtime a couple months ago. Can we maybe not with the redemption arc before he even shows one fucking ounce of understanding about the harm he’s done by platforming a scumbag and caping for actual fascists?

“before I came and saw yours”

Drake alone is so dry

better than being damp i guess

It’s just so disappointing how easily we as a culture allow people to skate on doing and saying absolutely heinous shit with no accountability because… tHE bAnGErS.

What is drake doing this is so bad lol

And it’s not like this is just another show that people are vibing on, this is a massive, Amazon sponsored and advertised to the nines EVENT. It’s just so gross.

ay jon I get it I've been critical of him but tbh I'm kinda too in the bag right now to really talk serious

drake was shockingly bad

The mixing sounded bad during parts of the livestream, on top of both of them singing over their own tracks. Can't knock the design, though. It's still streaming on Amazon through the weekend.

xp - I wasn't really expecting you, or anyone itt, to defend it. I was just annoyed that this was popping up everywhere last night and I get that he's still going to perform and that he's still got fans. It just doesn't mean that Amazon needs to signal boost him when there are so many other artists out there who could use that kind of exposure and aren't supporting fascists and sexual predators.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/kanye-west-publicist-pressed-georgia-election-worker-confess-bogus-fraud-charges-2021-12-10/?fbclid=IwAR1TOdBVuwHXx3ZY5_OdvKo2DxNPw64mzi5j5i1MeO-lRu1d5cRQ11SkYhM

Did this come up in the livestream?

yeah during the q&a

People just really fucking love a comeback story when it involves a major celebrity. I mean look at how Tiger Woods' profile somehow increased as his life and golf game started to crumble.
Or Dave Chappelle becoming more and more popular even as he morphs into the most insufferable dude on the planet. Once you reach a certain level it's fucking hard for people to turn their backs. Look how much shit had to come out before people started abandoning R. Kelly! Donda is garbage but it sure as hell is better than his last two, so whatever, redemption arc completed. I admit I still find myself somewhat interested in what he's up to, but also fuck this guy forever

I'm not sure Donda is that much better than the last two tbh

it would be if I could edit a full hour out of it

What the fuck at that story

More related to that story ^^:

‘So many of these firms work for major GOP organizations and they are not doing this for [Kanye] out of the goodness of their hearts.’ https://t.co/eR6zhegs32

— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) December 17, 2021

I’d suspected that all along. Especially since I think Kanye himself said something about him talking to Jared Kushner on a regular basis.

I have no doubt that Kush and the Trump Administration were trying to set him up as a straw candidate to try to take votes away from the Democrats.

guess who’s going to jail tonight?!

guess who’s going to jail tonight?!