― Voodoo Child, Thursday, 10 November 2005 04:52 (eighteen years ago) link
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― Ned T.Rifle, Thursday, 10 November 2005 08:33 (eighteen years ago) link
What's good all? Glad to see all this interest in me and my new joint "Late Registration." I can tell ILN has a lot of love for this record and my career. Man, this is a real tool to jump your shit up the charts, nahmean...
But I got to say, my name is the name my mama picked me -- that's Kanye -- true to the heart right... So no need to be postin' all these wise answers man. I'ma just keep doin' as I been doin', right...
That's your boy,
Kanye
― Kanye West (Confounded), Thursday, 10 November 2005 13:29 (eighteen years ago) link
― ken taylrr never her (ken taylrr), Thursday, 10 November 2005 18:14 (eighteen years ago) link
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― stephanie w (sweetp3), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 03:16 (eighteen years ago) link
I'm also a homosexual and a personal shopper, so shoot me a line cuties
― hydrallus (hydraulis2), Tuesday, 22 November 2005 04:08 (eighteen years ago) link
― Henre Smith, Monday, 22 May 2006 18:41 (seventeen years ago) link
― Confounded (Confounded), Sunday, 28 January 2007 06:32 (seventeen years ago) link
― Marmot (marmotwolof), Sunday, 28 January 2007 06:37 (seventeen years ago) link
http://www.billboard.com/bbcom/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003534982
Do we have a thread for this new record yet?
― Hoosteen (Hoosteen), Thursday, 8 February 2007 05:54 (seventeen years ago) link
http://img404.imageshack.us/my.php?image=westbj9.png
I think everything about this dude will age about as well as a gallon of milk. He's like a walking time capsule.
― Cunga, Saturday, 15 November 2008 05:14 (fifteen years ago) link
kyla biah, don't listen to'em, you'll age fine.
― Hair Gongro (PappaWheelie V), Saturday, 15 November 2008 05:16 (fifteen years ago) link
his real name is: haunted zangs
― ketchup bro (ice cr?m), Saturday, 15 November 2008 05:16 (fifteen years ago) link
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.
― Cunga, Saturday, 15 November 2008 05:20 (fifteen years ago) link
The Carrie Bradshaw of Rap.
― tea cake, Friday, 27 February 2009 08:34 (fifteen years ago) link
^^^ quality revival, dom et al take note
― I'm your biggest fan, here's your suggest ban (some dude), Friday, 27 February 2009 18:30 (fifteen years ago) link
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!”
― Cunga, Friday, 29 May 2009 17:06 (fourteen years ago) link
His book is 52 pages — some blank, others with just a few words. . .
Why write a book? Just Twitter it.
― Daniel, Esq., Friday, 29 May 2009 17:10 (fourteen years ago) link
anyone who buys this deserves it, IMO
― Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Friday, 29 May 2009 17:11 (fourteen years ago) link
I wish I was famous enough to get a publisher to put out 50 pages of gibberish; I could use the extra $$$.
― Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Friday, 29 May 2009 17:12 (fourteen years ago) link
helgo already turned it into a screenname but i still can't get over that "I would never want a book's autograph" quote
― 1 drWN 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (Whiney G. Weingarten) (some dude), Friday, 29 May 2009 17:16 (fourteen years ago) link
i would never want an mp3's autograph
― Ømår Littel (Jordan), Friday, 29 May 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3654/3570396089_20b2ab1f28.jpg
― i would never want a book's autograph (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 29 May 2009 17:18 (fourteen years ago) link
loooooooooooooool
― Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Friday, 29 May 2009 17:19 (fourteen years ago) link
“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.
― Cunga, Friday, 29 May 2009 17:20 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― 1 drWN 3v3Ry+h1n G!!!1 (Whiney G. Weingarten) (some dude), Friday, 29 May 2009 17:37 (fourteen years ago) link
808s was my favorite album of last year but this 52 page "book" sounds like complete and utter shit.
― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Friday, 29 May 2009 17:43 (fourteen years ago) link
i usually rep for the dude but that sounds awful
― messiahwannabe, Friday, 29 May 2009 17:53 (fourteen years ago) link
what is Kanye West real name?
Rigatoni Loupshank.
― samosa gibreel, Friday, 29 May 2009 18:50 (fourteen years ago) link
What if Kanye West is Retarded?
― Slowly Rotating Black Man (Pancakes Hackman), Friday, 29 May 2009 19:10 (fourteen years ago) link
tl; dr thy name is cracked magazine
― i would never want a book's autograph (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 29 May 2009 19:13 (fourteen years ago) link
kanye says the same thing
― da croupier, Friday, 29 May 2009 19:15 (fourteen years ago) link
i wasn't serious, stuff like i just posted are just little thoughts i come up with, i call them "h3lges0on-isms"
― i would never want a book's autograph (M@tt He1ges0n), Friday, 29 May 2009 19:31 (fourteen years ago) link
the h3lges0on dialectic.
― Cunga, Friday, 29 May 2009 22:07 (fourteen years ago) link
why does he say hen fap on gold digger?
― Feugh! (since somebody always asks: rhymes with "Peugh!") (forksclovetofu), Friday, 29 May 2009 22:12 (fourteen years ago) link
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.
― Obama seems to have the views of a 21-year-old Hispanic girl (HI DERE), Tuesday, 2 June 2009 15:40 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― YOUR MOMS SPOT HERON WITH NO HANDS I'M SMACKIN HER (Beatrix Kiddo), Friday, 6 November 2009 16:56 (fourteen years ago) link
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
― Kevin John Bozelka, Sunday, 31 January 2010 18:39 (fourteen years ago) link
Canadians do it better.
― Spinspin Sugah, Sunday, 31 January 2010 20:43 (fourteen years ago) link
Have we talked about this yet?
http://twitter.com/kanyewest
― markers, Saturday, 31 July 2010 20:52 (thirteen years ago) link
i'm sure kanye was referencing some obscure dungeon synth artist from poland and not burzum the notorious hipster racism/edgelord touchstone/popular t-shirt guy who he already sampled once
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 December 2023 22:09 (four months ago) link
I will sign up for the "Kanye is a piece of shit" absolute truth, but no I don't make assumptions about musicians based on their genre unless it's called like "nazi-wave" or something.
Seems likely Kanye was inspired by someone horrible because the patterns point in that direction, and my question was answered so thank you.
― billstevejim, Friday, 15 December 2023 22:15 (four months ago) link
sure but what if the artist literally said "I like Hitler" on the Alex Jones show? I mean I hate to make assumptions here
https://www.billboard.com/music/music-news/kanye-west-praises-adolf-hitler-1235179653/
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 December 2023 22:20 (four months ago) link
or said he was going to go "death con 3 on jewish people"
https://www.timesofisrael.com/kanye-west-says-hell-go-to-death-con-3-on-jewish-people-after-instagram-ban/
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 December 2023 22:21 (four months ago) link
I'm agreeing with you.
― billstevejim, Friday, 15 December 2023 22:24 (four months ago) link
Just a little Nazi-adjacency between friends
― the new drip king (DJP), Friday, 15 December 2023 22:25 (four months ago) link
"Aw geez guys, how could you assume bad intentions?"
In May 2018, West caused controversy when he said, "When you hear about slavery for 400 years ... for 400 years? That sounds like a choice. You were there for 400 years and it's all of y'all. It's like we're mentally imprisoned."
On October 3, 2022, during his Yeezy SZN 9 fashion show in Paris, West wore a shirt with the script "WHITE LIVES MATTER", a move described by Forbes as controversial. According to the Anti-Defamation League, the phrase is a white supremacist slogan that was created in response to Black Lives Matter protests against police brutality. Conservative commentator Candace Owens posed for a photo with West, while wearing a matching shirt with the slogan. Following the event, West posted a story on his Instagram, stating: "Everyone know that Black Lives Matter was a scam now it's over you're welcome."
After being unable to post on Instagram, and previously not tweeting for nearly two years, on October 8, West tweeted that he was "going death con 3" (sic) on Jewish people, prompting media attention.
On an October 17 episode of the podcast Drink Champs, recorded the day prior, West claimed that he was being targeted by "the Jewish media" and "Zionist Jews" and said, "You really influenced me to get on this anti-Semite vibe and, you know, I'm here to finish the job. I'm here to not back down. They should've never let you... get money."
few days after these comments, on October 22, the neo-Nazi Goyim Defense League protested in Los Angeles, hanging a banner that read "Kanye is right about the Jews" above a highway overpass while giving Nazi salutes.
West arrived at the dinner with three other guests, including Nick Fuentes, a white nationalist and Holocaust denier.
On December 1, 2022, West praised Adolf Hitler on InfoWars, saying "every human being has something of value that they brought to the table, especially Hitler", "I love Jewish people but I also love Nazis", "There's a lot of things that I love about Hitler; a lot of things", "I like Hitler", and "I am a Nazi".
On December 6, 2022, West continued to praise Hitler in an interview with Gavin McInnes, founder of the Proud Boys. He said Jewish people should "forgive Hitler today".
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 December 2023 22:26 (four months ago) link
I don't make assumptions about musicians based on their genre unless it's called like "nazi-wave"
I did have a real problem "I'm an Actual Nazi In Real Life (I'm Not Joking Take This Song Literally) (Death in June Remix)" by MC Nazi & DJ Swastika when that dropped
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 December 2023 22:35 (four months ago) link
Lol at "Death in June remix"
― Formica Jordan (Neanderthal), Friday, 15 December 2023 22:35 (four months ago) link
jfc This place is toxic as fuck
― billstevejim, Friday, 15 December 2023 22:37 (four months ago) link
lol, if calling out Nazis for being Nazis is "toxic as fuck", maybe head back to your safe space like 4chan
― Maxmillion D. Boosted (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 15 December 2023 22:39 (four months ago) link
omg shut the fuck up
is that what I said? read what i fucking wrote.
― billstevejim, Friday, 15 December 2023 22:40 (four months ago) link
You sound smart.
Don't take my word for it. Ask any other ILM metalhead. When you hear about a new black metal band, or a black metal band that is unfamiliar to you, the first thing you do is Google "[band name] nazi". 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.
― Tahuti Watches L&O:SVU Reruns Without His Ape (unperson), Friday, 15 December 2023 23:15 (four months ago) link
Fair enough. I guess in the back of my head I was thinking of guys like Jute Gyte, who often donates his Bandcamp Day earnings to charities like the NAACP legal defense fund. And I suppose probably also was thinking of some older jokey side project bands.
― billstevejim, Friday, 15 December 2023 23:46 (four months ago) link
He is unfortunately not referencing Jute Guyte.
― treeship., Saturday, 16 December 2023 00:38 (four months ago) link
thought that post would come from someone else and in the year end albums thread
― Natural Wine • Danny Devito • Virginia (Sufjan Grafton), Saturday, 16 December 2023 04:29 (four months ago) link
idk I could have said Wolves In The Throne Room or something else. That's what I thought of.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 16 December 2023 04:41 (four months ago) link
Can't believe we had to interrogate Kanye's "true intentions" when he just did a show in a KKK hood.
― Indexed, Saturday, 16 December 2023 15:41 (four months ago) link
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'
― ufo, Saturday, 16 December 2023 16:03 (four months ago) link
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
― corrs unplugged, Saturday, 16 December 2023 16:16 (four months ago) link
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.
― J Edgar Noothgrush (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Saturday, 16 December 2023 16:27 (four months ago) link
nazi-sympathetic edgelords of the woooorrrldunite and take ovverrr
― stuffing your suit pockets with cold, stale chicken tende (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Saturday, 16 December 2023 16:29 (four months ago) link
irl lol
― corrs unplugged, Saturday, 16 December 2023 16:46 (four months ago) link
Extra apt lol given the person being parodied
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 16 December 2023 16:54 (four months ago) link
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.
― billstevejim, Saturday, 16 December 2023 17:14 (four months ago) link
Stop fucking posting
― brimstead, Saturday, 16 December 2023 18:05 (four months ago) link
no
― billstevejim, Saturday, 16 December 2023 18:25 (four months ago) link
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
― Left, Saturday, 16 December 2023 18:59 (four months ago) link
that's a side thing because nothing should be debatable about that cover (but I'm sure he loves provoking debate about it anyway)
― Left, Saturday, 16 December 2023 19:01 (four months ago) link
Kanye likes collecting NSBM memorabilia to remind himself how evil Varg is.
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Saturday, 16 December 2023 19:49 (four months ago) link
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 ...
― sarahell, Saturday, 16 December 2023 20:11 (four months ago) link
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!
― sarahell, Saturday, 16 December 2023 20:15 (four months ago) link
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
― Left, Saturday, 16 December 2023 20:29 (four months ago) link
Kanye likes collecting NSBM memorabilia to remind himself how evil Bowser is
― ( X '____' )/ (zappi), Saturday, 16 December 2023 20:32 (four months ago) link
mayhem, sure. but is there really anything sketchy about immortal?
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 16 December 2023 23:07 (four months ago) link
genuinely asking bc i always liked how they didnt go there, kinda like how they actually have riffs, unlike varg and nsbm more broadly
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Saturday, 16 December 2023 23:10 (four months ago) link
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
― Left, Sunday, 17 December 2023 00:09 (four months ago) link
fair enough. I would never really blame anyone for not bothering with any of it tbh.
― (⊙_⊙?) (original bgm), Sunday, 17 December 2023 00:54 (four months ago) link
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.
― butt dumb tight my boners got boners (the table is the table), Sunday, 17 December 2023 02:54 (four months ago) link
for what's its worth Kanye didn't produce "Pussy Print" but go off
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 17 December 2023 03:01 (four months ago) link
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
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 17 December 2023 03:05 (four months ago) link
Is there a cover of National Front Disco?
― sarahell, Sunday, 17 December 2023 05:26 (four months ago) link
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.
― treeship., Sunday, 17 December 2023 17:31 (four months ago) link
I didn’t listen to the song, I just meant visually
― The SoyBoy West Coast (Whiney G. Weingarten), Sunday, 17 December 2023 19:04 (four months ago) link
Whiney just never likes to miss a chance to link RYMers with Nazis
― Beyond Goo and Evol (President Keyes), Sunday, 17 December 2023 22:34 (four months ago) link