In other more IMPORTANT news… My Dog farted.— ICE T (@FINALLEVEL) April 25, 2018
― Simon H., Thursday, 26 April 2018 00:20 (six years ago) link
I love how easy it is to imagine Ice T saying that aloud
― Simon H., Thursday, 26 April 2018 00:21 (six years ago) link
Chance is cancelled
― flopson, Thursday, 26 April 2018 00:38 (six years ago) link
The same goes for all the intersectional groups of the left that say you HAVE to be a democrat. That isn't true. Be free, think for yourself. https://t.co/01jMdg6ETa— Donald Trump Jr. (@DonaldJTrumpJr) April 26, 2018
― flopson, Thursday, 26 April 2018 00:39 (six years ago) link
chance's overly diplomatic shtick really bit him in the ass here
― austinb, Thursday, 26 April 2018 00:43 (six years ago) link
chance can do no wrong
― Joe Gargan (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 26 April 2018 01:01 (six years ago) link
uh
― Simon H., Thursday, 26 April 2018 01:04 (six years ago) link
I didn't read his tweet as intending to be diplomatic
― k3vin k., Thursday, 26 April 2018 01:21 (six years ago) link
Chance development is unexpected
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 April 2018 01:23 (six years ago) link
janelle monáe otm
Janelle Monáe said everything that needed to be said regarding Kanye’s views pic.twitter.com/1yXEPJcnVb— Chris (@chrstnavelli) April 25, 2018
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 April 2018 01:26 (six years ago) link
Twisted Fantasy?sold 400,000 less than 808s― Οὖτις, Wednesday, April 25, 2018 6:09 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
sold 400,000 less than 808s
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, April 25, 2018 6:09 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
that is shocking to me. i just remember how that was when the love for him went into overdrive... but i was among millennials and music geeks
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 April 2018 02:26 (six years ago) link
it had the p4k 10.0 hype among indie rock music nerds but didn't have hits in the way his previous albums did
― ufo, Thursday, 26 April 2018 02:29 (six years ago) link
2018 eats it in so many ways
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 26 April 2018 02:30 (six years ago) link
not a lot of this is surprising to me. sad though
― k3vin k., Thursday, 26 April 2018 02:32 (six years ago) link
This is all 100% Obama saying he was a jackass and Trump meeting with him, he's a narcissist
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 26 April 2018 02:36 (six years ago) link
Back in 2010 I didn't have very many music-nerd type friends and yeah pretty much everyone around me couldn't stand kanye even after mbdtf came out. The whole interrupting-Taylor-swift fiasco had wrecked his popularity for years. I don't think that album had any radio hits either, just a lot of niche internet love
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 26 April 2018 02:38 (six years ago) link
1.3 million sold = niche internet love, apparently
― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili), Thursday, 26 April 2018 02:56 (six years ago) link
― ufo, Wednesday, April 25, 2018 10:29 PM (yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Power, Monster, Runaway, and All of the Lights weren't hits? I'm not being facetious, I just remember hearing all of those constantly for the better part of a year. And I wasn't into that record, it was all by osmosis.
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 April 2018 04:30 (six years ago) link
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
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Thursday, 26 April 2018 07:38 (six years ago) link
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
― maura, Thursday, 26 April 2018 11:02 (six years ago) link
except for janelle's statement. she's the best
― maura, Thursday, 26 April 2018 11:03 (six years ago) link
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
― ufo, Thursday, 26 April 2018 11:19 (six years ago) link
If I hear Kanye on the radio it's always Gold digger or Through the Wire or Can't Tell me Nothin
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 26 April 2018 12:09 (six years ago) link
Can't Tell Me Nothin outlasting some of the other Graduation singles seems kind of baffling to me.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 26 April 2018 12:49 (six years ago) link
― maura, Thursday, April 26, 2018 12:02 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 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
― Lou Grant, the Iranian cinema of late '70s TV (stevie), Thursday, 26 April 2018 13:09 (six years ago) link
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"
― nicky lo-fi, Thursday, 26 April 2018 13:15 (six years ago) link
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.
― El Tomboto, Thursday, 26 April 2018 13:15 (six years ago) link
You'll have us waiting then. But, please, hope I'll have my heart blown away?? I just need some rap beats...
― Jayrise, Thursday, 26 April 2018 13:16 (six years ago) link
he could get some fentanyl tho, i hear that stuff's great
― Lou Grant, the Iranian cinema of late '70s TV (stevie), Thursday, 26 April 2018 13:35 (six years ago) link
I wouldn't assume that Kanye hasn't gotten help.
― Joe Gargan (dandydonweiner), Thursday, 26 April 2018 13:46 (six years ago) link
maga hat is a bad look even if you are being a contrarian asshole
― marcos, Wednesday, April 25, 2018
it's a tacky color
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 April 2018 13:51 (six years ago) link
Twisted Fantasy?
― Οὖτις, Wednesday, April 25, 2018
Not a good gauge as most everyone's sales have cratered since the late 2000s.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 April 2018 13:52 (six years ago) link
Is ILX really having an argument about whether Kanye West is popular?
― we æt so many shimripl (Whiney G. Weingarten), Thursday, 26 April 2018 14:02 (six years ago) link
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.
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 April 2018 14:05 (six years ago) link
I'd say Kanye West is more popular than CZARFACE but not as popular as Joey Bada$$
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 26 April 2018 14:12 (six years ago) link
But is he as popular as J Cole?
― MarkoP, Thursday, 26 April 2018 15:06 (six years ago) link
probably not.
Cole kinda cannibalized the audience who missed the old Kanye, the chop-up-the-soul Kanye.
― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili), Thursday, 26 April 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
lol
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 April 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
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.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 26 April 2018 15:10 (six years ago) link
― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili)
otm
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 April 2018 15:34 (six years ago) link
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!
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 26 April 2018 15:53 (six years ago) link
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
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 April 2018 17:14 (six years ago) link
like hips!
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 26 April 2018 17:15 (six years ago) link
Spotify is a music, podcast, and video streaming service launched on 7 October 2008.
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 26 April 2018 17:30 (six years ago) link
there ya go. and spotify/streams weren't counted by Billboard until fairly recently right? like, within the last 3-4 years?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 26 April 2018 17:32 (six years ago) link
yeah album-equivalent is a pretty recent post-2010 development
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 26 April 2018 17:37 (six years ago) link
But Spotify didn't launch in the US till 2011.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 26 April 2018 17:38 (six years ago) link
i was about to make that point
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Thursday, 26 April 2018 18:05 (six years ago) link
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.
― evol j, Friday, 27 April 2018 13:34 (six years ago) link
there's something very gross about a guy like Ben Shapiro (who wrote articles like "Rap is Crap") becoming a Kanye stan overnight
― frogbs, Friday, 27 April 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link