ye > Kids See Ghosts > Daytona
― Frederik B, Friday, 15 June 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
the prosecution rests
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 15 June 2018 19:18 (five years ago) link
well we now have the definitive take
What do you think of Kanye West’s new album? pic.twitter.com/w1207wVgZ0— Marco Rubio (@marcorubio) June 15, 2018
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 15 June 2018 19:54 (five years ago) link
Whack World is the rap y'all should be paying attention to
― imago, Friday, June 15, 2018 12:18 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
lol
― flopson, Friday, 15 June 2018 21:13 (five years ago) link
lj did you listen to the Jean grae/Qwelle Chris record? it's great
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 16 June 2018 02:50 (five years ago) link
very on brand ill give you that
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), jueves 14 de junio de 2018 19:06 (two days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
You know me
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 16 June 2018 03:15 (five years ago) link
I think I wanted it to like Kids See Ghosts when I first heard it so I gave it another shot expecting it to sound entirely boring, but I still like the title track and the Louis Prima thing.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:19 (five years ago) link
ye >>>>> kids see ghosts
― flopson, Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:20 (five years ago) link
>Daytona>>>Nasir
― Frederik B, Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:22 (five years ago) link
"Lift Yourself" might be his 2018 stand out.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
i think im
daytona > ye >>> nas > kids see ghosts
― flopson, Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:23 (five years ago) link
ye is mostly great if u ignore his verses
― flopson, Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:24 (five years ago) link
"Lift Yourself" >>>>>>>>>>>>> the other stuff
― billstevejim, Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:25 (five years ago) link
1. it’s called poopity scoop 2. it was funny for a week 3. best songs on any of the albums is better
― flopson, Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:29 (five years ago) link
i was in my friend's car and passed two guys in a convertible playing poopity scoop on max.
― Britain's Sexiest Cow (jed_), Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:36 (five years ago) link
the beat on lift yourself before poopity scoop is better than any beat on ye
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:46 (five years ago) link
ye is good ppl
― flopson, Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:48 (five years ago) link
i'll ride for Ghost Town
― maffew12, Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:56 (five years ago) link
flopson you repeating it's good does not make me enjoy it as I have listened to it with me own 2 ears I hate it
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 24 June 2018 23:57 (five years ago) link
do you like ‘all mine’ or ‘wouldn’t leave’?
― flopson, Monday, 25 June 2018 01:04 (five years ago) link
http://www.thesinglesjukebox.com/?p=25758
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 25 June 2018 01:14 (five years ago) link
Who me? Well whatever. All Mine: Na. that medullaoblongata part grates. Wouldn't Leave a distant second to Ghost Town. I got a gentle mental.
― maffew12, Monday, 25 June 2018 01:15 (five years ago) link
NY Times piece is interesting: Kanye comes across relatively sympathetically, not that this somehow makes ye a good record or excuses his comments. " just standing up and saying what you feel, and not even doing a lot of research on it" - you are so close and yet so far from understanding what the problem is here.
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/25/arts/music/kanye-west-ye-interview.html
― hourofthestar, Monday, 25 June 2018 15:14 (five years ago) link
daytona & KTSE are p good
― ||||||||, Monday, 25 June 2018 15:19 (five years ago) link
yea KTSE is great
― billstevejim, Wednesday, 27 June 2018 21:18 (five years ago) link
"Reborn" on Kids See Ghosts sounds good on its own on a playlist.
― ... (Eazy), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 17:18 (five years ago) link
KSG holds up surprisingly well for me. I didn't even like it that much the first time around, but Freeee and Reborn keep popping into my head. Though in the case of "Freee" my mental version replaces "i don't feel pain anymore" with "i don't wa-bang anymore." no idea why.
― supreme court justice samuel lance-ito (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 3 July 2018 17:45 (five years ago) link
never heard a kanye record until now. listening to yeezus for the first time, shit's dope
― Ross, Tuesday, 3 July 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
You should try illmatic
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 01:04 (five years ago) link
Kanye's strongest album is Liquid Swords imo
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 01:21 (five years ago) link
Would ride for Death Certificate
― President Keyes, Wednesday, 4 July 2018 01:46 (five years ago) link
oh, you scamps
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Wednesday, 4 July 2018 01:57 (five years ago) link
Even though the hook isn’t great, I’d rank “Wouldn’t Leave” as one of his top songs
― nova, Friday, 6 July 2018 02:01 (five years ago) link
I strongly believe pre MBDTF Kanye the really great rap producer >>> Kanye the important troubled "genius"
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 July 2018 12:02 (five years ago) link
I don't think it's a coincidence that Daytona and KTSE, the two that seem like him making fairly conventional records in the style of the respective artists are so far and away better than the other half baked junk straining to be "important"
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 July 2018 12:04 (five years ago) link
Gotta say, the flip of this is pretty brilliant, (samples are at 1:06 and 1:18):https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XbbGn2oH3Bc
If nothing else he's still got his ear.
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 6 July 2018 14:48 (five years ago) link
does he do a lot of the production anymore or he like a george lucas type thing now? like his dudes pick out a bunch of stuff and they he just okays it?
i know he made a big deal about "hand producing" Nas's album (which has the worst production of any of these), so I didn't know if it was a Dr. Dre type thing where he's just taking credit for daz or mel man's or whoever's beats
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 6 July 2018 16:43 (five years ago) link
“Troubled genius” era Kanye does have MBDTF and TLOP, two of my least favorite albums of his, but then there’s Yeezus which I love & is maybe the most troubled genius-ish of all. So idk, maybe more hit-and-miss but I’m OK with it.
This is the first album of his I’ve had a “it’s fine” response to, nothing really wrong with it but haven’t come back to it much. Think the beat at the end of the first track is v cool though.
My sense is he pieces together other people’s contributions, although it looked like the Pusha album had a couple tracks where it was just him credited on production. Of course you could say his co-producers maybe aren’t as good on their own, but then you could also say possibly the same’s true of him right now - I don’t know.
― nova, Friday, 6 July 2018 21:17 (five years ago) link
I thought that he had people go out and source/buy a bunch of records, then he sat down and chopped the samples himself. Who knows though (and he's always got Mike Dean engineering and probably co-producing too, right?).
― change display name (Jordan), Friday, 6 July 2018 21:22 (five years ago) link
our own whiney wrote about some of thishttps://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/kanye-wests-summer-of-samples-how-two-reissue-labels-helped-make-wyoming-funky-666876/
― maura, Friday, 6 July 2018 22:16 (five years ago) link
good article too, thanks!
― niels, Sunday, 8 July 2018 10:51 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PmZjaYdS3fA
At one point, Kimmel asked Kanye about the situation where families were separated at the border. “Whether we like his personality or not, his actions are really what matter. You so famously and so powerfully said ‘George Bush doesn’t care about black people.’ It makes me wonder, what makes you think that Donald Trump does?” Kanye then went silent for a few seconds, and the show went to commercial.
https://pitchfork.com/news/kanye-talks-ye-lyrics-trump-support-on-kimmel-watch/
― flappy bird, Friday, 10 August 2018 17:20 (five years ago) link
― dj screwed (Ross), Friday, 10 August 2018 18:07 (five years ago) link
Imagining Ye doing this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=novZXnYS5n8&feature=youtu.be
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 10 August 2018 18:10 (five years ago) link
Why, God?
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Saturday, 11 August 2018 18:00 (five years ago) link
So there's supposed to be another one coming out this weekend.
It's amazing how quickly I've gone from salivating over a Kanye release to being ambivalent about one. Regardless of the personal drama, the quality of his stuff has dive-bombed this year. He probably just needs to slow down and stop releasing music for a while. High chance that this record won't be any good.
― triggercut, Thursday, 27 September 2018 08:18 (five years ago) link
the I Love It single sure is underwhelming
― niels, Thursday, 27 September 2018 08:25 (five years ago) link
if he'd announced a yeezus sequel at the start of the year i would have been very excited but now it's very hard to care
shocking that he's actually following through on releasing multiple albums in one year which he promised a bunch of times before but never delivered on
― ufo, Thursday, 27 September 2018 08:53 (five years ago) link
I tend to be a bit of a Kanye apologist when it comes to his music and I really love the Kids See Ghosts album — but even I think this is gonna suck
― josh az (2011nostalgia), Thursday, 27 September 2018 14:13 (five years ago) link
cautiously optimistic. how could this be worse than ye?
― flappy bird, Thursday, 27 September 2018 17:34 (five years ago) link