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
lol
― 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
Hope it's called kan.
― Pesto Mindset (Eazy), Thursday, 27 September 2018 17:36 (five years ago) link
how could this be worse than ye?
Jesus not now https://t.co/EyTIDtnc9o— luke oneil 🚽 (@lukeoneil47) September 27, 2018
― Pesto Mindset (Eazy), Thursday, 27 September 2018 18:49 (five years ago) link
He also described Donald Trump and InfoWars’ Alex Jones as “matrix-breakers,” and he falsely stated that there were only about 800 slaves in the United States in the 1800s. (In fact, it was almost 4 million.) And he said he wants to build a flying car factory in Chicago with Tesla alums and announced that “a woman’s pussy count goes back to zero” after undergoing any plastic surgery.Anyway, if you’re still interested in hearing new Kanye music after all that,
Anyway, if you’re still interested in hearing new Kanye music after all that,
― Pesto Mindset (Eazy), Thursday, 27 September 2018 18:51 (five years ago) link
this fucker needs to go away forever
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 September 2018 19:19 (five years ago) link
^^
― Groove(box) Denied (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 27 September 2018 22:09 (five years ago) link
and announced that “a woman’s pussy count goes back to zero” after undergoing any plastic surgery.
seriously what the fuck dude.
― she carries a torch. two torches, actually (Joan Crawford Loves Chachi), Thursday, 27 September 2018 22:19 (five years ago) link
Honestly waiting on the collaboration album between him and Billy Corgan at this point.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 27 September 2018 22:23 (five years ago) link
don't give him any ideas
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 27 September 2018 22:46 (five years ago) link
Did he have a look at his bank account or something
My eyes are now wide open and now realize I’ve been used to spread messages I don’t believe in. I am distancing myself from politics and completely focusing on being creative !!!— ye (@kanyewest) October 30, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 21:30 (five years ago) link
lmao
― Greta Van Fleek (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 21:41 (five years ago) link
Kanye's trust in any fucking thing = easy come, easy goFans trust in Kanye = easy go, not so easy come back
― mfktz (Camaraderie at Arms Length), Tuesday, 30 October 2018 21:57 (five years ago) link
thank god
I thought it was amusing that @Jack took ye's advice and plans to get rid of the like button (stupid).
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link
Truly the most Kanye moment ever:He donned the MAGA hat, met Trump at the WH, had other rappers insulting him online, and forced John Legend and Chance the Rapper into iPhone press releasesNothing.They put his name on some ill-designed sweaters and he disavowed within days— Astead (@AsteadWesley) October 30, 2018
― omar little, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 22:04 (five years ago) link
Trump put ye's name on sweaters?
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
yeah what prompted this
― Οὖτις, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 22:05 (five years ago) link
Tweet right before it:
I introduced Candace to the person who made the logo and they didn’t want their name on it so she used mine. I never wanted any association with Blexit. I have nothing to do with it.— ye (@kanyewest) October 30, 2018
― Ned Raggett, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 22:06 (five years ago) link
amazing, everyone loses
― flappy bird, Tuesday, 30 October 2018 22:07 (five years ago) link