Kanye West

tweet of the year imho

ok lol

Haha, well done.

I had no idea he got sued for uncleared samples so often

Once again: asshole or idiot?

https://pitchfork.com/news/kanye-and-pusha-t-sued-over-daytona-sample/

Did they credit Yes for the "Heart of the Sunrise" sample.

doesn’t seem like him to carelessly ignore important details like that...

lol

kanye forever

stealing from old soul artists is so cool

I hate to admit it but this week I’m revisiting Kids See Ghosts and I didn’t hate it. I even think that the last three songs in there are some of the best stuff either one of them has been involved with in quite some time.

I think I’ve even played Reborn once every day. I’m a monster.

Yeah, I don't really care about Kanye anymore (roughly since MBDTF... wow almost 10y !) but that album is not bad and "Reborn" is good.

reborn is great.

to be clear, he's done many awful things in the past few years--the thing i hated the most was the photo he used for the cover of daytona, extremely exploitative. this is also bad and i hope that george jackson wins the lawsuit.

i don't really understand how he continues to release music this good though, given what a mess he is. the stuff he put out last year was a mixed bag but mostly good.

new album 'jesus is king,' coming out sept. 27th. per kim k's instagram.

https://www.complex.com/music/2019/08/kim-kardashian-teases-release-date-tracklist-kanye-west-album

...cool.

Kanye feeling penitent all of a sudden? Too much of a naughty boy the last year? Gonna break into that alt-right God market with a Christian rap concept album? What now? Changing his nickname from Yeezus to Jesus and the album is him slovenly rapping about how he and all of you should worship him even more now?

for the "i love" theme on this website...man the members here sure are negative! ;)

It’s “I love” not “I stan”

Trump posting on ILX at last

can't believe it's been over a year since everyone pretended to like the last one

i dont think anybody liked it

he's been shit since 808s and Heartbreak

i enjoyed the stuff about fantasizing about killing his wife and hoping his daughter is ugly so men don't want to have sex with her when she grows up

he plays the consequential artist/charlatan thing like a knife-edge. i can't decide but the kidz all seem pretty sprung

somehow people still seem to like kids see ghosts but i don't think even the die-hards really liked ye much. it still manages to seem overrated though when compared to the absurd backlash that chance's new album got

kids see ghosts was fine, mostly the songs where kanye was least involved (vocally, anyway)

cudi is kind of a cult figure among people who were in high school/college in 2010

chance backlash was more at the chance brand than the album itself imo

xp Can confirm

he's been shit since 808s and Heartbreak

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finally a hardline shakey opinion i agree with. there have been good moments here and there though. i weirdly loved “i love it”

808s and heartbreak was a high-point imo.

is that gourmet hot-take or quite weak?

i love 808s, one of my favorite records

when i first heard 'ghost town' i listened to it non stop, like 40 times in a row.

canceled

the stuff about 'stealing samples' upthread is kind of dumb, the deal is he takes losses on the back end to make sure he clears his albums when he needs them to and they dont get bogged down in delays. In other words, he makes way less money in the long run in order to use what samples he wants

sacrificing the bottom line for his art, what a heel!

I like "I Love It" and "Real Friends" the most of his recent stuff. Yeezus is interesting and there's a good drum n bass remix of bound 2 lol

first half and last two tracks of yeezus are pretty great i should’ve said

pablo’s rough and often bad but i love “fade” etc.

>the stuff about 'stealing samples' upthread is kind of dumb, the deal is he takes losses on the back end to make sure he clears his albums when he needs them to and they dont get bogged down in delays. In other words, he makes way less money in the long run in order to use what samples he wants

I find the developing narrative about uncleared samples being 'stealing' a little bit too easy as well. I think it's fascinating how increasingly reckless he's become about licensing while on a major label. It's part of the statement of the last few releases, mastered seconds before being uploaded. I kind of respond to it -- make sampling dangerous again! But from him it's also inevitably a statement about power, the Robert Fripp & Richard D James interviews about negotiating with his team are intense.

Do you have a link / interview about the deal he has with his label in which uncleared samples discovered later are handled?

he didn't become shit until Ye, that record was horrible. Yeezus is a masterpiece imo but Brad's breakdown is closer to the truth. totally disagree about Pablo though, that album has so much to offer and belongs in the same class of beguiling double albums as Lulu, Joni's Don Juan, and The Fragile. the plummet he took from the heights of Pablo - Real Friends, 30 Hours, Ultralight Beam, Feedback, I Love Kanye - is stunning.

MBDTF has some good moments but is way overrated everywhere else, most tracks start out decent enough but then wear out their welcome way before their generally ~6+ minute run times are up

Yeezus is still pretty great

The Life of Pablo is just a mess, for every good track there's another two that seem very unfinished and it doesn't hold together as an album at all

I don't really liked twisted fantasy

If it’s like the Pablo rollout, guessing half the titles will change and the album will be back to Yahndi by the end.

wld take the two after 808s over the two before it but idk if there's anyone else in the "late registration is esp boring" camp besides meaghan garvey

the thought of the Discourse regarding a new Kanye album is exhausting

it doesn't hold together as an album at all

i think it holds together ridiculously well, honestly, at least until 'wolves,' which is where the original album was supposed to end (according to the first draft of ye's notebook). the transitions between songs are seamless, and imo each individual song sounds wrong without the one before or after it.

i agree that the last few tracks are very haphazardly assembled, but weirdly, those are the ones that sound good on their own!

what is Kanye West real name?

Kayne West

"No More Parties In LA" is easily in my top 10 tracks for the decade.