first half and last two tracks of yeezus are pretty great i should’ve said
― american bradass (BradNelson), Saturday, 31 August 2019 01:10 (four years ago) link
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?
― Milton Parker, Saturday, 31 August 2019 03:35 (four years ago) link
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.
― flappy bird, Saturday, 31 August 2019 05:15 (four years ago) link
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
― ufo, Saturday, 31 August 2019 05:35 (four years ago) link
I don't really liked twisted fantasy
― flappy bird, Saturday, 31 August 2019 05:41 (four years ago) link
If it’s like the Pablo rollout, guessing half the titles will change and the album will be back to Yahndi by the end.
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 31 August 2019 13:28 (four years ago) link
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
― lowercase (eric), Saturday, 31 August 2019 13:56 (four years ago) link
the thought of the Discourse regarding a new Kanye album is exhausting
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 31 August 2019 18:31 (four years ago) link
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!
― jakey mo collier (voodoo chili), Saturday, 31 August 2019 19:14 (four years ago) link
what is Kanye West real name?
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Saturday, 31 August 2019 22:49 (four years ago) link
Kayne West
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Saturday, 31 August 2019 22:51 (four years ago) link
"No More Parties In LA" is easily in my top 10 tracks for the decade.
― billstevejim, Sunday, 1 September 2019 02:49 (four years ago) link
This was well said.
https://eugenesrobinson.substack.com/p/fuck-kanye-west?utm_source=facebook&fbclid=IwAR2NvNeJeOocHKQAOFrFRCw5o8KLqYhYkqHfbjhTehZGRVyK2s5Sokj9pbU&s=r
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Monday, 21 March 2022 14:29 (two years ago) link
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-features/kanye-west-donda-academy-school-1234593961/
things are going great!
― k3vin k., Friday, 16 September 2022 02:10 (one year ago) link
I love how into parkour he is
― reggae mike love (polyphonic), Friday, 16 September 2022 02:23 (one year ago) link
once again wondering whether taking away all of this guys money might be better for everyone
― k3vin k., Friday, 16 September 2022 02:31 (one year ago) link
i should think taking all the money away from all the rich assholes would be better for everyone
― ミ💙🅟 🅛 🅤 🅡 🅜 🅑💙彡 (Austin), Friday, 16 September 2022 02:35 (one year ago) link
pretty sure being rich at the billionaire level and an asshole are synonymous
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 September 2022 03:06 (one year ago) link
Why is this guy not getting Congressionally investigated for his fake presidential campaign he was coordinating with Jared Kushner?
― sweating like Cathy *aaaack* (Boring, Maryland), Friday, 16 September 2022 14:15 (one year ago) link
why doesn't Kanye have a rocket yet?
― You can't spell Fearless without Earle (President Keyes), Friday, 16 September 2022 14:17 (one year ago) link
xxp The owner Patagonia is an exception.
― birdistheword, Friday, 16 September 2022 14:39 (one year ago) link
*owner of Patagonia
https://www.gq.com/story/outdoors-companies-policing
― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), Friday, 16 September 2022 16:02 (one year ago) link
Giving away a 3 billion company for a good cause you believe in is next level.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 16 September 2022 16:17 (one year ago) link
Wow this is very fucked
― Indexed, Friday, 16 September 2022 16:22 (one year ago) link
“People choose to bring their kids to Donda Academy for a sense of privacy,” he adds. “A sense of care, a sense of concern, a sense of love, an environment of health, and an environment of wealth, an environment of learning, and putting God as a focus.”
you know all those parts in the bible where jesus talks about how important it is to be surrounded by wealth
― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Friday, 16 September 2022 17:58 (one year ago) link
How else can you follow Him? (Meaning Kanye.)
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 16 September 2022 18:06 (one year ago) link
Fuck this guy forever.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 9 October 2022 13:32 (one year ago) link
he’s a white supremacist
― comedy khadafi (voodoo chili), Sunday, 9 October 2022 13:36 (one year ago) link
For anyone not up on his Tucker Carlson appearance, he thinks (among other things) that the news media, Matthew McConaughey, and "people at the Gap” knew about the Uvalde shooting before it happened.
― Linkin Bio (morrisp), Sunday, 9 October 2022 16:06 (one year ago) link
Sure would be nice not have to hear about this guy.
― jmm, Sunday, 9 October 2022 16:10 (one year ago) link
I feel better now!
― Malevolent Arugula (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 9 October 2022 16:11 (one year ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/38iq4Ck.png
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Sunday, 9 October 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
what a contemptible jackass. I would say I hope this ends his career, but I know better
― k3vin k., Sunday, 9 October 2022 16:14 (one year ago) link
Tweet was removed so this is his latest
Who you think created cancel culture?— ye (@kanyewest) October 9, 2022
― Toshirō Nofune (The Seventh ILXorai), Sunday, 9 October 2022 16:15 (one year ago) link
Really wanted to reply with a Khaled GOD DID gif
― The self-titled drags (Eazy), Sunday, 9 October 2022 16:33 (one year ago) link
Who controls the British crown?Who keeps the metric system down?We do, we doWho keeps Atlantis off the maps?Who keeps the Martians under wraps?We do, we doWho holds back the elctric car?Who makes Steve Gutenberg a star?We do, we doWho robs gamefish of their site?Who rigs every Oscar night?We do, we do!
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Sunday, 9 October 2022 16:43 (one year ago) link
Hopefully jmm doesn’t mind if I clip and save this for every future mention of this person, who never seems to go away for long
― jmm, Sunday, October 9, 2022 11:10 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink
― The Triumphant Return of Bernard & Stubbs (Raymond Cummings), Sunday, 9 October 2022 18:16 (one year ago) link
what a moron, Deathcon 3 happened years ago
― nashwan, Sunday, 9 October 2022 19:40 (one year ago) link
I just saw someone refer to him as Yedolf, that's pretty good.
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 9 October 2022 22:30 (one year ago) link
Leave to Kanye to bring back old school hip hop antisemitism
― “uhh”—like, this is an insane oatmeal raisin cookie “uhh” (President Keyes), Sunday, 9 October 2022 23:57 (one year ago) link
If cancel culture keeps failing to cancel this absolute imbecile, then I’ll do my part and never speak his name again.
Godspeed.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Monday, 10 October 2022 00:59 (one year ago) link
xpost From what I gather, it never really went anywhere. I mean, there was that Ice Cube thing last year or so, Jay Electronica, Grime guy Wiley, that Nick Cannon thing ... lots of "we can't be anti-semitic, we are the true semites" sophistry.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 10 October 2022 01:02 (one year ago) link
It's not like it used to be in the late 80s, early 90s but a lot of that stuff is remnants of the 5 percenters
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 10 October 2022 01:27 (one year ago) link
I was ignoring the news about West per standard practice, but even people I know who never talk about him were outraged so I had to look. I wasn't even aware of some of the older stuff he did (spurring others to send death threats to his ex-wife and Peter Davidson, etc). It's unbelievable, you think he's sunk as low as possible and he finds some cartoonish way to be even worse.
― birdistheword, Monday, 10 October 2022 03:55 (one year ago) link
(To clarify I was aware he was going through a bad divorce, but not to that extent.)
― birdistheword, Monday, 10 October 2022 03:56 (one year ago) link
(I shouldn't even say "going through" when he's instigating so much of the horrendous parts of it.)
― birdistheword, Monday, 10 October 2022 03:57 (one year ago) link
I’m a bit sleepy, but when when I wake up
― Evan, Monday, 10 October 2022 04:02 (one year ago) link
I'm not gonna even concern troll with being worried about him anymore, I'm worried purely about him hurting other people at this stage.
wish he'd just lock himself away in a mansion and swear off of electronics forever.
― stank viola (Neanderthal), Monday, 10 October 2022 04:07 (one year ago) link