RIP Kanye West

At this point the surprise would be if he released something that didn’t suck.

Kanye said “if they throwing slave nets again how about we all don’t stand in the same place” and the guitarists face fucking sends me 😂😂😭😂😂akskksksksskskdj pic.twitter.com/BZOoFjFzXJ

— 🧖🏾‍♀️ (@asia__vu) October 12, 2019

Reuters: Kanye West publicist pressed Georgia election worker to confess to bogus fraud charges

Weeks after the 2020 election, a Chicago publicist for hip-hop artist Kanye West traveled to the suburban home of Ruby Freeman, a frightened Georgia election worker who was facing death threats after being falsely accused by former President Donald Trump of manipulating votes. The publicist knocked on the door and offered to help.

The visitor, Trevian Kutti, gave her name but didn't say she worked for West, a longtime billionaire friend of Trump. She said she was sent by a "high-profile individual," whom she didn't identify, to give Freeman an urgent message: confess to Trump's voter-fraud allegations, or people would come to her home in 48 hours, and she'd go to jail.

Shocking, shocking new details about Kanye's campaign

shocking
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https://pitchfork.com/news/kanye-west-demands-that-billie-eilish-apologize-to-travis-scott/

This guy is such a creep... it actually kind of bums me out how much ppl are still into him (like many folks I work with). I know we've had the whole "Artists you can/can't separate from the art" discussion; I feel like there's no music great enough that I would keep listening to it, if it were created by someone like Kanye. Idk

big co-sign from me, but that's probably no surprise. i'm honestly a little disappointed billie eilish even acknowledged him. clownye, through and through.

“At a concert earlier this week, Eilish stopped her show and said, “I wait for people to be OK before I keep going,” when a fan needed an inhaler.”

Demands an apology for this. Ugh, fuck this dude.

demands an apology on behalf of travis scott.

fuck this dude.

― circa1916, Friday, February 11, 2022 3:17 PM

It is disappointing, and he's grown more disappointing as a human being for quite a while now. Kanye was always a bit of a buffoon, but at least for a good six or seven years, he still felt like a hometown hero, and it was flat out awesome to see him grow by leaps and bounds from The College Dropout to My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy. Beginning with Watch the Throne, I thought his ego and missteps finally overwhelmed his music and since then it's been a continuing downward slide. I have no problem going back to his records from 2004-2010. He at least understood when he was called out for being an ass. I hope that part of him is still there somewhere, even if his own records no longer impress outside of the lyric department.

is this going to be his "DEFEND THE INDEFENSIBLE" thread?

in that case, i will say this: he's damn good at being a villain. because yikes. this feels especially shitty, even for him.

It's completely shitty and he's become a complete shit. I'm not buying anymore of his work (whether it's his records or seeing his shows) and outside of that post, I virtually never talk about him to anyone anymore. But I hope he changes - it's not likely, but sometimes people surprise you, and if he ever does repent or whatever, I hope it lasts and it hasn't gotten past the point where he's done things that can never be forgiven. (I'm sure it's already past that point for plenty of people.)

I think his problem is, he believes he's in his repentance phase already.

I don't doubt it. I mean, the guy has his own church now, doesn't he?

Anyway, this is why I didn't talk about him anymore - I'm going to go back to ignoring any news about him, pretend he's done as a recording artist, and if he proves me wrong someday, I'll gladly eat crow.

he's on some version of that insufferable born-again christian/former alcoholic where i'm going to applaud the initiative of personal improvement but not waste anymore headspace/money on them.

Oh kanyepaws

it's funny because people are all like yeah he sucks but he's a genius as his music has gotten worse and worse, his production is such basic bullshit now I can't stand it

"Otis" was the last song for me, the last hip hop song, the last song that had any genuine joy

any motherfucker could do ponderous synth pads over basic drums, that's all his new shit is

the Abstract Mindstate album he produced last year that no one paid attention to was the best work he's done in years

Daytona was excellent. Cover was pretty tasteless - wouldn’t surprise me if that was Kanye’s idea.

Jfc that note about Kid Cudi. What a fucking baby

xpost yeah forgot Daytona that was good

Jfc that note about Kid Cudi. What a fucking baby

― frogbs, Saturday, February 12, 2022 5:07 PM

his predilection for picking on young white teenage women is a problem. it's uncomfortable and weird.

Do the universe a favor (please) and don't click links about this clown and whatever nonsense is supposedly happening at present.

The more you click, the more you authorize/urge outlets to keep writing about him.

not until Billie Eilish apologizes to him

xp it probably encourages Kanye to continue being a clown. Awhile back (I think 2016?) he had what seemed like a Twitter meltdown and people were wondering if he was really having a breakdown. But more than few people were reluctant to believe that, especially coming from a monstrously narcissistic publicity whore, and indeed Kanye knew exactly what he was doing.

It's no different than Trump or all the like minded nuts. So...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SlKao_Pox5A

I hate this because there was a time where anti-Kanye sentiment was actually ridiculous and over the top and the "Dubya doesn't care about Black people" was an all-time great moment.

And I loved him through WTT. but this is just fucking depressing

Yes it was.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UJUNTcOGeSw

I didn't like WTT. The title alone seemed to betray the only thing that was on their mind. I almost wanted to blame Jay-Z who's far more of a marketing entrepreneur than an artist.

I always loved Chuck D's response, which shamed both Jay-Z and Kanye over their obnoxious video to make a big charity donation.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=161ZRrJZESA

"This is a polite respect call to the troops , to continue to inspire but reflect the people better. OTIS Redding was a humble country man from Macon Georgia who bought a jet to work in, not flash. He perished in that plane. Heres to hoping that the J & K supergroup can elevate the masses and try a little bit more to reflect OTIS heart rather than swag, because they're too good to be less."

tbf Kanye was an eminently dislikable person even when he was good

He was always a mixed bag but there were a lot more redeeming qualities in his early career

I always loved Trevor Noah's tweet too.

.@TrevorNoah: "Kendrick is what Kanye would have been if the Kardashians didn't get him" https://t.co/gEfQ8o1zTP pic.twitter.com/JUtv4yHHvD

— The Hollywood Reporter (@THR) February 16, 2016

Jfc that note about Kid Cudi. What a fucking baby

― frogbs, Sunday, February 13, 2022 12:07 PM (four hours ago)

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I almost wanted to blame Jay-Z who's far more of a marketing entrepreneur than an artist.

I'm sorry but this is totally bullshit, Jay's initial run of albums are all absolutely classic and super influential

I know they're massively popular, but I've never been a Jay-Z fan.

Actually, I liked "Empire State of Mind" and I like a lot of stuff where he pops in for a cameo. But I don't play his albums again.

that trevor noah tweet is dogshit

The real dogshit is self-absorbed reality TV culture as personified by the Kardashians' show.

Actually, I liked "Empire State of Mind" and I like a lot of stuff where he pops in for a cameo. But I don't play his albums again.

are you joking?? that's his most dogshit song . I'm taking Reasonable Doubt, In My Lifetime Vol 1 & 2, Streets is Watching, Blueprint. I will never in my life forget seeing the Dead Presidents video on BET (the original single version not the one on Reasonable Doubt), I got goosebumps, was so eerie and he was flowing like no one ever had. my god, like Brooklyn's Finest? Coming of Age? like he spit nothing but classics for a decade

that's just an ahistorical, wrongheaded opinion. period.

maybe you don't like hip hop, which is fine

So it's okay not to love Jay-Z as long as I don't like hip-hop. Makes sense.

In all seriousness, on a technical level, he's impressive, but even when the substance is there (especially before it became more and more about name-checking and marketing god knows what), it didn't sound like a great record. That's one reason why WTT was especially disappointing to me - having Kanye (presumably at his peak) producing an entire album for/with Jay-Z seemed to be good reason to be optimistic.

Have you even heard the actual stuff, before the Black Album? Cuz you keep bringing up the most basic shit

How about we pause for a second and not escalate this into a fight over the internet? Is that cool?

At minimum, in that last post I was at least agreeing with you that the "basic shit" was more of a problem later.

kendrick and 00s kanye are not even remotely stylistically or thematically similar, trevor noah is a hack

Reasonable Doubt and Life and Times of S. Carter are masterpieces.

Lol yeah that Kendrick Lamar / Kanye tweet is a terrible comparison

blaming the kardashians for what kanye became also absolves a lot of his own desires and motivations for linking up with kim and the clan in the first place. the kardashians didn’t “get to him,” he sought them out

He was an idiot way before the Kardashians too.

hey birdistheword - sorry I got heated and acted like a jerk

Most of these are the sort of narcissistic tirades he’s known for nowadays and they all happened before the Kardashians (maybe the last one not, they started dating early 2010’s iirc but I’m not researching the specific date)

https://theweek.com/articles/482620/12-kanye-west-outbursts-timeline?amp

The catalogue of idiocy goes way, way back. There were warning signs but I (speaking for myself) wanted to believe the man was essentially better than that.

Specifically: whatever he said about reading being stupid struck (and still strikes) me as dunderheaded. Regardless of rather of not that is said with personal sincerity, why say it, especially when you’re aware of how many people - and how many other African Americans, in particular - look up to you?

but that family with the large milk bill.

semi-embarrassed that I'm "online" enough to get this reference...

rap lyrics are never well served by being written out

yeah the comments make me feel like I'm going nuts, dude is just running his voice through a vocoder and bungling the meter & all the comments are like THIS IS SO AHEAD OF ITS TIME

xxp i mean those are okay bars. They're fine? but are his lyrics or rapping there your favorite part of that song? relistening it to it now, he's clearly in his best voice at this stage in his career but even so the ad libs are distracting and uninspired. the reason i remember touch the sky at all is because of what just blaze did with curtis mayfield.

at no point has kanye's "you can hate me now" navelgazing gravitas appealed to me as either an origin story or as a meaningful wellspring. i find his sense of humor puerile and his lyricism functional to clunky. as far as the behind the curtain peeks he offers I mean he DOES know all these guys so it's like aquaman rapping about hanging out with superman and okay, that has its moments but... i dunno?

even as i've grown to have zero use for kanye the musician

and don't really feel like listening to much of his old music bcuz i've been there done that many times and there's lots of other music to be listening to in the world

i never had the thought that he wasn't a great writer for a large stretch of his career

lol and then "through the wire" came on and yeah i mean that's fresh

thanks for that freestyle recommendation, great fun!
"this rap here/ is a souvenir/ my index/is not for windex/but i make it super clear"

DJP you've always been pretty otm with Kanye's weak rhyming style:

Oh, to dream of what Kanye would rhyme with "Ra's Al Ghul"

― da croupier, Friday, January 7, 2011 10:31 AM bookmarkflaglink

This is Kanye we're talking about, he probably would have tried to rhyme it with "Louis Vuitton"

― Indolence Mission (DJP), Friday, January 7, 2011 10:48 AM bookmarkflaglink

I genuinely liked his lyrics on the first two albums, even if he was far from spotless as a rapper.

TBH our successors on this board 20 years from now will be praising it probably.
― Johnny Mathis der Maler (Boring, Maryland), Wednesday, February 23, 2022 5:32 PM (fifty-six minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

You speak as if there will be successors on this board. How young is our youngest poster?

I think the semen/Morgan Freeman line is hysterical, when I read it I laughed my ass off.

our youngest poster is 83

Continuing with Edison cylinders?

lol he just put out the unfinished version of the album he played at the event

guess that means it's "finished" though

Second part of the documentary confirms he has always been that guy and only the scale changed.

Pharrell is a really cool dude.

the faq says "the platform can split any song into stems" but im, uh, skeptical.

― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), viernes 18 de febrero de 2022 04:59 PM (one week ago) bookmarkflaglink

Sounds like bullshit but if by some miracle it is not, I would live to know! I would buy anything that could do that

― i cannot help if you made yourself not funny (forksclovetofu), viernes 18 de febrero de 2022 05:33 PM (one week ago)

I guess the algorithm isn’t hiding they spy on me anymore because my first recommended video today was this one:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z-lq-z5KM2c

Apparently it does split any song, not super clean in some cases, seems like it takes too much time to upload each track and not really for professional use but looks like a fun toy/gadget.

kind of lol, but also kind of interesting. i hope it serves as the prototype for future devices to expand upon because it does seem like an idea with a lot of cool possibilities.

kanye still a complete douche though.

the dumbest parts is most of his productions now only have 3 or 4 elements there's not that much to fuck around with

yeah everything after TLOP feels like just stems

it's probably just using some ml thing which will probably give ok results but far from perfect for obvious reasons

https://www.thecut.com/2022/02/kanye-west-bipolar-disorder.html

If Kanye wasn't profiting from it I'd seriously consider getting one

A bipolar disorder?

jfc it just gets worse, what a creep

STYLECASTER: Kanye West, Kim Kardashian Look-Alike Chaney Jones Dating, Photos.
https://stylecaster.com/kanye-west-kim-kardashian-look-alike/

Seriously, check out this shot the paparazzi got:

https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5ab7d7f5b98a7888d760b05f/1531343560901-725Y56YIYUOLTDXOD9CQ/image-asset.jpeg

Can’t tell if that ‘the cut’ article was posted in jest or not.

Stuff like this gives me the creeps.

Reminds me of a close college friend who divorced her husband, and then he married a woman looked exactly like my friend.

Is there any overlap in the history of mankind where someone who repeatedly refers to themselves as a genius is actually a genius? Big if true.

Can’t tell if that ‘the cut’ article was posted in jest or not.

― circa1916, Saturday, February 26, 2022 11:09 AM

glad i'm not the only one.

his entire career goal was to become a self-aware tabloid star.

Didn’t Reggie Bush date Kim and then afterwards date the girl who got a ton of commercial work because she looked so much like her?

Enjoyed other videos on this dude's channel and realized he did a couple on the fall of Kanye. Great stuff and somewhat hilariously on point his use of pro wrestling terms as a means of expressing aspects of hip hop culture.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wvgehVhF9D4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e7e5BFJa-Ug

Yo, Kayne, I'm really happy for you and I'mma let you finish, but Will Smith had one of the best stage invasions of all time. One of the best stage invasions of all time!