https://theundefeated.com/features/kanye-west-new-album-jesus-is-king-but-he-isnt-worth-our-time-anymore/
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 25 October 2019 16:55 (four years ago) link
That said, some of the tracks are in my New Music Friday playlist and my verdict is "Coldplay released better music today"
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 25 October 2019 16:56 (four years ago) link
also "Kanye I swear to the God you claim to have discovered, if you keep singing I'mma kick you in the autotune"
btw the non-integration of Kenny G into this song is hilarious
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 25 October 2019 16:57 (four years ago) link
This is actually good
― treeship., Friday, 25 October 2019 17:15 (four years ago) link
Sorry to report. I think the loud mixing is on purpose—yeezus sounded like this too.
― treeship., Friday, 25 October 2019 17:16 (four years ago) link
Well it purposely sounds like crap so they hit their mark there
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 25 October 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
lol im interested in this solely for the bad theology, but i dont actually wanna listen to his music anymore
― i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Friday, 25 October 2019 17:20 (four years ago) link
I am not immune to liking things that baffle others; I still have fondness and regard for a couple of ICP albums, for example. Even so, the two songs off of this I heard were total bullshit and I have no interest in the rest of the album as a result.
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 25 October 2019 17:21 (four years ago) link
I am happy for kanye that he found solace in religion
― treeship., Friday, 25 October 2019 17:22 (four years ago) link
Come on, djp “follow god” and “god is” are dope tracks
― treeship., Friday, 25 October 2019 17:28 (four years ago) link
Objectively
dont do that
― i'm not a government man; i'm a government, man. (m bison), Friday, 25 October 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
That's the RYM chart fucked for another year then
― imago, Friday, 25 October 2019 17:29 (four years ago) link
"Follow God" is bullshit
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 25 October 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
Truly the Dylan of our age.
1st track is his "all the tired horses". but i'd say it's more of a GBV album, as it sounds like shit and most of the songs are unfinished.
― wasdnuos (abanana), Friday, 25 October 2019 17:31 (four years ago) link
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 25 October 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
Ok I got through this all for the first and last time . This is wack
― (•̪●) (carne asada), Friday, 25 October 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
That was a joke
― treeship., Friday, 25 October 2019 17:32 (four years ago) link
I enjoy the tracks but there is no objective good and bad
In art. In other domains idk—bigger discussion
― treeship., Friday, 25 October 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
"Follow God" is muddled and boring. "Use This Gospel" is asymptotically approaching "objectively bad".
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 25 October 2019 17:33 (four years ago) link
there is no objective good and bad
Dunno how King Jesus feels about that statement.
― pomenitul, Friday, 25 October 2019 17:34 (four years ago) link
Jesus didn’t talk a out aesthetics much
― treeship., Friday, 25 October 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
He was a writer, he once wrote something in the sand.
― pomenitul, Friday, 25 October 2019 17:35 (four years ago) link
Lol RYM hates this actually
― imago, Friday, 25 October 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
― treeship., Friday, October 25, 2019 7:22 PM (thirteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink
FP'd you for this
― Le Bateau Ivre, Friday, 25 October 2019 17:36 (four years ago) link
Needs more Killah Priest imo.
― pomenitul, Friday, 25 October 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
Turnin the other cheek to that
― treeship., Friday, 25 October 2019 17:38 (four years ago) link
This is like actually physically painful to listen to, at least with headphones
― icy bike chain rain (zchyrs), Friday, 25 October 2019 17:40 (four years ago) link
I think this is better than his last album? (that I only listened once)
― silverfish, Friday, 25 October 2019 17:41 (four years ago) link
I'm not sure it's particularly hard to top "poopity-scoop"
― brigadier pudding (DJP), Friday, 25 October 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
"Hands On" is pretty painful
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Friday, 25 October 2019 17:42 (four years ago) link
it's weird because there are AI mastering sites like landr.com that do a way better job than this that would have cost like $40.
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 October 2019 17:43 (four years ago) link
he just did the tracks and left the mastering in the hands of christ
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Friday, 25 October 2019 17:45 (four years ago) link
lmaoooo
2.7 and dropping lmao
ye was a 3.2 for context
― frogbs, Friday, 25 October 2019 17:46 (four years ago) link
just like ye this feels way longer than 27 minutes, please stop singing Mr. West
it is almost delightful watching an entire generation of hipsters and nerds realising they backed the wrong horse
― imago, Friday, 25 October 2019 17:48 (four years ago) link
I look forward to Pitchfork's review.
― pomenitul, Friday, 25 October 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
They'll still give it more than Clipping!
― imago, Friday, 25 October 2019 17:49 (four years ago) link
Idk i still like it
― treeship., Friday, 25 October 2019 17:55 (four years ago) link
To my fansThank you for being loyal & patientWe are specifically fixing mixes on “Everything We Need” “Follow God” & “Water” We not going to sleep until this album is out!10:18 PM - 24 Oct 2019
mustve fallen asleep after all
― “Hakuna Matata,” a nihilist philosophy (One Eye Open), Friday, 25 October 2019 17:56 (four years ago) link
seems better than ye on first (and probably only) listen
― Muswell Hillbilly Elegy (President Keyes), Friday, 25 October 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
I can't wait for an 'ima fix god' tweet and the whole world burns down because of people who don't get the context.
― Ned Raggett, Friday, 25 October 2019 18:00 (four years ago) link
will that tweet come out before or after the tweets about the inevitably shitty reviews of this that he'll freak out about and start another press cycle over
― self-clowning oven (Murgatroid), Friday, 25 October 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
looking forward to pressing play on this Monday
― DT, Friday, 25 October 2019 18:05 (four years ago) link
xp the last 2 Earl Sweatshirt LPs and some other post-Yeezus records have also done the "intentionally peaked levels" thing. People have expectations for everything to sound like Dr. Dre.
― billstevejim, Friday, 25 October 2019 18:08 (four years ago) link
I like critiquing stuff with "objectively" because it's lmao. plz dont ruin my fun lol.
― billstevejim, Friday, 25 October 2019 18:13 (four years ago) link
This is stupid. Hopefully this marks the end of his barely-trying era.
He should've got into Satan. The record would have been a lot better.
― billstevejim, Friday, 25 October 2019 18:16 (four years ago) link
xpost I don't have that expectation in any way shape or form don't be ridiculous
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 25 October 2019 18:17 (four years ago) link
have you considered it doesn't mean anything, that he's just unable to finish things properly?
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 July 2021 21:54 (two years ago) link
like the album "jesus is king" ends super abruptly in a way that feels insane and almost like a parody of everything that came before it.
― treeship., Friday, 23 July 2021 21:55 (two years ago) link
i dropped into kanyetothe (always fun on a fake release date) and learned about this collab he did with Teenage Engineering that was supposedly in use last night.https://lindynews.org/10131/entertainment/new-kanye-west-stem-players-leaked-online/
― maf you one two (maffew12), Friday, 23 July 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
i think the recent albums actually sound cool from a production standpoint and he attempts to grapple with difficult emotional terrain. the big problem is that many listeners are not going to extend patience and good will to him now for a whole bunch of reasons. i think these are fair and good reasons, honestly -- who cares about the travails of a narcissist with a persecution complex? much less one who supported trump? but these concerns aren't really him falling off as a producer or rapper.
― treeship., Friday, 23 July 2021 21:57 (two years ago) link
i would never recommend "jesus is king" or "ye" to someone. but i have found them both to be rewarding listening experiences.
― treeship., Friday, 23 July 2021 21:59 (two years ago) link
honestly I think that line of thinking, an army of writers, hangers on, starfuckers, online stans, insisting each half baked pinch loaf (to borrow a phrase) of an album, every 7-year-old with Photoshop level $300 t-shirt design, every horrid "HR Giger designing $49.99 JC Penney grandpa New Balances" Yeezys is actually profoundly terrible and propping up a very obviously sick man for profit and "content" for the social media gristmill
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 23 July 2021 22:06 (two years ago) link
He can still be a great producer - he's still producing great records, but none for himself.
― birdistheword, Friday, 23 July 2021 22:11 (two years ago) link
yeah, i see that too.
i felt like "jesus is king" was an interesting failure. like, it's a turn to christianity, there is an acknowledgement that narcissism has poisoned him, he wants to turn to a higher power. but then all he finds is this very american, i guess i would say degraded form of christianity that is just another way to worship the self. so he just finds the same old path again, the one that leads to despair.
i think of kanye as like robert lowell or something, creating artistic failures that reflect his own personal failures. but maybe he is less self-aware of this process? he skates around the idea that he is unhappy and that he is holding onto illusions. but he always seems to get close, i guess. there is enough hope in there to make the enterprise not totally grim.
― treeship., Friday, 23 July 2021 22:12 (two years ago) link
xp
Matt consistently otm
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Friday, 23 July 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
but yeah, squint, look at it from another angle, and he is just the hip hop version of trump. america has a long tradition of these kind of sloppy figures, these people who are at once abject and grandiose, who channel the fears and aspirations of the public, but this might just be a sick tradition. he gains nothing by believing himself to be a "genius" or a "prophet" (he's compared himself to st. paul). and like, america is a dumb country to the extent that we encourage people to take up similarly grand and unrealistic ideas about themselves.
― treeship., Friday, 23 July 2021 22:21 (two years ago) link
KANYE WEST WILL MOVE THE RELEASE DATE OF DONDA TO AUGUST 6TH. THANKS FOR YOUR PATIENCE ❤️ HE WANTS TO GIVE HIS FANS THE BEST POSSIBLE PRODUCT WITHOUT RUSHING ANYTHING. HE LOVES YALL WITH ALL OF HIS HEART. GOD BLESS 🙏🏾 #DONDA #RESPECTFULLY— Respectfully Justin (@JustinLaboy) July 24, 2021
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 24 July 2021 04:04 (two years ago) link
It’s never coming out
― frogbs, Saturday, 24 July 2021 04:16 (two years ago) link
it'll come out in a few months and still seem obviously unfinished
― ufo, Saturday, 24 July 2021 04:28 (two years ago) link
Gap execs must be getting ulcers.
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 24 July 2021 04:31 (two years ago) link
Chinese Dondacracy
― “Heroin” (ft. Bobby Gillespie) (C. Grisso/McCain), Saturday, 24 July 2021 06:41 (two years ago) link
He and Lana Del Rey are in a race not to finish and release their new records.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 24 July 2021 12:49 (two years ago) link
https://www.revolt.tv/news/2021/7/23/22590491/atlanta-proclaims-july-22-kanye-west-day
Ffs
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 24 July 2021 16:10 (two years ago) link
Lana Del Rey?
― Mr. Cacciatore (Moodles), Saturday, 24 July 2021 16:18 (two years ago) link
They both missed recent album release deadlines.
― Halfway there but for you, Saturday, 24 July 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
LDR has released good albums in the past decade though.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 24 July 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
Ok ok Yeezus and KSG were decent I admit it.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 24 July 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
The funny thing about that Kanye West Day thing is that the only source of it seems to be someone sending TMZ a pic of a certificate that he was presented backstage – it hasn't been announced or reported in local Atlanta media, etc. It's like they decided to do it on the DL, for his eyes only.
― Max Ice (morrisp), Saturday, 24 July 2021 19:25 (two years ago) link
Yeezus was decent but the idea that kids see ghosts was especially interesting in some way is pure RYM brain
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Saturday, 24 July 2021 20:39 (two years ago) link
I agree but wanted to avoid the pitchforks. Imho Yeezus is the last thing he did worth anyone’s time.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Saturday, 24 July 2021 20:46 (two years ago) link
Speak to me more of this blessed paradise.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 24 July 2021 20:50 (two years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5sN7kgEw954
― Yours in Sorrow, A Schoolboy: (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 24 July 2021 21:13 (two years ago) link
yeah i don't get at all why the reddit/rym/fantano etc. axis adores ksg so much, on rym it's got a higher rating than yeezus lol. it's not terrible but it's hardly some kind of masterpiece
lol rym also has ye above watch the throne? come on lol
― ufo, Sunday, 25 July 2021 02:45 (two years ago) link
that's fucking insane
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 25 July 2021 03:55 (two years ago) link
Setting up my turntables while the all ages rock show is still going pic.twitter.com/iSnEDATgar— Ghostly (@ghostly) July 25, 2021
― ... (Eazy), Sunday, 25 July 2021 18:03 (two years ago) link
can think of no better place to finish an albumhttps://www.tmz.com/2021/07/24/kanye-west-hunkers-down-mercedes-benz-stadium-finish-donda-album/
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Sunday, 25 July 2021 19:27 (two years ago) link
Living in the venue, you say? Masked, you say? Kanye is going full phantomhttps://imaging.broadway.com/images/ipad-show-list-photo/w1470/102183-32.jpg
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 25 July 2021 19:37 (two years ago) link
The phantom of the opera did it first
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 25 July 2021 19:40 (two years ago) link
Lol I see TMZ made that same sort of observation in the article and here I was thinking I had made a good joke.
TMZ did it first.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 25 July 2021 19:44 (two years ago) link
I have to be honest I find the idea of him living in the stadium hilarious if true.
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 25 July 2021 19:45 (two years ago) link
Do u have Josh muted? lol
― ghost runner on first (morrisp), Sunday, 25 July 2021 19:46 (two years ago) link
Lol when I opened the thread his message was still not posted.
So both TMZ and Josh did it first lol
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Sunday, 25 July 2021 20:21 (two years ago) link
wtflollllllllll
― maf you one two (maffew12), Sunday, 25 July 2021 20:30 (two years ago) link
Honestly this rocks - kanye living in a stadium and wearing the same clothes for days, haven't listened to any of donda, don't know if I will
This man is a content creator
― 《Myst1kOblivi0n》 (jim in vancouver), Monday, 26 July 2021 01:24 (two years ago) link