Get your soul sanctified on the Kanye West JESUS IS KING thread

may jesus run with thee

kinda surprised by how many times i thought 'this might have been a cool musical idea if it was fleshed it out a bit instead of on this album' (maybe 3 or 4 times) but it still generally ranges from 'bad' to 'extremely terrible'

Hot trash fam.

Better than YE tho

7.2 album

kanyetothe.com is the best

My wife’s boss was at the Kimmel taping last night and Kanye was the surprise guest. Apparently he was a total ass and offended any none Christians in the room.

funny, the album says something about Christians hating him the most.

Album had some nice guest spots. I also liked the end of that one song where he said to his dad HAUUNNNGH

Kanye without corny misogynist negging makes it his best.

First listen: Like the last one, this feels sketchy and rushed. Simply, it's not good music. There's nothing interesting happening here, sonically or lyrically.

Wild to me how Kanye has gone from one of my favourite artists of all time to someone whose new music I know I will dislike before I even listen to it in the span of just 2 years.

re: rym they still like it more than this year's great chance album, which lol

saw this was released in the local movie theatre but it was only 38 minutes long?!

what was it, just a video version of the album?

Odds are that this thread is better than the album could ever hope to be (and this thread has made me chuckle a few times, which was sorely needed today tbh)

may jesus run with thee

the actual lyric was Hops, but Kanye mis-titled the song

can someone who has zoomers in their life tell us what the young folks thing about kanye?

― Seany's too Dyche to mention (jim in vancouver), Friday, October 25, 2019 2:56 PM (yesterday) bookmarkflaglink

basically the same, but with more "kanye was always a joke"

they don't remember the good times

this really is rough. I get wanting to think it's better than "ye", but c'mon, this doesn't even have anything close to "ghost town". prayers up.

the best part is he has already built in a pre-planned "the people wouldn't accept this brilliant work of art because I was testifying for the Lord instead of partying and material things"

odd him and Chance get together for a passive aggressive collaboration album?

I seriously get mad when people act like Kanye always sucked

Then forgive me, for I know not what I am doing.

i appreciate the sparseness of "use this gospel" tbh

he should drop Jesus and produce a whole Freeway album

y'all hate freeway, scared when you see the freeway. Plus you wanna kill freeway!

Asked 18 year old girl at work. "My older brother said he was good but I dont get why anyone cares."

My daughter came to me a year ago or whatever, in hysterics. "You've got to hear this, it's the dumbest thing!" And it was the scoopity poop song. That was the only time she's ever mentioned Kanye, afaik.

Freeye
Kanwe

my teens don’t care about Kanye at all. My boy only listens to rap fwiw

This is better than ye

but

I probably wont listen a second time

I seriously get mad when people act like Kanye always sucked

His stock is seriously down - College Dropout placed 98 in the 00's poll. Hopefully over time some of those early-mid records will regain their sheen.

How much of that is due to MAGA shit versus music?

I'm sure a lot of his lyrics are being reassessed post #metoo as well.

its kinda hard to believe that kanye is underrated (at least here) now

I like to think many of this around in 2010 thought My Banal Torpid Fantasies finally saw him get his comeuppance.

this = us

mbdtf's mediocre rep around here is pretty justified but i don't think college dropout and late registration had their stocks fall so much until more recently

he's better as a producer for others always has been

the only satisfying thing he's done lately is Pusha T and that's because it was basically him in old Roc a Fella mode, trying to make a commercial rap record not some inane "statement"

Yeezus is still amazing. Listening through this new one now a second time, and that's probably as much as it'll get. A few nice moments, but it flows worse than even Life of Pablo. At least it's shorter.

I actually love this album

And find it moving. I think it’s represents a sincere, maybe desperate attempt to overcome egotism through religion.

how familiar are you with gospel

Not much. I was raised in the Catholic tradition. I know about which saint to turn to for which inconvenience.

I think it’s represents a sincere, maybe desperate attempt to overcome egotism through religion.

I've only heard the new album once - am am likely to never hear it again - but if anything it sounded like a sincere, maybe desperate attempt to overcome religion through egotism to me. The album should have been called 'Kanye is king'. If anything he wants Jesus to worship him, not the other way around.

I was raised Catholic. But I'm suspicious of any review that approaches this album from a dilettante's approach to gospel.

Catholic broz

re LBI, i think it’s a dialectic. He finds his grandiosity oppressive and is looking for a way our. That’s always been his default position—with each passing album he’s become more absurdly boastful, and sounded more miserable. But this one is different—a glimmer of hope

I genuinely admire your good faith (no pun intended) reading of this, but I don't/can't share the sentiment. I also disagree it's always been Kanye's disposition; especially his break out albums were imo not concerned with (the oppression of) his own grandiosity. He definitely became more boastful, and lost his head in fame. I was going to say I'm too cynical to be moved by this, but I don't think that's the case. Rather it's an extreme dislike for people who're at the end of their tether and suddenly "find god", and can't stop shouting they FOUND GOD - and that we all should, pronto. It's uninteresting to me, and often - in this case as well - leads to mediocre to bad art/music.

Has there been interesting reviews from christian perspectives? I don't follow that circle.

this is explicitly not a gospel album, it's a """"gospel"""" album

How Great Ye Art

the movie was kind of good, probably because Kanye is barely in it

Listened to this once (and like many here, probably never again).
It's very bad.
That said I'm not the best person to comment on his work since I haven't really liked an album from him since... 808 (more than a decade ago) !
If you consider all the people who, like me, listened to the whole album even though they don't like it (thanks to its short duration), he certainly will get pretty good figures...

the album is bad but I do find myself interested in it because one of my best friends went through a similar arc as Kanye

in his teens/early 20s he was pretty well-liked, known as a funny & smart dude who was generally very good at most of the things he tried. also very competitive and didn't take criticism well

later he got into drugs & compounded with some personal tragedies he started getting very odd. he's never been diagnosed as such but I am pretty sure he was bipolar. would have depressive phases where we wouldn't see him for weeks and manic phases where he'd say some pretty worrying shit. like I remember him laying on the floor in his bedroom saying he was the second coming of Christ and that he could bend the universe to his will.

obviously this scared the hell out of everyone since no one knew what he was gonna do. but he quit his job, stopped paying rent, and was acting very erratic so his roommates had no choice but to kick him out and call his parents. didn't see him for years after that.

now he is very religious, hangs out exclusively in church groups and is almost entirely clean (he drinks the occasional Bud Light). he's in a much better place mentally but still kinda...absent. like he has no clue what's really going on in the world. but he seems a lot happier than he was and we're all relieved to have our friend back. in some form at least

Has there been interesting reviews from christian perspectives? I don't follow that circle.

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