kanye west

yeah we really should've locked the thread

yea I downloaded 3 copies of MBDTF because the first two times I swore this couldn't be the amazing production everyone was raving about, I had to have an early unmastered copy

nah, he's not very talented

thank you, almighty judge of all things, for rendering this gospel from on high

How's the new one?

unsurprisingly unreleased, so far

Pitchfork has nonetheless given it BNN

best new neuroses

he was a great rap producer, he didn't start to suck until he became a genius

Correct. His production jobs on things like Be by Common and the first Blueprint are fantastic, really inventive.

Was never enthused by his solo records even in the mid-2000s, they seemed very contrived and not terribly interesting. As for the more recent stuff, good night and good luck.

I hope he gets the help he quite obviously needs, you could very easily see him pissing away all his money in the next 5-10 years.

doesn't he have a new album today or something

i think it was "something"

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2020/08/03/who-is-kanyes-running-mate

Bill Garlow, the great-grandson of Buffalo Bill Cody, owns two Best Western hotels in Cody, Wyoming. In June, Garlow, who is seventy-eight, found himself sitting in his office across from Kanye West—a Cody resident since 2019—along with West’s cousin and a Yeezy employee. None of them wore masks. “Kanye kept saying, ‘Best. . . West. . . ern,’ ” Lindsay Garlow, Bill’s daughter, who’d sat in on the meeting, recalled. “He didn’t seem to know that it was a chain of international hotels.” West loved the name—and he thought her dad had come up with it. The group spoke for an hour. “They were on their phones the entire time, texting,” she said. “As a teacher, that drives me batshit crazy.” Eventually, Bill cleared his throat, and West looked up. “He wanted to talk to Dad about hospitality,” Lindsay said, “but we weren’t sure where he was going with that.” West further confused the Garlows when he removed one of his Yeezy shoes and passed it across the desk to Bill. “It was weird,” Lindsay said. She noted her dad’s poor health, adding, “I told him to wash up when Kanye left.”

what level of privilege is not knowing what a Best Western is

I refuse to believe that Kanye had never heard of Best Western

he hasn't made a groanworthy rhyme about it yet so maybe he hasnt

I took several mental stabs at it then turned the knife on myself instead

i mean, I bet there are like 30 Best Westerns in the Chicagoland area

like an egg in a nest on the presidential lectern
I left my shoe on a desk at the Cody Best Western

I fantasized 'bout this back in Chicago
Mercy, mercy me, that Murcielago
Best Western is the cheap hotel where I go
How you say "toilet overflowed" in Spanish? Me no hablo

Maybe you can be my intern
I’ll be Ernest and you can be my Vern
Yeezy pinball built by Stern
YZY Presidential Suite Best Western

kicked off Illinois ballot for fraudulent signatures leaving him well short (60% were fraudulent/invalid). also withdrew from Jersey ballot due to it being discovered he had 600 fraudulent signatures, leaving him short, and he opted not to challenge it.

about to get kicked off of Wisconsin's for filing it after 5 pm, and also having questionable signatures.

think he wants to go to jail at this point.

meanwhile, Rolling Stone writes a shitty article about why we should be afraid of Kanye a day ago.

he should be prosecuted for these sneakers

https://hypebeast.com/2020/8/derrick-rose-adidas-yeezy-prototype-on-foot-look

Rolling Stone writes a shitty article about why we should be afraid of Kanye a day ago

I'm not gonna search for it - was it by Matt Taibbi?

i almost like the yeezy's for their cronenbergian body horror qualities but then i see the price

It's like wearing large fishbones

Nice visual representation of what Kanye’s career looks like atm.

Well, not nice, accurate.

This guy

DC Tok https://t.co/GZZd2zpwmy

— Jason Isbell (@JasonIsbell) August 17, 2020

bro shut up!

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/16/us/politics/kanye-west-president-2020.html

Mr. West first called a Times reporter for this article on Aug. 11, close to midnight on the East Coast but a couple of hours earlier in Cody, Wyo., where he lives. He had just tweeted, “I’m willing to do a live interview with the New York Time about my meeting with Jared,” referring to a recent meeting he had with Jared Kushner, Mr. Trump’s son-in-law, that The Times had inquired about.

During the call, Mr. West was upset and insisted on a live interview on Zoom, demanding that the editor of The Times be present as well, to which the Times reporter demurred.

“I’m Kanye, who are you?” Mr. West asked, adding, “I’m the head of everything.”

He also expressed anguish about abortion, said he didn’t reflexively support Democrats, and asked, “Does anyone at your magazine believe in Jesus?”

During a series of follow-up texts, Mr. West sent a video commentary about his candidacy from Mike Cernovich, a far-right activist, and also denounced a founder of Planned Parenthood, Margaret Sanger, as “an avowed racist” — she was recently disavowed by the group over her support for eugenics. He also sent myriad statistics about abortion rates among Black women, noting that they are higher than those for other ethnic groups, though the gap has been narrowing for years as abortion rates fall.

“Do you see abortion as the main reason you’re doing the presidential campaign?” he was asked in reply.

“How do these facts make you feel?” Mr. West texted back. “As a person.” “???”

Mr. West was later asked what he saw “as the purpose of the presidential campaign.”

“Do you have children” he asked in response.

“One of them has many of your albums on vinyl and plays them very loud,” the reporter told him. (“Lovely,” he replied.)

with all the getting tossed off ballots stuff it’s obvious what the most prescient Kanye album title is amirite

(also he’s totally going for spoiler if it’s not 100% obvious by now)

He’s tweeting every page of all his contracts rn ?

Gonna have to mute for a bit

if he's spoiler for anyone it would be Trump

he is spoiling a perfectly good grammy with his pee as of 52 seconds ago

He's peeing on Garu G's gran?

https://i.redd.it/t7eew4hcawc01.jpg

He does not, however, want to ban abortion. “You can’t do that,” he said in a phone call. “I don’t want to ban or stop or point fingers at anything.” Instead, he said he supported “stipends for families that need support, creating orphanages that are really high-level desirable for people to go to"

finally a candidate with solutions

there's a lot of people around him who are going to be guilty of standing by, exploting and enabling this profoundly sick man when he meets a bad end

Trust me ... I WONT STOP pic.twitter.com/RmVkqrSa4F

— ye (@kanyewest) September 16, 2020

Yeeeeesus.

peezus

late registration get it!! lol

anyways he should just be a shoe designer and retreat into shadowy lagerfeldian fashion world seal-off from the discourse

i'm all for people pissing on the grammies. feeling v conflicted rn.

I guess it's a good thing we didn't change the name of the board to "I Love Kanye West"

but.... but.... I thought awards were an objective judgement of artistic worth? which is why he goes and collects them + complains about not getting enough of them + complains about beyonce not getting them?

he won't stop... peeing?

I think he means he won't stop having a perpetual nervous breakdown in public.

i dig him posting his contracts! I question the veracity but it's an interesting means of transparency. pissing on a grammy afterwards is extra cool points and i'm pleased that kanye is clearly well hydrated. i dunno, this is kind of cool? Then i look at the other tweets in the storm and it's kind of not i suppose, but this stuff is cool!

poor Kim, probably having to hide his 2009 Teen Choice Award while he was busy with the Grammy