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 β€οΈ HE WANTS TO GIVE HIS FANS THE BEST POSSIBLE PRODUCT WITHOUT RUSHING ANYTHING. HE LOVES YALL WITH ALL OF HIS HEART. GOD BLESS ππΎ #DONDA #RESPECTFULLY— Respectfully Justin (@JustinLaboy) July 24, 2021
― ... (Eazy), Saturday, 24 July 2021 04:04 (two years ago) link
Itβs 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
― βHeroinβ (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
― βββ (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.
― βββ (Moka), Saturday, 24 July 2021 18:58 (two years ago) link
Ok ok Yeezus and KSG were decent I admit it.
― βββ (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 βΒ 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 anyoneβs time.
― βββ (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
― βββ (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.
― βββ (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.
― βββ (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
― βββ (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
― γMyst1kOblivi0nγ (jim in vancouver), Monday, 26 July 2021 01:24 (two years ago) link