rolling donda thread

And he will say that he is being “Christian” by embracing sinners.

Lee Renaldo from Sonic Youth went to this, posted a photo on Instagram

lol

isn't it just a pic of a tv?

ah might be i was on my phone didn't look closely

still wasn't expecting any overlap there haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5P24B-s7ks

Comment from the hiphopheads subreddit, completely agree:

I think Marilyn Manson is the final drop even for hardcore fans as me. Trump before, slavery, crying for abortion, i took it as some mental crazy weirdness and I was sorry for him. But with Manson as publicity act, its weird as fuck.
I loved Kanye cause he was real, or at least i though he was. But this is not realness, making publicity act on listening party for album for your deceased mother with accused rapist.
I mean, event inviting DaBaby is the least gangsta thing to do, its least real thing to do, its just publicity act and I hate it. The show could be fantastic without them, it destroyed completely my mood for the album. And i think I am done with Kanye.

trying to be edgy is a best case scenario here... hasn't he fretted about being "#metoo'd" himself more than once

yeah i would expect it's more like he thinks manson has been unfairly persecuted by the media like he has

i think it's that and he is trying to make a statement about forgiving sinners, like jesus did.

yeah that makes sense

jesus already did that why do we need kanye to do it again for us

the scumbags in the music industry (& beyond) aligning as some sort of bloc - at least in a more public & explicitly ideological way than they already have - is something i've dreaded for a while. so i hope it's just the jesus thing. but it could be both. the choice of sinners is telling either way

beside the point but those lyrics make me think i've been too hard on mid-to-late-period eminem. which is something

jesus didn't slut shame either

kanye is unlike jesus in a lot of ways. no argument from me.

album is gonna end with a 10 minute Louie CK standup routine about cancel culture

that would be more coherent than anything i'd expect from it

well it's gonna be against a backdrop of Bill Cosby repeating the words "Spanish Fly"

lol

i thought the staging was kind of cool at this thing. menacing.

kim made a good ghost bride.

but yeah, that is neither here nor there. the manson stunt is misguided at best and sort of makes me nauseous, especially considering that this is an album he is dedicating to his mother.

jesus already did that why do we need kanye to do it again for us

idk if you’ve noticed but kanye has a fairly high opinion of himself

anyway he instagrammed yesterday that he’s holding up the album because dababy’s managers won’t clear his verse.

gotta think they’re trying to protect him from himself and there’s some vile shit in there

he instagrammed yesterday that he’s holding up the album because dababy’s managers won’t clear his verse

Well, there's something called Donda on Spotify.

1 hour 48 min i am not looking forward to this

9 minute track "jesus lord" then 12 minute "jesus lord pt 2" lmao

listening now lol.

"donda chant" is weird and makes this seem like a joke.

also jay is back? his verse on "jail" seems to set the stage for the album thematically. he criticizes the "red cap" but echoes a lot of other kanye talking points about the media trying to prevent people from speaking their mind honestly.

Well, there's something called Donda on Spotify.

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there’s a grayed-out track called “jail pt 2” on it too

ridiculous to drop it five days early before the rights are cleared, after so many delays

the cover art is just a black square too. which might be the final art, but this also might be another teaser.

Moon is actually a really beautiful song

Well, given that my son is a fan I know what we’re doing today

going to the woods and keeping him off the grid?

even after all the shit he pulls, people just absolutely cannot stop themselves from racing to give him streams and clicks this morning.

currently sitting at 3.81 on RYM with nearly 3000 ratings, no fucking way. everyone reviewing this comes off like an insane person

On vacation in an area without much internet connection so I’ll have to wait to listen to this… I’m just glad he’s not making 22-minute records anymore

But 1 hour and 48 minutes? Oh boy

can't get back to sleep so i am going to hope this is enough of a drag to get me back asleep

"jail pt 2" is available now it looks like

Well, given that my son is a fan I know what we’re doing today

lol mine listened to the entire thing this morning and has given it a thumbs-up — says it might be his 3rd-favorite Kanye album. I let him play me his favorite tracks in the car when we were just out running out doing some errands, and they weren't bad. I liked "Off the Grid" and "Come to Life" all right.

"god breathed" sounds like a yeezus outtake and this choir outro that goes for way too long

(cranky old men of ilxor being forced to listen to Kanye by their kids is very 2021)

ah on "off the grid" he's gone back to the mbdtf issue of verses that last forever (both his & guests) with no justification like this track would have been ok at half the length

it feels like he's at least trying again, it's nowhere near as tossed off as jesus is king but the level of quality he's reaching is still just the weaker parts of life of pablo

kanye swearing a bunch but only releasing the censored version is such a goofy move

ok "junya" is straight up dreadful

"believe what i say" is pretty decent but kanye's lack of sense for song structure hurts it

like there's certainly potential for a hit there but the structure's really rough with the second verse that goes forever & buju banton's weird interlude

lmao that he really kept the globgogabgalab bit in "remote control", feels like something from a youtube poop

"jesus lord" is a real drag

I'm not sure Donda is that much better than the last two tbh

it would be if I could edit a full hour out of it

What the fuck at that story

More related to that story ^^:

‘So many of these firms work for major GOP organizations and they are not doing this for [Kanye] out of the goodness of their hearts.’ https://t.co/eR6zhegs32

— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) December 17, 2021

I’d suspected that all along. Especially since I think Kanye himself said something about him talking to Jared Kushner on a regular basis.

I have no doubt that Kush and the Trump Administration were trying to set him up as a straw candidate to try to take votes away from the Democrats.

guess who’s going to jail tonight?!

guess who’s going to jail tonight?!