Was just coming to post that link. It's a very good piece.
― but also fuck you (unperson), Thursday, 2 September 2021 17:11 (two years ago) link
saw that when you tweeted it very good writing
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 September 2021 17:14 (two years ago) link
His self-importance serves you, not him; his self-importance is killing him but letting you witness the glitziest self-immolation you’ll ever see.
This seems factually wrong. During the Yeezus era, when people loved his music, he was in a deep hole financially and psychologically. Lyrically and musically on that album, he comes across as bitter and aggrieved and the album features some of his most misogynistic moments.
Today he is worth over a billion dollars and says that Christianity has helped him overcome opioid addiction among other challenges. To be fair, he often still seems scattered and sometimes grandiose, but the bile that fueled him in the Yeezus era is mostly gone. He doesn’t seem to be in the worst place of his life psychologically.
Musically he is not on top of his game (what is he, 45?). Politically his instincts have been atrocious. But the spectacle of his unraveling was more of a thing in the days when he made good music. Honestly the media liked him better when he seemed to be on the very edge and that probably contributes to his sense that they are trying to “enslave” him, as he often says.
― treeship., Thursday, 2 September 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
That post itself is Kanye level disingenuous. Congratulations
― xheugy eddy (D-40), Thursday, 2 September 2021 17:33 (two years ago) link
i agree that the new abstract mindstate beats aren't bad but the whole album feels so knowingly retro that it flirted with ersatz. my favorite kanye of the past decade is probably DAYTONA followed by his nas album.
― think “Gypsy-Pixie” and misspelled. (We are a white family.) (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 2 September 2021 19:06 (two years ago) link
that nas album was terrible
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Thursday, 2 September 2021 20:04 (two years ago) link
i think a lot of the beats on the abstract record are great. daytona obv is the best thing, i'm more in voodoo's camp on the nas
abstract isn't like a major record or anything but i found it charming, corny in places but i didn't find it ersatz, just two 49 year old rappers coming back and rapping like they used to 25 years ago because that's how they rap
for me it was just cool to hear kanye doing some more old kanye shit
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 September 2021 21:24 (two years ago) link
oh KTSE by Teyana Taylor that was good too
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 2 September 2021 21:32 (two years ago) link
Pure Souls is good
― treeship., Sunday, 12 September 2021 23:40 (two years ago) link
Jail and Pure Souls are the best ones. Jesus Lord is almost good but Kanye's flow is garbage and ruins it.
― adam t. (abanana), Monday, 13 September 2021 06:23 (two years ago) link
😳😳😳😳😳😳 “DRAKE ATE HIS LUNCH ANYWAY” OUCH https://t.co/kRKgk7c3oW pic.twitter.com/1c6WjB9HaQ— THE KID MERO 🇩🇴 (@THEKIDMERO) September 14, 2021
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 17:24 (two years ago) link
okay that might be the very last person who I thought would enter into this
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 17:26 (two years ago) link
"Nobody flies in the entire world of hip-hop just to croak one syllable, just so you can say that everybody was on it." so is this why he wanted TR-i on it?
― frogbs, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 17:30 (two years ago) link
lol nice
― a talented ‘Rebel’ with Balls (Spottie), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 17:37 (two years ago) link
Article says 88 Keys got Rundgren involved not Kanye
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 17:44 (two years ago) link
lol I love that Rundgren played a passive role in this. It reminds of the Paul McCartney Kanye story.
"I had no idea what was going to happen. I didn’t want it to be at his house or my house, because it could be awkward if one of us wanted to leave. So we met on neutral ground -- a cottage at the Beverly Hills Hotel -- and I showed up with a guitar and my roadie, and we had a keyboard and a bass," McCartney recalls, before revealing how West spent some of his time during that session. "I was sitting around, strumming the guitar -- that’s normally how I start a song -- and Kanye was looking at his iPad, basically scrolling through images of (his wife) Kim (Kardashian West)," McCartney says. "So we were telling stories, and at one point I told him how 'Let It Be' came from a dream about my mother, who had died years before, where she said, 'Don’t worry, just let it be.'""He said, 'I’m going to write a song about my mother,' so I sat down at this little Wurlitzer keyboard and started playing some chords, and he started singing," he continues. "I thought, 'Oh, are we going to finish this?' but that was that. And it became 'Only One.'"McCartney went on to collaborate with West -- and others including Theophilus London and Allan Kingdom -- on "All Day" in 2015. West and McCartney also teamed up with Rihanna for "FourFiveSeconds" the same year. The process of collaborating in that way was new for the former Beatles member, but something he was thrilled to participate in."It’s this modern process that I was happy to open myself up to -- you’ve got loads of stuff, and the skill is to distill it. I was sitting around, just strumming a little groove and nobody said, 'Let’s make a song of that,'" he says. "But months later I got a song with Rihanna on it and I said, 'Where am I?' I didn’t recognize it because they changed the key. I thought that record was great."
"I was sitting around, strumming the guitar -- that’s normally how I start a song -- and Kanye was looking at his iPad, basically scrolling through images of (his wife) Kim (Kardashian West)," McCartney says. "So we were telling stories, and at one point I told him how 'Let It Be' came from a dream about my mother, who had died years before, where she said, 'Don’t worry, just let it be.'"
"He said, 'I’m going to write a song about my mother,' so I sat down at this little Wurlitzer keyboard and started playing some chords, and he started singing," he continues. "I thought, 'Oh, are we going to finish this?' but that was that. And it became 'Only One.'"
McCartney went on to collaborate with West -- and others including Theophilus London and Allan Kingdom -- on "All Day" in 2015. West and McCartney also teamed up with Rihanna for "FourFiveSeconds" the same year. The process of collaborating in that way was new for the former Beatles member, but something he was thrilled to participate in.
"It’s this modern process that I was happy to open myself up to -- you’ve got loads of stuff, and the skill is to distill it. I was sitting around, just strumming a little groove and nobody said, 'Let’s make a song of that,'" he says. "But months later I got a song with Rihanna on it and I said, 'Where am I?' I didn’t recognize it because they changed the key. I thought that record was great."
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 14 September 2021 17:51 (two years ago) link
“Tell Mr. Sinatra it was an honor working with him!”
“Yeah, for him, too. NEXT!”
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Tuesday, 14 September 2021 17:59 (two years ago) link
drake's album was worse, though
― treeship., Thursday, 16 September 2021 18:41 (two years ago) link
it’s funny that the pitchfork score for this is lower than both ‘Jesus is kind’ and ‘ye’ which are both way worse
― flopson, Thursday, 16 September 2021 19:01 (two years ago) link
i guess it depends on what you look for in an album. this is overly long and feels unstructured. but the highs are much higher.
― treeship., Thursday, 16 September 2021 19:04 (two years ago) link
jesus lord would have been really powerful if he removed that self-serving section from larry hoover jr. from the end -- a voicemail of him thanking ye for advocating for his father in the oval office. it just feels like a cheap point -- see? that oval office visiti was good actually! -- and it mars the main subject of the song, which is about feeling lost and needing a source of hope
― treeship., Thursday, 16 September 2021 19:07 (two years ago) link
i feel like his need to publicly talk about his mother, still, is somewhat odd. especially because the way he brings her in is not really about her but about him. and it feels sort of sad, kind of -- like, he is talking about how his mom loved him unconditionally almost as a way of demanding that the american public do that too.
― treeship., Thursday, 16 September 2021 19:09 (two years ago) link
i think sometimes people feel embarrassed for kanye listening to stuff like that which is why they don't like the music.
― treeship., Thursday, 16 September 2021 19:10 (two years ago) link
jesus lord would have been really powerful if he removed that self-serving section from larry hoover jr. from the end
Funny, when I saw there was a “Jesus Lord 2,” I figured that would be a single version without the Hoover part, but nope, there it is again. Love the hook on that song, could listen to it for 10 minutes straight. It could be a new gospel standard if not for the rest. Less a fan of the verses.
― ... (Eazy), Thursday, 16 September 2021 20:32 (two years ago) link
Yeah, I know Drake is ridiculous but give me that LP over this one
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 16 September 2021 21:02 (two years ago) link
The best thing about Donda is probably guest verses. Maybe it’d feel different if the production was sharper? But also maybe not
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Thursday, 16 September 2021 21:04 (two years ago) link
Love the hook on that song, could listen to it for 10 minutes straight.
seems like the direction he's headed
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Thursday, 16 September 2021 21:33 (two years ago) link
I just had this bizarre vision of this song being performed live with Korn at the Grammies
― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 17 September 2021 22:19 (two years ago) link
Sorry: "Hurricane" specifically
ima fix donda:
keep my spirit aliveremote controlok ok pt2off the gridjunya pt2hurricanemoonpure soulslord i need youcome to lifejesus lord pt2
― maf you one two (maffew12), Sunday, 19 September 2021 13:39 (two years ago) link
“Ye is like this encompassing thing of fashion, bars, beats, production, videos and this.. & then u get Rocky dressing better than me Tyler better videos Drake more recordsJ Cole more backpackKendrick better bars.. So i literally had to go Thanos” - Kanye West pic.twitter.com/umktDgpD1P— Hero (@HopHeroes) November 5, 2021
― ... (Eazy), Monday, 8 November 2021 06:07 (two years ago) link
lol is anyone going to dare listen to the deluxe version he just put out which has 5 new tracks and a totally new sequence
― ufo, Monday, 15 November 2021 02:42 (two years ago) link
“life of the party” is a good song
― grove street (party) direction (voodoo chili), Monday, 15 November 2021 02:53 (two years ago) link
i dunno if i'm going to listen to the deluxe version of a very long album but i quite like donda.
― DT, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 09:25 (two years ago) link
... So i literally had to go Thanos” haven’t heard a note of anything on this album but is Kanye saying he fucked a space skeleton?
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Tuesday, 16 November 2021 10:06 (two years ago) link
"go thanos" not "do thanos"
― ufo, Tuesday, 16 November 2021 10:11 (two years ago) link
Iirc Thanos was in love with Death, who was in fact a space skeleton
― Chappies banging dustbin lids together (President Keyes), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 18:27 (two years ago) link
Thanos himself is thicc
― bobo honkin' slobo babe (sic), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 18:35 (two years ago) link
I thought he meant Theranos at first
― ... (Eazy), Wednesday, 17 November 2021 20:54 (two years ago) link
Big show tonight!
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 10 December 2021 03:48 (two years ago) link
more like don'tda
― frogbs, Friday, 10 December 2021 04:02 (two years ago) link
this church choir is incredible, wow
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 December 2021 05:41 (two years ago) link
this is awesome so far
― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 10 December 2021 06:03 (two years ago) link
ums, please don’t take this as a dig at you because scrolling through Twitter for the last thirty minutes inspired this post before I can and saw yours, but….
*sigh*
It’s all so disappointing, yet entirely fucking predictable, that all he has to do is come out and competently play some old songs and people immediately erase the Trump supporting, the slavery excusing and the giving Marilyn Manson a platform. I mean, for fuck’s sake, he was just giving Manson airtime a couple months ago. Can we maybe not with the redemption arc before he even shows one fucking ounce of understanding about the harm he’s done by platforming a scumbag and caping for actual fascists?
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 December 2021 06:34 (two years ago) link
“before I came and saw yours”
Drake alone is so dry
― Spottie, Friday, 10 December 2021 06:50 (two years ago) link
better than being damp i guess
― hopefully this review helped someone (Neanderthal), Friday, 10 December 2021 06:51 (two years ago) link
It’s just so disappointing how easily we as a culture allow people to skate on doing and saying absolutely heinous shit with no accountability because… tHE bAnGErS.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 December 2021 06:52 (two years ago) link
What is drake doing this is so bad lol
― Spottie, Friday, 10 December 2021 06:55 (two years ago) link
And it’s not like this is just another show that people are vibing on, this is a massive, Amazon sponsored and advertised to the nines EVENT. It’s just so gross.
― a superficial sheeb of intelligence (jon /via/ chi 2.0), Friday, 10 December 2021 06:58 (two years ago) link