RIP Kanye West

100% of Tru heads love Jay Z, it's written in the oracle

we still hustle till the sun come up

when you have a 25 year career and all the best music is in the first third

jay-z is the simpsons

I haven't been paying close attention to the drama around his Netflix doc, but I just saw the headline for this NY Times article and holy shit, they've been working on this for 20 years? That's ridiculous, imagine if someone was doing a doc on Prince in 1977 or the Beatles in 1961...

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/02/11/arts/music/kanye-west-documentary-jeen-yuhs.html

right? against all better judgement, i'm really looking forward to the it. i'm hoping for the documentary version of "Family Business" and "Last Call"

...looking forward to *it*, even

This isn't *quite* the same, but it could be like watching a film of a favorite actor before they went off the deep end, like "remember when they were a young and charming idealist hoping to make it rather than the spoiled asshole they've become now?" Bittersweet, but regardless, I'm sure the first installment will be good, where Kanye is literally knocking on doors and shopping his demos to people who just smile politely and send him on his way. It's the type of thing every artist has talked about in their bio or doc, but it's crazy when you can actually SEE it.

Looked it up, guess it isn't a quatrain (I hear it as ABCA, it's just AA). It's the one you would expect about Deepak Chopra and 2Pac, I remember listening to the album for the first time on my blastbox riding to a friend's party and I nearly rode off the road and got into an accident when I heard that line.

Kanye is not a real person pic.twitter.com/Fo0sKYwXWP

— Piñata Farms 🪅 (@pinatafarms) February 14, 2022

this dude gonna end up in jail

yeah it's really fucked up how ppl are just laughing this off, it's escalating stalker behavior

My first reaction was laughter due to the absurdity of it all, then one second later I realised these are real people.
Stalking, harassment, really destructive, not good

this is the dumbest high school shit

Mentally ill x power x money x more power x more money x religious "enlightenment"

Literal worst combination.

He's been enabled years past the point of return and it's only going to get worse.

That said, "No More Parties in LA" never fails to affect me. It still sounds just as dope as it did 5-6 years ago.

This is all really disturbing.

this is the dumbest high school shit

It is dumb, but I feel like "dumb high school shit" undersells how dangerous his behavior is becoming. This is textbook abuser behavior.

textbook abuser behavior is absolutely the way lots of high school kids act! they're equally poisonous sometimes.

i find that high school never ended in many ways.

xp - except your average high schooler doesn't have an audience of 13.6 million followers with a not insignificant percentage of that cheering his misogyny and threats of violence on.

https://pitchfork.com/news/kanye-west-says-new-album-donda-2-wont-stream-will-only-be-available-on-his-stem-player/

the stem player is $200 so lol

it'll be available on Soulseek before you even plug the thing in

sure Kanye it'll be out 5 days from now give me a fucking break

Well, at least I’m surprised and somehow proud he didn’t cash in on the NFT scams. I was 100% expecting him to do it.

CUSTOMIZE ANY SONG
SHIPS WITH DONDA
SPLIT ANY SONG INTO STEMS

FEATURES
CONTROL VOCALS, DRUMS, BASS, AND SAMPLES
ISOLATE PARTS
ADD EFFECTS
4 CHANNEL LOSSLESS AUDIO MIXING
REAL TIME LOOP AND SPEED CONTROL
TACTILE EFFECTS
SAVE, PLAYBACK, AND DOWNLOAD MIXES
UPDATE CONTENT AND SOFTWARE

as a concept, i like this a lot. fuck no i'm not buying one.

hes finally just throwing up his hands and going "here, you guys finish this"

Mentally ill x power x money x more power x more money x religious "enlightenment"
Literal worst combination.
― billstevejim, Tuesday, February 15, 2022 12:17 AM (three days ago)

Plus "imposter syndrome." You forgot imposter syndrome.

lmao at the FAQ page for this dumb thing

IS THERE A MAXIMUM FILE UPLOAD LENGTH?
10 MINUTES

nice

HOW DO I CONNECT BLUETOOTH?
A QUICK PRESS OF VOLUME UP AND DOWN WILL DISCONNECT, OR RECONNECT

oh cool that will be very convenient. i very rarely hit the volume up or down button when listening to music, after all

my friend Luc bought the stem player for Donda (the first one) and said it is an amazing piece of tech, he was actually really impressed

the player does seem pretty intuitive and incredible, probably worth the money. wish it wasn't attached to this nonsense tho.

xp i think that means pressing up and down at the same time

oh right. me read good.

I don’t really get the device outside of kind of a novelty thing. Not sure I want to fade in/fade out different tracks on a song while I’m listening to it and also does this not require the artist to supply said elements separately or is it sophisticated enough to filter these things out itself?

Also aesthetically it’s like two degrees removed from a Cronenberg interface, which slightly works in its favor imo.

I really don't want to work that hard to listen to a new Kanye album

the faq says "the platform can split any song into stems" but im, uh, skeptical.

Sounds like bullshit but if by some miracle it is not, I would live to know! I would buy anything that could do that

*any Donda 2 song

lol Moka

Surprised he's not releasing it with some Bon Iver stems and Tim McGraw stems and Gaga stems, if he really wants to prove how the whole thing works.

Next he'll announce that each purchase comes with geocache coordinates for the thumb drives you’ll have to dig up, because why not

now i aint saying he a geo digger

there are products that do stem extraction and I'd generally trust them more than Kanye

esp if the Kanye thing is $200 at that price point you could probably get an actual tool that's going to be supported with updates and integrates with other recording software not the passing fancy of a loony

Next he'll announce that each purchase comes with geocache coordinates for the thumb drives you’ll have to dig up, because why not

― Legalize Suburban Benches (Raymond Cummings), Friday, February 18, 2022 3:29 PM bookmarkflaglink

now i aint saying he a geo digger

― class project pat (m bison), Friday, February 18, 2022 4:07 PM bookmarkflaglink

lmao

yeah I found some cheap stem extractors online recently that were a lot cheaper than that. idk if they worked but I don't think that matters in commerce anymore

its so weird to me that its a portable device. like what are the use cases for a portable stem extractor that (unless i misread the faq again) only holds a max of 10 minutes of audio? "pass the aux, i'm going to play 2-3 kanye songs and fade the different parts in & out!"

it's the new puff-puff-give

if Donda 2 exists in any form at all its just stems

stems and seeds

This will be a hit tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yVdBlGSgRw

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