New Kanye West Album

floggg

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

BS? Your denying kanye is a borderline/closet racist ?

The only BS here is Kanye fans force feeding themselves the album coming up with excuses why they like it.

Show me these racist lines?

Acknowledging racism/colour divides isn't racism you know.

Moreover, given your apparent outrage, show me something that hasn't been said before (though usually in a better manner) 100s of time over by PE, Ice Cube, Nas, Killer Mike.

Heck, Eminem has also covered some similar ground with regard to white Americas views on rap and rappers. I take it he hates white people too, yea?

evil_seed

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

BS? Your denying kanye is a borderline/closet racist ?

The only BS here is Kanye fans force feeding themselves the album coming up with excuses why they like it.

Why would you make an excuse for liking something. You like something or you don't it's that simple.

As for the racist stuff... PLEASE! What's being said on Yeezus is feckin nothing compared to stuff that's been said by the artists other people have already listed. Society these days claims racsim on all types of sh*t that's not even remotely racist. Step your game up, listen to those artists and then come back with a valid point and examples on racism on Yeezus...

conor.hogan.2

A good instrumental album, not a good album.

It is times like this he should just be a producer, even though the production credits look like a Game album.

floggg

evil_seed wrote: »

Why would you make an excuse for liking something. You like something or you don't it's that simple.

As for the racist stuff... PLEASE! What's being said on Yeezus is feckin nothing compared to stuff that's been said by the artists other people have already listed. Society these days claims racsim on all types of sh*t that's not even remotely racist. Step your game up, listen to those artists and then come back with a valid point and examples on racism on Yeezus...

I guess done people just need to come up with excuses not to like things...

FrankLamar

Came in number 4 on the Irish Album charts. Impressive imo

speedboatchase

Anyone notice how much the general public HATES Kanye these days? I didn't follow any of the pre-release hype or reviews and I'm really enjoying Yeezus. *shrugs*

floggg

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

His label mate J cole another man who produces the majority of his own records has won this head to head hands down despite what the sales reflect, i expected more from kanye i must say. Cole has come out with one of the best albums of the year and kanye one of the worst so far imo, at least from what i listened too.

Just really getting to listen to Born Sinner in full.

Just noticed that J Cole addresses some of the same race and consumerism issues on tracks like Runaway, Chaining Day and Miss America as Kanye does on Black Skinhead and New Slaves.

I presume Cole is a racist too then?

jonneymendoza

floggg wrote: »

Just really getting to listen to Born Sinner in full.

Just noticed that J Cole addresses some of the same race and consumerism issues on tracks like Runaway, Chaining Day and Miss America as Kanye does on Black Skinhead and New Slaves.

I presume Cole is a racist too then?

LOL exactly

Boom_Bap

So I finally have listened to Yeezus. I dig it, it's not a massive groundbreaking deal that some folk in the review land are waxing on about.
It's like a handful of leftovers from 808's, a sprinkling of the showstopping stuff from Watch The Throne, a bit of jealousy of what Childish Gambino has been doing...that's right, I think Childish Gambino has been a huge influence on this album. Maybe add in what Chance The Rapper is doing and taking elements of that. Then throw in the affinity for Daft Punk, stir it all up in a mixer, and this album is splurted out.

But it sounds great. I'm not really paying much attention to the lyrical content, when I do listen, I just hear corny things like 'Swagheli'. But the rapping and singing suits the beats perfectly.

If we are to classify it into a genre, I wouldn't necessarily put it in a hip hop category, in fact I wouldn't know where to put it. It's out there on it's own, a bold release that has paid off for Kanye.

kwestfan08

Good review by Lou Reed on Yeezus. Seemed to be a fan.

Kanye West is a child of social networking and hip-hop. And he knows about all kinds of music and popular culture. The guy has a real wide palette to play with. That's all over Yeezus. There are moments of supreme beauty and greatness on this record, and then some of it is the same old ****. But the guy really, really, really is talented. He's really trying to raise the bar. No one's near doing what he's doing, it's not even on the same planet.

People say this album is minimal. And yeah, it's minimal. But the parts are maximal. Take "Blood on the Leaves." There's a lot going on there: horns, piano, bass, drums, electronic effects, all rhythmically matched — towards the end of the track, there's now twice as much sonic material. But Kanye stays unmoved while this mountain of sound grows around him. Such an enormous amount of work went into making this album. Each track is like making a movie.

Actually, the whole album is like a movie, or a novel — each track segues into the next. This is not individual tracks sitting on their own island, all alone.

Very often, he'll have this very monotonous section going and then, suddenly —"BAP! BAP! BAP! BAP!" — he disrupts the whole thing and we're on to something new that's absolutely incredible. That's architecture, that's structure — this guy is seriously smart. He keeps unbalancing you. He'll pile on all this sound and then suddenly pull it away, all the way to complete silence, and then there's a scream or a beautiful melody, right there in your face. That's what I call a sucker punch.

He seems to have insinuated in a recent New York Times interview that My Beautiful Dark, Twisted Fantasy was to make up for stupid **** he'd done. And now, with this album, it's "Now that you like me, I'm going to make you unlike me." It's a dare. It's braggadoccio. Axl Rose has done that too, lots of people have. "I Am a God" — I mean, with a song title like that, he's just begging people to attack him.

But why he starts the album off with that typical synth buzzsaw sound is beyond me, but what a sound it is, all gussied up and processed. I can't figure out why he would do that. It's like farting. It's another dare — I dare you to like this. Very perverse.

Still, I have never thought of music as a challenge — you always figure, the audience is at least as smart as you are. You do this because you like it, you think what you're making is beautiful. And if you think it's beautiful, maybe they'll think it's beautiful. When I did Metal Machine Music, New York Times critic John Rockwell said, "This is really challenging." I never thought of it like that. I thought of it like, "Wow, if you like guitars, this is pure guitar, from beginning to end, in all its variations. And you're not stuck to one beat." That's what I thought. Not, "I'm going to challenge you to listen to something I made." I don't think West means that for a second, either. You make stuff because it's what you do and you love it.

That explains the jump-cuts that are all over this record. Over and over, he sets you up so well — something's just got to happen — and he gives it to you, he hits you with these melodies. (He claims he doesn't have those melodic choruses anymore — that's not true. That melody the strings play at the end of "Guilt Trip," it's so beautiful, it makes me so emotional, it brings tears to my eyes.) But it's real fast cutting — boom, you're in it. Like at the end of "I Am a God," anybody else would have been out, but then pow, there's that coda with Justin Vernon, "Ain't no way I'm giving up." Un-****ing-believable. It's fantastic. Or that very repetitive part in "Send It Up" that goes on five times as long as it should and then it turns into this amazing thing, a sample of Beenie Man's "Stop Live in a De Pass."

And it works. It works because it's beautiful — you either like it or you don't — there's no reason why it's beautiful. I don't know any musician who sits down and thinks about this. He feels it, and either it moves you too, or it doesn't, and that's that. You can analyze it all you want.

Many lyrics seem like the same old b.s. Maybe because he made up so much of it at the last minute. But it's the energy behind it, the aggression. Usually the Kanye lyrics I like are funny, and he's very funny here. Although he thinks that getting head from nuns and eating Asian pussy with sweet and sour sauce is funny, and it might be, to a 14-year-old — but it has nothing to do with me. Then there's the obligatory endless blowjobs and menages-a-trois.

But it's just ridiculous that people are getting upset about "Put my fist in her like a civil rights sign"? C'mon, he's just having fun. That's no more serious than if he said he's going to drop a bomb on the Vatican. How can you take that seriously?

And then he'll come out with an amazing line like "We could have been somebody." He's paraphrasing that famous Marlon Brando line from On the Waterfront, "I coulda been a contender. I coulda been somebody, instead of a bum, which is what I am, let's face it. It was you, Charlie." Or he says "I'd rather be a dick than a swallower" — but then he does a whole chorus with Frank Ocean. What he says and what he does are often two different things.

"Hold My Liquor" is just heartbreaking, and particularly coming from where it's coming from — listen to that incredibly poignant hook from a tough guy like Chief Keef, wow. At first, West says "I can hold my liquor" and then he says "I can't hold my liquor." This is classic — classic manic-depressive, going back and forth. Or as the great Delmore Schwartz said, "Being a manic depressive is like having brown hair

"I'm great, I'm terrible, I'm great, I'm terrible." That's all over this record. And then that synthesized guitar solo on the last minute and a half of that song, he just lets it run, and it's devastating, absolutely majestic

There are more contradictions on "New Slaves," where he says "**** you and your Hamptons house." But God only knows how much he's spending wherever he is. He's trying to have it both ways — he's the upstart but he's got it all, so he frowns on it. Some people might say that makes him complicated, but it's not really that complicated. He kind of wants to retain his street cred even though he got so popular. And I think he thinks people are going to think he's become one of them — so he's going to very great lengths to claim that he's not. On "New Slaves," he's accusing everyone of being materialistic but you know, when guys do something like that, it's always like, "But we're the exception. It's all those other people, but we know better."

"New Slaves" has that line "Y'all throwin' contracts at me/ You know that niggas can't read." Wow, wow, wow. That is an amazing thing to put in a lyric. That's a serious accusation in the middle of this rant at other people: an accusation of himself. As if he's some piece of **** from the street who doesn't know nothing. Yeah, right — your mom was a college English professor.

He starts off cool on that track but he winds up yelling at the top of his voice. I think he maybe had a couple of great lines already written for this song but then when he recorded the vocal, but then he just let loose with it and trusted his instincts. Because I can't imagine actually writing down most of these lines. But that's just me.

But musically, he nails it beyond belief on"New Slaves." It's mainly just voice and one or two synths, very sparse, and then it suddenly breaks out into this incredible melodic… God knows what. Frank Ocean sings this soaring part, then it segues into a moody sample of some Hungarian rock band from the '70s. It literally gives me goosebumps. It's like the visuals at the end of the new Superman movie — just overwhelmingly incredible. I played it over and over.

Some people ask why he's screaming on "I Am a God." It's not like a James Brown scream — it's a real scream of terror. It makes my hair stand on end. He knows they could turn on him in two seconds. By "they" I mean the public, the fickle audience. He could kill Taylor Swift and it would all be o

The juxtaposition of vocal tones on "Blood on the Leaves" is incredible — that pitched-up sample of Nina Simone singing "Strange Fruit" doing a call-and-response with Kanye's very relaxed Autotuned voice. That is fascinating, aurally, nothing short of spectacular. And holy ****, it's so gorgeous rhythmically, where sometimes the vocal parts are matched and sometimes they clash. He's so sad in this song. He's surrounded by everyone except the one he wants — he had this love ripped away from him, before he even knew it. "I know there ain't nothing wrong with me… something strange is happening." Well, surprise, surprise — welcome to the real world, Kanye

It's fascinating — it's very poignant, but there's nothing warm about it, sonically — it's really electronic, and after a while, his voice and the synth are virtually the same. But I don't think that's a statement about anything — it's just something he heard, and then he made it so you could hear it too.

At so many points in this album, the music breaks into this melody, and it's glorious — I mean, glorious. He has to know that — why else would you do that? He's not just banging his head against the wall, but he acts as though he is. He doesn't want to seem precious, he wants to keep his cred

And sometimes it's like a synth orchestra. I've never heard anything like it — I've heard people try to do it but no way, it just comes out tacky. Kanye is there. It's like his video for "Runaway," with the ballet dancers — it was like, look out, this guy is making connections. You could bring one into the other — ballet into hip-hop — they're not actually contradictory, and he knew that, he could see it immediately. He obviously can hear that all styles are the same, somewhere deep in their heart, there's a connection. It's all the same ****, it's all music — that's what makes him great. If you like sound, listen to what he's giving you. Majestic and inspiring.

http://thetalkhouse.com/reviews/view/lou-reed

ghostface ste

Boom_Bap wrote: »

So I finally have listened to Yeezus. I dig it, it's not a massive groundbreaking deal that some folk in the review land are waxing on about.
It's like a handful of leftovers from 808's, a sprinkling of the showstopping stuff from Watch The Throne, a bit of jealousy of what Childish Gambino has been doing...that's right, I think Childish Gambino has been a huge influence on this album. Maybe add in what Chance The Rapper is doing and taking elements of that. Then throw in the affinity for Daft Punk, stir it all up in a mixer, and this album is splurted out.

But it sounds great. I'm not really paying much attention to the lyrical content, when I do listen, I just hear corny things like 'Swagheli'. But the rapping and singing suits the beats perfectly.

If we are to classify it into a genre, I wouldn't necessarily put it in a hip hop category, in fact I wouldn't know where to put it. It's out there on it's own, a bold release that has paid off for Kanye.

Glad it wasn't just me that thought some of it sounded very Gambino-esque. Overall album sounds great, just need to ignore a lot the lyrics/rapping.

Boom_Bap

ghostface ste wrote: »

Glad it wasn't just me that thought some of it sounded very Gambino-esque. Overall album sounds great, just need to ignore a lot the lyrics/rapping.

I was actually talking to The Expert about the album recently, he is of the exact same opinion. Production-wise and sonically, it is excellent, but the rapping is just background noise.

And I must re-emphasise, he takes the word 'Swag' and the word 'Swahili' and combines them to form the word 'Swagili'. That is the most ridicilulous thing I have possibly ever heard in my life......and that is coming from someone with 2 kids that talk all sorts on nonsence to me.

Bobby Baccala

It's hard to believe this is the same man that made watch the throne so brilliant with Jay when you compare this album to jay z's, literally on opposite endsof the hip hop spectrum!

baddebt

awful awful album

LUPE

P4DDY2K11 wrote: »

It's hard to believe this is the same man that made watch the throne so brilliant with Jay when you compare this album to jay z's, literally on opposite endsof the hip hop spectrum!

I presume your disbelief is in relation to how poor Jay's album is versus the brilliance of Yeezus? I hope so

A V A

id love to hear what kanye's flow would sound like over the whole of magna carta

A V A

video for black skin head is up


pretty cool but basic at the same time

http://www.prefixmag.com/news/watch-kanye-west-black-skinheads-video/74182/

mufcboy1999

Black skinhead is one hell of a song to workout too.

alphamule

i hate him!



will i still like it?

mufcboy1999

alphamule wrote: »

i hate him!



will i still like it?

He's a d*ckhead alright but that particular song is good the albums rubbish though.

alphamule

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

He's a d*ckhead alright but that particular song is good the albums rubbish though.

im listening to it now.

still hate him.

need new gym tunes

floggg

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

He's a d*ckhead alright but that particular song is good the albums rubbish though.

Any luck on digging up the racist lines? And what's your feelings on J Cole's racism?

alphamule wrote: »

im listening to it now.

still hate him.

need new gym tunes

It ain't really gym music for me.

Not enough drums and the tempo ain't right.

For me, you can't really look past M.O.P. or some crunk for the gym.

mufcboy1999

floggg wrote: »

Any luck on digging up the racist lines? And what's your feelings on J Cole's racism?



It ain't really gym music for me.

Not enough drums and the tempo ain't right.

For me, you can't really look past M.O.P. or some crunk for the gym.

Hello shadow, actually havnt listened to Coles album in a while since Iv no broadband ATM , what's happening with him ?

danbrosnan

Worst album ever, kayne and the lads are taking the piss big time.. its a disgrace..:mad:

Great over your big ****ing head and get your ****ing soul back..

floggg

mufcboy1999 wrote: »

Hello shadow, actually havnt listened to Coles album in a while since Iv no broadband ATM , what's happening with him ?

Shadow? Hardly.

Its just when I saw your post here and it reminded me how you disappeared once you were called on your bull****.

It always amuses me on here how people who state something over and over again just disappear when called out instead of just admitting they were wrong.

And given you were extolling its virtues in this very thread, you've obviously listened to the J Cole album

floggg wrote: »

Just really getting to listen to Born Sinner in full.

Just noticed that J Cole addresses some of the same race and consumerism issues on tracks like Runaway, Chaining Day and Miss America as Kanye does on Black Skinhead and New Slaves.

I presume Cole is a racist too then?

floggg

danbrosnan wrote: »

Worst album ever, kayne and the lads are taking the piss big time.. its a disgrace..:mad:

Great over your big ****ing head and get your ****ing soul back..

Worst album ever? Hyperbolic much?

And you know he's not obliged to make music for your sake? He's been doing what he wants for most of his career and its working out quite well for him.

horsebox09

Still playing this album regularly, I can see why people don't like it, but it has immense replay value for me

"Black Skinhead", "New Slaves", "Blood on the Leaves" and "Bound" are some of my favourite 'Ye tracks, and On Sight grew on me more than any song in recent memory

Kold

Lou Reed, maker of that Metal Machine Music or whatever, compares Kanye with Axl Rose. I lol'd.

Da Shins Kelly

Kold wrote: »

Lou Reed, maker of that Metal Machine Music or whatever, compares Kanye with Axl Rose. I lol'd.

Metal Machine Music is hardly Lou Reed's most well-known or iconic recording!

Kold

Da Shins Kelly wrote: »

Metal Machine Music is hardly Lou Reed's most well-known or iconic recording!

Such an intolerable pile of **** is relevant when discussing the man's opinion on experimentalism.