Kanye West, Yeezus, 6/18/13 (TBC because who knows anymore)

this is so lovely,

MCQUEEN: I wanted to talk to you about the video for "Bound 2." As you know, my daughter is a huge fan of both yours and Kim's, and I saw that video and thought, "This is great. Okay, interesting, fantastic." And then I heard about all of this controversy that came to surround it, which I had to sort of scratch my head about. I mean, call me silly, but when I saw that video for "Bound 2," I just thought to myself, "It's just a video. It's obviously a sort of romantic video of him and his partner, and it's a bit tongue-in-cheek."

WEST: Yeah. I think all that stuff around it is just that: controversy. I think people are afraid of dreams, and that video is one of the closest things to the way that dreams look and feel, or the way joy looks and feels, with the colors. You know, I think there are rules to fashion, with the all-black everything, and rules to art, with white galleries. There are rules to how a lot of things are: the concrete jungle, stone pavement, brick walls. There are even rules to what a Brooklyn apartment looks like. But this video completely didn't respect any of those rules whatsoever. [laughs] It's a dream, and I think the controversy comes from the fact that I don't think most people are comfortable with their own dreams, so it's hard for them to be comfortable with other people's dreams. I mean, look, it took some time for us to be comfortable with a walking, talking mouse, but that became an icon. So this stuff, what I'm doing now, is the beginning of me throwing out what it means to be a rapper—you know, with the gold chain ...

http://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/kanye-west

digression about using didactic targeted metaphors also v sweet

i kinda can't imagine having aesthetic problems with kanye's rhetoric, it's so satisfying to get lost in, talking about internet static, saying "I'm like a broadcaster for futurism"

At this point, I don't even need any advice. I just need backing.

new motto

that's amazing

i like guilt trip :(

i have a friend who is friend with jus1n v3rn0n and i guess kanye doesn't know how to use protools and didn't know you could do autotune live until v3rn0n put him on to the helicon
http://www.tc-helicon.com/

that sounds really suspect though? he didn't work with Bonnie Bear until 2010 and i'm pretty sure he did the 808s stuff with AutoTune live.

who knows i'm just spreading unsubstantiated gossip

i could believe Kanye as a straight up MPC head who lets other people do the Protools gruntwork though

any time I hear "this or that very rich producer hasn't kept up with the tech" I believe it tbh

Yeah isn't what the interns are for?

Beyond scoring drugs/pizza I mean

being kanye's intern must be like that puff daddy chapelle show sketch

yeah, why would Kanye ever need to touch Pro Tools, i can see him as a hardware-only dude (samplers/drum machines/synths).

seeing him tonight, no opener, last night in PA he played 40 songs (!!!)

wow

don't know if that's a threat or a promise

2/13/14 - University Park, PA

I AM NOT HOME
On Sight
New Slaves
Send It Up
Mercy
Power
Cold
I Don't Like (Chief Keef cover)
Clique
Black Skinhead
I Am a God
Can't Tell Me Nothing
Coldest Winter
Hold My Liquor
I'm In It
Guilt Trip
Heartless
Blood on the Leaves
Lost in the World
Runaway
Stronger
Through the Wire
Jesus Walks
All Falls Down
Homecoming
Gold Digger
Run This Town (Jay Z cover)
American Boy (Estelle cover)
Spaceship
Get Em High
The New Workout Plan
Heard 'Em Say
Dark Fantasy
Niggas in Paris (Jay-Z & Kanye West cover)
Touch the Sky
Can't Tell Me Nothing
Flashing Lights
All the Lights
Good Life
Bound 2

Run This Town (Jay Z cover)
American Boy (Estelle cover)

If you actually appear on the original song, is it really a "cover"?

was gonna ask the same thing bout paris

and did jayz cover it when he plays it without ye

hey man… take it up with setlist.fm

On Sight
New Slaves
Send It Up
Mercy
Power
Cold
I Don't Like (Chief Keef cover)
Clique
Black Skinhead
I Am a God

^^ this run of the show is seriously spectacular

i think it drags a bit in the middle and then there's some weird cognitive dissonance when he starts performing, like "good life" under purple, blue and green lights

but the first like 20 mins or so are unfuckwithable

"Can't Tell Me Nothing" twice?

i bet that's a misprint... he played it towards the end of the show on the first leg

closing w bound 2 is cool

im going to this next week

not gonna see the tour tonight, which i'm cool with. last Kanye show i saw was pretty lame and most of the descriptions of this one are kinda off-putting even when they're raves. nice to see that the College Dropout anniversary apparently made him nostalgic enough to pull out some songs he hasn't played in a while, though.

seeing this tomorrow night at the prudential center. excited.

damn, I haven't seen him since '06, I think?

nice to see that the College Dropout anniversary apparently made him nostalgic enough to pull out some songs he hasn't played in a while, though.

weird to think about Yeezus-era Kanye up there performing "New Workout Plan"

lol i only browsed the list and said to my gf kanye played 40 songs a few nights ago and she was like what? what did he do like new workout plan? and i was like well obv no i dont think that

Hes killing it tonight

imo he should play "Workout Plan" every night. and dedicate it to J. Cole.

Review with bonus Vines:
http://www.pennlive.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/02/kanye_wests_yeezus_show_is_utt.html

this show fucking ruled, it's true.

Australian tour announced! Mate, I'm fucken stoked.

i even liked his speech in the middle of the concert. "this is not some las vegas light show spectacle shit. this is like, well thought out. this is art."

yes!!

this is classy!

"this is not some las vegas light show spectacle shit. this is like, well thought out. this is art."

ugh this is pretty much what i hate most about kanye. spelling "this is art" out in those words = full-body shudder in any context. SHOW. DON'T. TELL.

same. he's been spoonfeeding signifiers that he is more Respectable and Innovative than other hip hop artists for a long time but out and out saying he is a genius who makes great art is some facepalm shit.

Yea but its kind of hilarious to see someone violate this unspoken rule so egregiously

I'm convinced he says these things knowing full well that he's breaking rules of decorum, that's exactly why he does it

i agree with that but it doesn't mean i have to like it

"What more can you ask for? The international asshole who complains about what he is owed and throws a tantrum like he is three years old, you gotta love it though somebody still speaks from his soul."

He def knows he is behaving in a way that appears super undignified to most.

Went to the concert late last year and thought it was pretty awesome, but the story about the fan yelling for him to take off the mask is lol cuz I that was the main thing I thought was kinda lame

Kendrick was cool but I thought the sound was mixed a little off, everything blended together

http://kanyeuniversecity.tumblr.com/post/77135946019/bound-1-this-what-bound-2-allegedly-would-have

I dunno if this is real or not but it sounds like the one that Hudson Mohawk dropped & that everybody is saying Bound 1 & I really like it so I don't care

Upon further research it looks like I am the victim of a massive hoax, perpetrated by this Imperialist and Authoritatrian Government

No Apologies, Tho