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

kanye west: is he still famous?

the short trailer from seth meyers looked cool; from my seats at the show i couldnt see the backdrop screen images @ all, i feel like that couldve added a lot

his perf on seth meyers was also good, the end of him flipping the mic stand, dropping the mic and walking out all worked, great lighting

show in baltimore on valentines day was half empty

Seth Meyers performance was pretty lame, I thought -- maybe a career-spanning medley is a good idea if the network will give you a block of ten minutes or more, but doing just a chorus of all but a couple songs just felt disjointed and pointless.

yeah i didn't like it at all, also he didn't even do that many good songs... like "heartless" and "all of the lights" are not in the top 30 solo kanye songs (and i'm being generous)

"mercy" aside, i wouldn't any of those tracks in the better half of the albums they're on tbh

i'm kind of feeling this but: british people, what's the deal

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD5fLb-WgBU

the hit single, "new slaveowners"

glibness aside, that is so tremendously fucked

always with the sparklers

― Spottie, Wednesday, January 8, 2014 11:52 PM (4 months ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

ha

good lord

"Uh huh, honey..." (cue shot of a horse)

better than the original, though not actually good, though perhaps admirable for its canned tossed-offness

feel like someone showed ye the holy mountain

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/16/magazine/the-psychomagical-realism-of-alejandro-jodorowsky.html

As the rapper Kanye West, whose “Yeezus” tour was inspired by “The Holy Mountain,” put it last November to a packed (and very likely perplexed) house at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center: “I don’t know if . . . y’all ever heard about Jodorowsky, the director. . . . Y’all don’t know who the (expletive) he is. . . . Everybody copied off him. . . . And there’s gonna be (expletives) in this arena in a few months dancing all sloppy off him.”

yeah i felt validated from that

now that it's not 40 degrees every day, ive noticed how much of a summer album yeezus is to me, idk it just bangs to drive around to

1st four tracks are great workout music

now that it's not 40 degrees every day, ive noticed how much of a summer album yeezus is to me, idk it just bangs to drive around to

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:20 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

very humid, sweltering album

Jodo yeezy mind meld makes a lot of sense

@fakeshoredrive · 15m
Kanye, common, jay Electronica, Dave chappelle on stage together

Is/was that here in Chicago? I heard he'd be in town for that whatever Fest.

imagine being excited by *that* combination of ppl

i think it's reasonable to say that if you wouldn't get excited about seeing kanye, common & chappelle (and jay electronica) onstage you might not even like rap music

otm

word

i stand by not being excited by jay electronica and while i have little against him, there are a hundred people in hip-hop i'd be more excited by than common

imagine being impressed by *that* challop

imagine being excited by *that* combination of ppl

― lex pretend, Monday, 22 September 2014 17:02 (Yesterday) Permalink

Imagine being excited by a Nicki Minaj album considering her track record/the singles

i wish Kanye and Common had a better signature collaboration to do whenever they're at the same concert than "Get Em High." they coulda reenacted the Chappelle's Show "The Food" performance with Dave maybe.

Any surprise surprise appearances of this stature are welcomed and thus exciting.

common opened w/ "the food" at that show cuz chappelle introduced him but kanye didn't come out until later

two years later and i still enjoy this album a lot, first four tracks especially still surprise and overwhelm, the charlie wilson vocal in "bound 2" still resonates

the dancehall elements are some of the best parts imo, if this album did anything for me it made me want to listen to capleton and beenie man more

very weird to read the first reactions in this thread esp to "new slaves" and see people think kanye wasn't parodying white voices in the "what you want, a bentley? fur coat? a diamond chain? all you blacks want all the same things" line, i don't know how you could hear that any other way?

I haven't felt compelled to re listen to this album even once after the hype boiled off

I haven't felt compelled to re listen to this album even once after the hype boiled off

nbd i listened to it like 6,000,000,000,000 times for you, it still rules tbrr

i don't know how you could hear that any other way?

same. there are things on this album that don't work but absolutely nothing that's unintentional and, of the elements considered controversial, almost nothing that's included solely to shock or lacks a pointed significance, w/ the possible exception of "i'm in it"

glad that this one's so good because i've long since accepted that whenever swish/so help me god/whatever the fuck he's calling it this week comes out, it won't be good at all

yeah I'm still listening to this all time, usually just through the first four but still

#notyourshield xp

googling that, bc i forgot what it was about, informed me that g-m-rg-t- has its own wiki and now i feel ill

genuinely sorry about that

of the elements considered controversial, almost nothing that's included solely to shock or lacks a pointed significance

idk Blood on the Leaves with the juxtaposition of the original song with lines about an ex and alimony is probably the most grating, and if there is a "pointed significance" to that, let me know

yeah that song is still garbage

enough strong elements are immediately there in "blood" for it to be pretty powerful despite the wack lyrics but yea it was a missed opportunity for something that could've been way better

agreed, it's flawed for sure but has plenty of power.

so did hitler

aw c'mon man

Kanye West, Black Hitler, 7/17/2017

hitler jokes always funny amirite

no no hold on now, now what you don't understand sway, is that the Nazi industry has historically been almost impossible to break into as a black American,nevermind a black American Kardashian, do you see I'm saying, hanh?

enough strong elements are immediately there in "blood" for it to be pretty powerful despite the wack lyrics but yea it was a missed opportunity for something that could've been way better

i agree w/this, musically it's super epic but the lyrics make me feel a little dumb for getting swept up in it.

still listening to Yeezus frequently btw.