Start your thinkpieces
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:21 (ten years ago) link
Is it too early to call MBDTF Kanye's New Jersey?
― Johnny Fever, Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:22 (ten years ago) link
808s iirc.
― cacao nibs (Eric H.), Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:23 (ten years ago) link
Nah, Graduation is his New Jersey. 808s is his Nebraska.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:40 (ten years ago) link
isn't that kim's due date
― prolego, Thursday, 2 May 2013 15:56 (ten years ago) link
Or maybe not:
Wilson has retracted his Tweet, writing "Clarity: Kanye West album release date has NOT been confirmed. Apologies to Chris Atlas."
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:40 (ten years ago) link
haaa it probably was kim's due date
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:43 (ten years ago) link
LOL at music writers jumping on the hype train without considering it might be something a little more important to him
If it wasn't for the original Wilson post etc.
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:45 (ten years ago) link
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Thursday, May 2, 2013 12:43 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark
cryptically tweeting out the due date of his baby would be so gross
― J0rdan S., Thursday, 2 May 2013 16:57 (ten years ago) link
Wouldn't he have already known the due date a few months ago?
My guess is that it's both the due date and the album release date.
― MarkoP, Thursday, 2 May 2013 17:01 (ten years ago) link
but v much in character
― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Thursday, 2 May 2013 17:08 (ten years ago) link
In what universe is a perfect score on pitchfork and 3 or 4 relatively inescapable singles considered a New Jersey?
― billstevejim, Thursday, 2 May 2013 17:12 (ten years ago) link
why are people so desperate for opportunities to scream "New Jersey"
― billstevejim, Thursday, 2 May 2013 17:17 (ten years ago) link
welcome to modern ILM, which is basically a neverending competition to be the first person to correctly call something passe
― far too much asshole flesh (DJP), Thursday, 2 May 2013 17:18 (ten years ago) link
we were too young for our parents to let us watch the "Living in Sin" video?
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 2 May 2013 17:23 (ten years ago) link
http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cersei-eyeroll1.gif
― Matt DC, Thursday, 2 May 2013 18:41 (ten years ago) link
At least Ray J didn't pee on MBDTF.
― The last of the famous international Greyjoys (Nicole), Thursday, 2 May 2013 18:43 (ten years ago) link
I'm sure if Pitchfork had been around back then they would've given New Jersey a 10.0. It'll definitely get Best New Reissue someday.
― love bullets featuring skylar grey (some dude), Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:52 (ten years ago) link
Eurgh
― Ned Raggett, Thursday, 2 May 2013 21:55 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIGTHxd--8c&feature=player_embedded
― just sayin, Saturday, 18 May 2013 22:06 (ten years ago) link
Kanye's "Wizard of Oz" Complex
― Cunga, Saturday, 18 May 2013 23:04 (ten years ago) link
So it's called "Yeezus"
― Walter Galt, Saturday, 18 May 2013 23:14 (ten years ago) link
So it's claimed, yeah. Supposedly the date IS the release date.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 18 May 2013 23:30 (ten years ago) link
And since Daft Punk apparently programmed drums on it I'll just consider this phase two of the overall promotion plan.
― Ned Raggett, Saturday, 18 May 2013 23:35 (ten years ago) link
Not since the "Girls" finale happening the night before the new Vampire Weekend single debuted have I felt like two different promotional campaigns were working together so seamlessly.
― Cunga, Saturday, 18 May 2013 23:38 (ten years ago) link
way to pass the baton like a true Olympian.
― Cunga, Saturday, 18 May 2013 23:39 (ten years ago) link
I just hope he doesn't plan on also naming his kid Yeezus.
― MarkoP, Sunday, 19 May 2013 00:47 (ten years ago) link
Y. Kristo West
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 May 2013 00:55 (ten years ago) link
"I'd rather be a dick than a swallower" -- seriously? Repeated?
― A deeper shade of lol (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Sunday, 19 May 2013 01:36 (ten years ago) link
welcome to modern ILM, which is basically a neverending competition to be the first person to correctly call something passe --far too much asshole flesh (DJP)
Hasn't it been this way since like2006
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Sunday, 19 May 2013 02:30 (ten years ago) link
it has, but the point stands
― Oral Sex in Sharp’s Ridge Park (underrated aerosmith bootlegs I have owned), Sunday, 19 May 2013 02:46 (ten years ago) link
stoked for the HANH
― yeeznuts (some dude), Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:00 (ten years ago) link
Hasn't it been this way since like2006― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― ciderpress, Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:06 (ten years ago) link
Twitter going nuts that one of the SNL songs is basically Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People"
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:07 (ten years ago) link
Alternately:
Darnell @DiscountdraculaKanyeFDM
― Ned Raggett, Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:09 (ten years ago) link
well this song sucks
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:11 (ten years ago) link
whatever that was >>>>>>>>>>>> "new slaves" imo
― yeeznuts (some dude), Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:14 (ten years ago) link
also i'm betting that's what Daft Punk worked on:
Details surrounding his recording sessions remain scarce, but he has been in the studio with Daft Punk, who programmed drums for the album. “It was very raw: he was rapping—kind of screaming primally, actually,” Thomas Bangalter of the French duo told Rolling Stone.
i think this song will sound good in a higher quality recording, especially from 2:40 on. the lip syncing was hilarious and i'm loving the zordon vibes.
― Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:17 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah i was talking about "new slaves"
― you are not a better writer than f. scott fitzgerald. you are not a b (k3vin k.), Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:19 (ten years ago) link
oh is that a new song at the end? i thought it was a coda.
― Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:21 (ten years ago) link
the cut's so abrupt that i think it's a different song. a really terrible kanye falsetto song.
― yeeznuts (some dude), Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:21 (ten years ago) link
can't tell if i'm really this or if it was irredeemably corn
"new slaves" the jam tho
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:30 (ten years ago) link
good lord i should re-read my posts after i've been drinking
can't tell if i'm really into this or if it was irredeemably corny
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:31 (ten years ago) link
It is very direct and he sounds very excited or worked up. Both of those things are good I think.
― Hinklepicker, Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:36 (ten years ago) link
if this does actually sample marilyn manson i'm going with "corniest thing ever"
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:36 (ten years ago) link
third listen, i'm digging this. i like kanye when he is in full-on self-serious, bordering on corny mode. i like MBDTF a great deal.
― Michigan seems like a dream to me now (Treeship), Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:41 (ten years ago) link
fucking hell
― J0rdan S., Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:42 (ten years ago) link
listening to it on headphones, yeah "Black Skinhead" is cool and totally destroys "New Slaves," which is barely even a song, sounds like an album intro or something.
― yeeznuts (some dude), Sunday, 19 May 2013 04:49 (ten years ago) link
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
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:38 (nine years ago) link
Jodo yeezy mind meld makes a lot of sense
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 16:48 (nine years ago) link
@fakeshoredrive · 15mKanye, common, jay Electronica, Dave chappelle on stage together
― the man with the black wigs (Eazy), Monday, 22 September 2014 03:09 (nine years ago) link
Is/was that here in Chicago? I heard he'd be in town for that whatever Fest.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 22 September 2014 14:34 (nine years ago) link
imagine being excited by *that* combination of ppl
― lex pretend, Monday, 22 September 2014 17:02 (nine years ago) link
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
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Monday, 22 September 2014 17:08 (nine years ago) link
otm
― Spottie, Monday, 22 September 2014 17:45 (nine years ago) link
word
― The Reverend, Monday, 22 September 2014 19:13 (nine years ago) link
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
― lex pretend, Monday, 22 September 2014 20:19 (nine years ago) link
imagine being impressed by *that* challop
― da croupier, Monday, 22 September 2014 21:14 (nine years ago) link
― lex pretend, Monday, 22 September 2014 17:02 (Yesterday) Permalink
Imagine being excited by a Nicki Minaj album considering her track record/the singles
― nova, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 03:18 (nine years ago) link
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.
― some dude, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 03:23 (nine years ago) link
Any surprise surprise appearances of this stature are welcomed and thus exciting.
― Van Horn Street, Tuesday, 23 September 2014 03:35 (nine years ago) link
common opened w/ "the food" at that show cuz chappelle introduced him but kanye didn't come out until later
― snrub goin up on a tuesday (J0rdan S.), Tuesday, 23 September 2014 13:43 (nine years ago) link
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?
― marcos, Friday, 14 August 2015 15:13 (eight years ago) link
I haven't felt compelled to re listen to this album even once after the hype boiled off
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 August 2015 17:05 (eight years ago) link
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"
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 14 August 2015 17:18 (eight years ago) link
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
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 14 August 2015 17:23 (eight years ago) link
yeah I'm still listening to this all time, usually just through the first four but still
― droit au butt (Euler), Friday, 14 August 2015 17:55 (eight years ago) link
#notyourshield xp
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 August 2015 20:06 (eight years ago) link
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
― slothroprhymes, Friday, 14 August 2015 20:16 (eight years ago) link
genuinely sorry about that
― Meta Forksclove-Liebeskind (forksclovetofu), Friday, 14 August 2015 22:03 (eight years ago) link
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
― sarahell, Saturday, 15 August 2015 02:49 (eight years ago) link
yeah that song is still garbage
― some dude, Saturday, 15 August 2015 02:58 (eight years ago) link
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
― marcos, Saturday, 15 August 2015 03:29 (eight years ago) link
agreed, it's flawed for sure but has plenty of power.
― slothroprhymes, Saturday, 15 August 2015 04:39 (eight years ago) link
so did hitler
― sarahell, Saturday, 15 August 2015 20:57 (eight years ago) link
aw c'mon man
― slothroprhymes, Saturday, 15 August 2015 21:00 (eight years ago) link
Kanye West, Black Hitler, 7/17/2017
― help computer (sleepingbag), Saturday, 15 August 2015 21:01 (eight years ago) link
hitler jokes always funny amirite
― marcos, Saturday, 15 August 2015 21:02 (eight years ago) link
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?
― help computer (sleepingbag), Saturday, 15 August 2015 21:05 (eight years ago) link
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.
― lil urbane (Jordan), Saturday, 15 August 2015 21:41 (eight years ago) link
My bold opinion is that Late Registration aged better already.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 21 August 2015 04:38 (eight years ago) link
still haven't been able to get through this album a second time.
― Spottie, Friday, 21 August 2015 06:25 (eight years ago) link
album has lost its 'WTF is this' shock factor since it came out, but its still good, its just marred by a lot of the lyrics, that havent aged too well (already), and the fact that it doesnt seem to hang too well together overall. but its bound to be better than the new one.
― StillAdvance, Friday, 21 August 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
Blood on the Leaves is about drug paranoia to me. I don't know if it was intended as such, but it works that way to me.
― Frederik B, Friday, 21 August 2015 16:37 (eight years ago) link
I nearly had a heart attack the first time I heard this record. Love it to pieces; those first 4 tracks rock hard — my first time listening to the opener when I suddenly heard where the 1 was and how the verse was leaning into the groove was magical.
To me BotL seems to be about the toll of meaningless sex; subversively using "black bodies" and "strange fruit" to mean naked people getting it on. I could be projecting.
― dinnerboat, Friday, 21 August 2015 17:13 (eight years ago) link
o_____O
― drown zoowap (The Reverend), Friday, 21 August 2015 22:09 (eight years ago) link
its bound to be better than the new one.
I dunno, his new one's pretty good:
http://nk_wp_media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2015/03/kanye-west-x-adidas-yeezy-350-boost-low-black-on-foot-preview-1.jpg
― ... (Eazy), Friday, 21 August 2015 22:29 (eight years ago) link
dont know who produced it but jeezy's god sounds kinda yeezus-influenced.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 5 November 2015 12:26 (eight years ago) link
(am trying to think of other songs yeezus-influenced)
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 5 November 2015 12:27 (eight years ago) link
is blood on the leaves the one where he compares fisting someone to the black power salute
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Thursday, 5 November 2015 12:38 (eight years ago) link
re the pre-revive conversation, i mean
yes, it is that song
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 5 November 2015 12:54 (eight years ago) link
oops, no, thats i'm in it.
― StillAdvance, Thursday, 5 November 2015 12:55 (eight years ago) link
The outro to “I am a God,” when he follows up a bunch of blasphemous boasts — “i know he’s the most high, but i am a close high” — with panicked panting and screaming. Suchg a strange record.
― treeship 2, Saturday, 16 December 2017 23:14 (six years ago) link
If you wanted to be turned off by Kanye West there was ample material on Yeezus, but it also had an undeniable, transferable energy, a crackling and palpable electricity.
just put this on for the first time in ages and yeah this is such a succinct description of why it's great
― devvvine, Wednesday, 6 June 2018 00:06 (five years ago) link
Agreed, that line stood out to me in Jordan's review.
― change display name (Jordan), Wednesday, 6 June 2018 03:33 (five years ago) link
I was listening to an interview with a drummer who does sample replays for a living, and learned that the gospel sample on 'On Sight' was actually an entire replay. Days before the album dropped, they had to hire another producer/engineer to get a drummer and a gospel choir to precisely re-record the sample (which presumably couldn't be cleared). Crazy.
I.e. it's not actually this record --https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyf7f7ouzjk
― change display name (Jordan), Tuesday, 10 August 2021 18:04 (two years ago) link