"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.
― lex pretend, Monday, 17 February 2014 23:52 (ten years ago) link
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.
― Waluigi Weingarten (some dude), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 00:12 (ten years ago) link
Yea but its kind of hilarious to see someone violate this unspoken rule so egregiously
― Treeship, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 00:12 (ten years ago) link
I'm convinced he says these things knowing full well that he's breaking rules of decorum, that's exactly why he does it
― Spaghetti Sauce Shampoo (Moodles), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 01:43 (ten years ago) link
i agree with that but it doesn't mean i have to like it
― Waluigi Weingarten (some dude), Tuesday, 18 February 2014 01:47 (ten years ago) link
"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.
― Treeship, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 02:11 (ten years ago) link
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
― nova, Tuesday, 18 February 2014 04:27 (ten years ago) link
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
― 龜, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 06:27 (ten years ago) link
Upon further research it looks like I am the victim of a massive hoax, perpetrated by this Imperialist and Authoritatrian Government
― 龜, Wednesday, 19 February 2014 08:18 (ten years ago) link
No Apologies, Tho
feel like someone showed ye the holy mountain
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 22 February 2014 02:30 (ten years ago) link
or at least the agrocrag rd from guts
― johnny crunch, Saturday, 22 February 2014 02:52 (ten years ago) link
There's a trailer for a Hype Williams-directed concert film of some sort on his website. It's the same trailer that was shown with his appearance on Seth Meyers' show earlier this week, though we weren't told at the time that it was for a film.
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 27 February 2014 19:09 (ten years ago) link
I wonder how successful it will be since I heard a few reports on Twitter of some shows having like, half-empty stadiums and whatnot. If people don't want to see him live, why would they see him in a concert film at a movie theater?
― Murgatroid, Thursday, 27 February 2014 19:10 (ten years ago) link
wow, I'm psyched, was really hoping there'd be a film of this since I didn't have an opportunity to see it IRL
― Spaghetti Sauce Shampoo (Moodles), Thursday, 27 February 2014 19:13 (ten years ago) link
kanye west: is he still famous?
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Thursday, 27 February 2014 19:18 (ten years ago) link
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
― johnny crunch, Thursday, 27 February 2014 19:20 (ten years ago) link
show in baltimore on valentines day was half empty
― i also enjoy in line skateing (spazzmatazz), Friday, 28 February 2014 00:02 (ten years ago) link
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.
― MISTERSNRUB (some dude), Friday, 28 February 2014 00:12 (ten years ago) link
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)
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Friday, 28 February 2014 01:30 (ten years ago) link
"mercy" aside, i wouldn't any of those tracks in the better half of the albums they're on tbh
― MISTERSNRUB (some dude), Friday, 28 February 2014 02:07 (ten years ago) link
i'm kind of feeling this but: british people, what's the deal
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KD5fLb-WgBU
― le goon (J0rdan S.), Monday, 12 May 2014 23:43 (ten years ago) link
the hit single, "new slaveowners"
― sitting on a claud all day gotta make your butt numb (forksclovetofu), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 01:16 (ten years ago) link
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
― °ㅇ๐ْ ° (gr8080), Tuesday, 13 May 2014 02:31 (ten years ago) link
ha
― Spottie, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 04:31 (ten years ago) link
good lord
― maura, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 14:52 (ten years ago) link
"Uh huh, honey..." (cue shot of a horse)
― Frontier Psychiatrist, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 14:58 (ten years ago) link
better than the original, though not actually good, though perhaps admirable for its canned tossed-offness
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:07 (ten years ago) link
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.”
― dmr, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:15 (ten years ago) link
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
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:20 (ten years ago) link
1st four tracks are great workout music
― lex pretend, Tuesday, 13 May 2014 15:26 (ten years ago) link
― 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 (ten 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 (ten 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