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

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Hasn't it been this way since like2006

it has, but the point stands

stoked for the HANH

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

Twitter going nuts that one of the SNL songs is basically Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People"

Alternately:

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well this song sucks

whatever that was >>>>>>>>>>>> "new slaves" imo

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.

oh yeah i was talking about "new slaves"

oh is that a new song at the end? i thought it was a coda.

the cut's so abrupt that i think it's a different song. a really terrible kanye falsetto song.

can't tell if i'm really this or if it was irredeemably corn

"new slaves" the jam tho

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

It is very direct and he sounds very excited or worked up. Both of those things are good I think.

if this does actually sample marilyn manson i'm going with "corniest thing ever"

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.

fucking hell

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.

it's just a short rap song over a minimal beat, i like it a lot

then again i have yet to listen to a recording of a tv performance on headphones

my one gripe with "new slaves" is it has that crescendoing coda that sounds a lot like "clique"

it just feels like some poorly rapped provocative (tm will ferrell) nonsense to me though

lol all i meant was i couldn't really make out the words to "Black Skinhead" at all when i watched it on TV but on headphones it came through much clearer and i was like yeah this is good

I love that he got the line "I came on her Hampton blouse and in her Hampton mouth" on live tv. Censor asleep on the job.

He seems angry - good. Very stark. Tony Stark. Sorry. I like this direction - opposite of the gross opulence previously.

The "swallower" line ruins "New Slaves" for me.

Why?

I really like all of this. I didn't care for Grad/808, detested the last one and only half remember the Jay/labelmates ones so I'm excited to be back on the kanye train after like a decade of being blazay about his stuff.

"It was very raw: he was rapping—kind of screaming primally, actually,” Thomas Bangalter of the French duo told Rolling Stone.

So this is his Plastic Ono Band. Awesome.

both songs are straight furnace (hi hoos!) except for that lame coda at end of new slaves

i'm really impressed that he was able to play this in 66 places across the world w/o a high quality rip or something leaking, good job kanye stree team

"i keep it three hunna like the romans" lol

judging from these two songs this album is gonna blow MBDTF out the water, im hyped

dying @ 'the beautiful people' comparison, that's great

I'm implausibly excited by this

"i'ma keep it 300, like the romans"

I woulda preferred i'ma keep it 300, like Dawn Richard."

WAY TO BE LATE K3V

haha i swear i was gonna make fun of that line first but my wifi crapped out

I love the Kanye vicious cycle. Get rich, write angry, asshole songs about people who think he is an asshole, get angry again, write another song about the response to people who think he's a dick, etc. Kanye smash. Meanwhile, most people dont give a fuck. Who are his enemies? Does he have enemies? Is he just paranoid for the the sake of the craft? Is he still into fashion? Is he still doing fan interviews over skype from exotic locations?

Where did all this anger come from? He was pretty chill, funny, fun, thoughtful, then he does 808s, then he comes back with a concept album about being an angry asshole. Did the death of his mom, grounding element, break him?

http://i.imgur.com/EkeLIM6.jpg

^^ ilx pre-covers yeezus ^^

josh otm

not having to answer to mom, especially after breaking up with his long term girlfriend, undoubtedly set him free to paint an uglier picture

idgi what the big mystery is, he's an unmoored stardom coke fiend on a provocation treadmill and his artistic rage is always chiefly directed at the prospect of the dying of his own light

we are all his mom now

now say that in the voice of George Will

Still they yacht me like Yeezus

Maybe this is his Faith, with a video of Kanye lighting a Bottega Veneta weekend bag on fire.

Er, Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1, that is.

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.

My bold opinion is that Late Registration aged better already.

still haven't been able to get through this album a second time.

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.

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.

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.

o_____O

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

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

dont know who produced it but jeezy's god sounds kinda yeezus-influenced.

(am trying to think of other songs yeezus-influenced)

is blood on the leaves the one where he compares fisting someone to the black power salute

re the pre-revive conversation, i mean

yes, it is that song

oops, no, thats i'm in it.

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.

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

Agreed, that line stood out to me in Jordan's review.

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