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

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.

these two new songs remind me of 808s, how stripped down they are, and when yeezy goes ham on the drums, reminiscent of chorus to 'love lockdown'

man the jump to falsetto in the new slaves clip is so him. "I'M MAD! MAD FOR EVERYONE! THIS IS BULLSHIT! AND...WHILE I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION...laaaaaaaaaa"

people say that's frank ocean but i'm not sure because kanye mouths the words in the video and they both have strained cracked falsettos

yeah even if he was lip-syncing to a sample or whatevs, it was a real moodkiller

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BKpCYkaCcAE_OZO.jpg:large

^^ apparantly that's the album cover. Looks like a golden placenta Kanye put into Kim. Or a Damien Hirst shite piece of art. Or both.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=GNEV5QCMTX0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGNEV5QCMTX0

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=L6ZUktQ7p40&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DL6ZUktQ7p40

if youre in america u can just go to hulu.com and watc the performances there

i don't get how that's the cover art? it looks to me like a plain jewel case with some piece of plastic where the CD would be

#innovation

there's probably no actual cd inside and it's just a download code

or maybe the gold thing is the actual cd a la http://i.imgur.com/Z0053bk.jpg

proud black man's golden blob all up in your priveleged white middle american jewel case

has no one noted the gary glitter thing in black skinhead?

also i enjoyed his fake-dj-as-graphic-effect thing on SNL

anyway looks like the golden thing is just a sticker or something applied over a clear cd front, the actual CD is just a continuation of the black/white graphic

xp: yeah, rock & roll! just watched all this yeezy. fucking awesome. maybe love the initial street projection bit best of all, even with the "cheezy" coda. sounds like he's doubling down on the super-distorted sound of MBDTF, but taking it far enough to be interesting. punk-industrial political outrage over minimal beats suits him surprisingly well. excited.

love the packaging, too

All I can say, so far, is that I'm intrigued.

it'd be kind of cool if his "political outrage" were a little less vague and didn't end up with him fantasizing about raping another guys' wife, imo

his "political outrage" really seems to be another version of his own self-aggrandizing IMO

I'm not really sure what's vague about his political outrage here? Does he have to actually use the words predatory capitalism, racism and the prison-industrial complex for people to get what he's going off about in "New Slaves"?

Also not sure why you assumed the lyric about fucking a Hampton spouse implies rape (though it's still pretty skeezy even assuming consentual sex)?

Skeezus

i mean he comes pretty hard and clear in new slavesimo

Meanwhile the DEA
Teamed up with the CCA
They tryna lock niggas up
They tryna make new slaves
See that's that private owned prison
Get your peace today

like if you hear cca + private owned prison and don't think 'prison industrial complex' you're not thinking hard enough

i mean the first line on "power" is

The system broken, the school's closed, the prison's open

hoos & greer & jordan & everybody otm

I don't think social commentary has really been an album-wide priority on a Ye record since the debut, though. Curious to see if that actually changes here.

Social commentary -- the world outside -- exists as correspondences for his self-regard (a compliment and insult).

Red sticker looks like it may cover a Ye face.

i don't like the album art. i like the anger on those two tracks though.

surprised there's no Death Grips involvement, though there's still time

What up from the not so distant past:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ylT16QB6Uig

kanye's post-808s trajectory has really been a case of the abyss gazing back

honestly a little surprised that he didn't pop up once on a ctrl-f of the ilx deadpool

i'm pleased about these songs! easy to lol at the marilyn manson sample/skunk anansie vibes but they pique my interest much like 808s did (and as MBDTF completely didn't) - looking forward to hearing more

lol you are literally just bringing up skunk anansie because the song is called "black skinhead" aren't you

I don't get why he sounds so angry on his solo-album, but much happier on his collaborative efforts? Never-the-less, I liked MBDTF and like the new songs.

a kinder hokier death grips.

is what the world needed.

i believe the album art is by jon r4fman, artist who did the google street view thing.

new songs sound almost nothing like death grips, pretty lazy comparison

Why is it being compared to Death Grips- because it's angry, messy, etc.? I've only heard the performances on SNL.

I'm just talking about the one snl song.

shouty, punky, industrialized rap music w rock samples, not a hugely surprising leap

the other song sounds like bad something else. only heard it once. and it was on the side of a building so kinda hard to tell what it sounded like.

up for pre-order on itunes https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/yeezus/id650229924

also yeah lol at "death grips" suddenly becoming autocorrect for raps with shouting

actually listening again you could compare the side of a building one to death grips too. the vibe. so corny. he's a cornball. he's a dick AND an ear of corn. corn is kind of impossible to digest after you swallow it.