Ew
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 29 January 2015 02:55 (nine years ago) link
808s is his best and most interesting album, how is this not the accepted wisdom re kanye
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Thursday, 29 January 2015 04:16 (nine years ago) link
having a real twilight zone moment here
808s was pretty divisive at the time and got set up to be the kind of commercial disappointment/backlash moment that Yeezus actually ended up being, but it won the war and had huge radio songs and sold millions and has an enduring legacy of influencing Drake and all these other big records/acts that came after. but in terms of his catalog the people that rate it #1 are always gonna be a small passionate cult.
― some dude, Thursday, 29 January 2015 04:49 (nine years ago) link
808s is the most cohesive album, it's definitely something you buy into or leave on the shelf, no real singles or w/e though
hadn't thought about it, but is it the only Kanye album with no Jay Z content?
― mh, Thursday, 29 January 2015 14:59 (nine years ago) link
yeah for a lot of guys under 25 Kanye starts with 808s.
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:03 (nine years ago) link
like for a lot of guys there's no Jay Z before The Black Album.
;_; don't say these things, Alfred
― mh, Thursday, 29 January 2015 15:04 (nine years ago) link
I still remember the time this dude at a Jay-Z show I went to was playing Jay-Z tunes (without headphones, fuckin dick) and then boasted he was gonna play some obscure old Jay-Z track everybody probably didn't even remember, and then he starts playin...Linkin Park/Jay-Z's version of "Encore". and this concert was in 2011.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:32 (nine years ago) link
is it possible the dude was nose-tweaking heads with that? "lol, they're expecting something from reasonable doubt well, hee hee..."
― da croupier, Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:34 (nine years ago) link
where by "probably didn't even remember" he really meant "probably would like to forget"
he spent about an hour talking to his g/f about how Jay-Z just *had* to play "99 Problems" because it was his ultimate song and then kept reciting the first line over and over again, so I'm pretty sure the issue was he didn't realize there was a world pre-2004.
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:41 (nine years ago) link
sorry, 2003
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:42 (nine years ago) link
haha ok was just projecting why I'D drop "numb/encore" on the crowd at a jay-z concert
― da croupier, Thursday, 29 January 2015 17:51 (nine years ago) link
― guess that bundt gettin eaten (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Thursday, January 29, 2015 3:03 PM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
still don't understand how this is possible
i do think 808s is the most genuinely brave and weirdest album of kanye's career, way more than any of the ART ART ART I AM AN ARTIST stuff he's done since
― lex pretend, Thursday, 29 January 2015 18:03 (nine years ago) link
you are marveling at people not being aware of music before a certain date
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 29 January 2015 18:19 (nine years ago) link
just making sure that's what's going on here
thanks rap police
― Hammer Smashed Bagels, Thursday, 29 January 2015 18:20 (nine years ago) link
didn't vote but kanye
― nose, Thursday, 29 January 2015 18:53 (nine years ago) link
― lex pretend, Thursday, January 29, 2015 1:03 PM (56 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
eh 808s was also the peak of his POP ART period, though. for me the part of the "Heartless" video where a rotoscope animation Kanye emotes in front of portraits of Jetsons characters always represented the pitiful nadir of his ambitions as an aesthete.
― some dude, Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:02 (nine years ago) link
i dunno, i found those portraits of jane, judy and rosie to be a such a bold, unique way to cop to one's madonna-whore-robocop complex
― da croupier, Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:09 (nine years ago) link
lol mind blown
― some dude, Thursday, 29 January 2015 19:15 (nine years ago) link
808s is the most cohesive album, it's definitely something you buy into or leave on the shelf, no real singles or w/e thoughhadn't thought about it, but is it the only Kanye album with no Jay Z content?― mh, Thursday, January 29, 2015 2:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― mh, Thursday, January 29, 2015 2:59 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
808s had some of Kanye's most successful commercial hit singles though.
― MrExplorer, Friday, 30 January 2015 19:29 (nine years ago) link
I feel like "people just aren't aware of his history" is not a legit move wrt Kanye West
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Saturday, 31 January 2015 02:48 (nine years ago) link
like from the faux-backpacker humbrag schtick of college dropout onwards his whole career is based around being deliberately past-negating with each big record
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Saturday, 31 January 2015 02:50 (nine years ago) link