the xtina single he produced and co-wrote is not good
― Simon H., Thursday, 3 May 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
"Young man"? Dude is 40!
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 3 May 2018 18:06 (six years ago) link
which is half her age
― frogbs, Thursday, 3 May 2018 18:07 (six years ago) link
this is fun to read, but also doesnt change the fact that he sucks
Get your tinfoil hats and red string, I’ve got a conspiracy theory: @kanyewest is in the middle of a performance art piece and the clues are right in front of us. A thread:— Snowcone (@Snowcone965) May 2, 2018
― global tetrahedron, Thursday, 3 May 2018 23:03 (six years ago) link
here's a conspiracy theory: maybe we don't have the full context of that conversation and TMZ/everyone/et all are just printing $ w the usual "this guy are crazy"
― Hazy Maze Cave (Adam Bruneau), Thursday, 3 May 2018 23:16 (six years ago) link
here's a conspiracy theory: kanye is a dumbass
― Οὖτις, Thursday, 3 May 2018 23:23 (six years ago) link
jackass
― how's life, Thursday, 3 May 2018 23:30 (six years ago) link
I haven't watched it but full context is available here fwiw: http://www.tmz.com/2018/05/02/tmz-live-kanye/
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Thursday, 3 May 2018 23:42 (six years ago) link
Floppy man take it easy (tie)
― done and dusted (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 00:11 (six years ago) link
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/kanye-west-and-why-the-myth-of-genius-must-die/
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 May 2018 00:19 (six years ago) link
Written by the same guy who gave TLOP a 9
― frogbs, Friday, 4 May 2018 00:25 (six years ago) link
you can believe all the things said in that piece and still think that TLOP is a good album
― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili), Friday, 4 May 2018 00:28 (six years ago) link
Except that he didn't give TLOP a 9. Pitchfork did.
― MarkoP, Friday, 4 May 2018 00:40 (six years ago) link
we all gave pablo the nine we deserved
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 4 May 2018 00:44 (six years ago) link
― frogbs, Thursday, May 3, 2018 8:25 PM (eighteen minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― 808s & Deep States (voodoo chili), Thursday, May 3, 2018 8:28 PM
you can even read the piece and think he still thinks so
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 May 2018 00:44 (six years ago) link
it's a fine piece and Greene is a v good writer
― Simon H., Friday, 4 May 2018 00:45 (six years ago) link
jayson’s great. his piece is p much the only one about kanye in the past week that hasn’t annoyed me with the constant handwringing (cf. the ringer aka the handringer)
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 4 May 2018 00:46 (six years ago) link
if you love then you handwring on it
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Friday, 4 May 2018 00:55 (six years ago) link
https://i.imgur.com/zZjuEx5.jpg
― ✖✖✖ (Moka), Friday, 4 May 2018 04:22 (six years ago) link
It was a great piece. I almost posted on my wall but I'm trying to avoid posting stuff about KW.
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 4 May 2018 12:11 (six years ago) link
To be fair, I didn't agree with the 9.0 - TLOP is where I definitively realized that this wasn't a ride I really needed to be on. The truth of that album is probably better embodied in this piece, from before we knew what TLOP would actually be.
https://pitchfork.com/thepitch/796-kanye-west-is-going-to-drop-a-brick-and-its-going-to-hurt/
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 4 May 2018 12:13 (six years ago) link
(And yes, I know I, am out in the wilderness in a minority who believe that TLOP is a handful of flashes of guiltily entertaining/semi-inventive fun surrounded by a ton of chaff.)
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 4 May 2018 12:16 (six years ago) link
Yeah it's pretty uneven
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 4 May 2018 12:23 (six years ago) link
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Friday, May 4, 2018 5:16 AM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
no i think you see it clearly raymond
― flamenco drop (BradNelson), Friday, 4 May 2018 13:27 (six years ago) link
TLOP the only Kanye I don't think I've ever heard. I think I only heard Yeezus once and it sort of bugged me. So in my mind, My Beautiful Dark Twisted So-Called Life was the end of the Kanye ride. FWIW, my daughter, who I don't think has so much as said the name Kanye before yesterday, brought me over to her phone to play what is I guess is his new single, mostly because she thought it was so stupid she wanted me to hear it.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 May 2018 13:51 (six years ago) link
only time I listened to Yeezus I remember one of the tracks cutting into this tight little knotty instrumental bit and thinking that was really fascinating. then the bit kept going and going, until finally I realized that my iPod had glitched out and cut into a Field Music album. which it has never done before or since. I decided to just listen to the rest of that and never really wanted to hear Yeezus again
― frogbs, Friday, 4 May 2018 13:58 (six years ago) link
The Poopity Scoop one or the one of him debating politics with TI?
― MarkoP, Friday, 4 May 2018 14:00 (six years ago) link
Yeezus is maybe my favorite thing he's done tbh, particularly the first half. MBDWF has a few great tracks and a lot of whatever. TLOP straight up sucked.
― two cool rock chicks pounding la croix (circa1916), Friday, 4 May 2018 14:25 (six years ago) link
xpost I think it was the Poopity Scoop one. That seems like something that would scan as stupid to her.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 May 2018 15:09 (six years ago) link
She was all, "dad, you've got to hear this?" So I ask, "what?" And she says it's the Kanye West song. And I tell her I am pretty tired of Kanye West. And she says, no, you have to hear this! So I walk over and she holds up her phone and I hear him all "poopity scoop" or whatever and I say, oh, that, yeah, I heard people talking about that. And she was cracking up.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 May 2018 15:12 (six years ago) link
that Pitch piece is very good
― aloha darkness my old friend (katherine), Friday, 4 May 2018 15:13 (six years ago) link
Jayson and Mark have always been my favorite Pitchfork writers.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 May 2018 15:29 (six years ago) link
i miss the chop up the soul kanye
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 4 May 2018 16:27 (six years ago) link
ok the p4k piece is very good, sorry yall
― frogbs, Friday, 4 May 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
we literally all agree it is good
― Simon H., Friday, 4 May 2018 16:28 (six years ago) link
yea I know, I mean w/r/t me pointing out "Lol this guy gave TLOP a 9"
which, IDK...just never got much out of that album
― frogbs, Friday, 4 May 2018 16:32 (six years ago) link
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, May 4, 2018 11:27 AM (nine minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
he does this on poopity scoop!
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, 4 May 2018 16:43 (six years ago) link
"poopity scoop" ... how can yall even bother
― marcos, Friday, 4 May 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
Otm Marcos
AlmostOffed myself readingThat
― Main man (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 16:45 (six years ago) link
― Listen to my homeboy Fantano (D-40), Friday, May 4, 2018 11:43 AM (three minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
true! maybe it's gonna be a throwback
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 4 May 2018 16:47 (six years ago) link
Two scoops of raisin
― Main man (Ross), Friday, 4 May 2018 16:48 (six years ago) link
"Poopity Scoop" (formally known as "Lift Yourself")
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 4 May 2018 16:56 (six years ago) link
Perhaps Zach G and Bonnie Prince Billy will make a video where they're dog park employees cleaning up the grounds
― The Harsh Tutelage of Michael McDonald (Raymond Cummings), Friday, 4 May 2018 16:58 (six years ago) link
Love the piece but the elephant in the room is that even by his own standards, Kanye is no genius and has never been.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 4 May 2018 17:56 (six years ago) link
Otm
― Οὖτις, Friday, 4 May 2018 17:58 (six years ago) link
He's not even top 5 rap producers material imo
Maybe top 5 jackasses?
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 May 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
For the record, I do believe he is a great musical artist, up until Yeezus I did enjoy his records a lot, and maybe he is a great designer I don’t know that stuff. However, everytime he is on the same line as Einstein or Picasso, it just makes me barf.
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 4 May 2018 17:59 (six years ago) link
Also to add to the broader idea of that great piece: I have no statistics to back this up this is really just ime, but I have a feeling that there is huge overlap on that venn diagram between sexual assaulter and people socially perceived as geniuses (can be in smaller spheres than national fame that a Kanye or a Woody are granted)
― Van Horn Street, Friday, 4 May 2018 18:04 (six years ago) link
his shoes look some space macrame ass
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 4 May 2018 18:32 (six years ago) link