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
Psh, shows you, all genius looks like ass.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 4 May 2018 18:42 (six years ago) link
TNC: https://www.theatlantic.com/entertainment/archive/2018/05/im-not-black-im-kanye/559763/
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2018 13:09 (six years ago) link
great piece
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 May 2018 16:20 (six years ago) link
v good indeed, though the praise of the the consistent, amazing, near-peerless quality of [Kanye's] work feels off to me
― niels, Monday, 7 May 2018 18:38 (six years ago) link
Is it fair to say that Kanye West is the first black hip-hop artist who truly crossover-ed to a white audience from really early in his career? And that it might be that this audience and his desire to cultivate that very audience might have informed his career in ways that it didn't for other hip-hop artists, past and present?
― Van Horn Street, Monday, 7 May 2018 20:16 (six years ago) link
that's not the case
― The Desus & Mero Chain (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Monday, 7 May 2018 20:32 (six years ago) link
Little Stevie Wonder wants a word with you
― morning wood truancy (Alfred, Lord Sotosyn), Monday, 7 May 2018 20:48 (six years ago) link
Is it fair to say that Kanye West is the first black hip-hop artist who truly crossover-ed to a white audience from really early in his career?
nah. NWA springs to mind.
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 May 2018 21:02 (six years ago) link
literally any hip hop artist who has sold a lot of records has crossed over to a white audience
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Monday, 7 May 2018 21:04 (six years ago) link
true, but it took Run DMC three albums to get there
― Οὖτις, Monday, 7 May 2018 21:08 (six years ago) link