rolling donda thread

I'm sure he does, renting out an NFL stadium for your mid-life crisis bachelor pad can't be cheap, which is why the grift keeps rolling.

xp - lol

"you'll be my favorite prom queen/even when we're in dad shoes and mom jeans"

"Will you shut up?/I can't hear myself drink"

"we used to do the freak like seven days a week/best collab since Taco Bell and KFC"

real lyrical gems on this

"cussin' at your baby momma/that's why they call it 'custody'"

there’s no way the lyrical content on this album will be anything but inane garbage

― bezos did the dub (voodoo chili), Wednesday, July 21, 2021 8:19 AM (one month ago) bookmarkflaglink

(watching a youtube of the show)

his beats are so reliant on like three-chord synth pad patterns over spare boom bap patterns with a lot of altered/filters gospel vocal samples or choirs, so repetitive

the part where he set himself on fire was pretty cool

"cussin' at your baby momma/that's why they call it 'custody'"

― Blues Guitar Solo Heatmap (Free Download) (upper mississippi sh@kedown), Friday, 27 August 2021 14:52 (fifty minutes ago) link

C'mon this is kinda funny

The Manson thing is awful. Kanye thinks he is taking a stand against “cancel culture,” but Manson’s offense isn’t that he said something politically incorrect. He is a serial predator.

He’s such an absolute dumbass.

Having marilyn manson onstage is disgusting.

― treeship., Friday, August 27, 2021 6:49 AM (four hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

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You said it well

Ah ok. Sorry.

Yeah, it's absolutely fucking gross.

Kanye **might** be potentially getting ahead of a movement of art made as implicit protest to liberal moral panics — like a parallel to the ca. 1984-1991 rap and heavy metal made as implicit protest to conservative moral panics. Time will tell if that's actually going to be a thing (let's all hope not), but if it comes to pass, this will be a pretty prescient moment

I could totally see Kanye getting Roman Polanski to direct a video

And he will say that he is being “Christian” by embracing sinners.

Lee Renaldo from Sonic Youth went to this, posted a photo on Instagram

lol

isn't it just a pic of a tv?

ah might be i was on my phone didn't look closely

still wasn't expecting any overlap there haha

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5P24B-s7ks

Comment from the hiphopheads subreddit, completely agree:

I think Marilyn Manson is the final drop even for hardcore fans as me. Trump before, slavery, crying for abortion, i took it as some mental crazy weirdness and I was sorry for him. But with Manson as publicity act, its weird as fuck.
I loved Kanye cause he was real, or at least i though he was. But this is not realness, making publicity act on listening party for album for your deceased mother with accused rapist.
I mean, event inviting DaBaby is the least gangsta thing to do, its least real thing to do, its just publicity act and I hate it. The show could be fantastic without them, it destroyed completely my mood for the album. And i think I am done with Kanye.

trying to be edgy is a best case scenario here... hasn't he fretted about being "#metoo'd" himself more than once

yeah i would expect it's more like he thinks manson has been unfairly persecuted by the media like he has

i think it's that and he is trying to make a statement about forgiving sinners, like jesus did.

yeah that makes sense

jesus already did that why do we need kanye to do it again for us

the scumbags in the music industry (& beyond) aligning as some sort of bloc - at least in a more public & explicitly ideological way than they already have - is something i've dreaded for a while. so i hope it's just the jesus thing. but it could be both. the choice of sinners is telling either way

beside the point but those lyrics make me think i've been too hard on mid-to-late-period eminem. which is something

jesus didn't slut shame either

kanye is unlike jesus in a lot of ways. no argument from me.

album is gonna end with a 10 minute Louie CK standup routine about cancel culture

that would be more coherent than anything i'd expect from it

well it's gonna be against a backdrop of Bill Cosby repeating the words "Spanish Fly"

lol

i thought the staging was kind of cool at this thing. menacing.

kim made a good ghost bride.

but yeah, that is neither here nor there. the manson stunt is misguided at best and sort of makes me nauseous, especially considering that this is an album he is dedicating to his mother.

jesus already did that why do we need kanye to do it again for us

idk if you’ve noticed but kanye has a fairly high opinion of himself

anyway he instagrammed yesterday that he’s holding up the album because dababy’s managers won’t clear his verse.

gotta think they’re trying to protect him from himself and there’s some vile shit in there

he instagrammed yesterday that he’s holding up the album because dababy’s managers won’t clear his verse

Well, there's something called Donda on Spotify.

1 hour 48 min i am not looking forward to this

9 minute track "jesus lord" then 12 minute "jesus lord pt 2" lmao

listening now lol.

"donda chant" is weird and makes this seem like a joke.

also jay is back? his verse on "jail" seems to set the stage for the album thematically. he criticizes the "red cap" but echoes a lot of other kanye talking points about the media trying to prevent people from speaking their mind honestly.

Well, there's something called Donda on Spotify.

― but also fuck you (unperson), Sunday, August 29, 2021 7:28 AM (eighteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

there’s a grayed-out track called “jail pt 2” on it too

ridiculous to drop it five days early before the rights are cleared, after so many delays

the cover art is just a black square too. which might be the final art, but this also might be another teaser.

Moon is actually a really beautiful song

Well, given that my son is a fan I know what we’re doing today

more like don'tda

this church choir is incredible, wow

this is awesome so far

ums, please don’t take this as a dig at you because scrolling through Twitter for the last thirty minutes inspired this post before I can and saw yours, but….

*sigh*

It’s all so disappointing, yet entirely fucking predictable, that all he has to do is come out and competently play some old songs and people immediately erase the Trump supporting, the slavery excusing and the giving Marilyn Manson a platform. I mean, for fuck’s sake, he was just giving Manson airtime a couple months ago. Can we maybe not with the redemption arc before he even shows one fucking ounce of understanding about the harm he’s done by platforming a scumbag and caping for actual fascists?

“before I came and saw yours”

Drake alone is so dry

better than being damp i guess

It’s just so disappointing how easily we as a culture allow people to skate on doing and saying absolutely heinous shit with no accountability because… tHE bAnGErS.

What is drake doing this is so bad lol

And it’s not like this is just another show that people are vibing on, this is a massive, Amazon sponsored and advertised to the nines EVENT. It’s just so gross.

ay jon I get it I've been critical of him but tbh I'm kinda too in the bag right now to really talk serious

drake was shockingly bad

The mixing sounded bad during parts of the livestream, on top of both of them singing over their own tracks. Can't knock the design, though. It's still streaming on Amazon through the weekend.

xp - I wasn't really expecting you, or anyone itt, to defend it. I was just annoyed that this was popping up everywhere last night and I get that he's still going to perform and that he's still got fans. It just doesn't mean that Amazon needs to signal boost him when there are so many other artists out there who could use that kind of exposure and aren't supporting fascists and sexual predators.

https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/kanye-west-publicist-pressed-georgia-election-worker-confess-bogus-fraud-charges-2021-12-10/?fbclid=IwAR1TOdBVuwHXx3ZY5_OdvKo2DxNPw64mzi5j5i1MeO-lRu1d5cRQ11SkYhM

Did this come up in the livestream?

yeah during the q&a

People just really fucking love a comeback story when it involves a major celebrity. I mean look at how Tiger Woods' profile somehow increased as his life and golf game started to crumble.
Or Dave Chappelle becoming more and more popular even as he morphs into the most insufferable dude on the planet. Once you reach a certain level it's fucking hard for people to turn their backs. Look how much shit had to come out before people started abandoning R. Kelly! Donda is garbage but it sure as hell is better than his last two, so whatever, redemption arc completed. I admit I still find myself somewhat interested in what he's up to, but also fuck this guy forever

I'm not sure Donda is that much better than the last two tbh

it would be if I could edit a full hour out of it

What the fuck at that story

More related to that story ^^:

‘So many of these firms work for major GOP organizations and they are not doing this for [Kanye] out of the goodness of their hearts.’ https://t.co/eR6zhegs32

— Trip Gabriel (@tripgabriel) December 17, 2021

I’d suspected that all along. Especially since I think Kanye himself said something about him talking to Jared Kushner on a regular basis.

I have no doubt that Kush and the Trump Administration were trying to set him up as a straw candidate to try to take votes away from the Democrats.

guess who’s going to jail tonight?!

guess who’s going to jail tonight?!