RIP Kanye West

my favorite scenes involved either (1) him taking out his retainer, or (2) hanging out with his mom.

Oh yeah Donda is the most likable person in here by a mile.

It’s still not a genius move to play a song several times while people are working even if they liked it the first time.

Reminds me a bit of the story about Bowie playing his new record over and over again at a party until John Lennon asked if they could listen to something else please (and Bowie went off in a pout).

It’s interesting to hear some sort of regret on Scarface’s anecdote:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D8j4FresWWI

In the doc it seems like he wasn’t into “jesus walks” and he just bails.

So, how is everyone enjoying Donda 2 so far

lol

Seems like the Donda listening livestreams really made a difference in the album being talked about so much. Not sure the same will happen with tonight’s release happening only in IMAX theaters and on the new Pono.

no he still livestreamed this one on youtube, twitch, and the stem player website, just no one really seemed to care this time except the hardcore stans.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tm2z81kJfCk

this was the stream, it starts at around 2 hours 43 min in. i don't care enough to watch it but looking at fan reactions they're all saying it was a trainwreck with the music still being clearly unfinished (of course, he'll probably do another 3 of these) & major audio/tech problems

Oh this wasn’t cancelled?

Yeah noone is talking about it which means

a) noone was expecting him to deliver a deadline

b) people are tired of him and it’s fucking tuesday.

c) it’s not good enough to talk about it

d) all of the above

when you laid down and I gave you this semen I swear I heard god, the voice of Morgan Freeman

yeah i think no one really cares at all now beyond the hardcore stans now & even they hated this. it's clear he's just doing the same shit as last year yet again - there's not even the novelty to it - it'll be a few months before an album actually materialises

https://www.reddit.com/r/Kanye/comments/sz94i1/postevent_discussion_donda_2_experience/

like look at this lol

The merch lines at Kanye West’s #DONDA2 event 👀pic.twitter.com/cPyz6qyQ50

— XXL Magazine (@XXL) February 23, 2022

Is that really the merch line? Was the event at a white suburban high school?

been expecting a new Donda variant, just not this soon

forks that cannot be an actual lyric, cum on

haha it's very real

Unfortunately it’s real

sad that those with such poetic gifts live lives of suffering

some very creepy samples of Kim in there too

I didn’t even feel the vaguest desire to hear this record, I’m glad no one else cares.

Favorite comment in that Reddit thread is should have been whoopi goldberg and joe rogan for donda 2

some very creepy samples of Kim in there too

― nobody like my rap (One Eye Open), Wednesday, February 23, 2022 9:58 AM (two hours ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah I was afraid he'd do that. there's gonna be no-context emotional voicemails in this isn't there

Lol just heard some snippets and everyone who buyed merch and payed for this shit played themselves.

Conye

Makes sense fucking Elon Musk was there

the real diehards seems convinced that it was just the sound engineer in the venue's fault

he didn't do the stems right

Kanye very much in the Trump zone where no professionals will want to work with him so every endeavor he runs is an inevitable shitshow

my god he's not even remotely trying anymore

watching that half-baked bullshit and reading the stans in the comments is insane

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxo73ivQJWk

I just can't stop lolling at the stans' insinuation that this is another brilliant album but the levels and timing were just screwed up in the stadium

no way this thing was mastered, that's what happens when you try to play unmastered audio thru stadium sized speakers

checking for dumb kanye lyrics is what jeenyus was really made for i suppose

Wait, who got our kids in some "What are those?"
Why they can't just be in Yeezys with the cargos?
You know Nike don't like me, y'all takin' it too far though
At least have 'em in some Mike's, he play for Chicago

Lol that thing is like a “shreds” video and the noise in the comments section makes it more hilarious.

Who would’ve thought that things like The Onion and the shreds videos would go from parody to premonitions

yeah the comments make me feel like I'm going nuts, dude is just running his voice through a vocoder and bungling the meter & all the comments are like THIS IS SO AHEAD OF ITS TIME

Longing for the days of his insightful verses like

Poopy-di scoop
Scoop-diddy-whoop
Whoop-di-scoop-di-poop
Poop-di-scoopty
Scoopty-whoop

i can't imagine anyone on this thread wants to argue on behalf of kanye's lyricism at any point in his career but the poopity scoop line was just oddball onomatopoeia not half a step away from shimmy shimmy ya shimmy yeah and i never understood why he caught so much er shit for that and not for say rhyming secure with insecure

Because "poopy-di-scoop" is inherently funnier/dumber than "shimmy shimmy ya", c'mon now.

I get your point, but there are hundreds of syllables he could have chosen over "poopy".

I think Poopy-di scoop was him doing the equivalent of taking a knife to a canvas of a beat for a Drake collab.

lift yourself is my favorite beat he's made in years

there are hundreds of syllables he could have chosen over "poopy"

jesus christ, he's the voice of the people.

what's one thing all PEOPLE have in common?

POOP.

it's not hard.

well it is if you ate a whole pizza

i can't imagine anyone on this thread wants to argue on behalf of kanye's lyricism at any point in his career

i mean, i sure will lol. his lyrics were always kind of goofy & he went for some corny rhymes but he was also clever, relatable, and a strong storyteller. there was lots of humor and depth in his early writing... which is one of the reasons he became a superstar. the idea that kanye was always a bad lyricist is blatant revisionist history to me. he's obviously not a great rapper in the q tip sense or whatever but you can't tell me that songs like "spaceship," "drive slow," "touch the sky" that tell his life story vividly w/ a strong POV are bad lyrically, and i'm putting aside stuff like "breathe in breathe out" which is consciously "dumb" but overall intelligently written and unique perspective wise while also still being pretty funny.

at a certain point the fun & the cleverness got sapped from his music and it turned more into bully pulpit esque sermonizing or all the "semen/morgan freeman" level rhymes w/ none of the actual "mayonnaise colored benz i push miracle whips" punchlines qua punchlines. he was still able to carry it w/ stuff like '808s & heartbreaks' and 'yeezus' bcuz of the production or concise new angles of the albums but now we're all the way in the opposite direction where the albums are overlong, he's stuck on the same production style & the lyrics are genuinely terrible.

trying to think of the last time i was impressed with his lyricism…maybe “30 hours”? even that had unfinished bars and a good minute of unrehearsed riffing at the end

the subject matter of that song also makes me think that was a dug up outtake from around the 808s era, so idk if it even counts

yeah 30 Hours and a couple other things on Pablo were the last time I really loved anything he's done

“no more parties in l.a.” was good, but probably a kendrick ghost write

yeah “no more parties in LA” maybe… tho even then there’s some some weird off putting bits. if not i’m going back to like, the first few songs on MBDTF, but even then you were getting some “i’m the king of leona lewis” or “runaway” type stuff that portended the end was imminent