Kanye West, Yeezus, 6/18/13 (TBC because who knows anymore)

fucking hell

listening to it on headphones, yeah "Black Skinhead" is cool and totally destroys "New Slaves," which is barely even a song, sounds like an album intro or something.

it's just a short rap song over a minimal beat, i like it a lot

then again i have yet to listen to a recording of a tv performance on headphones

my one gripe with "new slaves" is it has that crescendoing coda that sounds a lot like "clique"

it just feels like some poorly rapped provocative (tm will ferrell) nonsense to me though

lol all i meant was i couldn't really make out the words to "Black Skinhead" at all when i watched it on TV but on headphones it came through much clearer and i was like yeah this is good

I love that he got the line "I came on her Hampton blouse and in her Hampton mouth" on live tv. Censor asleep on the job.

He seems angry - good. Very stark. Tony Stark. Sorry. I like this direction - opposite of the gross opulence previously.

The "swallower" line ruins "New Slaves" for me.

Why?

I really like all of this. I didn't care for Grad/808, detested the last one and only half remember the Jay/labelmates ones so I'm excited to be back on the kanye train after like a decade of being blazay about his stuff.

"It was very raw: he was rapping—kind of screaming primally, actually,” Thomas Bangalter of the French duo told Rolling Stone.

So this is his Plastic Ono Band. Awesome.

both songs are straight furnace (hi hoos!) except for that lame coda at end of new slaves

i'm really impressed that he was able to play this in 66 places across the world w/o a high quality rip or something leaking, good job kanye stree team

"i keep it three hunna like the romans" lol

judging from these two songs this album is gonna blow MBDTF out the water, im hyped

dying @ 'the beautiful people' comparison, that's great

I'm implausibly excited by this

"i'ma keep it 300, like the romans"

I woulda preferred i'ma keep it 300, like Dawn Richard."

WAY TO BE LATE K3V

haha i swear i was gonna make fun of that line first but my wifi crapped out

I love the Kanye vicious cycle. Get rich, write angry, asshole songs about people who think he is an asshole, get angry again, write another song about the response to people who think he's a dick, etc. Kanye smash. Meanwhile, most people dont give a fuck. Who are his enemies? Does he have enemies? Is he just paranoid for the the sake of the craft? Is he still into fashion? Is he still doing fan interviews over skype from exotic locations?

Where did all this anger come from? He was pretty chill, funny, fun, thoughtful, then he does 808s, then he comes back with a concept album about being an angry asshole. Did the death of his mom, grounding element, break him?

http://i.imgur.com/EkeLIM6.jpg

^^ ilx pre-covers yeezus ^^

josh otm

not having to answer to mom, especially after breaking up with his long term girlfriend, undoubtedly set him free to paint an uglier picture

idgi what the big mystery is, he's an unmoored stardom coke fiend on a provocation treadmill and his artistic rage is always chiefly directed at the prospect of the dying of his own light

we are all his mom now

now say that in the voice of George Will

Still they yacht me like Yeezus

Maybe this is his Faith, with a video of Kanye lighting a Bottega Veneta weekend bag on fire.

Er, Listen Without Prejudice, Vol. 1, that is.

these two new songs remind me of 808s, how stripped down they are, and when yeezy goes ham on the drums, reminiscent of chorus to 'love lockdown'

man the jump to falsetto in the new slaves clip is so him. "I'M MAD! MAD FOR EVERYONE! THIS IS BULLSHIT! AND...WHILE I HAVE YOUR ATTENTION...laaaaaaaaaa"

people say that's frank ocean but i'm not sure because kanye mouths the words in the video and they both have strained cracked falsettos

yeah even if he was lip-syncing to a sample or whatevs, it was a real moodkiller

https://pbs.twimg.com/media/BKpCYkaCcAE_OZO.jpg:large

^^ apparantly that's the album cover. Looks like a golden placenta Kanye put into Kim. Or a Damien Hirst shite piece of art. Or both.

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=GNEV5QCMTX0&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DGNEV5QCMTX0

http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=L6ZUktQ7p40&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DL6ZUktQ7p40

if youre in america u can just go to hulu.com and watc the performances there

i don't get how that's the cover art? it looks to me like a plain jewel case with some piece of plastic where the CD would be

#innovation

there's probably no actual cd inside and it's just a download code

or maybe the gold thing is the actual cd a la http://i.imgur.com/Z0053bk.jpg

proud black man's golden blob all up in your priveleged white middle american jewel case

has no one noted the gary glitter thing in black skinhead?

also i enjoyed his fake-dj-as-graphic-effect thing on SNL

anyway looks like the golden thing is just a sticker or something applied over a clear cd front, the actual CD is just a continuation of the black/white graphic

xp: yeah, rock & roll! just watched all this yeezy. fucking awesome. maybe love the initial street projection bit best of all, even with the "cheezy" coda. sounds like he's doubling down on the super-distorted sound of MBDTF, but taking it far enough to be interesting. punk-industrial political outrage over minimal beats suits him surprisingly well. excited.

love the packaging, too

All I can say, so far, is that I'm intrigued.

Agreed, that line stood out to me in Jordan's review.

I was listening to an interview with a drummer who does sample replays for a living, and learned that the gospel sample on 'On Sight' was actually an entire replay. Days before the album dropped, they had to hire another producer/engineer to get a drummer and a gospel choir to precisely re-record the sample (which presumably couldn't be cleared). Crazy.

I.e. it's not actually this record --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyf7f7ouzjk