Hasphat'sAnts
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Hold My Liquor is lowkey best song on the album.
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Kanye West's Yeezus has aged like fine wine.
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It's the best
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You're wrong it's layered and has purpose.
Bounceounce
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Bound 2 was the perfect outro for the album, especially after the Send It Up Outro.
I love how it contrasts with On Sight.
nah, b. he rushed the shit outta that album. http://ca.complex.com/music/2013/06/rick-rubin-kanye-west-yeezus-two-hours
Sonically, it's just hot garbage. That sample is so poorly used and is grating as fuck.
The video was on the same caliber.
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Rick rubin's complacency has nothing to do with the brilliance of the album.
that is noooot fair at all encore is fucking garbage, some of the most embarrassing music he ever released.
Bounceounce
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Explain to me how the album doesn't have purpose when it has a clear thematic string across the project all the way down to the contrasting soothing (while still rough) outro with Bound 2 as a completion of Kanye's journey across the project/reprieve from the violent harshness?
There's the racial thematic thread that goes throughout the project (ex: "the blood on the leaves" lines on New Slaves and it's later return as a song title on the same project and what that means).
Then there's the excessively sexual/bestial lyricism that takes Kanye's sexual deviancy to a level we haven't been privy to on any of his previous projects, along with the classic Kanye relationship troubles (which makes how he wraps it up on Bound 2 even better, not to mention what he does with it on Blood on The Leaves).
This album was a protest/revolt against expectations/confines in the best way possible (which he basically states on On Sight), Kanye put his all into it.
Augh, and I could write for hours on the "Yeezus just rose again" line from Send It Up and that beautiful "memories" outro.
It's pretty much a continuation of his existential struggles from Street Lights that he tackled again on "Lost In The World", where Kanye while not having resolved all of his "beautiful, dark, twisted" issues from the rest of the project for a moment just decided to let go and revel in the existential void and enjoy life with his woman amongst a cacophony of drums, chants, and lights.
Whereas on Send It Up the scenario is brought down to a simple night in the club with Kanye grinding up against a woman which causes his penis (also known as Yeezus) to rise again (like Jesus) which is a triumphant moment within the context of the album (and the catalyst for the relationship resolution on Bound 2), and is followed up by one of Kanye's best vocal samples which brings Kanye's existential issues back to the forefront with a positive message on the power of memories that we "send up and won't come down" and ties back into Kanye's night in the club (Famous, Waves, and Fade are the latest developments in Kanye's existential issues, The Life of Pablo is just filled with crippling nostalgia and sadness).
Yeezus is just too good, the lyrics are perfect, people need to stop acting as though they're actually bad like Pablo's lyrics and flow/voice.
Kanye still had bass in his voice and quality bar placement back on Yeezus.
I thought the sample was meant to be rough to fit in with the general grating sound of the album.
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It is perfect, you're right.
Swimmer9800
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2ND best in the discog.
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2ND behind 808s
Bounceounce
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Say You Will/Dark Fantasy/On Sight
Pinnochio Story/Lost In The World/Bound 2
God it's glorious.
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Incredible album.
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Swimmer9800
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1.MBDTF
2.Yeezus
3.LR
4.College dropout
5.808s
6.graduation
7.tlop
Sorry for devolving into a kanye ranking thread. But I feel like I gotta defend my #2 Yeezus spot. While ye isn't the first to hop on industrial hip hop, his take on it is fantastic imo. The most raw energy the man has ever put on recording is on yeezus. The stripped back, yet also layered production SLAMS. Flows beautifuly at only 10 tracks long-no bullshit.
2.Yeezus
3.LR
4.College dropout
5.808s
6.graduation
7.tlop
Sorry for devolving into a kanye ranking thread. But I feel like I gotta defend my #2 Yeezus spot. While ye isn't the first to hop on industrial hip hop, his take on it is fantastic imo. The most raw energy the man has ever put on recording is on yeezus. The stripped back, yet also layered production SLAMS. Flows beautifuly at only 10 tracks long-no bullshit.
bruh 808s was made in like two weeks
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Kanye West is God.
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Yeezus is the last real album.
torre_avenue
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Hold My Liquor the depression anthem of 2013.
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Is it not 2013 any more?
Bounceounce
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I Am A God has one of Kanye's best verses:
"Soon as they like you make 'em unlike you
Cause kissin' people ass is so unlike you
The only rapper compared to Michael
So here's a few hatin'-ass niggas to fight you
And here's a few snake-ass niggas to bite you
And I don't even wanna hear 'bout what niggas might do
Old niggas mentally still in high school
Since the tight jeans they ain't never liked you
Pink-ass polos with a fuckin' backpack
But everybody know you brought real rap back
Nobody had swag, man, we the Rat Pack
Virgil, Pyrex, Don C snapback
Ibn diamond, Chi-town shinin'
Monop' in this bitch again, changed the climate
Hop in this bitch to give Saint the garment
Until the day I get struck by lightning..."
Incredibly tight rhymes.
"Soon as they like you make 'em unlike you
Cause kissin' people ass is so unlike you
The only rapper compared to Michael
So here's a few hatin'-ass niggas to fight you
And here's a few snake-ass niggas to bite you
And I don't even wanna hear 'bout what niggas might do
Old niggas mentally still in high school
Since the tight jeans they ain't never liked you
Pink-ass polos with a fuckin' backpack
But everybody know you brought real rap back
Nobody had swag, man, we the Rat Pack
Virgil, Pyrex, Don C snapback
Ibn diamond, Chi-town shinin'
Monop' in this bitch again, changed the climate
Hop in this bitch to give Saint the garment
Until the day I get struck by lightning..."
Incredibly tight rhymes.
IrishNinja
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it's a solid album, and time will be even kinder to it since the follow-up was such a disappointment
MBDTF still overrated tho
besides the fact it legit feels "rushed" (the biggest critique on yeezus, which was admittedly a temper tantrum at the fashion industry but at least an interesting one), it has a few tracks and otherwise is entirely forgettable.
yeezy's worst effort so far - say what you will about graduation/etc but at least they resonate, if even for a bit
this means sweet fuckall enzoes
perpetual edginess
MBDTF still overrated tho
besides the fact it legit feels "rushed" (the biggest critique on yeezus, which was admittedly a temper tantrum at the fashion industry but at least an interesting one), it has a few tracks and otherwise is entirely forgettable.
yeezy's worst effort so far - say what you will about graduation/etc but at least they resonate, if even for a bit
this means sweet fuckall enzoes
perpetual edginess
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Andrew Korenchkin
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Yeah, I love it and its probably my second favorite Kanye album. It was pretty much the album that convinced that I should finally like Kanye West after years of thinking he's insanely overrated. The music is fantastic, but what I think people miss is the lyrics, which are absolutely fucking hilarious and insanely memorable. The first time I listened to it and really "got it", I was standing in my room laughing like a complete idiot at every single line he says.
Robot Pants
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Straight up garbage album. So lazy and nowhere near as good as the ones that came before it.
Northernlights
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Still his worst album imo
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Sometimes I think people who grew up listening to hip hop as their main genre of music have less of a tolerance for Kanye West, I know I do. Great as his highs are, he's always been such a pedestrian emcee that he has never been able to penetrate that core and lyrical, almost to the point of being pretentious fan. Not sure if that makes sense or not.
He has been dope in spite of his lack of skills. So when I hear something like Yeezus, which sounds like a whack rappers best effort, it falls short in alot of ways.
He has been dope in spite of his lack of skills. So when I hear something like Yeezus, which sounds like a whack rappers best effort, it falls short in alot of ways.
That doesn't mean he only spent two hours on the vocals though. A friend of mine is a rapper and I sometimes record his vocals. What happens is he writes the verses in advance, sometimes records demos, spits the verses over and over again until he remembers them perfectly and then he steps into the recording booth and records the whole verse in a couple takes. Sometimes it's just 1 take, which means that if a verse is 30 seconds long, it only takes a little more than 30 seconds to record. That doesn't mean he came up with the lyrics on the spot or hasn't been practicing them.
Kanye probably made/wrote everything weeks before that, but only recorded the final vocals in those 2 hours, which is pretty common. And even if he wrote them that day, it's not that hard/time consuming to record vocals.
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