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Kanye West presents Yeezus |OT| #YeezySeason Approaches
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Rastafarian42
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One in a million shot but fuck it deem Yeezy's.
Walmart only sells clean versions right?
This question is unrelated to the tape color.
Syph Medwes
Member
They must be both, my friend bought a yellow version and I can't imagine her buying a clean version.
Yellow tape explicits were they day one though. Someone had a copy with yellow tape before release.
Yep. I remember a long time ago Green Day refused to sell their CD at Walmart because of their policy.
You sure? Not clean?
That's what I was thinking
I dunno about the states but up here in Canada they sell explicit versions.
Definitely not clean, I bought it to blast in my car and its explicit.
Edit: I'm in Canada btw.
When did Walmart change their policy?
http://www.walmart.com/cp/Music-Content-Policy/547092
Edit: oh Canada oh Canada
Poster above me said Canadian Wal Marts sell explicit material, it's the first cd I've ever bought in Wal Mart I just saw it in there the other day and picked it up for my car.
The true land of freedom my friend!
Well that's good to hear. Already got it digital, but might grab it as an excuse to use the electronics checkout next time I'm there. lol
Only in Canada.
thezerofire
Banned
the yeezy2 giveaway can't find my itunes purchase 
Vanillalite
Ask me about the GAF Notebook
No but just saying I don't count bonus tracks towards album length.
Album just seems about 2 songs short IMO.
What. I can honestly say that none of his albums feel dated to me. Sure they use an old style and theme, but never do I listen to any of his albums and think that they sound dated. That's the genius of Kanye
I dunno. Just how I feel. Just imagining hearing "Can we get much highya? So hiiiigh" gets under my skin. His albums are always very time-and-place-y for me. Or maybe I just hear they so god damn much I get sick of them.
Yea...can't agree with you there. I can go all the way back and turn on CD with no problems. Spaceship, Jesus walks, all falls down, hell even Slow Jams.
Too many Urkels on your team that's why your Winslow!
Too good.
LightOfTruth
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My friends who like rap don't like the production on this new album. I think they're crazy, but I will admit his lyrics...aren't great here. I think he hit his peak lyrically with MBDTF, but this seems like a major downgrade. Either that or Kanye just really didnt give a fuck when he made this album.
Worst lyrics since Graduation for sure.
Ken Masters
Banned
And the sad part is graduation was just trying to be a fun party album, this is him trying to make a point and send a message and is lyrically worse IMO
LightOfTruth
Member
Graduation has its moments though. For this album I'm just not hearing the usual heart and soul Kanye puts in. I still love the album but I have to put this in a very different spot than the rest of his albums. Even 808s, which I think is the most hated Ye album, you can tell there was so much heart put into it.
Odd comment about 808s. I would say that album is easily his most heartfelt album
Enlighten us on that message ken.
the yeezy2 giveaway can't find my itunes purchase
Nothing comes up when I put the CD in my computer. ITS JIPPED!
By "post rap" I really mean contemporary rap albums that are strongly theatrical, highly conceptualized and very often the musicality is as important as the quality of the rapping.
There's something different about these albums (other than pure quality) that sets them apart - something stylistic. I think "post" is appropriate because in art history things that are post very often are movements trying to move away from the mainstream, but at the same time are also trying to redefine a new mainstream.
Anyway, what I'm trying to do is describe a mainstream style that sounds different, but not necessarily counter to other mainstream styles, but do so in a way that works with art terminology.
Well it's extremely theatrical. It's as operatic as MBDTF. But I agree that the rapping in it is pretty straightforward (which is one of the reasons I like it so much). I think it perfectly skirts being a normal rap music with being a "rap opera".
you're describing reasonable doubt?
Er reasonable doubt? As in the judicial standard that's above a preponderance of the evidence? Uhhhhhh I'm definitely trying to describe a je ne sais quoi quality though.
Jay-z first album...have you heard it?
Oh...bwahaha (sorry I'm a lawyer when I see "reasonable doubt" I think of law stuff).
Yeah sure if you want to think about it that way. Although RD lacks some of the deliberate musicality of some of the more contemporary stuff. Like everything in art stylistic terms are pretty plastic, and are designed to convey a general idea more than anything else.
Angry Fork
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Kanye has always been terrible lyrically, there was never a reason to be hyped for his verses on anything. He's also a raging hypocrite who is either incapable of being able to make decisions on how to live his life and what his opinions are, or he's just doing all this pseudo-activist shit to be talked about again after the swag-ego fest that was Dark Fantasy.
Anyway, he's still a great producer. I like the sounds coming out of this. More similar to 808s which is my favorite of Kanye's and I think his best work. I like when he experiments. Wish he would do it more often and put out an instrumental-only album.
Not sure how to feel on some of the lines in this, like him using black panthers fist and fisting a woman in the same breath. I genuinely don't know if he's just doing it to be controversial to pump himself out there more or if he thinks he's being some kind of unique genius by combining opposite extremes for some sociopolitical ends. I'm inclined to believe he's an idiot man child who doesn't think much about what he says, not sure though.
Anyway, he's still a great producer. I like the sounds coming out of this. More similar to 808s which is my favorite of Kanye's and I think his best work. I like when he experiments. Wish he would do it more often and put out an instrumental-only album.
Not sure how to feel on some of the lines in this, like him using black panthers fist and fisting a woman in the same breath. I genuinely don't know if he's just doing it to be controversial to pump himself out there more or if he thinks he's being some kind of unique genius by combining opposite extremes for some sociopolitical ends. I'm inclined to believe he's an idiot man child who doesn't think much about what he says, not sure though.
Code is on the back off the tape on the outside, but I'm not sure if that's useable or not.
Vicetrailia
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The more that I listen to this CD the less I like it. As many have said, the production is dope but the lyrics fall short.
Nah, Reasonable Doubt's beats were all loop-jobs just like every other album from that era.
illmatic19
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Really digging Black Skinhead, goddamn what a great song.
MrCookiepants
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Okay, this must be one of those things you need to sit down and listen to. Because those iTunes previews left me slightly bewildered.
Saw the CD in the store today. Unusually stands out on the shelf considering it doesn't have any cover/disc art or even a track list on the back. Well played Kanye. Boring red sticker label though. Would have been really cool with the proper red duct tape and Yeezus scribble on it.
No he doesnt lol
theignoramus
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you mean the Golden era of the whole gotdamn genre?
Production on this album is high quality. I can already see the flood of theatrical trailers that'll use some pounding cut from this album...and why not, the beats hit hard.
Not my shit tho.
I do. they get massive hard ons over experimental shit.
Ok. Here my problem with Yeesus - and why im disappointed - MTBDF had 4 good songs, Power, Gorgeous, Runaway, Lost In the World.
If he made yeesus in the same vain as Gorgeous as a template - he would had one song (Blood on The Leaves) that would have been the greatest of his career. Instead he went more towards his weakest song on the last album and did 6 of the 10 songs in Yeesus. And yet Yeesus has the best song endings that are not heard anywhere in music, which pisses me off because I KNOW Ye better than this. Hes just on angry horny otaku mode for no god damn reason.
If he made yeesus in the same vain as Gorgeous as a template - he would had one song (Blood on The Leaves) that would have been the greatest of his career. Instead he went more towards his weakest song on the last album and did 6 of the 10 songs in Yeesus. And yet Yeesus has the best song endings that are not heard anywhere in music, which pisses me off because I KNOW Ye better than this. Hes just on angry horny otaku mode for no god damn reason.
Inightful pitchfork article
http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9157-the-yeezus-sessions/
The Yeezus Sessions
We talk to seven men who helped create Kanye's polarizing thunderbolt of an album, including Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, producer Hudson Mohawke, and more.
P.S. Yeezus still on repeat non stop this is his third best work so far, maybe second. I'm out.
http://pitchfork.com/features/articles/9157-the-yeezus-sessions/
The Yeezus Sessions
We talk to seven men who helped create Kanye's polarizing thunderbolt of an album, including Bon Iver's Justin Vernon, producer Hudson Mohawke, and more.
I knew it, yall spread some bullshit that he does fuck all in regards to making the music nowadays, this fits along with the mike dean AMA which talks about how Ye is the lead producer who sifts through and chooses the best work from everyone and makes it work. Ye touches everything.
GIMME them tracks Ye, Good friday that shit or something.
P.S. Yeezus still on repeat non stop this is his third best work so far, maybe second. I'm out.
Finally got a chance to listen to this on Spotify this weekend and really enjoyed it. Some of the mid-song tonal shifts don't work for me, but overall it's a very energetic album. the wife and I listened to it while driving and Black Skinhead, I am a God, and Blood on the Leaves were very interesting to us.
Preach, Yeezus has been on repeat for me since release. Only CD and LR feel "superior" at the moment - probably a result of the years that passed since their release. I relate to CD the most.
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