Req wrote:the Wiper wrote:just let what is, be.
just b/c it doesn't fit into a neat little box don't mean it ain't good music.
/back to lurking
p.s. MEMORIES DON'T LIVE LIKE PEOPLE DO, THEY ALWAYS REMEMBER YOU. WHETHER THINGS ARE GOOD OR BAD, IT'S JUST THE MEMORIES...THAT YOU HAD.
peace
THIS RIGHT CHEA
Kanye still high off the fact that him sampling some dancehall for last year's "Mercy" still resonates with hipster-tainted peoples looking for the next trendy little subculture to exploit and/or extract credibility from, which remains Jamaican dancehall music. "Bound 2" gave us some of the chipmunk soul we wanted, but 3 times on the album, he's like "me Kanye Wess, mon! me can dweet, and dem cyan stop me!"
and yo, I like weird music and I make weird music. but this is weird for the sake of seeking attention, kinda like a despotic, nihilistic, dystopian Lady Gaga concept album. AND THAT'S FUCKIN WACK, YO
most of this "weirdness" feels like it has no context or meaning to the reason it's different. it just is for the sake of it, which is the weakest type of "artistic experimentation". Rick Rubin was more right than Kanye West is about the real cohesiveness and unity of this album. Regardless that the rhymes are nearly unacceptably basic for 85% of the project and easily are Kanye's worst collection of rap verses, the PRODUCTION of this album remains very stellar and stunning.
Note, I said 'the production', NOT 'the beats'. Most of the beats are rickety half ass excuses for beats. Hipster disaffection reached into the MPC with its microdick in its hand, and ejaculated contempt for b-boy tradition.
this album is too short, rushed, probably missing 6 or 7 other songs he recorded but changed his mind on (I've never wanted a Pusha T verse to appear so badly) and too unfocused for me to enjoy seriously. This is Kanye West's "Blueprint 3" for me. Sub-par, but still with a FEW redeemable moments, like 'Blood on the Leaves' is 'Already Home', but there isn't much else that can be saved.
just because it doesn't fit in a box doesn't mean it IS truly innovative and repeat-listen-worthy good music
"Swaghili" is pretty funny though. I don't want to hear ANYONE EVER. SAY IT IN SERIOUS CONVERSATION... but that shit is kinda jokes. Still, as a rapper, he's FAR from the top of his game.
delusion is a hell of a drug to do while you're on cocaine
Kanye's trying to appeal to haute couture white folks and dirty south black kids in the same moment
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