|
Is the new future thing good ds2
|
# ? Jul 18, 2015 07:02 |
|
|
# ? Jun 3, 2024 21:51 |
|
tpab is a goodass album that I regularly listen to but his stance on black-on-black crime drags k-dot in general for me which I guess is silly but ehh
|
# ? Jul 18, 2015 07:22 |
|
Anyone heard of this one yet? Another petition http://jezebel.com/canadians-dont-want-kanye-west-performing-in-their-coun-1718295342
|
# ? Jul 18, 2015 11:41 |
|
that isnt very polite, canada
|
# ? Jul 18, 2015 11:48 |
|
HorseRenoir posted:I'm not saying that Kendrick's album doesn't have substance, I just feel like he doesn't have enough substance there to justify the album's presentation as this grand, epic generation-defining statement (complete with a totally unearned and tacky Tupac outro). When you get down to the core of what he's saying, a lot of it is either really simple, basic motivational poster poo poo ("You gotta believe in yourself! Hang in there!"), patronizing oversimplifications of the issues ("The black community has problems because people have really bad self-esteem and bring others down"), or statements that are just flat-out wrong ("Hundreds of years of structural inequality in a white supremacist state sucks, BUT BLACK ON BLACK CRIME IS JUST AS BAD Y'ALL"). He also strays away from the personal storytelling that worked on GKMC to go with some really hacky, cliche conceptual tracks ("You thought this song was about a woman, but it's actually about hip-hop! This girl named Lucy is tempting me, but Lucy is actually the devil! I was mean to a homeless man but it turns out he was actually God and now I can't go to heaven, oh no!"). I feel like I wouldn't be as hard on this stuff if it didn't feel like the album was super impressed with itself and what it had to say. The thing is when you get down to the core of what anyone is saying, it's gonna be some basic stuff. I mean I could just as easily dismiss RAP Music because when you get down to the core of it a lot of it is either really simple "gently caress the government" stuff, or empty braggadocio. Also fwiw the way most people saying they forgot about TPAB is how I feel about GKMC-besides backseat freestyle and maad city I pretty much dropped that album after a week or so. temple has it pretty much on the nose what TPAB is all about. And not caring for how he did it is way different from it being actually bad, or even not good. Moonswamp posted:Anyone heard of this one yet? Another petition http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/joshua-ostroff/kanye-kim-pan-am-games_b_7810290.html http://www.theguardian.com/music/musicblog/2015/jul/13/kanye-west-why-cant-rocknrolls-old-guard-handle-him http://www.vice.com/en_ca/read/lets-not-pretend-the-petition-to-stop-kanye-west-from-playing-toronto-doesnt-have-meaning?utm_source=vicefbca Now I don't actually expect anyone else to read all of that, but there is a bunch of (largely unsurprising) stuff there about how most of this backlash is a bunch of "not racists" trying to strike out at Kanye's aggressive blackness, for lack of a better word. Also they had over 100k signatures at that UK concert so I don't think anything will come from this either, but it's still funny.
|
# ? Jul 18, 2015 15:33 |
|
alansmithee posted:Now I don't actually expect anyone else to read all of that Nonsense! It was fascinating stuff, albeit stuff I kind of expected, but it's good to see it stated out there. It is really surprising when people criticize Kanye as an rear end in a top hat considering the wide amount of poo poo white rockers have done in the past (Hasn't at least one classic band gotten away with murder? Pretty sure Kanye hasn't killed anyone). But yeah, it's pretty significantly a racism thing, couched up in moralistic terms that suspiciously are never used when white musicians are brought on board. Black celebrities, especially those who don't act in particularly "white" ways are scrutinized in a way that might not necessarily be wrong, but is definitely not done with white celebrities or "white-friendly" black celebrities, like Will Smith.
|
# ? Jul 18, 2015 16:17 |
|
Moonswamp posted:Anyone heard of this one yet? Another petition I'm sure it'll be just as successful as the last one.
|
# ? Jul 19, 2015 09:10 |
|
Xanderkish posted:Nonsense! It was fascinating stuff, albeit stuff I kind of expected, but it's good to see it stated out there. It is really surprising when people criticize Kanye as an rear end in a top hat considering the wide amount of poo poo white rockers have done in the past (Hasn't at least one classic band gotten away with murder? Pretty sure Kanye hasn't killed anyone). Completely agreed. I'd much rather hang out with Kanye West than a lot of artists whose music I like more but think are kinda assholes, from Jack White to Thom Yorke. I mean, I don't really get how you can have a parade of people like Paul Stanley or Jimmy Page or every other "classic rock" personality come in and go, "[Band X] was the biggest thing ever then," or, "We really were the first to do [thing they were not close to the first to do]," or, "I was messing around in the studio, and then a sound engineer told me, "Hey, I've never heard something like this before, you're doing [poo poo that didn't happen]." The idea of Kanye West being overwhelmingly arrogant, but all these other assholes not being arrogant kinda blows my mind.
|
# ? Jul 19, 2015 14:14 |
|
That's all good it went well. I was there and the mic cut out during his set. I'm not sure how much more he had planned but it sounded like he was close to finishing. But when the mic cut he looked like he just said "gently caress it", threw the mic and left. Much confusion was had before they recovered and just played another Serena song.
|
# ? Jul 28, 2015 23:38 |
|
Kanye for President? Just release your album mate then we'll talk!
|
# ? Aug 31, 2015 11:53 |
|
Yeezy 2020
|
# ? Aug 31, 2015 17:40 |
|
Yeezy season always seems to be approaching but it never comes.
|
# ? Aug 31, 2015 17:46 |
|
So Swish has to drop sometime before 2020, right? .....right?
|
# ? Aug 31, 2015 18:53 |
|
He's about to welcome another child into the world while gearing up for a presidential bid, cut him some slack
|
# ? Aug 31, 2015 20:41 |
|
Fade (Season 2 Mix) feat Travis Scott, Ty Dolla $ign and Post Malone http://vocaroo.com/i/s131CMsZDQ1x
|
# ? Sep 16, 2015 19:17 |
|
atrus50 posted:Fade (Season 2 Mix) feat Travis Scott, Ty Dolla $ign and Post Malone Still waiting on that Wolves CDQ
|
# ? Sep 16, 2015 20:05 |
|
If you were to do the impossible and try to list Kanye's albums by how good they are, would something like this be way off base? I'll be fair and admit that Graduation and 808s are the two I've listened to the least, so they might go above Late Registration eventually for me. 1. MBDTF 2. College Dropout 3. Yeezus 4. Late Registration 5. Graduation 6. 808s
|
# ? Sep 18, 2015 13:42 |
|
The Mash posted:If you were to do the impossible and try to list Kanye's albums by how good they are, would something like this be way off base? I'll be fair and admit that Graduation and 808s are the two I've listened to the least, so they might go above Late Registration eventually for me. You put the best two albums on the bottom...
|
# ? Sep 18, 2015 13:55 |
|
The Mash posted:If you were to do the impossible and try to list Kanye's albums by how good they are, would something like this be way off base? I'll be fair and admit that Graduation and 808s are the two I've listened to the least, so they might go above Late Registration eventually for me. Listchat best chat! 1. MBDTF 2. 808s 3. Yeezus 4. College Dropout 5. Graduation 6. Late Registration I do feel that on any given day 2-4 are interchangeable to me
|
# ? Sep 18, 2015 14:08 |
|
1-5 Late Registration 6 MBDTF, College Dropout, Yeezus, Late Registration, Graduation, 808s
|
# ? Sep 18, 2015 14:21 |
|
1. yeezus 2. graduation 3. mbdtf 4. college dropout 5. late registration 6. 808
|
# ? Sep 18, 2015 15:34 |
|
I took a hit of these lists it got me stuck
|
# ? Sep 18, 2015 15:52 |
|
as long as Graduation is last, the list works
|
# ? Sep 18, 2015 19:45 |
|
Hey which one has killa cam on it Oh yeah the best one
|
# ? Sep 18, 2015 20:17 |
|
I've had many arguments trying to list Kanye albums and it never works everyone has different opinions it turns out
|
# ? Sep 18, 2015 20:31 |
|
The amazing thing is that everybody's list is pretty valid because all of his solo albums are good to great. He's basically batting 1000, if you assume Cruel Summer doesn't count.
|
# ? Sep 18, 2015 20:47 |
|
Blast Fantasto posted:The amazing thing is that everybody's list is pretty valid because all of his solo albums are good to great. He's basically batting 1000, if you assume Cruel Summer doesn't count.
|
# ? Sep 18, 2015 20:50 |
|
Freshman adjustment or whatever it's called is better then yeezus. Late orchestration is better then yeezus. gently caress man, vh1 storytellers is better then yeezus. Us placers is better then yeezus. drat
|
# ? Sep 18, 2015 20:54 |
|
Rageaholic Monkey posted:There were some dope tracks on Cruel Summer though. Not all of them, but absolutely some of them. This album has grown on me quite a bit. I find that there's not a lot of tracks on this one that I skip.
|
# ? Sep 18, 2015 21:06 |
|
Yeah, there are definitely tracks I like on Cruel Summer. The version of Don't Like on there, that's that poo poo I do like
|
# ? Sep 18, 2015 21:07 |
|
Cruel Summer and Watch the Throne both have like half good tracks though which is still an achievement all things considered
|
# ? Sep 18, 2015 21:09 |
|
Tremendous Taste posted:Hey which one has killa cam on it
|
# ? Sep 18, 2015 21:18 |
|
1. Yeezus 2. MBDTF 3. College Dropout 4. Graduation 5. 808s 6. Late Registration Just get the singles everywhere else (Cruel Summer, Watch the Throne, etc)
|
# ? Sep 19, 2015 01:15 |
|
Street Lights is probably his best written song, therefore, 808s is good.
|
# ? Sep 19, 2015 14:42 |
|
Crosspost Saw Kanye last night and it was incredible He only did Chorus + 1 Verse for most songs because the show ran klong and he got cut off, but check out this setlist. edit - good seats too
|
# ? Sep 19, 2015 18:55 |
I was going to make a list, too, but just take the order they were released in, reverse it, and then switch MBDTF and Yeezus so MBDTF is the best, and that's my list.
|
|
# ? Sep 20, 2015 04:27 |
|
alansmithee posted:You put the best two albums on the bottom... I don't normally agree with alansmithee, but I agree with him here.
|
# ? Sep 20, 2015 14:23 |
|
how could any of you dumb mother fuckers put Graduation at anything other than #2 behind MBDTF? I mean come on this is easy
|
# ? Sep 22, 2015 08:19 |
|
Agree.
|
# ? Sep 22, 2015 08:44 |
|
|
# ? Jun 3, 2024 21:51 |
|
But that's what happens when you get backpackers in a Kanye thread.
|
# ? Sep 22, 2015 08:45 |