kanye west's comments on his iTunes playlist

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this is from the 'Celebrity Playlists' part of the Apple Music Store:

1. A Thousand Miles, Vanessa Carlton: See I always liked the song until I saw the movie "White Girls." This must be the white song that all the black people like, you know every year there's a song that black people like and this is that. I love the string arrangements. Ron Fare is really up on the strings.

2. 12:15, The Strokes: Ah man, I love this song so much that I almost f'cked up the mix down on my album because you can barely hear the lyrics. I went in the mix on my album trying to make the guitar louder, trying to make it sound like The Strokes, and Common was like, 'Come on man, that don't sound like hip-hop. Come on man, turn them drums up."

3. Seven Nation Army, The White Stripes: Ok this is another song that is all black people's favorite white song. Everybody loves The White Stripes so it's kind of cliche, but it's really dope and I love the singer/songwriter/producer thing so..."

4. The Scientist, Coldplay: This is a song where the video really made me go back and look at it. "The Scientist" is one of the dopest videos, it's one of my top-five videos of all time, but I also like the song.

5. Torn, Natalie Imbruglia: Once again another black people's favorite white song because it's a really dope remake, and she had a couple of other dope songs on the album too.

6. Spaceship, Kanye West: This is dedicated to anybody who has a job whose manager is coming down on them who doesn't understand that $4.25 an hour just isn't going to make it. This is one of my theme songs right here—I remember working at The Gap. It's a true story.

7. Lucifer, Jay-Z: Man, I love this beat right here. I was going to use it on my album but I felt like "Jesus Walks" and "Lucifer" both needed their own albums and their own space.

8. Sleep to Dream, Fiona Apple: I was feeling it out the box but the production on this album is top notch. The drums, the sound of it... I've tried to make sh't like this, and when you fall short of that you get like a song like "Two Words."

9. Cause I Love You, Lenny Williams: This is the song that made me do "Slow Jamz." Steve Harvey was playing it in the "Kings of Comedy" talking bout, there's no good rap, there's no good music anymore. We want to listen to stuff like this. It's also ironic that I used it for Twista's next single after "Slow Jamz," "Overnight Celebrity."

10. Mystery of Iniquity, Lauryn Hill: You know why I like this song. The melody is really dope, she was really snapping on the raps... Aww man, like the way she was lyrically so past people.

11. Distant Lover, Marvin Gaye: You just can't explain why you like any Marvin Gaye song, but this one inspired the track for "Spaceship."

12. Am I High, N.E.R.D.: "Am I High" is mine and everybody else I know's favorite song on the N.E.R.D. classic album "In Search of..."

13. Used to Love U, John Legend: I really just went through something like what he's talking about in the song so it really hit me in the heart at the time.

14. This Love, Maroon 5: You know why I like that song ... Maroon 5 is one of my favorite groups.

15. Take Me Out, Franz Ferdinand: This is the real thing right here, I can't wait to finally get the opportunity to go see them perform, I heard their stage show is crazy.

16. No Such Thing, John Mayer: OK, I could have took John Mayer both of his whole albums, "Heavier Things" and "Room for Squares." I could have picked any song off of those albums. I'm a big John Mayer fan.

17. Scar Tissue, Red Hot Chili Peppers: Red Hot Chili Peppers is my favorite group of all times, he says "broken jaw" on it too so you know I like that.

18. The Reason, Hoobastank: Them my home boys, I always see them when we go to places like England and Canada. We always kicking it backstage you know just having a good time.

19. Selfish, Slum Village: This melody is just really infectious and mature, it's like that grown-man music.

20. 99 Problems, Jay-Z: Man, Jay-Z was just snapping on these raps so hard and the way he did the other voices in the middle, man he was killing that.

21. Electric Relaxation, ATCQ: OK, this is what takes me back to the reason that I wanted to do music or I wanted to bring back to the game and I finally got a chance.

22. How Many MCs: N'gga, this is how you know I'm really hip-hop if I picked this. This is a classic.

23. The Rain, Missy Elliott: This is actually my favorite. I remember we use to always have arguments about what's Missy's best song, well this is my favorite Missy song.


splooge (thesplooge), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 08:10 (twenty years ago)

Why does black people never want to rock?

JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 08:18 (twenty years ago)

this list totally reminds me of all my hip hop friends that are "so into music" that don't know shit about it

JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 08:20 (twenty years ago)

18. The Reason, Hoobastank: Them my home boys, I always see them when we go to places like England and Canada. We always kicking it backstage you know just having a good time.

First AJ Soprano, now Kanye! This does not please me.

That being said, it is endearing that his i!tunes playlist is like half comprosed of his own tracks. Kinda like Dave Marsh always nominating himself on the "best rock books" parts of "The New Book Of Rock Lists".

Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 10:47 (twenty years ago)

This Love, Maroon 5: You know why I like that song

No, I don't Kanye, explain it to me because I can't understand WHY in the world M5 would be your favourite band.

jesus nathalie (nathalie), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 11:02 (twenty years ago)

Girl problems?

Andrew Blood Thames (Andrew Thames), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 11:10 (twenty years ago)

maroon 5 said 'kanye is the future'.

splooge (thesplooge), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 11:29 (twenty years ago)

and he remixed them and whatnot

Daniel_Rf (Daniel_Rf), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 11:30 (twenty years ago)

I love that Kanye loves Fiona!

a lot of these songs are like the one song by these bands that I really like, like "Torn" or "Scar Tissue".

The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 11:31 (twenty years ago)

what is this 'favourite white song for black people' bollocks?! that just sounds so stupid.

titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 14:32 (twenty years ago)

I think it sounds OK. It's like saying 'Hey Ya' is the favourite black song for white people. It's just saying you know it's shit/has strong crossover potential (depending on how you see these things). It doesn't have to apply to every black or white person to have some point to it.

Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 14:37 (twenty years ago)

It oddly makes sense for "A Thousand Miles", but then maybe I'm just saying that because I like that song.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 14:40 (twenty years ago)

yeah, I kind of like that he's self-aware about the "white music that black people like" thing.

Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 14:43 (twenty years ago)

this list totally reminds me of all my hip hop friends that are "so into music" that don't know shit about it

They haven't studied!

Leon in Exile (Ex Leon), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 14:44 (twenty years ago)

K is the worst Muppet ever.

B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 14:46 (twenty years ago)

The whole "I love the singer/songwriter/producer thing" line seems self-conscious in a different way though. Like Kanye's trying to give himself roundabout compliments (hardly necessary when he's including his own tracks in the list). I like how he claims that "Two Words" is a botched attempt to copy "Sleep To Dream" though! I'll send him a copy of Heather Nova's "Spirit In You" and he can make a botched version of that for Alicia Keys, that would be awesome.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 14:48 (twenty years ago)

It oddly makes sense for "A Thousand Miles"

Really makes sense for Coldplay and Fiona Apple too...

The Lex (The Lex), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 14:49 (twenty years ago)

I'm formulating a pet theory around how Just Blaze gets his inspirations from hard rock and Kanye gets it from soft rock.

Al (sitcom), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 15:07 (twenty years ago)

Torn, Natalie Imbruglia: Once again another black people's favorite white song because it's a really dope remake

Of what, though? Explains 'Where Is The Love' COMPLETELY, now.

B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 15:09 (twenty years ago)

I'm formulating a pet theory around how Just Blaze gets his inspirations from hard rock and Kanye gets it from soft rock.

Air Supply revival time.

Ned Raggett (Ned), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 15:10 (twenty years ago)

Y'know, compared to a lot of other jobs, working at the Gap isn't that bad. I mean, it's not like he was cleaning toilets or picking fruit or something. He was folding sweaters.

Huk-L, Tuesday, 2 November 2004 15:11 (twenty years ago)

Torn was originally done by a band called... Ednaswap.

Alba (Alba), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 15:16 (twenty years ago)

and the best version of it is still the tweaked-out electrical-sounding bonus track on B. Fleischmann's Pop Loops for Breakfast.

Begs2Differ (Begs2Differ), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 15:19 (twenty years ago)

You guys.

B.A.R.M.S. (Barima), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 15:51 (twenty years ago)

He likes a lot of lame crap, it seems.

Alex in NYC (vassifer), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 16:00 (twenty years ago)

....he was folding sweaters FOR THE MAN

m0stly clean (m0stly clean), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 16:02 (twenty years ago)

i hear kayne is very ticklish

artdamages (artdamages), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 16:41 (twenty years ago)

I'm formulating a pet theory around how Just Blaze gets his inspirations from hard rock and Kanye gets it from soft rock.

i was listening to the Freeway album this weekend and thinking how Classic Rock it sounded. has this already been talked about to death?

JaXoN (JasonD), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 17:57 (twenty years ago)

Seven Nation Army, The White Stripes: Ok this is another song that is all black people's favorite white song.

Amy Phillips to thread!

MC Transmaniacon (natepatrin), Tuesday, 2 November 2004 18:05 (twenty years ago)

that is really disturbing.

Savin All My Love 4 u (Savin 4ll my (heart) 4u), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 05:25 (twenty years ago)

I'm kind of disappointed -- I think he's a pretty good producer and I thought he'd have a more interesting list.

Hurting (Hurting), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 06:32 (twenty years ago)

but the boy dropped out of college. ain't no one said he was smart

JaXoN (JasonD), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:03 (twenty years ago)

I'm formulating a pet theory around how Just Blaze gets his inspirations from hard rock and Kanye gets it from soft rock.

OTM, specially the w/ new singles 'yes' and 'breathe'

jake b. (cerybut), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 07:30 (twenty years ago)

well, kanye's two words had hard rock influence.

titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 10:22 (twenty years ago)

But he says that's based on Fiona Apple!

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 10:33 (twenty years ago)

Although I think it's interesting that their work on The Blueprint almost suggests the opposite to what happened - in retrospect "The Takeover" sounds like a Just Blaze track and "Girls Girls Girls" and "Song Cry" like Kanye tracks.

Tim Finney (Tim Finney), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 10:35 (twenty years ago)

he talks a lot of shit though. ive no idea how two words has anything to do with fiona apple. i can believe he likes fiona though, questlove from the roots is a big fan and she kinda has that kind of 'reverse-crossover' appeal that someone like joni mitchell does, believe it or not.

the reason blaze and kanye often sound so similar is that the roc has an in house style, and half the time their beats just sound the same! its like in house generics! i mean, check out the young gunz album, i wouldnt blame you if you thought half of that was handled by west and blaze.

titchyschneider (titchyschneider), Wednesday, 3 November 2004 10:37 (twenty years ago)

eleven months pass...
Hahahaha @ the broken jaw reference, K is ridic

joe schmoe (joeschmoe), Tuesday, 11 October 2005 05:34 (nineteen years ago)


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