worst kanye west guest appearance of 2009

have stanned for knock you down verse in the past (only 50% challops btw)

He's annoying on "Walkin' On the Moon," but "Maybach Music" is the first time this year that I said, "Oh, right, there he is."

oh em gee/woe is me
oh em gee/woe is me
oh em gee/woe is me
oh em gee/woe is me
oh em gee/woe is me

^^unforgivable

i like maybach music (for the texas/lexus thing) and walkin on the moon (for the flow) and as a noted 808 stand i dig "supernova" in general

his turn on make her say is highly reprehensible for the asher roth reference as well as the played out head/brain/knowledge jokes and he also overuses the usually awesome ploy of wrongly pluralizing but really i dont think anything is gonna beat knock you down

lex how do you feel about "she sent me a twitpic saying come and get this/ el oh el, smiley face/ el oh el, smiley face"

lol :(

i wish that song was better, or even a bit funny

voted "Make Her Say" mostly on the basis of finding everything about it repugnant as fuck, but his "Knock You Down" verse is notably terrible, too

this is tough, might have to go back and listen to all these. lots of bad verses here, might go for "knock you down"

we need to do wayne after this

voted "knock you down" bc he sucks on it pretty hard and it makes the song way too long to boot.

great point

almost every song on the hilson album is way too long

UT YOUR BLACK BABY DOWN, PEOPLE IS AROUND YOU!

― conansformers 2: revenge of the fallon (some dude), Wednesday, June 24, 2009 5:44 PM (2 weeks ago) Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

haha fucked up that c&p

gotta vote for that since that The-Dream poll revealed that there are people that actually rep for that song, though

i like pretty much all of them. the worst by far is the verse/intro on scratch from the roots' album.

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the answer is definitely "Ego" which is one of the worst things I have ever heard ever.

(his verse, I love the song)

i would say his best appearance of 09 is giving the clipse a year old verse for their lead single and "highly anticipated" collaboration

Ye in 09 is some sort of onionskin paper version of himself

I voted Walkin on the Moon cuz it's such a great song until he shows up :(

i miss when you could get 12"s like touch me tease me etc with the rap-less versions.

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they're all losers, in a way

Hold up, born in 88′
How old is that? Old enough
I got seniority with the sorority
So, that explain why I love college

^^ dude is seriously on some circa '06 Jeezy not even bothering to rhyme at all shit

that's such a horrible way to reference "i love college", out of all the horrible ways he could've picked

"I got seniority with the sorority" reminds me of that Fabolous song where the hook is "I'm the king of GIRLS!" and I'm like uhh dude that can be heard a different way that you mean it

I mean Kanye has good points as a rapper and all but it really is kind of horrifying that the world seems to be kind of OK with or at least not soundly rejecting his whole "I'm a great rapper now" thing

lol @ when you were all "kanye, go back to rapping"

don't get me wrong, this bullshit is still better than his singing on 808s, i have no regrets there

who would have thought that bright young kid that liked to speed up old soul singers so they sounded like chipmunks was going to give us so many different kinds of bullshit someday?

man all the shits in this poll that were released as singles and a real jam ends up as an iTunes bonus track

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sun8xfLNNbI

dessert or disaster? has surged to the top of my list of questions to ponder daily about

it's much better than "does God exist?" I'll tell you that much

Yeah, I know it took me a while to admit that "I Gotta Feeling" is great.. "Sexy Chick" I loved from minute one though, it seems really underrated here.

Really revived this just cause I can't find a thread that gets into "Knock You Down" and I think it's a pretty nice song - - the narrative is maybe a little garbled but it's basically cute. I sang it at karaoke tonight and the line-by-line format really adds something in the sense that it makes Kanye's verse extra stilted and awkward, which is appropriate to his character as the nerdy schlub who loses Keri to smooth Ne-Yo. The only big problem with the song is that Hilson's verse is totally forgettable which, y'know, she's the one these dudes are fighting over so she should probably come into focus a little more.

But maybe I'm just hankering for more duets where the singers actually have really clear-cut characters, etc.

― Doctor Casino, Monday, May 10, 2010 2:43 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

i've really warmed to "down" once i realized that its really easy to pretend that it's a pre-punch chris brown song, and not a song sung by someone who is nearly 30

― J0rdan S., Monday, May 10, 2010 2:46 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

god i could write a book about the things that irritate me in that song, or even just the Kanye verse, from the singular/plural muddle of "the head of football teams" to the pause-worthy "you should leave your boyfriend now, I'mma ask him"

― cozen frustard (some dude), Monday, May 10, 2010 6:58 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

I like that he basically rhymes "glasses" with "glasses" but slips "ashes" in the middle there in the hopes that you won't notice.

― Doctor Casino, Monday, May 10, 2010 11:15 AM Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

glasses to glasses, dust to dust

― jagger edge (The Reverend), Monday, May 10, 2010 9:40 PM Bookmark

^^^ was in one of the "Now That's What I Call" poll threads but only cause i couldn't find somewhere else where "Knock You Down" gets its turn in the spotlight.

Another kinda dud moment: "Fly off into NASA"

"Knock You Down" (Keri Hilson feat. Kanye West & Ne-Yo)

You guys are crazy! This is very likely my favorite Kanye guest appearance of all time!

OF ALL TIME

you've gotta be shitting me

it's certainly my least fav

It's really good!

Another kinda dud moment: "Fly off into NASA"

― Doctor Casino, Saturday, May 22, 2010 10:56 PM (Yesterday)

yeah this is horrible

wtf ilxor

would "run this town" or "forever" have skewed the votes any? i like his "run this town" verse a decent amount

doubt it, not nearly as bad as jay and kanye's is actually pretty ok compared to what he'd been putting out

i would have gone with "forever." just like the song its so boring and generic and so convinced that it isnt

knock you down is at least and enjoyable song and michael jackson/joe jackson isnt the cleverest thing kanyes ever said but its p funny

he was making funnier michael jackson jokes in '03

I'll admit it has some dud parts ("O-M-G") but come on, it's great and effective. Maybe I'm thinking too much in context of the video/big picture of the song; if you isolate the verse perhaps it falls apart a bit more, but I think it's effective in context of the song.

"Woe is me / baby this is tragic / cuz we had it / it was magic."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_RqWocthcc

Love when Keri jumps in to harmonize, fleetingly, on the "we had it" line. Just for a flash, she jumps into his verse to concur with his desperation, pleading and over-the-top ridiculousness. And then she's gone, again, like that.

ya for the reasons ilxor is saying the cornyness of something like the michael line almost works in knock you down whereas forever is this super-serious posse cut about how those dudes run shit, so if you're gonna make one of those songs you better bring something much better than "you dont even go to class...BUELLER"

Yeah, I'm on the fence cause "Knock You Down" does kinda pull the heartstrings with the oversized drama of its college-junior art party romance, agreed totally about "we had it." And again, I think for that scenario, Kanye's awkward rapping actually works, cause his character is a nerdy loser with his adrenaline going and maybe it's not gonna all add up. For that to really work though, he'd have to have a firmer grasp on the status of NASA (program, not place), and I think the Slick Rick thing is misplaced. He should have really geeked out, or shoehorned in some awkward rhyme with "Picasso" or "Rauschenburg" or something.

he should have gone beasting off the riesling

he's just tryna change the color on your mood ring y'all -- stop being so critical!!

really the only part of that song I like at all is ne-yo's "pimp ship" line

Love when Keri jumps in to harmonize, fleetingly, on the "we had it" line. Just for a flash, she jumps into his verse to concur with his desperation, pleading and over-the-top ridiculousness. And then she's gone, again, like that.

― I just wish he hadn't adopted the "ilxor" moniker (ilxor), Sunday, May 23, 2010 2:46 AM (8 hours ago)

and then she's gone, like *plop*

but yeah that entire verse is just the worst, even 2009 kanye should be ashamed of himself for that

song is indefensible, let's just leave it at that

ya for the reasons ilxor is saying the cornyness of something like the michael line almost works in knock you down whereas forever is this super-serious posse cut about how those dudes run shit, so if you're gonna make one of those songs you better bring something much better than "you dont even go to class...BUELLER"

Yeah, I'm on the fence cause "Knock You Down" does kinda pull the heartstrings with the oversized drama of its college-junior art party romance, agreed totally about "we had it." And again, I think for that scenario, Kanye's awkward rapping actually works, cause his character is a nerdy loser with his adrenaline going and maybe it's not gonna all add up.

Precisely -- it works very well in context.

Both you guys OTM.

song is indefensible, let's just leave it at that

And that's ridiculous. I'll defend it as one of my top 25 or so songs of 2009.

Kanye's awkward rapping actually works, cause his character is a nerdy loser with his adrenaline going

aargh, always h8 this argument - so many examples of artists conveying nerdishness or awkwardness or shyness or tentativeness effectively without bringing out, like, an "omg/woe is me" rhyme.

it boggles the mind that anyone could rate that verse at all, let alone as one of kanye's best - the song has a super-pretty melody, if not a great deal of personality on keri's part, and i'd be pretty content with it, but it's kanye's terrible verse which really drags it down.

Sometimes Kaaaaaaaanye comes around
And he drags you down,
just get back up if he drags you down

Sometimes Whiiiiiiiney comes around
And he makes you drown
Just float back up if he makes you drown

Shit, I've never really noticed Kanye on "Forever" before but goddamn:

Superbad, chicks givin' me McLOVin
You would think I ran the world like Michelle's HUSband
You would think these niggaz know me when they really DOESn't
Like they was down with the old me, no you fuckin' WASn't
Mm, you're such a fuckin' LOSer
He ain't even go to class...BUELLER
Trade the Grammy plaques just to have my Granny back
'member she had that bad hip like a fanny pack?

just a parade of bad ideas there, from the second-to-third-person slip on "you're a...he ain't..." to the total deflation of his tribute to his granny by switching to making fun of her bad hip... what the hell.

I concur, and ask again: is "Knock You Down" *really* the worst Kanye thing out there?

Those "Forever" couplets should make it an easy call.

Yeah, it *really* is the worst Kanye thing out there.

In case you were wondering.

You are wrong.

well, there's that settled

Too intrigued by display name "Image: electrostimulation applied on a penis" to continue discussion anyway... O_O

something that brings us all together in spite of our differences

I actually really liked "Forever," but Kanye's verse is atrocious. It's not only bad because it's corny as shit ("Superbad chicks givin me McLovin"? Seriously, Kanye?) but it's also supposed to be a track bragging about how hard you are, and everyone else seems to get it but Kanye, who spends yet more time whining about how it sure sucks being famous. Way to kill the mood, Kanye.

cannot believe this conversation is still going on

http://www.newswire.poormojo.org/archives/silly%20kanye.jpg

some knock you down conv. here

rolling pop in 2009 thread

Kanye kills "Walking on the Moon."

"Knock You Down" is my least favourite.

also Maker Her Say is worth it for "how old is that, old enough" but I guess I have enough of a crush on Kanye that I think like 90% of what he does is super adorable, even I know that his verse on Knock You Down is 50% trash, even if the other half is teen-movie-contrived-awkward perfect

also i largely think the slick rick line is hilarious not so much bc of a quality discrepancy but i mean i might as well say Im the new LJ

Kanye kills "Walking on the Moon."

I like his delivery, it's just a few lines that bring it waaaaay down (drunk texting, put baby down, etc.).

??? drunk texting is like def. the best line

How so!?

cos its funny and true

just realized currensy has a line about "record[ing his] album in nasa" u_u

"live fast, die young" is super ordinary and has a terrible hook, but i really like ye's verse a ton

his verse on big seans blessed makes me lol a bit -
since the truth keep niggas traumatized
They tryna compromise my condom size
So I Snapchat that whole shit
Tryna see titties, tryna show dick
And I swear to God I hope they post it
I'm blessed

meanwhile sean is rapping about "My grandma just died, I'm the man of the house/So every morning I'm up cause I can't let them down, down/Always down for the cause, never down for the count" and even drake gets in with... actually, no, drake's verse is self-back-slappingly normal.

I just spent an hour searching with no luck, trying to recall the title of a mix/comp that either Kanye or G.O.O.D. Music released around September 2009.

Does it really exist or is this my personal Shazam?

I guess this was it
http://www.datpiff.com/Kanye-West-GOOD-Ass-Mixtape.144539.html