Kanye West singles 2010-2012

mercy

but i even have a soft spot for like 'start it up' & 'marvin & chardonnay'; overall this is p solid for a 3 yr span imo

some of the best rap tracks of the past 5 or whatever years are on here... plus a bunch of bullshit

1. mercy
2. gotta have it
3. clique
4. niggas in paris
5. otis

people should have to publicly repent for acting like "runaway" was a classic smh

so many of these feel like 'em murdered you on your own shit' type tracks that i can only in good conscience vote for like, 3

ha i like runaway (and a bunch of others on here). voted monster, but power, NIP, and mercy were possibilities too. clique is great but i've heard it too much recently.

i like a fair amount of these but i feel like usually on the good ones he's seriously upstaged by Nicki, 2 Chainz, Jay, etc.

ugh you too?

i like a fair amount of these but i feel like usually on the good ones he's seriously upstaged by Nicki, 2 Chainz, Jay, etc.

oh i hadn't read this part, yeah, exactly

just going by best song, "clique" over "all of the lights"

"Power," but radio forced me to like "Niggas..."

NIP

Power made me think MBDTF was going to be as good as everyone (NB: does not include ILX) said it was.

yea my top 5 would prob be

1. mercy
2. otis
3. all of the lights
4. power
5. start it up

Power made me think MBDTF was going to be as good as everyone (NB: does not include ILX) said it was.

otm

Start It Up vs Niggas In Paris

mercy, paris, clique, monster nicki verse

rest is worthless trash

i like a fair amount of these but i feel like usually on the good ones he's seriously upstaged by Nicki, 2 Chainz, Jay, etc.

for real, and not only that but kanye is usually the WORST verse on them - "monster" and "paris" are really excellent songs that would be flawless classics if it wasn't for him (and for jay on "monster"). at least he doesn't embarrass himself on "mercy" and "clique" but then on the former he gets upstaged by big sean for heaven's sake

mercy, paris, clique, monster nicki verse

rest is worthless trash

― r|t|c, Thursday, May 2, 2013 4:03 PM (14 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

i agree with this

i like a fair amount of these but i feel like usually on the good ones he's seriously upstaged by Nicki, 2 Chainz, Jay, etc.

ugh you too?

― 'scuse me while i make the sky cum (k3vin k.), Thursday, May 2, 2013 10:39 AM (1 hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Jay is on 7 of these songs, i don't think it's insane to suggest Kanye isn't better on him on at least a couple ("Paris" and "Gotta Have It" especially imo). Jay on his worst day ain't that far below Ye on his best day in pure rapping terms.

"Marvin & Chardonnay" started to grow on me way after the fact, although as with most Roscoe Dash songs it'd've been better as RD solo

I'm not as down on recent Kanye as most people here, but this list really hits home the decline. I'm not sure if any of these would even crack my list of Top 10 Kanye Singles

feel weird voting Gotta Have It--hell I didn't even know it was a single--but man it's so great

did it get any real burn whatsoever? don't think I ever heard it on the radio

"Gotta Have It" did pretty well for a random not-super-radio-friendly song that had no video -- #14 in R&B airplay, which is like, in the neighborhood where something like Jeezy's "R.I.P." peaked. i'm sure there were stations that never picked up on it at all, though.

1) niggas in paris
2) mercy
3) power

"power" is so overrated

not much love for Start It Up huh?

Power is ok

I don't think it's a great Kanye single or even a great performance, only the best of an average lot.

1. otis 2. niggas in paris 3. no church in the wild 4. gotta have it 5. ham

all 1 great singles 2 that album came out at the right time and i heard so much of it in the right places that it means a lot to me despite my feelings about it before it came out and how i still feel when i realize one of my favorite songs of the last five years is something by jay-z and fuckin kanye west called niggas in paris. WHATS THAT JACKET MARGIELA kanye murders jay on his own shit for me too btw stayed quoting dumbass kanye lines all winter/spring 2012.

1. all of the lights
2. mercy

"Marvin & Chardonnay" started to grow on me way after the fact, although as with most Roscoe Dash songs it'd've been better as RD solo

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indisputably the worst five seconds of audio ever recorded

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top ten: mercy, monster, gotta have it, marvin, birthday song, paris, start it up, power, otis, clique

worst: runaway, et, erase me, ham, wish you would

Lost in the World should have been a single, I was looking for it in the list, probably because they made a video. Voted NCITW.

God, H*A*M was so bad.

NIP

But yeah, I don't give a fuck about most of this list

Whatever he's brewing in Paris right now had better be next level

Runaway is awesome. I'm interested in Kanye's self-loathing narcissist schtick though, I think it works and adds a layer of drama/tension to his boasts on the more straightforward songs.

I like several of these fine as radio songs, but like others have said it's hard to argue that Kanye rapping is the best thing on any of them. I guess he should get credit for production on "Mercy," "Clique," and such, but the only one of these where I actually feel like the track is better for having him show up on the mic is "Otis." There's something sort of appealing about his "HaNNH!?" on "Marvin & Chardonnay" I guess.

"Otis" for the refreshing back-and-forth format, the "other other benz" which I actually did hear quoted by the youth of America (okay, one guy I worked with at Holiday Inn), and the sense that everyone involved was actually having some fun for a change. NIP bounces along nicely too but at this point I'd much rather hear that cheerfully dopey Otis loop than yet more Hard, Minimalist Plink-Plonk, not to mention Kanye's pained groaning about the mall and the grating coda.

"E.T." by far the worst.

None of them will be as good as the one he is about to do with Skrillex.

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dang, forgot to vote for "niggas in paris"

"No Church" is AWFUL...every verse, every line of the chorus.

naw, the only part I really dislike is Kanye's verse

it works much better as dramatic album opener than as single tho obv

apart from nickis verse i cant even listen to monster

as expected sasquatch, godzilla, king kong, loch ness, goblin, ghoul, zombie with no conscience and jigga proved to be a formidable voting bloc

like monster, but mostly for nicki. don't hate the jay & kanye verses as much as most.

i would ask what a zombie with a conscience would be like but i'm sure there's a remorseful emo zombie movie coming down the pike if it hasn't happened already

fonkytimez mix of 'birthday song' pwns all of these btw

xp lol yeah but i like the beenie dis

anie, yeh

i would ask what a zombie with a conscience would be like but i'm sure there's a remorseful emo zombie movie coming down the pike if it hasn't happened already

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