Kanye West, Yeezus, 6/18/13 (TBC because who knows anymore)

Start your thinkpieces

Is it too early to call MBDTF Kanye's New Jersey?

808s iirc.

Nah, Graduation is his New Jersey. 808s is his Nebraska.

isn't that kim's due date

Or maybe not:

Wilson has retracted his Tweet, writing "Clarity: Kanye West album release date has NOT been confirmed. Apologies to Chris Atlas."

haaa it probably was kim's due date

LOL at music writers jumping on the hype train without considering it might be something a little more important to him

If it wasn't for the original Wilson post etc.

LOL at music writers jumping on the hype train without considering it might be something a little more important to him

― flamenco drop (lex pretend), Thursday, May 2, 2013 12:43 PM (12 minutes ago) Bookmark

cryptically tweeting out the due date of his baby would be so gross

Wouldn't he have already known the due date a few months ago?

My guess is that it's both the due date and the album release date.

cryptically tweeting out the due date of his baby would be so gross

but v much in character

In what universe is a perfect score on pitchfork and 3 or 4 relatively inescapable singles considered a New Jersey?

why are people so desperate for opportunities to scream "New Jersey"

welcome to modern ILM, which is basically a neverending competition to be the first person to correctly call something passe

why are people so desperate for opportunities to scream "New Jersey"

we were too young for our parents to let us watch the "Living in Sin" video?

In what universe is a perfect score on pitchfork and 3 or 4 relatively inescapable singles considered a New Jersey?

http://cdn.uproxx.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/cersei-eyeroll1.gif

At least Ray J didn't pee on MBDTF.

I'm sure if Pitchfork had been around back then they would've given New Jersey a 10.0. It'll definitely get Best New Reissue someday.

Eurgh

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oIGTHxd--8c&feature=player_embedded

Kanye's "Wizard of Oz" Complex

So it's called "Yeezus"

So it's claimed, yeah. Supposedly the date IS the release date.

And since Daft Punk apparently programmed drums on it I'll just consider this phase two of the overall promotion plan.

Not since the "Girls" finale happening the night before the new Vampire Weekend single debuted have I felt like two different promotional campaigns were working together so seamlessly.

way to pass the baton like a true Olympian.

I just hope he doesn't plan on also naming his kid Yeezus.

Y. Kristo West

"I'd rather be a dick than a swallower" -- seriously? Repeated?

welcome to modern ILM, which is basically a neverending competition to be the first person to correctly call something passe
--far too much asshole flesh (DJP)

Hasn't it been this way since like2006

it has, but the point stands

stoked for the HANH

Hasn't it been this way since like2006

― steening in your HOOSless carriage (BIG HOOS aka the steendriver), Saturday, May 18, 2013 10:30 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

Twitter going nuts that one of the SNL songs is basically Marilyn Manson's "The Beautiful People"

Alternately:

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well this song sucks

whatever that was >>>>>>>>>>>> "new slaves" imo

also i'm betting that's what Daft Punk worked on:

Details surrounding his recording sessions remain scarce, but he has been in the studio with Daft Punk, who programmed drums for the album. “It was very raw: he was rapping—kind of screaming primally, actually,” Thomas Bangalter of the French duo told Rolling Stone.

i think this song will sound good in a higher quality recording, especially from 2:40 on. the lip syncing was hilarious and i'm loving the zordon vibes.

oh yeah i was talking about "new slaves"

oh is that a new song at the end? i thought it was a coda.

the cut's so abrupt that i think it's a different song. a really terrible kanye falsetto song.

can't tell if i'm really this or if it was irredeemably corn

"new slaves" the jam tho

good lord i should re-read my posts after i've been drinking

can't tell if i'm really into this or if it was irredeemably corny

It is very direct and he sounds very excited or worked up. Both of those things are good I think.

if this does actually sample marilyn manson i'm going with "corniest thing ever"

third listen, i'm digging this. i like kanye when he is in full-on self-serious, bordering on corny mode. i like MBDTF a great deal.

fucking hell

listening to it on headphones, yeah "Black Skinhead" is cool and totally destroys "New Slaves," which is barely even a song, sounds like an album intro or something.

now that it's not 40 degrees every day, ive noticed how much of a summer album yeezus is to me, idk it just bangs to drive around to

― johnny crunch, Tuesday, May 13, 2014 11:20 AM (17 minutes ago) Bookmark

very humid, sweltering album

Jodo yeezy mind meld makes a lot of sense

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Kanye, common, jay Electronica, Dave chappelle on stage together

Is/was that here in Chicago? I heard he'd be in town for that whatever Fest.

imagine being excited by *that* combination of ppl

i think it's reasonable to say that if you wouldn't get excited about seeing kanye, common & chappelle (and jay electronica) onstage you might not even like rap music

otm

word

i stand by not being excited by jay electronica and while i have little against him, there are a hundred people in hip-hop i'd be more excited by than common

imagine being impressed by *that* challop

imagine being excited by *that* combination of ppl

― lex pretend, Monday, 22 September 2014 17:02 (Yesterday) Permalink

Imagine being excited by a Nicki Minaj album considering her track record/the singles

i wish Kanye and Common had a better signature collaboration to do whenever they're at the same concert than "Get Em High." they coulda reenacted the Chappelle's Show "The Food" performance with Dave maybe.

Any surprise surprise appearances of this stature are welcomed and thus exciting.

common opened w/ "the food" at that show cuz chappelle introduced him but kanye didn't come out until later

two years later and i still enjoy this album a lot, first four tracks especially still surprise and overwhelm, the charlie wilson vocal in "bound 2" still resonates

the dancehall elements are some of the best parts imo, if this album did anything for me it made me want to listen to capleton and beenie man more

very weird to read the first reactions in this thread esp to "new slaves" and see people think kanye wasn't parodying white voices in the "what you want, a bentley? fur coat? a diamond chain? all you blacks want all the same things" line, i don't know how you could hear that any other way?

I haven't felt compelled to re listen to this album even once after the hype boiled off

I haven't felt compelled to re listen to this album even once after the hype boiled off

nbd i listened to it like 6,000,000,000,000 times for you, it still rules tbrr

i don't know how you could hear that any other way?

same. there are things on this album that don't work but absolutely nothing that's unintentional and, of the elements considered controversial, almost nothing that's included solely to shock or lacks a pointed significance, w/ the possible exception of "i'm in it"

glad that this one's so good because i've long since accepted that whenever swish/so help me god/whatever the fuck he's calling it this week comes out, it won't be good at all

yeah I'm still listening to this all time, usually just through the first four but still

#notyourshield xp

googling that, bc i forgot what it was about, informed me that g-m-rg-t- has its own wiki and now i feel ill

genuinely sorry about that

of the elements considered controversial, almost nothing that's included solely to shock or lacks a pointed significance

idk Blood on the Leaves with the juxtaposition of the original song with lines about an ex and alimony is probably the most grating, and if there is a "pointed significance" to that, let me know

yeah that song is still garbage

enough strong elements are immediately there in "blood" for it to be pretty powerful despite the wack lyrics but yea it was a missed opportunity for something that could've been way better

agreed, it's flawed for sure but has plenty of power.

so did hitler

aw c'mon man

Kanye West, Black Hitler, 7/17/2017

hitler jokes always funny amirite

no no hold on now, now what you don't understand sway, is that the Nazi industry has historically been almost impossible to break into as a black American,nevermind a black American Kardashian, do you see I'm saying, hanh?

enough strong elements are immediately there in "blood" for it to be pretty powerful despite the wack lyrics but yea it was a missed opportunity for something that could've been way better

i agree w/this, musically it's super epic but the lyrics make me feel a little dumb for getting swept up in it.

still listening to Yeezus frequently btw.

My bold opinion is that Late Registration aged better already.

still haven't been able to get through this album a second time.

album has lost its 'WTF is this' shock factor since it came out, but its still good, its just marred by a lot of the lyrics, that havent aged too well (already), and the fact that it doesnt seem to hang too well together overall. but its bound to be better than the new one.

Blood on the Leaves is about drug paranoia to me. I don't know if it was intended as such, but it works that way to me.

I nearly had a heart attack the first time I heard this record. Love it to pieces; those first 4 tracks rock hard — my first time listening to the opener when I suddenly heard where the 1 was and how the verse was leaning into the groove was magical.

To me BotL seems to be about the toll of meaningless sex; subversively using "black bodies" and "strange fruit" to mean naked people getting it on. I could be projecting.

o_____O

glad that this one's so good because i've long since accepted that whenever swish/so help me god/whatever the fuck he's calling it this week comes out, it won't be good at all

its bound to be better than the new one.

I dunno, his new one's pretty good:

http://nk_wp_media.s3.amazonaws.com/files/2015/03/kanye-west-x-adidas-yeezy-350-boost-low-black-on-foot-preview-1.jpg

dont know who produced it but jeezy's god sounds kinda yeezus-influenced.

(am trying to think of other songs yeezus-influenced)

is blood on the leaves the one where he compares fisting someone to the black power salute

re the pre-revive conversation, i mean

yes, it is that song

oops, no, thats i'm in it.

The outro to “I am a God,” when he follows up a bunch of blasphemous boasts — “i know he’s the most high, but i am a close high” — with panicked panting and screaming. Suchg a strange record.

If you wanted to be turned off by Kanye West there was ample material on Yeezus, but it also had an undeniable, transferable energy, a crackling and palpable electricity.

just put this on for the first time in ages and yeah this is such a succinct description of why it's great

Agreed, that line stood out to me in Jordan's review.

I was listening to an interview with a drummer who does sample replays for a living, and learned that the gospel sample on 'On Sight' was actually an entire replay. Days before the album dropped, they had to hire another producer/engineer to get a drummer and a gospel choir to precisely re-record the sample (which presumably couldn't be cleared). Crazy.

I.e. it's not actually this record --
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vyf7f7ouzjk