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Cragmatic said:
The only song title you mentioned was a title that has been rumored for months man...cool story bro. Instead of even naming any other songs you just say "well I posted it on KTT"

Cool story bro.
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What exactly would you like as proof?


(And don't ask for features)
 
It's pretty self explanatory from that post, name a track title or 2, then come release date we will know if it was legit. It's not that difficult.
 
KJTrey said:
Not sure but it seems you've implied that you know 'Ye. Just wondering, what do you do that leads you to know him?
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No, I don't know him. Sorry for implying that if I did. I met him though at a private listening party after one of his shows (which coincidentally was also private). Great guy to meet and chill with. I'm a huge fan so it was the moment of a lifetime.
 
What exactly would you like as proof?


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Why post info on KTT and not show NT any love?

I believe you btw... Just give us something... You don't have to reveal everything
 
Nevermind... Just looked back and you've already given your opinion on a couple tracks.

That's all I wanted... I'm satisfied

Still bad that you posted more info on KTT then on NT :smh:
 
Completely ignored my post :smh:

You really can't name a single song title that hasn't already been revealed? Not ONE?!?!

Are you supposedly sworn to the secrecy of Yeezus that if you give away any song titles on NT he will hunt you down and slice your throat? But you can post them on KTT? Oh... ok... I get it!

It's cool man, I believe you, you've heard the album. So will you at least answer this.... as a huge Kanye fan, where do you rank it among his albums, WTT included.
 
At first I believed dude then now I kind of don't lol. If you are really making this up then you're a straight up lame.
 
Ye had a listening party at Chipotle in Paris right off Boulevard Montmartre last night.

If you ordered the right combination burrito bowl from the secret menu in French, you got a free margarita and either a left or right Yeezy II shoe.

Have to cop the deluxe package to get the other shoe.

Album will not leak as the only copy is on a cassette inside of Kanye's limited edition Givenchy walkman with Versace headphones.
 
I'm going to make a long story.... Long.

Wednesday May 15 Kanye was scheduled to perform at a private concert for Adult Swim in NYC's Roseland Ballroom. Tickets are only distributed by Adult Swim to F&F. The only other 2 ways in were if you're friends of Kanye or you knew someone who worked at the venue who could get you in.

I was neither of the 3 options. I wasn't concerned about the Adult Swim event because at that point it seemed as if tickets were impossible to come by and nobody was certain that Kanye West would actually perform. Details were vague. Virgil tweeted there would be a show after the event at RL. KanyeToThe started running with theories on what it all meant.

I was involved too, but living in NY I was really interested to hear where it was because I thought if I could get to this venue that the after party is at early than I could possibly get on a waiting list to get in and see a concert.

Rumors had it narrowed down to either Bowery Ballroom (b/c that's where he played a surprise concert the night MBDTF released) and Mercury Lounge. Mercury was interesting because I never heard of it. Figured it was an exclusive lounge. I start looking up info about it. Some KTT members strongly believed there would be a surprise concert after whatever was happening at Roseland ended. I even got a PM telling me it was 100% there from a user who hardly posts (so I assumed he had insider knowledge).,

I called Mercury and the lady was nasty but in her defense I was asking if Kanye would be there or of they were expecting anyone there later tonight. She was like "tickets are sold out." Which I found out on KTT some indie band had a show that night. So I ask about Kanye again and she apruptly says no. So now Mercury is intriguing me because I think she might be lying because she's supposed to. At least that's what KTT was thinking when I told them I called Mercury. They thought I was stupid for calling.

I get off from work and call my girlfriend. Tell her that I think there's something going down tonight after the Adult Swim event. She's kind of hesitant because she's tired and we kind of had plans to hang around and do nothing since the few days before had been a little busy. BUT I tell her I feel like something big might come from it. **Backtrack 2 summers before I called her and told her about a similar situation and that night ended with us getting into a private party at the WTT Pop-up store in SoHo. We met Jay-Z, Swizz Beatz, and a couple of other people. They were all really cool and Jay even signed our WTT albums** Moving forward we know its possible to get into events we had no place being. But we're both big fans of Ye and Jay and always go to see them live when they're around. We actually flew to SunmerFest in Milwaukee to see Kanye and Cudi perform in 2011. We also flew to Miami in December after we bought tickets to see him perform at UR1 Festival (that was inevitably canceled and we couldn't get a refund on airfare).

Nbd. Miami was super cool and she paid for us to stay at Fountain Bleu for the few days there so she's the bomb :smokin

She gets dressed and tells me she's going to pick me up but is super hesitant because we literally have no concrete plans or evidence he'll be at Mercury (which is where I figured we'd wait by for him to come by). She picks me up with her brother - who is one year younger than us and also a really big Ye fan.

We go. Park. Walk to Mercury down the street and its literally an indie band playing and a bunch of drunken college kids hanging around the bars. I'm on my phone telling KTT I arrived but it doesn't look like much is going to go on. We decide to walk back to the car. We get in the car and sit there for a few minutes.

Then I get the idea to see what's going on around Roseland. I said if nothing is happening then we'll go home. Roseland is way up town from where we were. So we drive up to RL and I'm thinking I may find out info about the after party by the time we get up there OR maybe we can get into Roseland. It's around 10:45PM.

Our friend from where we live (about 30 min from Manhattan) was in the city also. He was coming home from work I believe. My girlfriend and her brother offer to drive him home if nothing happens or he can tag along if something happens. We get to roseland and he calls saying he's 20 blocks away. My GF says I feel bad making him walk. Ill go get him. So her and her brother go to get him and I get out with the intention of going to see what the entry situation is like. I'm out of the car for no more than 30 seconds and I see Virgil.

I instantly recognize him because I had met him in the past at the Cruel Summer cd signing at Best Buy in September and sat by him at WTT in East Rutherford in the VIP section. At CS signing he signed my CS cd and my WTT cd that had been signed by Swizz Beatz and Jay-Z. He helped design both cd covers and the Air Yeezy IIs which I happened to be wearing at the CS signing. I'm doubting he recognizes me and I was pretty much the only one to recognize him at the signing since he wasn't as big at the time (Pyrex has since taken off). So I approach him like someone who appreciates his work and Kanye's work. He's walking though so I have to call his name, so he could look up from his cell. I felt bad about bothering him but at the same times I felt responsible for something happening that night and at least needed to TRY to see how to get in. After I tell him what I think about the work him and Ye does I ask him about getting tickets and how to get in. He reaches in his pocket and grabs a bunch of laminated passes. They looked like promo cards for the show or something. But they are numbered and have almost a holographic image to it. I thank him but tell him I need 2 more (not thinking about our friend that they went to pick up). He tells me... If I see him and he still has more passes he'll give them to us if they are with me. So I'm like wow. Those 3 things aren't going to happen. See him again? All of us together? He still has passes? It's nearly 11pm.

I call them and tell them the story. They're like wowowow super excited for me and tell me to go in before I miss the show. I refuse and tell them I want to wait to see if I could get them in. Mind you I'm on the street a half block down from the entrance (rear entrance) but I don't know the front from the back since I was only there once before. I refuse because I knew it wouldn't be as fun. They are taking a while to get back because of parking and the traffic around RL. I run into a girl who works at V Files ( one of about 5 stores authorized to sell Pyrex Vision). I ask her how she's getting in and she's frantic and emailing her boss who owns the store telling the boss that they won't let her in... All the while she's wearing his $150 t shirt and sees Virgil walk right by and doesn't say anything. Maybe she did when I wasn't there. But I don't think she ended up getting into Adult Swim.

They finally arrive and I show them what I got. And they're like wow. We wouldn't even recognize Virgil. We're hanging around and they keep telling me to go in because its getting late. And finally after about 15 more min of waiting we see him and hes walking by and like yeah yeah ok just hang out here. He walks inside and then comes out with more passes! Maybe he recognized my face from all the Ye things I've done over the past few years. Or maybe he was just in a great mood. Either way he sifts through the passes. Past the ones with lanyards and pulls out 2 more. But there's 3 more that need to get in. He turns to me and calls me out saying all I asked for was 2. I start babbling and I'm thinking of shoot I should've said 3. How'd I screw this up. But he was cool about it. He gave us the 3rd pass. So 4 total. We all thanked him. He joked with us and said these passes were supposed to be for "our friends" to get in.

He walks away. We are all shocked. We walk up to the door. The bouncer is like you can't come in. I was like but we have tickets. He's like you need to walk around. Then he sees the pass and apologizes. I was like why are you sorry. He's like I didn't realize you had that pass. So we walk in the back door ( not knowing ) and go upstairs where he tells us to go (to VIP area... Not knowing).

Place is packed. But upstairs is way less crowded. Show starts after being in there no more than 5 minutes. It's a Kancert. We figure out its VIP because we see famous people like Aziz Ansari just hanging out right next to us.

Kanye puts together an awesome show. Goes through 2 new songs and a bunch of classics. Dressed in all white. I record the new songs and upload them to YouTube and link it to KTT. They were hyped. Songs were removed an hour later by YouTube.

Site is praising me for being the only member inside. (There was another guy from KTT inside though but he had to stay lowkey by one of the bars since his friend a bartender got him in.)

Show ends. We were in shock that we saw a free concert in VIP area nonetheless. Our friend asks Aziz for a picture after A) we thought we were leaving since it was wrapping up B) he stopped chatting up the girl he was with -- she went somewhere C) we left him alone all night without saying anything.

He said no to him but talked to him for a minute just joking and telling him why he doesn't want to kind of. *Aziz is a comedian. He was the only other person besides Ye, Jay, and the 2 models in the Otis video. (Look closely).* He's also a good friend of Ye's and introduced Ye in the 2011 GOOD Music x Heineken free show I went to in Brooklyn.

That was disappointing he wouldn't. Then we are leaving and we leave in an interesting way. We start walking to an area that's off limits to guests but we didnt know until we saw people turned away. When we got to the area we showed our pass. Bouncer (1 of a lot we saw that night) let us go in. Put us in a smaller area with a bar. We start thinking these passes are more powerful than we think.

We half kiddingly say... Imagine these could get us backstage? It's around 12:15am. Time might be a little off. He may have started at 10:45PM. Performed for about an hour. I am not really sure.

Anyways we go and a ton of people ask to see our passes on the way. We end up backstage. We're freaking out but try to stay cool like we belong. We're in the hallway to backstage. Outside his dressing room. We think he's in there. He wasn't. He already had got dressed and moved. We stay there acting like we belong by just talking to each other and trying not to stand out. My gf's brother got a pic next to the "Yeezi Dressing Room" sign. We thought that was the highlight of the night...

People are starting to empty out of the hallway. Now there's only a few left and we keep getting asked to see passes. We decide to try and go into this room where some people have seem to gone.

Kanye's personal bodyguard stops us. Enormous man. He asks where we got our passes from. We say Virgil. He looks up like Virgil gave you these? Almost like seriously now. At that point he asks to see ID's and when we go to get them a group of about 5 people try to walk by him. He literally pushes them all back and starts yelling. They had VIP passes but he didnt give a damn. His instructions were to only let "A" passes in.

Those people didnt get in. He gets back to us. Starts looking at our ID's and is quizzing me to death. I'm almost 23 and there was a lot of alcohol in the room at the end of the hallway he was guarding. This is like his opportunity to bounce us since he can't get us on the pass. But we're all 21+. Some of us just by a few months. After quizzing all 4 of us he decides to let us in.

We go into the hallway and immediately say Ye. He's chillin talking to some people he knew drinking a small glass of champagne (only thing he drank all night) we wait in the hallway against the wall just listening to what he's saying. Trying not to look out of place so we almost pretend talk to each other. That made up convo was hilarious actually thinking back. We chill there about 10 minutes and decide to go into the room so we aren't in Ye's vision too much because it's clear to us that he knows or has met mostly everyone there.

If you haven't caught on by now.. There was no after Adult Swim secret concert. In the back room there's no windows. It's small. 3 couches, 2 large speakers, a lot of alcohol and some food. Obviously all free to the 30 or so people back there. Ye comes in about 5 minutes later and has an assistant (ill call her that; didn't recognize her) hand him 2 envelopes. One had his custom black MacBook. The other had a bunch of cd's in it. He sits down on the couch plugs his laptop into the wire that someone had left so conveniently not really that close to the speakers either. First track he played was New Slaves. We grab a drink each except my girlfriend who was designated driver just to fit in since nearly everyone else except Ye was drinking. A lot of his crew was back there (Mike Dean, Virgil, Don C, IBN Jasper, CyHi) and Aziz showed up. Hugged Ye when they saw each other in the hallway. There were models back there and friends of Ye's crew. Only one other person their that was just a fan. He got in there by luck and asked us about our passes. Kanye played about 15 new tracks (he played most twice and some of the crowd favorites there multiple times). He played some new John Legend songs from JL's album. He played Numbers on the Board (the Pusha-T song). He watched the reaction of the people there closely and the songs the crowd went feeling (maybe 2 at most) he changed.

A lot of the 30 or so people there had heard the album it appeared or just weren't that interested in music in general. 10-15 were really intrigued. Everyone was into I Am A God. He played that track 4 or 5 times. He even listened to what we wanted and played it as the last song. We were back there 2 1/2 hours. During it my girlfriends brother and our friend sat down on the couch next to Ye when IBN got up. And he knew all the lyrics to I Am A God and most of the other songs by the end of the night so he was rapping them at the top of his lungs. He joked with Ye at one point when he put on Numbers on the Board. These 2 kids he never met before and him were just rocking out and Ye loved it.

Kanye was in rare form. Really happy. Humble. Appreciative that we appreciated his music.

He had the songs being played through iTunes, we saw him go on website while there (some high end fashion site), we saw him check and respond to emails. The laptop was about 8-12 ft away but we all have Mac's so we could make out what he was doing. We drank Hennessy. I'm not a big drinker so after a few drinks I was a little out of it.

We spoke to him after. We all shook his hand and congratulated him on a great performance and awesome new music. Every song but 1 (Numbers on the Board) was unreleased. He freestyled the verse to Black Skinhead to some European dude who has a lot of twitter followers but I don't know who he is. He loved the album though. Even tweeted about how awesome I A A G was. After the freestyle he mentioned he recorded that song earlier in the day while in the studio with Jay.

He told us the joke about Reebok and Ross. He thanked us for coming but at that point we didnt want to hang around too long and have him realize he doesn't know us.

Fast forward to Friday night. I was in te city again camping out from Thursday - Saturday morning for tickets to SNL. We saw the tweet about the projections all over the city. The first one we went to was a dud. NYU... Never happened. We race to the 2nd one and we're the first ones there. After a while a few SUV's pulled up. Virgil, Hudson Mohawke, Young Chop, Big Sean, IBN, Mike Dean, and a few others all hopped out. Nobody was really bothering them too much but I did go up to Virgil and thank him. He said no problem and he's glad I enjoyed the show.

Ended up getting great seats to SNL. Sat relatively close to Kim K and Jonathan Cheban since its a small studio. Those Red Yeezys really catch your eye. And then was exhausted since Wednesday I was out late, Thursday night I half slept on the street, Friday I half slept on the street, Saturday I went to work after taking off Friday.. And then Saturday night was the show. Very difficult to get into SNL even after 40 hours of camping. Overall a pretty amazing week if you think about it. And there's more little details that could really drag this on but I'll spare those.

I can't give out track titles since he didnt announce what the name of the song was before putting it on. I wont give out features because I already revealed some (hence why any are known about aside from Bon Iver and Chief Keef which weren't confirmed by me). All you got is my word. All I got is the memories (and 24 m of recording I put on my iphone -- and no don't ask for that either).
 
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