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How do you not understand it?
I'm not you so I have different taste than you.
Apples and Oranges.
Album is amazing btw.
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I'm not you so I have different taste than you.
Apples and Oranges.
Album is amazing btw.
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This is slowly becoming my favorite workout album. Black Skinhead to I am a God to New Slaves.
And I've said it before but I'll say it again.... when the beat drops on Blood on the Leaves...
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And I've said it before but I'll say it again.... when the beat drops on Blood on the Leaves...
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Salty328k first week sales
J Cole with 297k.
lulz at da cole fans thinking he woulda outsold ye
Why can't you just be happy for both?
because people were saying this was hot garbage and cole would sell more.
why should i be happy for both?
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I have all of Kanye's cd's and this is becoming one of my favorites. It's definitely a different vibe and I can see how some people may not like it. It's a refreshing sound over the typical Ratchet music that is all over the airwaves. I think this album is ahead of its time for hip hop. The use of techno, random sampling, and out of synch beats make it stand out from the rest.
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This album is amazing.. Im still puffin kush listening to it and my mind continues to be blown.. "Guilt Trip" is my favorite song now..
Does anybody know what that jamaican ish being said on the chorus?
Does anybody know what that jamaican ish being said on the chorus?
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I don't understand how this CD is being viewed as bad.
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Album is horrible only song is that bound 2 and only the beat is good
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Thats when I pay attention to the sample. LEAVESAgreedthe first like 3 mins of the song are insanely good....then i change it.
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Generic production on some songs. Other songs are OVER produced. Lyrically, it sounds like the rest of the rap that's out there today. He has way too many corny lines.
Album is a 3/5
Album is a 3/5
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Autotune is one of the worst things to happen to Kanye's music. It's as if he now tries to invoke emotion through struggle autotune vocals where in the past his emotion was in his lyrics.
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He already had that feminine rap voice...
Then he adds the autotune to make it even sweeter.
Then he adds the autotune to make it even sweeter.
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That auto tune crutch.
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Anti have you bought any of the albums that came out this week?
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Not yet, but I am getting Born Sinner for someone. I was waiting to see if I won your copy, but thats a wash now. Next week though...a certain will be bought, twice.
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"I am a God. Now what?"
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keep trying to like this album, but in a 10 track album I can only sit through 3 in its entirety (Blood/Leaves is 2 minutes too long), combined with the autotune nonsense and average lyrics.
2.5 out of 5.
2.5 out of 5.
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My friend, Richie Pope and I had a good discussion about this album and he gave a perfect summarization of the album and I totally agree.
"This album is his most musically daring since 808s. There are other groups like NIN, Saul Williams and Death Grips that push the envelope farther in certain aspects, but as a mainstream rapper, what Kanye's done with Yeezus is the equivalent. We don't have many mainstream provocateurs like we did in the early 90s and he's brought a bit more of that back with Yeezus.
Yeezus covers themes of arrogance, decadence, guilt, lust, guilt, love, race, black power (and all that entails). It's contradictory, dumb and brilliant at the same time.
This album is one that puts minimalism over lush arrangements and shows how powerful-sounding that can still be. It's a nice concoction of aggressive genres of music: percussion-heavy rap, industrial rock, acid house, drill, and dancehall. The co-producers on this album, including Rick Rubin, Daft Punk, Young Chop and Hudson Mohawke among others all help with the cohesive sounds of this album.
Little bits of soul and dancehall samples and his music shine through the ignorant arrogance of the album, emphasizing how he has to move forward and this is what he needs to do.
I love that with Bound 2, it's like all those bits of hope explode into a full soul sound, shedding off the spiteful attitude, although with a bit of his arrogance still in tact, because who would Kanye be if he didn't think he was great? The way this album ends, it feels like a teaser into what music he could be exploring with his future releases.
I don't praise this album entirely, as the minimalism in terms of the lyrics at times doesn't work. You can rap slow and with few words and simple words and still say complex or interesting things, which works mostly throughout this album, but sometimes not. Also, a few times the delivery of certain lines lacks the power that maybe more takes could have solved. I won't say it's rushed or lazy as I don't know how long he spent on each song, but at times it sounds like he's too sure of himself in terms of good he sounds. I liked the auto-tune on 808s, but sometimes his voice falls flat, so he should get some type of vocal coach or something for those bits or just go all-in and embrace the gargle-tune of Future. Also, the second half of the album with a lot of it's focus on relationships and women separates it a bit from the first half. It doesn't ruin the cohesiveness, but it's an observation that's hard to ignore once you notice it.
Overall, this is definitely an album that mainstream rap needs. Kanye's reached a level where he knows that he can do what he wants creatively. Whether than results in a good product or not, I've never felt that he's put something out just to do it, including Yeezus.
I'd include this album in my top tier of Kanye releases along with Graduation and MBTDF, which maybe says something about my personality than anything else, even though I think they're high in the quality of what an album is.
I don't like giving anything number ratings, as it seems arbitrary and synthetic to me, but if I had, it'd range from 8/10 to 9/10."
"This album is his most musically daring since 808s. There are other groups like NIN, Saul Williams and Death Grips that push the envelope farther in certain aspects, but as a mainstream rapper, what Kanye's done with Yeezus is the equivalent. We don't have many mainstream provocateurs like we did in the early 90s and he's brought a bit more of that back with Yeezus.
Yeezus covers themes of arrogance, decadence, guilt, lust, guilt, love, race, black power (and all that entails). It's contradictory, dumb and brilliant at the same time.
This album is one that puts minimalism over lush arrangements and shows how powerful-sounding that can still be. It's a nice concoction of aggressive genres of music: percussion-heavy rap, industrial rock, acid house, drill, and dancehall. The co-producers on this album, including Rick Rubin, Daft Punk, Young Chop and Hudson Mohawke among others all help with the cohesive sounds of this album.
Little bits of soul and dancehall samples and his music shine through the ignorant arrogance of the album, emphasizing how he has to move forward and this is what he needs to do.
I love that with Bound 2, it's like all those bits of hope explode into a full soul sound, shedding off the spiteful attitude, although with a bit of his arrogance still in tact, because who would Kanye be if he didn't think he was great? The way this album ends, it feels like a teaser into what music he could be exploring with his future releases.
I don't praise this album entirely, as the minimalism in terms of the lyrics at times doesn't work. You can rap slow and with few words and simple words and still say complex or interesting things, which works mostly throughout this album, but sometimes not. Also, a few times the delivery of certain lines lacks the power that maybe more takes could have solved. I won't say it's rushed or lazy as I don't know how long he spent on each song, but at times it sounds like he's too sure of himself in terms of good he sounds. I liked the auto-tune on 808s, but sometimes his voice falls flat, so he should get some type of vocal coach or something for those bits or just go all-in and embrace the gargle-tune of Future. Also, the second half of the album with a lot of it's focus on relationships and women separates it a bit from the first half. It doesn't ruin the cohesiveness, but it's an observation that's hard to ignore once you notice it.
Overall, this is definitely an album that mainstream rap needs. Kanye's reached a level where he knows that he can do what he wants creatively. Whether than results in a good product or not, I've never felt that he's put something out just to do it, including Yeezus.
I'd include this album in my top tier of Kanye releases along with Graduation and MBTDF, which maybe says something about my personality than anything else, even though I think they're high in the quality of what an album is.
I don't like giving anything number ratings, as it seems arbitrary and synthetic to me, but if I had, it'd range from 8/10 to 9/10."
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this might be the best page on this thread. still a 6/10 for me.
.... Spoke too soon
.... Spoke too soon
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He already had that feminine rap voice...
Then he adds the autotune to make it even sweeter.
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That comment caught me off guard though
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Just listened to MBDTF in its entirety and it is still amazing as I once remember. Everything about it is brilliant. It truly baffles me when people call the album trash or label it as Kanye's worst album like what is wrong with you srs
If you don't like MBDTF I don't like you.
If you don't like MBDTF I don't like you.
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^^^Agree 100%. I listened to it the other day. Gorgeous is still so 
. MBDTF is a masterpiece.
. MBDTF is a masterpiece.
