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Kanye West Presents "ye" |OT| Kids See Ghosts This Friday
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through gritted teeth lol
you can tell she is/was a massive Kanye fan and felt super disappointed by his behaviour and obviously came into this quite heated.
The review is a vapid AP English essay written by someone who clearly doesn't like Kanye's recent antics
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Now this on the other hand is fantastic and gets to the heart of the matter: it's a decent album that could've been a great one if he took his damn time.
That boy Craig always comes through with the heat.
The album is decent but the whole thing has a very "thrown together at the last minute" feel to it.
yeah you can tell it was a very spur-of-the-moment sort of diary about his current thoughts and feelings.
All Mine grew on me a lot, damn.
It has felt (and actually been) that way with everything post-MBDTF really. How a supposed perfectionist could just resort to coming up with shit in a week several albums in a row........ I just dont get it
Yeah, true. But at least in the case of Yeezus we ended up with a pretty good final product. I thought Life of Pablo was pretty weak overall and had that same "thrown together" feel to it.
I don't think Yeezus feels rushed at all. There's that sort of infamous story saying it was hastily made in the two weeks before release, but it was just arranged in that time. Kanye had several hours of music before then and he and Rubin sat down two weeks before the album was due and actually put the pieces together, not super unusual.
In the case of Yeezus, I think it's pretty obvious that most of the production was bare bones but in place, but that a lot of the writing wasn't done. I mean, the ghost writing on that album is more transparent than ever.
I listened to a few songs from TLOP after listening to Ye and it's like night and day. Overall I prefer Ye to TLOP, but even with the release of TLOP being such a mess, the songs still sound pretty damn fine-tuned, whereas Ye feels like a snippet of something greater.
production credits are off too, since Francis was responsible for the second beat on I Thought About Killing You (as well as not getting that sample cleared) and wasn't given credit either
kind of casts a shadow of doubt over how much production work he's doing right now. idk about you guys, but the idea of him being fully back on the boards was the main cause of excitement for me with regards to these 5 albums. if that's not the case then what's the point?
This just means Francis gave Ye the sample, doesn't mean Francis made the beat or Ye didn't. This isn't uncommon, for instance Lifted gave Ye the sample for Mercy and then Ye took it to a whole other stratosphere. Still got credit though. Same with Pharrell giving Swizz the sample for Onto The Next One, GLC used to give Ye samples, etc. Not the same as not making the beat.
It's A&R's responsibility to keep track of this shit though, right? And artist's too, obviously, although I figure Ye would have people doing this for them, I figure that's how it is most of the time in rap.
Antics had left a sour taste in my mouth, but I was inevitable I'd listen to this anyway.
I'm not entirely convinced 7 tracks did this justice and I'm not vibing with it in the slightest compared to TLOP from the jump.
Replayed the whole thing 3x back and I still felt really iffy on it. Being experimental is one thing, but like coming off Daytona that felt incredibly focused and satisfying (again almost too short for the quality), this feels like it fucking meanders like crazy and he goes off on his spoken word shit way more often than I'd thought. I have some appreciation for people discussing their internal struggles and Ye is no stranger to doing that, but he seems to articulate his problems poorly when he talks at length about them idk. I just can't really see myself doing a quick take at this before jumping back to older albums. Him having finished Ghost Town at the last minute sorta makes sense, that's how I feel about a lot of tracks, especially when compared to Daytona having just dropped next to it. The two are light night and day in terms of focus. If people thought TLOP was discordant and Yeezus was slapped together last second, this feels like the worst of both those worlds to me. At least I walked away from both those albums with songs sticking with me for the long haul from the first play.
I'm not entirely convinced 7 tracks did this justice and I'm not vibing with it in the slightest compared to TLOP from the jump.
Replayed the whole thing 3x back and I still felt really iffy on it. Being experimental is one thing, but like coming off Daytona that felt incredibly focused and satisfying (again almost too short for the quality), this feels like it fucking meanders like crazy and he goes off on his spoken word shit way more often than I'd thought. I have some appreciation for people discussing their internal struggles and Ye is no stranger to doing that, but he seems to articulate his problems poorly when he talks at length about them idk. I just can't really see myself doing a quick take at this before jumping back to older albums. Him having finished Ghost Town at the last minute sorta makes sense, that's how I feel about a lot of tracks, especially when compared to Daytona having just dropped next to it. The two are light night and day in terms of focus. If people thought TLOP was discordant and Yeezus was slapped together last second, this feels like the worst of both those worlds to me. At least I walked away from both those albums with songs sticking with me for the long haul from the first play.
Drizzy and the OVO sweatshop wrote probably the best hook on the album then huh. Drake stans finally getting a W
P. Reign was out there too, right?
...he's gotta be useful for something, right?
tbh i dipped to the description, looked at the score, dipped out, and posted it here for the memes.
hes right
cus hes good and right
blamethony spacetano here, ResetERA's biggest music nerd
yeah, just watched it and he nailed it. explained exactly why i find this album so interesting and entrancing to listen to
Kids See Ghost this week, Nas album next week then Teyanas in two weeks is going to be awesome. I have really high hopes for the Nas one
look at Micheal Anthony over here
i dont think i've agreed with 30% of any review he's had
Of course a YouTube Nazi like Fantano would rate this album so high.
that's when you know stuff is about to go down. that and the red flannel (for bad albums, see: Teenage Emotions by Little Yacht-Tee)
r/hhh in shambles right now
seriously such a powerful song. can't fucking wait for kids see ghost this week. from ghost town being amazing, to all of ye and cudi's previous collabs (808s, make her say, gorgeous, all of the lights, erase me, guilt trip, father stretch my hands....WHEW), and that sweet murakami cover art... i'm like 10 times more confident heading into that album that i was for ye, and i love ye.
i was almost certain he'd give it like a 5 or 6, ala MBDTF and Yeezus. this is actually really surprising to me
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