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Kanye West presents The Life of Pablo |OT| WE ON AN ULTRA LIGHT BEAM
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I feel like there's a potential great album built from NMPLA, Real Friends, Facts and 30 Hours; and another completely separate potential great album built from Fade, Freestyle, Feedback, FML and Wolves.
Everything all together, with so much quality stuff thrown in willy-nilly at the end, is a bummer. An album in the style of those first few songs listed above would have been a slam-dunk follow up to Yeezus.
Everything all together, with so much quality stuff thrown in willy-nilly at the end, is a bummer. An album in the style of those first few songs listed above would have been a slam-dunk follow up to Yeezus.
Dreams-Visions
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A MESSAGE FROM YASIIN BEY - An ESPN 30 for 30.
"What if I told you that Kanye West fucked himself out of millions of dollars in sales by releasing his highly-anticipated album on the most disliked digital distribution platform on Earth? ESPN films presents...."
Bruce Springsteen
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pretty much
Cyborgmatt
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Really hope that they fix that useless drum/snare combo at 1:28 on Wolves as well.
MMaRsu
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backflip10019
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I mean they were mastering it up until the very second it was released. That's why it was ultimately delayed a day.
Cesare Borgia
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Is he? It's currently available on Bandcamp.
Goodness gracious people are being really weird about this debt thing.
That's not him. The only legitimate place to listen to the album right now is on tidal.
Inferno313
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Eh, if the music's good the music's good. I don't require X% of each track to be Kanye.
RecRoulette
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I love ULB and it's a perfect start to the album, but playing it out of order every time it comes up it's like "Not feeling it, sorry"
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Digital Snake
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Totally agree, Cudi's part is easily my favorite.
Bruce Springsteen
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Don't know what the hell kind of mastering job that was. Mike Dean already said it's shit on purpose and edgy like Kanye is edgy.
karmaforgotme
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Yes ULB is my favorite right now.
Well did you see this right above you?
Its a joke.
Well did you see this right above you?
Its a joke.
victreeb3l
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Oh are these the official lyrics? The previous Genius lyric had it something about moaning.
I like these much better.
Sometimes I feel like I'm not worthy of a warm Cudi hook in the morning, especially since the weather has been ass booty in NYC lately. Its like the perfect thing.
CrazyShady
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So after listening to the album about 10 times, gotta say I love it, but wish some of these songs didn't just feel like 2 minute mixtape type tracks. If every track was finished in the same capacity as ULB, FML, Waves, this album I'd say instantly gets to be discussed as one of his greatest.
Theres some absolutely GOD LEVEL stuff here. And then some not. I can only imagine what kind of album we'd have if it was totally fleshed out. Might really be 30 out of 10.
Theres some absolutely GOD LEVEL stuff here. And then some not. I can only imagine what kind of album we'd have if it was totally fleshed out. Might really be 30 out of 10.
Dreams-Visions
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Yea, I think it's a reflection of a lack of familiarity with the black church experience. Or even what the track is about.
wild wild rice
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Good to know there is possible a better version of this song because what's on the album now is trash.
You shouldn't even need familiarity with that, it's a brilliant track no matter how you look at it. I think the guy who didn't like it probably just doesn't like sparse production.
Dr_LucienSanchez
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The more I listen to it, the more aimless the album becomes. There's a handful of great songs (with some very good production), but so much of the album feels regressive. Not particularly feeling it.
karmaforgotme
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Aimless might be the perfection description of this album for me.
I'm in the same boat. Great songs on it but it doesn't feel right. Same issue I had with Yeezus.
wild wild rice
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Yeezus is anything but regressive and aimless. It's pretty damn cohesive. Maybe you just don't like the sound or songs?
I was the one who said it was a top ten Ye track, and the closest I've come to a black church is watching Sister Act. The tracks just good regardless.
FML is probably the best track
cubicle47b
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As soon as Kanye stops singing on Ultralight Beam it is amazing.
There were a few songs I did like. Black Skinhead, New Slaves. Blood. I didn't like the sound of the other Tracks. It was a very hit/miss album for me. Could be that.
Jest Chillin
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If you're talking about the Bandcamp that was listed a few days ago, that was not Kanye's (he doesn't have a Bandcamp) and it was taken down... because it's not his. So anyone who bought from that page, should be included in those piracy numbers in the article.
as a white dude who has no experience with "black church", ultralight beam is god tier
I wish I wasn't at work so I could blast it right now
Psychological Intellect
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Kanye's verse and some of the Ty vocals are mixed way too loud on Fade.
perineumlick
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As a black man who grew up in and around the church...I feel ULB is just okay. It's nothing profound or amazing to me; just serviceable. Jesus Walks hypes me much more than this. I actually thought it was a skit at first, then Chance started rapping, and I was like okay whatever.
Hip Hop
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Nah, it's just a really good track
wild wild rice
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Yeah, I like ULB even if Chance, incredibly talented as he his, kind of annoys me for some reason.
30 Hours is crazy. That soulful Arthur Russell sample with the cello, the live sound on the drums, the tempo, that Dam Funk sounding bass...the whole thing is beautiful.
I wish Kanye didn't spend the first half rapping about his sexual insecurities and then phone in the second half, but I'll take it.
30 Hours is crazy. That soulful Arthur Russell sample with the cello, the live sound on the drums, the tempo, that Dam Funk sounding bass...the whole thing is beautiful.
I wish Kanye didn't spend the first half rapping about his sexual insecurities and then phone in the second half, but I'll take it.
Chance is the future. Chance is the musician Chicago needs.
Literally.
Don't know if it was linked before, but AV Club gave the album their highest score, an A. http://www.avclub.com/review/life-pablo-kanye-wests-beautiful-abrasive-gospel-a-232154
wild wild rice
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Ha, exactly.
New thread worthy?
Kanye West album 'pirated 500,000 times' already
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35587381
Kanye West album 'pirated 500,000 times' already
http://www.bbc.com/news/technology-35587381
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After getting the tidal trial I gave it a couple of good listening sessions, with no distractions around me. First let me rank this among his other albums and say why it's at the place it's at.
Late Registration
College Dropout
MBDTF
Watch The Throne
TLOP
Graduation
Yeezus
808s
I only enjoyed 1 song in 808s. Other than that I felt 808s album was his worst. In TLOP I felt like there were moments of greatness in the album that came together well, lyrically and musically. Then there were songs that felt like he brought back the soul of 808s. A part of me thinks that this entire album was representative of his passage of time as an artist(maybe not fully in order) where the production of songs went from sounding like they came out of CD, then LR, then 808s, then Grad, then MBDTF, then Watch the throne and then finally a sprinkle of Yeezus. The intermission about Old Kanye and New Kanye made it feel like this even more so. He was taking you through his journey as an artist, like a 'best of' list but with entirely new tracks to represent his phases as a person. There was something in here for everyone and I think that might have been the point of this album. The only way to please everyone who loves each version of Kanye, is to give them every version of Kanye. That way everyone can love Kanye like Kanye loves Kanye. This could easily be a final album with how it is set up and I think it's worth a listen.
Late Registration
College Dropout
MBDTF
Watch The Throne
TLOP
Graduation
Yeezus
808s
I only enjoyed 1 song in 808s. Other than that I felt 808s album was his worst. In TLOP I felt like there were moments of greatness in the album that came together well, lyrically and musically. Then there were songs that felt like he brought back the soul of 808s. A part of me thinks that this entire album was representative of his passage of time as an artist(maybe not fully in order) where the production of songs went from sounding like they came out of CD, then LR, then 808s, then Grad, then MBDTF, then Watch the throne and then finally a sprinkle of Yeezus. The intermission about Old Kanye and New Kanye made it feel like this even more so. He was taking you through his journey as an artist, like a 'best of' list but with entirely new tracks to represent his phases as a person. There was something in here for everyone and I think that might have been the point of this album. The only way to please everyone who loves each version of Kanye, is to give them every version of Kanye. That way everyone can love Kanye like Kanye loves Kanye. This could easily be a final album with how it is set up and I think it's worth a listen.
I don't need another thread of random drive-by posts saying "good, he's an asshole", "Fuck Tidal" and "No wonder he's in debt lol".
seriously, fuck Tidal though.
double jump
you haven't lived until a random little kid ask you "how do you make love".
That's a lower number than I expected tbh.
probably still people holding out for apple and spotify.
please subscribe to tidal i need moni
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