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Kanye West presents The Life of Pablo |OT| WE ON AN ULTRA LIGHT BEAM
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ginger ninja
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Kanye did say this last year on the breakfast club:
and also
I did find this:
and he also said Taylor told that he should have ran on stage and interrupted Beck.
I really wouldn't be surprised if she did say the song was okay, tbh.
get him fired.
TheKaeptain
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TLOP
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Yeezus
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MBDTF
808s
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PSY・S;195723737 said:
wow and I like Yeezus. but MBDTF is amazing consistent. Yeezus has some amazing highs, but is also set off by some terrible lows and weird lyrical/production dissonance (Blood on the Leaves).
Even Send It Up or I Am A God?
Yep. Simple as that.
TheKaeptain
Banned
I gave you what you wanted now fix that damned list
That's my list.
bruh..
I Am A God has fantastic production and a stellar first verse, and while Send It Up isn't a great song on its own, it's perfect where it is on the album. Riding after the incredibly emotional ending to Blood On The Leaves and the remorseful Guilt Trip, it's a fucking banger with a crazy beat and some hilarious lines.
Jack Remington
Banned
What is actually good about MBDTF?
If I understood what I'm supposed to be listening for that's so brilliant, maybe I'd get it. I've tried a few times now, and I always just find it boring as fuck. All of the Lights is probably the best track, and that's a 7.5/10 at best.
Should I smoke a joint and listen to it? Sometimes shit can take a long time to click. I remember I really disliked black metal for years until one day I found myself loving it.
If I understood what I'm supposed to be listening for that's so brilliant, maybe I'd get it. I've tried a few times now, and I always just find it boring as fuck. All of the Lights is probably the best track, and that's a 7.5/10 at best.
Should I smoke a joint and listen to it? Sometimes shit can take a long time to click. I remember I really disliked black metal for years until one day I found myself loving it.
Net_Wrecker
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The beginning and ending of MBDTF are great, but that middle section of Monster (ehhhhh), So Appalled (bloated), Devil In A New Dress (yawn), and Runaway (too looooong) pull the album down IMO. Not a fun stretch to listen through.
Yeezus >>>
Yeezus >>>
KazenY2J
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*Send It Up
XANDER CAGE
Member
Hey guys, this is off topic.
and send it up fucking GOES
Yup, that's my problem. I just don't care for a good chunk of the core anymore.
DIAND is dope though.
We better be getting some new news today since it's been 1 week since the stream
Yeezus, which is probably kanye's most stripped down album, has better beats and is more interesting imo. The songs are more focused, intense and emotional. Mbdtf feels bloated with all the overproduction and features but I still love it as well. However, dark fantasy is much, much better lyrically lol.
Yeezus, which is probably kanye's most stripped down album, has better beats and is more interesting imo. The songs are more focused, intense and emotional. Mbdtf feels bloated with all the overproduction and features but I still love it as well. However, dark fantasy is much, much better lyrically lol.
I really like Yeezus but Guilt Trip, I'm In It and Send It Up don't do much for me.
Devil in a New Dress and Runaway are like the best songs on the album, and Monster is a banger.
All signs point to this FridaySo is everyone expecting the album to be finalized and released this Friday?
Or will we just get a G.O.O.D Friday trackCan U Be please
TheKaeptain
Banned
Yeezus is his only album I can just put on in the car and ride to. It's so raw.
ginger ninja
Banned
Yeezus is pretty great beside black skinhead, new slaves, I am a God and send it up.
Being totally serious here.
Net_Wrecker
Member
Devil In A New Dress is that early career use of soul sampling I'm not trying to hear these days. Except for that dope guitar solo in the middle, it puts me to sleep. Same reason I dislike Bound 2 (except that track's even worse with the godawful hook)
Never liked Runaway. *shrug*
Monster is still a banger and I love the rhythm of the hook, but the verses are so corny. I can't listen to it anymore.
EDIT: I'll fall back if this is too off topic though.
Basically with Kanye albums there's always going to be mixed opinions. Whilst I enjoyed Yeezus, I think MBDTF is on a whole other level. Yeezus sort of felt like a fairly concentrated little musical tantrum, full of harshness and aggressive, albeit highly interesting sounds, MBDTF on the other hand feels like a far more layered, epic, grandiose and transgressive experience, that still manages to retain a lot of that dark atmosphere, but offered in a way that literally no other Hip Hop album has achieved.
That's what I've been doing. I probably won't play it again until we get the "real" version.
Terrordactyl
Member
Monster takes it for the nicki and Rick Ross feats, hell of a life is the best MBDTF track
In the end, TLOP really was the perfect Street Fighter V soundtrack
This sums up my feelings. MBDTF can get so dark at time, but it's paired with some beautiful production. It's also Kanye at his lyrical best, imo. You can go through each song and just find some bars that just stick with you. The release and buildup also helped sell the album. I remember him first performing Runaway at the VMAs after disappearing for like a year and you can hear boos, but once it's done, nothing but cheers. Plus that interlude to All of the Lights.
How can a person not fuck with Runaway? It's one of the best songs ever. Blame Game is GOAT, too. Lost in the World. Power is a one of a kind song, too. It's really Kanye at his best.
How could you say they live their life wrong, when you never fuck with the lights on?
perfect ending.
Grenouille
Member
but that's like his best song
MBDTF is a masterpiece album. I really don't understand any hate whatsoever. Maybe you guys want it to song like other rap, but it isn't supposed to be. It's what it is, something you ain't getting anywhere else.
EDIT: Like wait a sec, how does can anyone not like POWER? It's nowhere the best, but it's very easy to like.
EDIT: Like wait a sec, how does can anyone not like POWER? It's nowhere the best, but it's very easy to like.
Just because they're soul songs doesn't mean they sound like Kanye's earlier work, do you really dislike stuff based on it "being a throwback" rather than the quality of the songs?
I like all Kanye so i'm not predisposed towards or against any sound.
I think Bound 2 has some of Kanye's best/most creative song writing and believe his verses on Devil are two of the best verse of all time.
Maybe its because I didn't listen to it until last year, but I never got the hype behind Nicki's verse, I though every other feature on the album was better than her's except for Jay om Monster (which he made up for on So Appalled) and thought Kanye had multiple verses better than her's including his on Monster.
What am I missing?
Net_Wrecker
Member
It's just not a sound I'm a huge fan of unless the producer really puts a twist on it, hence why I singled out the guitar solo/instrumental run in the middle of the song as the one part I like. The rest is a pretty standard and repetitive soul loop, the kind I was already tired of in 2004, never mind 2010. When it comes to using soul samples, Kanye peaked on Late Registration IMO (also his best album outright), where it alternated between a heavier blues atmosphere and big orchestral cinematic strings. If not that, I prefer Kanye with a prog rock/electronic feel.
Everyone has their own ranking though
TheAutomator
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Im one of those people who prefer Yeezus to MBDTF. Both great albums, but songs like Black Skinhead, New Slaves and Blood On The Leaves are very daring and out there music wise and thats why they are one of the all time hip hop classics imo.
A Human Becoming
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Facts is probably my most disliked song on any of his albums. It's just stupid ranting.
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