Kanye West is Dead (As an artist)

[Brooklyn Zoo]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BKGp1XqddM

smh

 

[Byron The Bulb]

i like it

 

[still fly]

This is a masterpiece.

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

I'm at least gonna wait for a better recording before I pass judgement.

 

[Mik]

He did this on SNL too.

I thought both songs were pretty good (but a little odd). I think we're looking at a very angry album coming up here in Yeezus. If Watch the Throne was all about excess, what we've seen so far is that this album will be all angry. "Black Skinheads" goes pretty hard too.

 

[snuffbox]

lol Yeezus

 

[Fökai]

Loved the first part, but he lost me at 2:59 when he started singing some Hungarian rock song.

 

[Jaxxxson Mayhem]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-SoKFycTmVU


WOW. This shit is raw as fuck.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuhl6Ji5zHM

thread title is so wrong

 

[Incandenza]

Thread was started by a guy who thinks Kanye hasn't done anything good since Late Registration.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

Any other artist with those lyrics would be laughed at. And I liked his last solo album.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

hater

 

[Incandenza]

Any other artist with those lyrics would be laughed at.

It's the LBJ reference in "Black Skinhead," isn't it.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

I really like that the Black Skinhead beat sounds like Marilyn Manson. Kanye bringing back late-90s pop-industrial!

 

[Byron The Bulb]

But for real though, I know his status as an Auteur and the Voice of a Generation and The Last Artist Who Matters is sort of overblown by this point, but, really, has there been another mainstream artist in the last like 25 years who's shown anywhere near the same interest in sonic experimentation and refusal to rest on laurels? I mean, in 10 years he's gone from this

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvb-1wjAtk4

to rapping about the prison-industrial complex over a minimalist drum arrangement while a giant video of his face is projected behind him.

 

[snuffbox]

raw as shit fuck

 

[Mickey Massuco]

Snuffy plays the contrarian, subtly racist white guy role well.

Good thing too, since we needed someone to replace Czech.

 

[Byron The Bulb]

I'd think snuffbox would be on board with Kanye's anti-corporatism, but I guess lol mainstream rap

 

[cobainwasmurdered]

lol Yeezus

raw as shit fuck

If all you're going to do is come in here and troll/snarkbox don't bother. Have something to actually say.

 

[Mattdotcom]

This whole thing about Kanye trying to get Will Smith to come out of retirement as an apostle of Yeezus is amazazing

 

[Incandenza]

"Yeezus" is pretty funny, though. I enjoy it when rappers commit acts of sacrilege.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

It would be funny if he wasn't serious about it.

 

[Incandenza]

Oh, it's still very, very funny because of that.

 

[Mattdotcom]

Yeah, I have no problem with the Yeezus thing because it's great

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

Now taking bets for how many posts until Kreese expresses outrage over white people's use of 'Yeezus'.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

Snuffy plays the contrarian, subtly racist white guy role well.

Good thing too, since we needed someone to replace Czech.

something off about white dudes going gaga over a song about a dude admitting he's a slave and enjoying it. not sure who is racist here.

 

[Brooklyn Zoo]

but those drums

 

[Sesquipedaliantique]

No one is a racist on account of enjoying that song. Sometimes certain sounds are just pleasing to the ear.

 

[Mickey Massuco]

No one is a racist on account of enjoying that song. Sometimes certain sounds are just pleasing to the ear.

yea sounds like MASSA

 

[Edwin]

Remember when people called him Kayne West for some reason? I think Ripper did that a lot.