“Water” is on this, and tbh when he played it at Coachella I was not impressed at all. Musically it was interesting (iirc) but I remember lyrically it was a damn mess. Didn’t even make a lick of sense. In fairness the song has probably changed quite a bit since, but he obviously felt it was far enough along to play live. My bet is we are gonna get some awesome gospel tinged production and some really heavy handed lyrics. But who knows. Surprise me. Honestly have no clue what to expect.
Honestly if this is like a full-on gospel type album I don't see any way it's not my least favorite Kanye album but hopefully I'm pleasantly surprised At this point I've learned to just fully trust him though (musically)
I still listen to YE weekly. Shrug. Still think it’s a great record. Has had more staying power for me than most of the records near the top of my 2018 list.
Some interesting facts about Late Registration. Gold Digger was supposed to be a Shawna song and M.I.A. was supposed to be on Drive Slow.
About half of it is my favorite thing Kanye has done since MBDTF and the other half I don’t care for. I do think overall the negativity surrounding it has very little to do with the actual music, whether people admit it or not.