Kanye West - Jesus is King (September 27, 2019) Album • Page 40

After listening to this, I feel like I owe Chance the Rapper an apology

 

This is super average. Some really cool ideas scattered around the album (mostly production choices) but used ineffectively. A lot of it just sounds like demos. Doesn’t help that Kanye is a shitty person and I just don’t really like hearing his voice these days. That said he has some nice singing moments on a couple of these things. But idk overall this just sound very thrown together.

 

honestly i think lots of people do.

 

Old Kanye would have chopped and screwed “Every Hour” into the SoTY. New Kanye has no clue.

 

I don’t

 

it’s possible for two albums to be terrible

 

Put on Hot Shower and you'll walk this statement back

 

I'm gonna jump on the "production is great, lyrics not so much" train

 

but at least one of the terrible albums sounds like actual effort was put into it

 

not sure what difference that makes when it’s terrible anyway

 

I just finished my first listen and I am not feeling this at all. I'll give it a couple more spins, but this is the first Kanye record where I finished it and couldn't recall anything from it immediately after.

 

and this is for sure gospel. whoever said it wasn't, what genre would you call this?

 

my first listen was basically: why does it sound all weird, why are the lyrics so bad, there is no cohesion on this at all and it felt like forever when it’s only a 27 minute album.

 

also for some reason after hearing all this talk about gospel it just made me want to listen to ma$e So yeah that’s what I did

 

Yeah it doesn't get much worse than this...the bizarre mixing, awful lyrics, surface level approach to spirituality, seemingly random sequencing...WTF happened?

He's already tainted his legacy culturally of course, but this thing really harms it musically for the first time I think.

 

The feeling like it lasts forever thing is so true. I kept checking to see how much was left.

 

"Water" is really cool until he says Jesus 97 times.

 

A lot of the songs are really cool until the lyrics start

 

This makes me long for the days when Kanye would do features where the big payoff is him making a diarrhea pun.

 

I also still remember when a DJ from my area went viral with a long-winded theory that Kanye spazzing was all a well-orchestrated work.

 

When this whole MAGA thing started I honestly thought it was some type of big performance art piece. But honestly, he still has a large ego and when the most powerful man in the world starts showering you with praise and inviting you to the White House, of course you’re going to go all in on him.

I bet Kanye can’t even discuss any of Trump’s policies, just like in the Zane interview yesterday when he couldn’t quote any scripture or really dive deep into any Christianity discussion.

 

I genuinely believe that Kanye does have bipolar disorder, though I don't know specifically which one.