Kanye West - ye & Kids See Ghosts (June 1 & 8 2018) Album • Page 208

Also wtf Rihanna feature? Shocked she would get involved in this

 

I think he's well past the point of return and I am not even going to think about listening to this one

 

Oh wow I come back and he actually made it worse, god damn

 

Y’all ready to draw the line yet???

 

Who is dumber.... Kanye or Donald Trump?

 

Yeah idk if I can even waste the bandwidth to illegally scoop this

 

It's getting hard to even think about writing this essay on yeezus

 

Is that confirmed ?

 

I guess he's the one who is heartless

 

If I was trying to be an asshole I’d be taking notes right now

This man is taking being a piece of shit to weird new places

I’m still at work but did he also endorse Jared from Subway and just the concept of being a sexual criminal in general?

 

I think this is officially it for me. I'm done with Kanye.

It's like he goes out of his way to make people think he's a piece of shit. He wishes Louis CK was hosting SNL with him instead of Adam Driver? Like why would that even come up in conversation. It's like he's reaching for any opportunity to support people who the public have (rightly) written off.

Not even gonna listen to this album. Carter V better be fire.

 

I’d be shocked if he has any massive following by next year.

 

Yeah, I said I was done before, but I gave in and listened to Kids See Ghosts a ton. This is it. You can't claim to be a good peron and for all the people and say that you like Alex Jones and want Louis CK back to host SNL, then also have SixNine and XXX on your album. That's phenomenally shitty behavior.

 

Yeah, if Nas can still appear on Colbert this week, xxx can be viewed as a hero and SixNine still allowed to collaborate with huge artists, Kanye will still have a huge following.

 

And Pusha T and Yasiin Bey will say "Well we disagree on the issues."

 

yeah i think i'm good on this new album

 

Jesus

 

i'll listen to it and I still love his prior albums but i don't think i can support him anymore. i'm someone who can usually separate the artist from the art but this is just becoming so depressing and hard to watch

 

It'll be super tempting to listen to it but I really wanna just wipe my hands clean of Kanye at this point

 

I think about this, and then I think about Nicki and 6ix9ine, and Joey Badass and XXX, Drake and Baka, and it honestly just sends me spiraling because it's all so fucking bleak

 

Vince Staples the only pure boy

 

I know this is kinda the joke around here and I love Vince but I'm over giving anyone the benefit of the doubt at this point

and boy does that do wonders for my depression /s

 

Kendrick bringing out XXX and promoting his albums, J Cole doing the same, it’s all hard to believe there’s a single pure person in hip hop/rap.

 

p.o.s

 

And I don't mean to target hip-hop specifically because as we all know that argument gets brought up in bad faith entirely too often, it's more so I guess that (like anything else, really) there is both so much good and so much bad that comes out of this genre, it means so much to me and I'm always so happy to see it as a vehicle for progressive mindsets (which is why I'm so enthusiastic about Brockhampton, even after the shit with Ameer), it's just overwhelming and upsetting to realize how deeply rooted these problems are.

The examples I thought of were just random, but there's no shortage of them. It makes me want to get offline and take a sabbatical from music as a whole, which deepens the issue when you realize people like myself (and probably like some of yourselves as well) rely on entertainment and talking about entertainment to relieve their anxieties. But it's also important to stay informed and make informed decisions about the art we consume, and...I could go in circles. Sorry if this isn't super well-thought out. Just a bad emotional health day and I'm kind of expelling my feelings in real time. This is something I sturggle with daily and rarely talk about anymore because I don't have any answers or unique insight to offer. It's all just so disheartening.