Kanye West - ye & Kids See Ghosts (June 1 & 8 2018) Album • Page 3

Smh

 

I know what you mean and I agree w/ you

I also understand why some peeps would find the record sloppy

 

ooh cool

 

I have liked all of his albums, including WTT, but TLOP did not connect with me at all. I definitely see how it feels sloppy. Still really excited to hear what he has cooking now.

 

Sub for the eventual hype

 

I don't think the post-"Wolves" songs flow particularly well. They're just there. I know they're "bonus" tracks, canonically, but they make up like a little over 20 minutes of the album. They aren't bad songs, a couple are great, but they don't feel as important to the narrative he was weaving from "Ultralight Beam" through "Wolves", and again, I know they're """""bonus""""" tracks, but they're treated like more of a part of the Life of Pablo than, say, "See Me Now" is treated as a part of MBDTF.

I think TLOP is as fascinating a record as he's put out, while at the same time embodying a lot of my least favorite sides of his personality/persona for much of the runtime, with very little to none of some of my favorite aspects of Kanye. There's a lot of criticism he gets for being detached in recent years when it comes to race/racism, his frustrations and anger towards racism coming largely when he faces it personally in his elite, bourgeoisie world, at the expense of his addressing the larger institutions of racism and white supremacy, and how they affect other people. The legitimate obstacles he faced getting into fashion or technology may be valid frustrations for him, but are so insular and specific to his experience that, if he isn't also engaging with those structures at large, which he has done so brilliantly on so many of his records, (particularly Dropout, LR, MBDTF, and Yeezus), then the listening experience feels a bit more hollow, not as socially complex and resonant as his best work.

I love introspective, personal Kanye, but the balance skewed a bit too far towards self-aggrandizing without self awareness on TLOP for me, personally.

 

TLOP is amazing

 

Family photos from Easter are on Kim's website, but they are all behind a paywall... here's a cute one though

 

Kanye for the kids

 

Kanye West is writing a book of philosophy called Break the Simulation

 

this is the best timeline

 

KANYE TWITTER BACK

 

finally getting Good Ass Job

 

finally getting Swish

 

finally getting the 40 songs with young thug and Kendrick

 

And he's deleting everything on there... what could THAT mean?!

 

new album incoming

its the classic delete everything

 

And they're all gone

 

I still see them

 

he tweetin!

 

LEGENDARY

 

Kanye came back just to shit talk Nike

True legend of the game

 

those emojis