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1 KANYE WEST @ kanyewest - Feb 9
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Three of West’s album covers illustrate
the dark and light aesthetics he’s
created.
At left is 2O1O’s “My Beautiful Dark
Twisted Fantasy,” bottom left is this
year’s “The Life of Pablo,” and at
bottom right is 2O12*s minimalist
industrial hip-hop ”Yeezus.”
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KAN YE WEST @ kanyewest - Fe b 9
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KANYE WEST @ kanyewest -Feb 14
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hook and the tabloid headline inspiring
lyric from West, “ I feel like me and Taylor
might still have sex. Why? 1 made that
bitch famous. ” Another prod from West at
the listener in a desperate plea for atten
tion. The song itself is close to the digital
punk of Ye’s last album, but is no “ Swish”
(another of the titles West had given this
album before release).
Most Christians would say that claiming
to be like God is blasphemous, but that
doesn’t stop West from hinting at his own
apotheosis. “ Low Lights” is two minutes
of a woman praying in really quite a beau
tiful expression of her own faith. West
said that the song was inspired by moms
driving their kids to school and going to
work. Still, halfway through something in
the brain is triggered and one wonders “ Is
this prayer to Jesus or to Yeezus?”
The divine associations West has creat
ed for him self are too strong to not have
him creep into your mind every time God
is mentioned. On the album Chance the
Rapper says, “ I met Kanye West, I’m never
going to fa il.” Couldn’t the same also be
said of one’s savior?
A t track 10 the album fin ally starts
to be redeemed. “ W aves” was the title
track back when The album was still called
All memes are wrong... The Life
“ W AVES,” and only made the final cut on
Chance the Rapper’s insistence. It’s the
m ost radio-friendly song on the album.
From there to track 18 are eight fine songs.
Both o f W est’ s “ Good Fridays” singles
are in the last h alf o f the album . There
are guest appearances from Frank Ocean
and Kendrick Lamar.
“ Wolves” contains a fantastic West &
Kardashian to Joseph & Mary allusion.
“ What if Mary was in the club, when she
met Joseph around hella thugs?
Cover Nori in lam bs’ wool
We surrounded by the fuckin’ wolves. ”
The profane sides o f W est and Kar
dashian mingle with Christ in the manger.
It never lets up.
W est’s shtick has been repeated over
and over in his m usic. He reached the
execution of its perfection in two albums:
"M y Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy” and
“ Yeezus.” Both of those albums pulled off
the divergent themes o f W est’s music in
two sonically dissimilar, but fully refined
ways.
“The Life of Pablo” fails because it isn’t
committed to a sound. It is unfinished and
weighed down by its own track list. If an
album isn’t supported by its songs, what
supports it?
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KANYE WEST @ kanyewest - Feb 13
I write this you you my brothers while
still 53 million dollars In personal
debt... Please pray we overcome...
This is my true heart
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KANYE WEST @ kanyewest - Feb 14
I made Dark Fantasy and Watch the
Throne in one year and wasn’t
nominated for eithe r... I will have
over 100 Grammys before I die
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KANYE WEST ©kanyewest - Feb 14
I’m this generation's Disney...
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