OG hurricane so good. one of my favorite early fall songs

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can’t say for sure that any of his actions or things he said would have changed, but i think the public perception a good chunk of people have that is “he fell off post yeezus/post TLOP” wouldn’t be as popular. this s*** had a lot of potential to be one of his more accessible pop-rap records.

His most overrated unreleased proyect

Some people talk about Yandhi like it was MBDTF 2

Hold on this train goin by

Yeah but he never finished it so basically it would have been an album filled with demos and it would have basically killed his career as an artist in that moment ngl

well yea i guess? idt he woulda dropped it unfinished tho. if he wanted to do that it would have dropped lol

This era was really more about the vibes and his mindset at the time than the music tbh, but that said there’s some absolute GEMS from that era
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Ye is never "over radio/mainstream popularity" it's one of the biggest misconceptions about him.

He'll give an interview saying he doesn't care about the numbers, but then when one of his songs doesn't chart as high as he thinks it should, he does the shocked Pikachu meme and then does another interview where he rants about it. For some reason, a large portion of this fanbase only focuses on the former and acts like the latter doesn't happen.

Then there's the elaborate rollouts where he creates as much attention as possible before dropping.

He absolutely cares about his popularity in the mainstream.

The obsession over OG Hurricane set humanity back decades.

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RIP to GOAT songs

I haven't heard him ranting about mainstream popularity or numbers since like 2018. If he still cared then he would do proper rollouts and release at the right time like a normal artist that wants to sell well

During the Yandhi era he said that he really misses hearing himself on the radio.

During the JIK era he mentioned how it would be really cool if a song all about God/Jesus could go #1

I don't know about the DONDA era cuz I wasn't really paying attention to his interviews, but the point of the rollout to get as much attention as possible obviously stands.

To me, the idea that if he really cared about numbers he would do proper rollouts/promotion doesn't really make sense. I think it's quite obvious that making himself the most talked about person in the world for like a month straight does far more to boost his numbers than any conventional rollout would.

Yeah Yandhi era was 2018, last time he really complained about radio/mainstream popularity. I don't think Kanye did the listening parties strictly for promo, it was basically performance art if you saw the design of the stage and everything. I think Kanye just does what he wants at this point, he isn't trying to just make hits and be popular anymore. Yandhi era was the last time he really tried that. He just does a lot of weird s*** which only holds him back if those were actually his intentions

So f***ing long ago already

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Legendary era

I'm sorry but 80 Degrees will always s*** on Hurricane

I got demoitis bad

nothing wrong at all with this take. lots more emotion imo in the ye hook than the weeknd’s. whole tone of song changed basically

Listening to Donda Hurricane just makes me want Ye warbling over the chorus

Hilarious take but I agree with this

People realy prefer Ye's garbled nonsense hook over Weeknd's glorious and epic sounding hook

while on this topic does anyone per chance have the OG 80 degrees? the tracker is just impossible to navigate on mobile

and the fact that we never got the album

There is 20 versions of it on the tracker