Thought it was obvious outside of his stan bubble.

No I cannot admit this

not very progressive of you…

this nigga got internet explorer

something about a nigga that willingly fell off & continues to plunge just brings the ignorance out of me. Blame him

The willingly part is what hurts the most

No doubt he’s trash now but yea and ksg being the last thing of substance is wild to say. Those were two filler albums. Donda feels like the final real Kanye album

Solid roaster too with Ruff Riders

Eminem never fell off then damn

Did you know Jay, DMX, and Ja Rule were supposed to form a supergroup at one point?

It never transpired but I thought it was a neat concept. Probably would've only lasted a hot minute though.

better than your favorite rapper
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To slightly derail the topic since a lot of the main points from page 1 just got repeated, if you had to trim Donda down to 15 tracks, which would it be?

I personally think this tracklist would've put it on par with the first 6 albums and better than TLOP.

1. Jail
2. Hurricane
3. Praise God
4. Off The Grid
5. Believe What I Say
6. 24
7. Jesus Lord
8. Heaven and Hell
9. Moon
10. New Again
11. Lord I Need You
12. Pure Souls
13. Come To Life
14. No Child Left Behind
15. Life Of The Party(with 3 Stacks)

If Ye had this tracklist, I'd damn near put Donda over Graduation and Yeezus.

Also, if Drake replaced some of the OG FATD tracks like Gently with the Scary Hours 3 tracks, the perception of the album would've been way different.

Him attaching SH3 after the OG dropped though just reeked of desperation after it got trashed everywhere.

After all the s*** he did and said Carnival went #1 and one of the biggest pop artists rn flipped another 2024 Kanye song into another hit

And he just ran up $7M in China the other day too

Seems weird when Ja was vocally like a diet DMX

That campaign speech feels like a robot chicken parody/skit.

What was he doing fr lmao. Crazy looking back.

I was going to make my own thread about this but decided against it

he has, the excitement from ktt 1 when mdtf dropped and yeezus compared to vultures was jarring just seems like no one cares anymore

i will say donda 1 was fun with the stream but everthing else has been boring very sad kanye droppin used to be a big deal an event

China fw Ye heavy

Believe it or not, Ja was pretty respected in rap circles on his 1st album.

He was biting Pac/DMX a lot which was sort of cringe but he could spit some hard lyrics and had a decent mic presence.

Ja didn't really get the rep he became known for until his 2nd album where Irv made him OD on the Ashanti/R&B collabs.

I feel that and agree.

I do think V1 had some relative hype around the first couple of weeks partly due to Carnival but it didn't last long obviously due to the album being meh.

The Donda era from July 2021 to early 2022 was so great though: The listening parties, the album dropping on Sunday, streamers doing song battles with Donda and CLB, the Drink Champs interview, the Larry Hoover Concert, the Jeen-Yuhs documentary, Ye dissing Pete Davidson on Eazy, Ye spitting an actually hard verse on Keep It Burnin. It started to subside on October 4th.

That whole era was the most memorable Ye era since TLOP imho.

I didn't know that's crazy