Elric

5y

you were warned though short songs incoming

UIP

5y

lmao how you gunna call the album uninspired then criticize the vocal cracks on “God Is”, one of the most inspired parts of the whole album imo.

just sounds like this isn’t what you wanted from Kanye and that’s fine, but the whole “omg these are half baked, unfinished songs!” complaint has been tired as f*** since TLOP dropped.

art doesn’t have to conform to our personal ideas of what it means to be “finished” or “completed”, especially not when it’s coming from an artist who’s proven that he can make conventionally perfect albums. That’d be boring. Instead, he’s giving us these flawed but hella interesting looks into his psyche at the moment, with all the nonsensical but forward thinking ideas he’s always had.

Bizzle

5y

I dunno, the idea that Ye is allowed to release half baked ideas as songs because they're a window into his batsuit insane scattershot mind is equally tired in my opinion.

rise zero

5y

Batsuit insane lol

Galaxy

5y

Yall say jik is cohesive??? The s*** is a f***ing mess of half baked ideas, surface level lyrics and some of kanye's most uninspired vocal performances ever. Sounds like he needs a lozenge on "God Is", he neutered tf out of "Selah" with his corny Christian bars, "Water" just sucks... don't get me started on that verse. The rest is a mess. "Hands On" the one track that feels like it might've actually been completed but it's not really a good song. The best moment on this album is the hallelujahs on Selah, but it transitions to one of Kanye's weakest vocal performances ever

Galaxy

5y

Don't even get me started on the lyrics on "On God"

"THAT'S WHY I CHARGE THE PRICES THAT I CHARGE" ughh

Galaxy

5y

TLOP songs were actually finished though, they were just poorly mastered at first.

Even ye had more structure to the songs than this. I don't care if he's being 'unconventional', to me it sounds like a lazy, rushed project who clearly doesn't give a f*** about music like he used to

UIP

5y

lmao how you gunna call the album uninspired then criticize the vocal cracks on “God Is”, one of the most inspired parts of the whole album imo.

just sounds like this isn’t what you wanted from Kanye and that’s fine, but the whole “omg these are half baked, unfinished songs!” complaint has been tired as f*** since TLOP dropped.

art doesn’t have to conform to our personal ideas of what it means to be “finished” or “completed”, especially not when it’s coming from an artist who’s proven that he can make conventionally perfect albums. That’d be boring. Instead, he’s giving us these flawed but hella interesting looks into his psyche at the moment, with all the nonsensical but forward thinking ideas he’s always had.

Elric

5y

"Just do that and then let the music do somethin', and then do that again, that'd be enough for a record
I mean, you only want two and a half minutes if you can get it, you know, three minutes max—"

Versetti

5y

Kanye is full of s***

Zane Lowe is a s***tier interviewer, but when he asked Kanye how does he reconcile the christian values he's preaching with the fact that he's trying to copyright the term Sunday Service, Ye was like.....um.......everything is about God.......

Elric

5y

Deadpeg baited me in here with babadook praise

AYEKAY

5y

Kanye is the GOAT lol

Aruji

5y

his sex-bars were just as cringe. + he was repeating his tropes endlessly since TLOP. In fact, he has nothing to say anymore.

gbluecheez

5y

I agree with you here but I feel like the last 3 records were more fleshed out/nuanced than JIK

laudi

5y

Ye more fleshed out/nuanced than JIK?

gbluecheez

5y

Yes

UIP

5y

but what would pass as “inspired Christian bars” for you if not some of the ones on this album lmao? Like what makes these “surface level” and uninspired in the first place?

i’ve never been Christian in my life, and i can say that on tracks like “God Is” and “Use This Gospel” his lyrics expressing faith and devotion to God and also the struggles that come with it really touch me every time i hear em. beautiful stuff tbh. and that could just come down to personal preference, but i’d like you to expand on it so i can understand why i love a lot of the lyrics so much but you hate them.