I read someone else say the album sounds shallow like when a d*** addict finds salvation in religion and just becomes wholely consumed by it because they no longer have an identity outside of it and they end up shoehorning it in at every given moment and that's basically how I feel. This album is my reborn d*** addict cousin who really wants me to go to church with him and can't talk about anything besides it.

I know the feel, had the same feeling when he dropped ye.
Prime Kanye is gone my friend.

Nailed it

this is exactly how I feel. kanye and music saved me and taught me to back myself and believe in my own strengths.

this album plus all his talk about never playing those older songs that meant so much to everyone is just so devastating to hear as someone who defended the last few years of madness because ‘his musical legacy will overshadow his antics’.

If Kanye himself is distancing himself form that legacy... that’s just real sad.

I think prime Kanye is yet to come, he’s just gotta have a legitimate “awakening” like I had to go thru! Man he sounds like such a chatty patty now

this is definitely Kanye at his purest. If you can’t enjoy and appreciate that, then move on. Production is insane, lyrics are smart for the subject matter he’s trying to touch on, album has a nice arc to it, but still exudes Kanye

Every artist has a miss, this was Kanye’s miss for me and I’m fine with that.

If you’re not planning on listening to it again then you didn’t enjoy it.

You're setting yourself up for disappointment if you expect Kanye to make music that lives up to those first 6 solo albums. He's in a completely different place now and it's time to accept that he's never going to approach music in that way again.

Since Yeezus his life has changed completely - he's got married, had four kids, has built up Yeezy into a successful business, struggled with his mental health and opioid addiction, been hospitalised for a breakdown, and has become a billionaire.

He is a 42 year old man with other priorities. We need to understand that he's just making music for fun and we need to have much more realistic expectations - great production, some fun tracks, and a few quotables - that's probably it.

now that you put it like that he definitely started to kinda fall off in retrospect when he got on that existential crisis 'i feel like that' s*** 15-16

it would be fascinating for someone to kinda piece together clips that show all the changes in his personality

once he started saying "the only thing that matters is ____" is when he started reaching for something to "be kanye" about...mental health is my superpower...white people wont "let" me do fashion...im an christian innovator...lol every rollout after a certain point had a refrain that he shouts over and over

as opposed to 04 till WTT he was solely trying to be the best out especially for that little pinch when Drake was coming up

sad to see but this s*** is a young mans sport i guess

Just want to let everyone know I’ve turned around on this album. Still not feeling some of the lyrical content but the music is on f***ing point. Every melody is on point, Kanye’s singing is on a new level (I assume he worked harder on tracking the vocals). And everything we need I vibe with lyrically 100%. I hope Kanye follows that humble message instead of the preachy s*** (Maga, god did everything).