Agree OP.

I was a little let down that I'd already heard almost half of the album.

I wouldn’t mind having an OG only ye sxn.

It was disappointing at the time but doesn’t matter in the long run , as it held up flawlessly

He needed to do the most before release to convince the public he was still killin s***

f*** it, im 25. Been in this b**** since i was 18

If anything it was the JIK listening parties that ruined an album's first listening for me. To hear him cut out great songs and only make changes that were for the worse. Also, the way he kept delaying the album but the final product was barely changed between listening parties kind of sucked.

Nigga what

Good thing I’ve waited until the runaway movie

You had to have just been there.

add me in chief

Didn’t hear one GOOD Friday song before the full album leaked 2 weeks prior couldn’t imagine not having the full experience back then crine

Is this where you say ok boomer

Ok cooper

I get that i remember feeling a litte off about it but honestly the whole roll out, the blog posts (especially that legendary one about the wings being beaten off of angels, more relevant than ever) and hearing the first verse of gorgeous and chorus to blame game in the movie and being SO HYPED to hear the rest, it was legendary. When the album dropped it was just perfect.

"I’m on the plane listening to the college dropout. It brings back so many memories. When we made it I had all 6 parents, 4 grandparents and my mom and dad. Now I have my dad and my grandfather.
Music is so nostalgic. Every song I listen to brings me back to when I first played them for my mom, when I first played them for Dame, when I first played them for Jay, when I first played them for Kweli, when I first played them for my niggas back in Chi, when the album first came out, when I first called Ebro from Hot 97 and begged him to play through the wire, when DJ Pharris blew me up in the Chi.
We used to be the niggas rocking polo shirts, Louie back packs, paper denim jeans, and exclusive Adidas from Sporty LA. We were the underdogs. I never feel like I’m not the underdog. I never felt completely comfortable. I’m tormented by the need to create. With the loss of McQueen I feel like we lost one of those faces of modern creativity’s Mount Rushmore.
There were times that the only thing that kept me on this earth was the need and responsibility to create. Maybe McQueen felt his job was done because his last collection was the greatest of the decade. We are all so hurt. I know we’re selfish because he brought us so much joy and inspiration.
I know how it feels when the night demons come. We can’t let them control our hands and feet. Sometimes when it hurts so bad we have to just lay in the bed. Just lay in bed and don’t move please, I know how it feels. I wish McQueen could have just been still. Don’t let the psychiatrists give you their d**** because it slows down your wings. Society and public opinion can beat the wings off of angels. When god sees they can’t take it anymore he brings them back home.
During this new album process sometimes I turn the music up and drink and cry. When something sounds so amazing and ground breaking I’m reminded of why I live. I drink the pain of now 2 generations and breathe our melodies and messages. The music keeps us alive.
I was blessed with the opportunity to bring my and others dreams to life. It’s like performing magic or something. It’s surreal. We bring the unrealistic to reality. “Go hard, go hard, go hard” echoes in my dreams. When I wake up and brush my teeth and look in the mirror it’s like I see Michael and my mom and Malcolm. Who’s that African in the background mom? Oh he created the original layouts for the pyramids but was written out the history books and his MTV award was given to 'aliens'.
There’s no such thing as fact anymore, only opinion. The closest thing we have to fact is 'common opinion'. Everything is an opinion. The way you dress is an expression of your opinion. Your religious beliefs are your opinion. The music you turn up loud is your opinion. For most people it’s easier to just agree. For me the hardest thing is to ‘just’ agree and that is what sparks creativity, the feeling that something can be better, the feeling that something’s missing. The feeling that something’s needed."

thisssss

I feel like for me it was so good that I didn’t care, plus many other free tracks that he kept dropping for like a month after the album

i agree in a sense, because i felt the same but in hindsight, i also disagree because MBDTF gave those GOOD Fridays tracks a home
i remember going to school and my asian friend had a leak of the album the final day before it dropped and i heard DIAND in full for the first time..... holy f***..... i was so used to the 2 minute GOOD Fridays version and having it cut off soon after "cat got your tongue?"

man i was like 15 when i joined KTT in 2010
now i'm 25 lol *lowkey grew up with this forum
also throwback to when Kanye did the livestream where he previewed a snippet of "Ghetto University" and shouted out KLive

Yeah that was one of the main complaints when MBDTF drops iirc

I was in my first year of college when that s*** dropped lol

Who remembers when the clean version of the full album leaked 2+ weeks in advance.