I mean I have a theory but not gonna go there rn as it would be upsetting to most of KTT

Amazing album besides Closed on Sunday

Like can someone give me a good reason why they don’t fw this album

whats the theory

I'm a moderator on r/Atheism so any mention of religion gets me upset

how a nigga gon name himself jik?

Subject matter is kinda ass

the subject matter and fans were bitter that they didn't get yandhi and before anyone says that the lyrics weren't all that well we were dealing with post 2012 ye for a decade by this point what did y'all expect?

For me atleast, I loathe half the mixing and some of s*** vocals recorded from his phone.

Is it a terrible album? No. But its pretty disappointing for Ye standards, especially considering what he gave us 2 years later with DONDA, which tackled the religious angle much, much better.

I enjoyed it
This era gave us L.A monster and closed on Sunday

lyrics and weak vocals from kanye

production and sunday service vocals were amazing though

Lyrics are god awful

Beats are boring and uninspired

Mixing is some of the worst ive ever heard from a major artist

Terrible record

Just face it, it's mid

everything we need is the best example of yandhi leaks hurting this album for fans

song would’ve already been mid but the way they butchered it was a crime

some great production every now and then but kanye sounds so uninspired throughout the album with his writing. in addition, the mixing makes the whole album sound cheap as hell and he’s a billionaire

It’s not good
Yandhi would’ve been ass too

Because they don't like that ye was maga.

If that album was on Bandcamp you'd have skipped over it without a second thought

i do fw use this gospel but only really for that sax

Why do you have to make a theory for why other people don't like something? Can't something you like just be ass to other people

As long as you like it that's all that should matter

Project is big mid and a lot of half baked ideas. Follow God slaps though.

But in all fairness, without JIK we wouldn't have Donda

Great album. Only hated cause of his then fresh public image of devout-Christian and cause people were expecting Yandhi.

It was a complete 180 from what people were expecting, following songs like XTCY and I Love It.

Great album.

Kanye’s fanbase post 2010 has been overrun by white hipsters. The most dangerous kind of people because they can hide their passive racism behind a thin veneer of faux-progressivism. So there’s two things going on here. A) they prefer “artsy” hip hop because that is more comfortable for their white, indie music sensibilities. JIK is a raw gospel album - a historically black genre of music - and isn’t quirky enough and doesn’t have any Bon Iver features so naturally they want nothing to do with it. B) Even tho they’ll never admit it, they prefer their black entertainers to be wilding out making fools of themselves - as long as it doesn’t offend their liberal proclivities. They can’t stand seeing a black man search for meaning and positivity in his life. This reaction is further exacerbated because it’s explicitly religious music. I’m an atheist but many of these edgy types think religion is a purely evil thing which can’t possibly be a source for some people to grow, change, and better themselves which is false.

So it’s a combination of casual liberal racism and people simply not being actual hip hop fans (which is a byproduct of said racism)

it barely sounds finished.

outside of like follow god on god & water album is kinda midpack