Oct 25, 2019·6 repliesFavorite song so far?
Oct 25, 2019God Is just wrecked me
Oct 25, 2019
Grok Touched Mehope mike dean slips on a banana peel and cracks his f***ing kneecaps leaving his studio today
Oct 25, 2019Since yall talking about China
they have new age concentration camps where they've been killing muslims and no one seems to give a s***
Oct 25, 2019If they fix the mastering up, it'll be a nine.
Oct 25, 2019Biggest complaint imo is Everything We Need was unnecessary, La Monster would've been a better replacement
Oct 25, 2019That flow on follow god is too smooth
Oct 25, 2019Grok Touched Mehope mike dean slips on a banana peel and cracks his f***ing kneecaps leaving his studio today
+1
Oct 25, 2019·1 replymewacagarFavorite song so far?
alien/spacex
- Oct 25, 2019·2 repliesmewacagar
Favorite song so far?
God is makes me cry
Oct 25, 2019·edited·3 repliesThis is for the folks still stanning in the good year of our lord 2019. First off, let’s be clear. Kanye West isn’t a legitimate musician, fine artist, or fashion designer, obviously. He can’t play any instruments and he reportedly has little to no knowledge of music theory. That’s obvious enough and unarguable. It’s not necessarily essential to be or have any of these things to make good music, but I digress. Is Kanye really responsible for what actually makes his music good, though? Even on College Dropout there are legions of writing and production credits listed. Rhymefest supposedly wrote the vast majority of Jesus Walks, Kanye openly admitted Pardison Fontaine wrote almost all of Violent Crimes, literally his most personal song to date, apart from two lines. Mike Dean is pictured assisting Kanye as early as the CD sessions, and he’s often credited as a writer and producer even on tracks where Kanye supposedly produced and wrote the track himself. And that’s not even considering potential ghostwriting/producing. You’ve heard the rumors and conjecture on this site and abroad, 808’s being primarily the brainchild of Kid Cudi and Mr. Hudson, Rhymefest writing the best Ye verse on MBDTF (Gorgeous), Travis Scott supposedly ghostwriting most of Yeezus, etc etc etc. A lot of this rumor, some of it is factual and clearly credited, and some of it is even admitted and supported by the players involved.
So the question is, how do you really consider Kanye? Me? I think he’s a great curator with great taste. Not just an “ideas guy” a la Steve Jobs, but like a literal art curator. But nothing more than this, really. The greatest moments on his records can almost never be claimed by him or him alone; DIAND beat (S1) or Mike Dean’s two guitar solos on Fantasy and Yeezus for example, and many of them are just samples, so were never his or any of his team’s victories to begin with. The reality of the situation is that this dude is a popstar. A charismatic, manic depressive narcissist that screamed at the sky that he was the best, and the r*****ed public at large believed him. I get it though, you might of the mindset that it’s the collaboration and the music that ensues that matters most, yeah, yeah I get it. Same tired arguments. No problem with that. But the guy’s no genius. Try Stevie or Prince or so many others sung and unsung if you want to hear true black excellence in music.
I’ll be back to edit this, but these are just raw thoughts after hearing the album. Peace to y’all. Find the mogul and spark within yourselves, stop looking to literal hacks pushed by the (((powers that be))) or to live vicariously through another man’s success.Disclaimer: I like JIK
Oct 25, 2019the endbump it up to a 8/10
Just came out today lol!
Maybe in a few months when I've sat with it for a while.
Need to read all the lyrics and really digest this.
Oct 25, 2019gaboalien/spacex
correct
Oct 25, 2019DannyBrownHopefully Jesus Is King sucks so Kanye stans can finally get off their high horse
- Oct 25, 2019·1 reply
AYEKAYThe world will be better once America isn't on top anymore. Selfish powerful Anglo men ruined the world post WW2
china and america the worst, did u peep that south park ep?
- Oct 25, 2019pneumonia
I kinda like the Pierre tag with the chants at the beginning of On God
its so f***ing fire
Oct 25, 2019·1 replypneumoniaI kinda like the Pierre tag with the chants at the beginning of On God
didn't even realize that was "yo pierre"
Oct 25, 2019·1 replypneumoniaI kinda like the Pierre tag with the chants at the beginning of On God
Listen to that song action that he has with yung mal I think it uses it too
Oct 25, 2019Somebody gotta make a 10 minute version of the use this gospel instrumental outro On God
Oct 25, 2019valve please fix
Oct 25, 2019I go hard.. das ON JAH
Oct 25, 2019·1 replyneeded the all singing album f*** pastor adams
Oct 25, 2019SELAHIm f***ing with JIK top 4 rn, but yeezus is way too low and tlop is way to high , but idk everyone loves ye for different reasons , so forget what I said ❤️ Your list is good
TLOP only recently became my no. 1 tbh, dorian ye edit elevated that s*** for me crazy.
never f***ed with yeezus that much, but its still an 8/10 for me
ye is the only album i dony f*** with, bless up and im glad youre enjoying JIK, feel bad for the people who waited that long and hate it
Oct 25, 2019At first i was kinda disappointed but after a few listen this s*** is starting to really click and i love it. If he can just fix Follow God i'll be happy but i miss L.A. Monster...
Oct 25, 2019·1 reply
QueenKonaJIK is great conceptually. The ideas from both a production standpoint and overall song-structure and rhythm standpoint are wonderful. The guests, choirs, and instrumentals are really unique. But, here’s the problem:
1. Many will be disappointed right off the bat because, well, this sound is new and not something to be expected of ye. Those who hate religious-focused music won’t be a fan, those with the expectations of drum-ridden bangers like old ye won’t be a fan, and those expecting deep lyrical content definitely won’t be a fan.
2. For those who actually admire this direction and the ideas, they are just pain executed poorly because:
(a) the vocal recording was done poorly or on the wrong equipment
(b) the mixes aren’t good, nor is the overall master to any song
and
(c) Kanye’s vocal performances are very lackluster. Not just lyrically, but he has no passion to his voice on many of these tracks. Not all, but most.I’m part of camp 2, but even my admiration for this direction can’t save the rushed production and lack of vocal performance. Not to mention, everything is cut short.
Damn so for vocals to sound better it would have to be re recorded??