Damn, this is interesting. Gotta go back and listen to this interview.

Yeezus lyrics are great tho. They fit the aesthetic and his character on that album.

He redid most of the lyrics last minute to fit the new theme

Look at the difference in versions of selah and it makes sense

Would agree w this but yeezus filled w quotables

Technically pablo filled w quotables too but they’re low quality quotables definitely

I mean it's a Kanye song. Not like it was going to be a lyrical masterpiece anyway.

Kanye was never really lyrical, in fact some of his biggest hits make absolutely zero since.

Nigga said a 4chan account. Ease up Gramps.

Never bought that excuse at all. I’m not saying they’re awful overall but it was the first kanye album where he clearly declined and became cornier. Your explanation would work better for me if he returned to a different lyrical style after Yeezus but we pretty much got the same style for Pablo and Ye implying that it wasn’t just some conscious aesthetic choice as much as his natural progression and who he was working with on lyrics

google what exactly u f***ing goober

Bad example, follow God got a hard verse

It might have been the 2015 one tbh, I just remember it being in a Zane vid for sure

KSG exists, and that has arguably his best rapping sine WTT/ CS Era

On God is best writing on the album,

"I bleached my hair for every time i coulda dyed, but I survived, thats on god"

"Before the ranch I had horses in the garage"

"When I thought the book of Job was a job"

i think thats because he was in a zone with cudi

This is dumb as hell. A majority of the greatest writers of all time have been married (or been in a long-standing relationship), had children, and have still managed to produce their best work while taking care of their children and spouse.

You dont have to be lyrical af to make dope music fam

Hov was always a wordsmith and doesnt really love his wife. It's easier

Yeezus is 100% Kanye playing an exaggerated character of himself. S*** like Bound 2 outro makes it really apparent that he’s self aware about how tongue in cheek the stuff he says is when juxtaposed with his reputation

You could definitely see improvement in the rapping on a number of songs meant for SHMG/ early iterations of TLOP or just recorded in SHMG era like Smuckers, All Your Fault, Sanctified, NMPILA, 30 Hours, etc.

He is less involved in his own music and thats why he is less interested in writing lyrics to these songs. I think the whole Drake-Quentin drama gave him a pass to use as many writers as he wants what made him even more lazy. He has like 5 producers on each JIK song, and can't even exec produce his own project judging by the material that he cut from JIK. I recently listened to Cash To Burn and you have to be delusional to think that it's Clemons verse and not his demo that Kanye can later copy. So people make beats for him, people write lyrics, and he gets to talk about his great ideas to Zane Lowe that's all.

He's 40 with 4 kids give it a rest

MBDTF was an exaggerated version of himself too the lyrics just didn’t suck. And for most of TLOP and parts of Ye he kept staying in that exaggerated place, I personally don’t think that it was as conscious of a decision as some people make it out to be

Examples?