This may be an unpopular opinion but I think Ye performance was a lil sloppy

It was entertaining but his verses and the hook just didn’t have the same polish as singles he put out in his prime

i’d love to see a documentary just on the creation of this song

you could do an insane doc on the three songs kanye made with paul mccartney lol

song is too long

Fetty wap just had 2015 on lock diamond single just breaking barriers fr

I played this song a ton i fw it but i feel like 1 it was decently popular and 2 him saying nigga literally 100 times on the song didnt help the mass appeal

You’re in luck

So glad he toured this on Pablo

Cold >>>

Around this time he started making weird decisions like not dropping the iTunes or streaming or whatever link immediately and not doing videos for songs like this or Cold

It sucked

5 minute length and that dope Paul McCartney outro didn’t resonate with the Big Bang theory/Rae Sremmurd types of 2015

Idk but it’s one of my favorite rap singles, just based off the structure alone

Love how well all the different textures came together. Without those elements it’s a standard trap song which isn’t a bad thing. Just think it’s cool to hear other genres/styles seamlessly implemented into a rap record

A lot of times niggas try too hard when they explore musical styles. Ye does a great job of experimenting without letting the left field aspects of his style overshadow the rap sound

Bruh had Paul McCartney, Allan Kingdom, and Theophilus London on that track. The main part of the beat sounds like it could’ve been for Future. You really don’t hear songs like that on the regular

i remember this but i’m talking about a 90 minute film with real interviews breaking down the process and the context those songs had personally and culturally

He was already on that wave this was after 45 seconds and I’m pretty sure he had already made the born in the USA comment

Only One, 45 seconds and this was his experimental attempt at making more mainstream stuff for the time and it just didn’t really stick.

This was basically a failed attempt for him to assimilate with the new trap rap sound that had taken over

45 seconds is kind of obvious

Only One is more subtle and you might say “well how is that mainstream” but I think he felt like a lot of mothers out there would appreciate the song and it could be a universal ballad (it’s my mom’s favorite kanye song since she heard it on the radio the week it dropped)

Cold did actually have a music video, but it kinda goes with your point about weird decisions

Lmaoo I forgot about this

Yeah why did he do this like he couldn’t afford a separate video lmao. Or even just a run and gun handheld cam viral type video which at the time would have been huge for someone like Ye to do

Didn’t Hype Williams do this video too? Odd all around cuz this around the time Hype Williams videos stopped being Hype Williams videos lol