hospital band a 100 bands f*** a watch

JIK is the best album he’s put out since KSG

I’m still waiting for people to wake up and realize it

Y’all are still in denial

So this is how the people who hate on Cudi think like

Absolutely s***e taste in music

I like Cudi on No Mistakes but not on Ghost Town

Great album! Don’t care what no one says. Ghost Town is top 3 favorite songs all time.

Wack album

Damn it’s been 5 years

Only 2 good tracks

Love it

Man, times change

This album was such a weird first listen lol. I remember watching the livestream eyes wide hearing I Thought About Killing You thinking we were about to get some deranged s***. Great song, but for his first song since the hospitalization and everything on the TLOP tour it was chilling. Yikes and All Mine continued that vibe, but by “none of us would be here without cum” my reaction was less shock and more “oh, yeah he’s just aiming for some off the wall s*** for a reaction.” I still think that first 3 song run is very solid and up until last year it was my most revisited part of the project.

Wouldn’t Leave and No Mistakes are good songs, but they really kill the momentum. I get what he’s going for and it does kind of follow the arc of an episode, but I wasn’t really coming back to those as often. I do wish he explored that kind of modernized sample chop style a bit more, but it was a double-edged sword in that it really reflected how much worse his lyrics and flow had gotten since even TLOP. Compare something like the “calm down you lightskin” verse with 30 Hours or Real Friends and yeah.

Ghost Town is a great song, even if it leans heavily on the sample and has some ridiculously unnecessary mumble at the beginning. Shake absolutely knocked it out of the park and the sample flip has an argument for top 20 of his discog (instrumental alone). At the time, it was the clear standout from the album, and I think it’s aged relatively well. I remember making a Kanye best-of playlist shortly after Donda and only adding this song from Ye; if I were to do it now, I’d consider Yikes or All Mine for inclusion as well.

Hot take, I’ve always hated Violent Crimes. This was one of the first songs of his that was a genuine skip off of sheer disagreement with the lyrics. Famous at least had an argument for being satirical or purposefully over the top, and even I Thought About Killing You is much more poignant. This is a heartfelt, dead serious song about Kanye not wanting his daughter to hit puberty because he doesn’t want other guys to be attracted to her because he sees himself as so h**** he would be attracted to any girl with curves at their age as well, not to mention the “if you beat her ass she move in with him” bit. This was a real “man, what a warped mindset” moment before things got REALLY bad that fall. Shame because the hook is absolutely wasted on the rest of the track. Imo it leaves a sour enough taste on a full listen that it weighs down the whole project, especially given how short it is.

Overall, as many have said, this was the first Kanye album that I wouldn’t call great. It’s good, don’t get me wrong, but the man dropped KSG the next week. He absolutely was starting to decline and it shows. Everything since then has only made it harder to love the album. Personally, I’ll remember it as the last time I was truly hyped for a new Kanye release with no asterisks or reservations. It succeeded as a part of the Wyoming project, but it marks the start of the fall of a man who should be regarded as one of the greats with only himself to blame for why it’s hard to.

Can y’all tell I’m procrastinating at work lmao

his best album.
nothing else makes me feel as much as this album

Amazing album…therapeutic every time i listen to it, just beautiful

Kanye’s 1st miss

The downfall of my GOAT

There is just no way y’all hear ghost town or violent crimes and think this album sucks like fr

one or his best idgaf

also, looking back this IS better than ksg

great album and one of my favourites post yeezus

better than TLOP

yikes underrated af dude was spitting like a mf

I DONE DIED AND LIVED AGAIN ON DMT HAH

No Mistakes is one of my favorite songs of all time.

I photoshopped the cover to say p4k is cancelled and wore it that same year the album dropped to pitchfork festival

It’s not terrible with a couple great songs but super underwhelming compared to literally every previous Ye album

Def my favorite song on there

Mid

Release party stream was dope though

was a very nice moment in time watching the release live (after waiting for hours in GMT-0)

cried when ghost town played