So if you check the back of the cd if features a different tracklist than the final one, and this tracklist actually makes some sense with a few ye interviews.

Kanye not wanting Hold My Liquor in it and Mike Dean convincing him.

Blood on the leaves being the first track of the project.

The project having 7 tracks something Kanye did later and already stated he wanted to do before with other projects.

The tracklist featured on the back of the cd is

1. Blood On The Leaves
2. I Am a God
3. Send It Up
4. New Slaves
5. I'm In It
6. Bound 2
7. Guilt Trip

29 minutes total

How do you feel the reception of the project would have been in this was the final tracklist ?

Personally I love On Sight and Hold my Liquor so much, it f***s me up.

And Black Skinhead is probably the most copycatted song of the last 10 years.

Casuals would’ve liked it off the bat. Final product is why it’s a classic

Edit: whoever convinced him to add the other tracks, and sequence it the way it ended up, salute to them.

Rick Rubin?

On Sight really was the perfect opener.

That very first listen

on sight, black skinhead and hold my liquor are all necessary

nah , the 7 tracks was probably the tracklist he and rick Rubin ended up with the other 3 must have been ye's decision

just listened with the original tracklist order , 29 minutes gotta say it works pretty f***ing well too

If he left Hold My Liquor off

Can’t imagine it without the missing tracks, three of my favorites

Nah cause initially it had more tracks, and alt longer cuts of songs

So maybe the 7 track was the original Rubin cut and then he changed it around 1 final time

I would guess the original tracklist was around 15-18 tracks

Also, there would’ve been a lot of interludes cause new slaves outro, one I love, and good things don’t last are all in the same vein. It was probably a concept that got axed to just new slaves outro

Something bout that beat just captures you
That’s how you knew it was gonna be something amazing

Best song lol

Woulda still been a classic regardless but it’s missing 3 excellent tracks

at the listening session he told that he almost didn't have the track , mike dean convinced him last minute to put it in

damn , I'm sure you had other great ye experiences tho

(Nvm was TLOP listening session, got my timeline mixed up)

oh , I saw the tlop listening session live in a theater in my country with other ye fans

famous people too , was pretty dope

when FSMH played we all got up and danced crazy feeling

That's wild, on sight is my most played song ever on spotify. Bound 2 is the best closer too

Yea he had a listening party the day before the MSG one in some garage, was hard to get into and hardly anyone knew about it

IMO bound 2 sucks and I always skip it

link source?

Guilt Trip being the album closer is actually heart breaking if that came straight after listening to Bound 2. Imagine if Guilt Trip was the closer god that's really emotional when you think about it

don't really know , I watched some recording at the time